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Anyway, I'm not a particularly good writer of dialogue, so this will be written as an article for a military staff journal...so here we geaux again

From Military Journal, Joint Command and Staff College March 2014
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We're from Louisiana, we do things different...

The virtually uninterrupted control of state government in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and into the southeastern corner of Texas was due to several factors besides the good fortune of having several cities with key industrial and natural resources surviving undamaged.

Discussions over the summer of 1983 which led to activating a Joint Forces Command Headquarters built around the Naval Reserve Forces Command, Marine Reserve Forces Command and 4th Marine Division, 377th Theater Area Support Command, and the Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard. By the time of the nuclear exchange, a command post had been established on Avery Island, Louisiana. Other command and control elements were set up in Hammond, Louisiana and Brookhaven, Tupelo, and Grenada in Mississippi. After the nuclear exchange and reestablishment of communication with southeast Texas, an additional command post was established in Beaumont.

The use of overlooked personnel resources such as retired military members and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from area universities and high schools provided cadre for a federal and state military capability when most of the Selected Reserve was mobilized and deployed.

The stories that are told of how this force was equipped and later trained will be covered as well as can be as there are very few survivors alive from a group of men where someone in their late fifties was a youngster. The knowledge of virtually forgotten stocks of weapons and equipment meant that forces were well equipped, even if with second and third line items. The supply runs to Anniston and Red River Army Depots in January, 1984 are legendary and the subject of several books and a movie now in production.




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