Free Hell in the Homeland by A. J. Newman Page B

more fighting men. They could bomb the USA forces back to the Stone Age, but feared there would be horrible civilian casualties, which would result in more support for the USA from the survivors.
    John asked, “How do y’all tell one side from the other? You both are the USA Army and wear the same uniforms.”
    Bob replied, “We are calling ourselves the Independent States of America and have the flag of the original thirteen states on our chests.”
    John had seen the flag with the thirteen stars in a circular pattern instead of the fifty on the modern flag.
    Bob added, “Same for our ships, planes and tanks. It’s a start.”
    Bob and John kept the main objective, to capture the DHS compound, to themselves, but left the rest out in the open. Bob gave the team a list of priorities and then they started mapping out an action plan for each objective. They worked in the basement room for several days ironing out their plans and making lists of supplies and skills they had to have to be successful. They planned to send scout teams to Mobile to probe the defenses around the compound and make up-to-date maps of that area as their first action. The rest of the group would concentrate on finding able-bodied men and women to arm and join their forces.
     
     
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    Deke spent at least two hours per day sorting through the women in the relocation camp. He was the only one who knew the president’s plan and certainly the only one who knew his addition to that plan. The president had ordered each field marshal to weed out the stronger willed men and women from the rest and put them in slave camps to be kept under guard and worked to death. The other weaker ones would not resist and would become the new USA. They would be glad to be fed and taken care of by the government. Deke added his rule to the president’s set of rules. Deke’s rule was that he was going to have sex with every one of the keepers and impregnate everyone that he could. He wanted to be the father of the new state of Alabama.
    Deke had no military training and actually thought that they were beneath him. Once the country was subjugated, he would knock them down a peg or two. This wrongheaded thinking filtered down throughout his team. There were many experienced ex-military men in his army, but most were in lower level positions and the less experienced leaders did not listen to them when they pointed out glaring issues with their defenses and tactics. The only exceptions were the complaints from the major who was in charge of the patrols along the Tennessee border and just north of Mobile. Major Davis was reporting resistance and lost patrols. Major Johnson who was charge of defending the compound was pleading with his superiors to move the troops into the underground bunkers instead of the barracks buildings just inside of the perimeter fences. Deke was not about to hide his army below ground like some scared rabbits. Besides the rogue military and the USA have agreed not to attack each other and no one else has any real firepower. The captain reminded them of the Marines killed in Lebanon in the eighties when Regan sent them in to keep peace.
    Deke didn’t have time for this nonsense about security since he knew that the country was a shambles and the people only had a few ARs and hunting rifles. His men were heavily armed and had heavy machine guns, LAWs and mortars that would decimate any resistance. He was very pleased with their progress in getting the people of Alabama into the relocation and labor camps. There were only about five hundred thousand people left alive in Alabama due to disease, starvation and attacks by gangs and the DHS.
    The president had requested that the field marshal come to the new capital to meet with him in person. The government would send a plane for him and his wife so the trip would be safe and would give them a chance to rub elbows with the leaders of the new country.
     
     
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    The captain warned Gus to