Overview

History

Pre-2019

• Marine Staff Sergeant pre-invasion.
• Recon Marine
• Married with a older son and two daughters.
• Stationed in Camp Pendleton.
• Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.

The One Day War

• Is on maneuvers when the Shil arrive and make their demands, does not make it back to base before the rods drop.
• Sees base is annihilated and manages to confirm base housing is gone, packs away the death of his family for later as they must now survive as alien invaders begin to flood into the area.
• Discover that sustained fire from 5.56 is needed to penetrate alien armor, but that AP 7.62 will go through in one to two hits.
• They manage to fight through most of the day and some of the night, two-thirds of his unit are gone.
• Someone detonates a nuclear weapon in San Diego on top of the main alien landing site, he finds out later that it was seals that survived the destruction of Coronado and managed to get their hands on a W88 and jerry rig it. The Shil bombard any assumed military presence in the city and surrounding areas in response.
• He and his unit are dusted by fallout.

From San Diego to the Rockies

• They manage to retreat over the mountains and into the desert, COMS are patchy, definitely listened to when not jammed, but there is some organization by someone.
• Unit survivors begin to show signs of acute radiation syndrome as they arrive at a rally point, the orders are simple, grab what can be carried and scatter. Keith goes north.

A Year Laid Up

The Insurgency

Fold Up of the West Coast

The Colorado Free Army

Freaking Erbians

The Nosy Doc

Easing into a New Routine