Quote from: OneTinSoldier;251557Yeah, but at least your family's Eagle-Lifted to safety.

With 6 Chinooks and 36 Blackhawks across the whole country - no, they're not.

Yeah, that Eagle Lift bit...are you covering/counting Guard & Reservists' families or are you just taking into account the families on an Active duty base?

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;251564With 6 Chinooks and 36 Blackhawks across the whole country - no, they're not.

Sorry-I didn't check your location.

No fears, though: ANZ survive the virus mostly intact. Your extremely thorough entry screening process, which was tested against Avian flu (and which is very nicely documented on a gov't web site), and your small FTL navy kept viral outbreaks very small and contained.

You will likely be shooting POCIS, but it will be in Ireland and Scotland, helping out your Commonwealth comrades. Your home front is OK.

Quote from: Danger;251570Yeah, that Eagle Lift bit...are you covering/counting Guard & Reservists' families or are you just taking into account the families on an Active duty base?

Active, Reserve, Guard, and as many police, medical, and similiar Emergency Service as possible-there are plans in place in RL for such activity, and with the very considerable lift capacity that the orbital craft give in this setting, it is doable. Of course, with no war in Iraq/Afghan, the troop levels in the US are high.

Katrina showed that ES service rapidly crumbled when the crisis expanded across the 'home area' of the responding agencies, so when the Houston area had to be evac'd (and just lately, with Ike), special effort was spent to evac the families of the people (police, fire, NG, emergency services, EOC, etc) who would have to remain ewither behind or in stageing areas.

I've been part of committees setting up such programs; its not hard-the US military in Europe prefected the plans for evac'ing dependants in case of war. They are easily adaptable and far simpler in an era of cell phones.

Heh, dude, if you got your shit together, then why aren't you running for office.

I kid, but only some....

I live in the British countryside quite far from any major cities and far enough for foot-travelling infected to take some time to reach. I imagine the village would fortify around the central buildings (church, hall and main pub) and with rationing and looting the barely-occupied mansions that townies have built around the village as well as continuing to farm a basic but liveable existence should be possible relatively indefinitely.

I'd probably be involved in organising such but would doubly fortify my own house (building a panic room up in the attic basically) and leave the macho gun stuff to the farmers.

I would run faster than Superman folding laundry for the Boundary Waters.  I would ditch everything I can't carry, abandon everything else, and run as fast as I could go away from civilization- and I would never, ever return.  The rest of my days are on my feet, on the move, nomadic and reclusive; like that 70s show about the recluse on the mountain and the bear, without a permanent base like said recluse's cabin.