Eagle Guardian: The War of 2010

james and forcon cn we have a h-hour orbat for the Russian side also are the American bases in japan and korea off limits due to the russains not waiting to add the host countries to the war finally how far along is the American deployment going.

Fifty-Three

Joe Biden had been aboard Air Force Two high above California when World War III began. When DEFCON Two was declared, the Vice President was hustled aboard the aircraft by Secret Service agents. Less than half-an-hour after the modified Boeing-747 took off, Vice President Biden was told of the terrible tragedy that had occurred in Washington DC. It was Secret Service personnel who informed him of what had happened, that Marine One had been shot down by what was believed to be a team of Russian commandos likely from the GRU. There were a handful of military advisors – lower ranking officers, not the Joint Chiefs of Staff – aboard the plane who told Biden about the specifics of the incident, and that the Russian Armed Forces had initiated a war of aggression against NATO in Europe. Officers curtly informed him that he was now the de facto forty-fifth President of the United States of America. This was truly terrible news for Biden to receive; during his life, Biden had suffered a great deal of personal loss when his wife and baby daughter had been killed in a car accident back in 1972. He considered Obama a personal friend as well as a political ally, and the death of the President was a huge blow to him on a personal level. “No. Just tell me it isn’t true, please,” the Vice President said when told of what had happened. He shed tears over the loss of Obama and over the deaths of the others aboard that aircraft too, but there was no time to address the losses further.

Biden had to be sworn in as the President of the United States. This was done by video conference. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts had himself been taken into protective custody by the Diplomatic Security Service when COGCON One was initiated. He was moved by vehicle to Mount Weather, Virginia, where his safety against anything other than a twenty-five megaton nuclear missile was assured. On route to Mount Weather, Roberts was contacted by those aboard Air Force Two and a hasty swearing-in ceremony was held. Roberts wished Biden good luck and offered all of his support to the newly-inducted President before hanging up. Roberts new that Biden had a war to fight and didn’t want to get in the way any further. He had done his job.

Aboard Air Force Two, Biden instructed the remainder of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (they had been at the Pentagon whilst Chairman Mullen had been at the White House with Obama) to initiate the Security Control of Air Traffic & Navigation Aids (SCATANA) protocol. This involved all civilian air traffic being grounded and navigation taken over by the Federal Aviation Administration and US Northern Command (NORTHCOM). The number of civilian flights over the United States at the time was minimal due to the ongoing crisis and the calling up of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, but nonetheless landing those civilian aircraft that were airborne was a nightmare. It had to be done though with fears that Russian bombers armed with either nuclear or conventional cruise missiles would be infiltrating US airspace and the prospect of additional Spetsnaz attacks on the ground. Thankfully, there were no large-scale accidents involving airliners that sought to make an immediate landing, but there were some close calls nonetheless. US Air Force and Air National Guard fighters took to the skies to enforce the no-fly zone, while Biden’s aircraft – now Air Force One – was joined by F-15C Eagles of the California Air National Guard as a fighter escort.

Back in Washington DC, a massive security effort was underway to protect the capital. The Mayor of the District of Columbia declared martial law, and troops from the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment were sent into the city to assist the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in closing off all the entrances and exits. Marines from the security detachment at the Marine Corps Barracks Washington DC joined in this security effort; National Guardsmen were also soon to deploy. Fire-fighters, police and ambulance crews raced around the streets of the US capital in expectance of further attacks. FBI agents and forensics teams from the DC field office, soon joined by a huge number of additional agents and support staff from the agency’s headquarters in Quantico, went to the crash-site to begin securing evidence after the casualties had been evacuated. Every possible exfiltration route out of the city – those had been identified by the FBI after 9/11 in case of another terrorist attack – was guarded either by soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment or by officers of the MPD.

Meanwhile, the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, an organisation that was almost comparable to Tier One military units, was helicoptered to Reagan National Airport, where the local authorities had set up a command post. Those federal agents looked more like soldiers, arriving in green fatigues, body armour and combat helmets, armed with pistols and assault rifles; hunting the Spetsnaz was to be largely their responsibility. Landing at Reagan National some hours later would be operators from Alpha Squadron of the US Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, otherwise known as Delta Force. Men and women from the US Army’s Intelligence Corps as well as a few people from ‘other government agencies’ or OGAs were assigned to Washington to join in the hunt for the Spetsnaz as well. There were going to be political issues in deploying those elite soldiers on American soil and debates over the legality of doing so with regards to the Posse Comitatus Act. Those issues would be solved another day, however; President Biden’s first act after being sworn in was to order the Joint Special Operations Command to provide personnel and logistical assistance in hunting down the enemy commandos. Biden also talked with Attorney-General Eric Holder in confirming the lawfulness of this. There was much more to discuss when it came to the legalities of all that was happening; would the captured Russians be treated as POWs, for example, and given a trial? Or would they be treated as spies or “unlawful combatants” and thus summarily shot without due process?

Those Spetsnaz men and women weren’t to be caught in Washington DC. Splitting into smaller groups with the intention of re-grouping further out in the wilderness in Pennsylvania, the Russian commandos fled from the capital before the main effort to seal them in had really begun. For the most part, this escape occurred without incident, with the commandos fleeing by vehicle and then sneaking out of the city through roads which had yet to be secured. In one instance, however, three GRU commandos – two men and women – suffered terrible luck when their car broke down on a countryside road outside Bethesda. A family vehicle that was passing by the road in an attempt to leave the city pulled over to offer their assistance. There had been an argument between the husband driving the car and his wife in the passenger seat; the father was reluctant to pull over for fear of a carjacking whereas the wife wanted to offer their assistance. Eventually, the presence of a well-dressed woman amongst the stranded individuals was enough to convince him to pull over. It was a fatal mistake; the four people inside of the vehicle – father, mother, and two daughters – were dragged out of the car. Debate occurred between the GRU commandos about what to do with the family; they weren’t monsters who enjoyed killing unarmed civilians, and there was a legitimate military reason for taking them along as hostages. Tragically, though, the Spetsnaz commander decided that there wasn’t enough room in the car to take the family along without looking suspicious.

All four civilians had their throats cut, and the Spetsnaz drove away in the stolen car.

Aboard Air Force One – those aboard had to keep reminding themselves that this was their call sign now – President Biden entered a near-endless briefing with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Chiefs had been driven, rather than flown, from the Pentagon to the nation’s underground Alternate National Military Command Centre at Raven Rock Mountain, also known as Site R, in Pennsylvania. Once they had arrived at the complex, the Joint Chiefs set up a video call with the new President to keep him appraised of the situation. General James Cartwright of the US Marine Corps was the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and once Admiral Mullens’ death had been confirmed, Cartwright had stepped up and taken that role on an ad hoc basis until he could be confirmed by Congress and the President as the new official Chairman. There wouldn’t be any political problems with that happening, but the organisation of Congressional hearings was not exactly a priority at that moment. Plans were made for the Joint Chiefs to board the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, an E-4B aircraft known as ‘Night Watch’, and fly to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, where Biden’s aircraft could also land and he could move to Night Watch. These plans were scrapped before they could be implemented, however. The Joint Chiefs were safe as they could be at Site R, and yet more moving around would only cause problems with communications. Biden would be accompanied by more junior advisors when he boarded Night Watch. For now, though, he was stuck aboard Air Force Two, communicating with the Joint Chiefs by video conference. The Forty-Fifth President was informed of the specifics of the war. He was told that Russian aircraft had launched long-range cruise missile attacks against NATO facilities across Europe, including in Great Britain, while additional Spetsnaz commando strikes had also taken place. The Pentagon was informed that Britain’s Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, had been shot dead in a separate incident in London and this was also reported back to the President, as well as the outbreak of what appeared to be a hostage situation developing at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Belgium. Another Spetsnaz attack had taken place at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, but the perpetrators of that attack had all been killed or captured during the fighting. President Biden authorised the “enhanced interrogations” of those men who had been captured back at Tinker AFB; their wounds were to be treated appropriately, but after this they would be transferred to the Marine Corps Brig at Quantico; there, the FBI, CIA, DIA, and Military Intelligence would begin the questioning of those captured Russians. When they had struck at Tinker AFB, those commandos had been wearing civilian clothing with articles of military equipment over the top, rather than wearing identifiable uniforms; this meant that the United States was under no obligation to treat them as POWs.

Biden was told that Russian forces were attacking Norway and Denmark and were crossing the borders into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. They had done this by using Belarusian territory and reports so far indicated that Belarus was involved in this war just as much as Russia was. Questions about the neutrality of other Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) states were also raised; as of that moment, no military forces from Kazakhstan, Armenia or any other smaller Central Asian States had been involved in attacks against the US or its allies. President Biden made it clear to his military advisors that any and all hostile acts from any foreign country, including letting Russian forces use their territory, would be seen as an act of war against the United States of America, and the appropriate military action would be taken. There were some concerns here with the President’s emotional state; he had just lost several close friends and was clearly angered while issuing those orders. The Joint Chiefs had some concerns that this might draw Iran into the fighting if they allowed Russian warships to use their bases or aircraft to fly from their airfields. President Biden calmed shortly after though, and what could have become a constitutional crisis was averted. Biden, like every American, was angered, but he was still competent and mentally stable. He wouldn’t allow for his emotions to get the better of him and he made this clear to both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to his personal physician.

Advised by General Cartwright to do so, the President gave the orders to the US Armed Forces to begin a full-scale mobilisation. A large-scale call-up of troops had already been taking place since mid-July, but now this call-up was to encompass every soldier, sailor, airman and marine as well as every reservist and National Guardsman. All military leaves for any reason other than serious and immediate medical issues were cancelled until further notice. The Pentagon was drawing up plans to bring every ex-serviceman and –woman who had left the military within the past two years back into service. Many of them would not need retraining and the influx of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans would provide a major boost to the US Military. Some, particularly those in technical areas, would need retraining but that would be far quicker than training new draftees from scratch. Something similar to this had occurred several years prior with the controversial ‘stop-loss’ policy, but that hadn’t come close to mirroring the sheer scale of this call-up. Army Chief of Staff General George W. Casey told Biden that he could stand up the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 23rd & 24th Infantry Divisions with new troops in the space of roughly ninety days. Nobody new how long this war was going to last, and in the past several months Russia had dramatically boosted the size of its own armed forces with new conscripts and old reservists. Biden gave the authorisation for Casey to begin this task.

There were many other issues that had to be addressed by the United States government; Biden had to ask Congress for a formal declaration of war, and he had to replace the slain cabinet members and advisors. All that could really be confirmed was that American troops and their allies were once again fighting, killing and dying on the European countryside and in skies and waters all around the continent.

Air Force Two would be renamed Air Force One as soon as Biden is sworn in.

Again i agree with this statement, nice work forcon

Thanks guys!

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