Colonel Lambert was back on the train heading north as fast as it could take him the news from General Clayton and SFC Harris shook him. He had no reason not to believe what they told them about Colonel Magnus. Colonel Lambert had meet Colonel Magnus a few times over his career and knew of his very conservative views and did his best to steer clear of him. As far as Colonel Lambert was considered the Military should be apolitical because they will have to serve a commander-in-chief from one political party or the other over a career. Colonel Lambert was upset at General Moon for not sending in A-Teams from Bragg to ascertain the threat. At least, General Clayton recognized the potential threat and ordered teams from the 19th to join their
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in 2-3 days and he expected a high-level plan to defend the capital with current forces at hand. General Clayton told Colonel Lambert not to worry, if Bragg couldn’t get off their fat asses, he’d drop the 184th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) to help secure the city. He was also sure that the Department of the Navy could spare a couple thousand Marines to help. General Clayton told him they had the aircraft to move them, but it would take a while that he needed to know as soon as possible what the plan was. If Bragg was going to get involved they needed to get the Air Force to Pope, but needed troop counts and other resources to be moved. Bragg now had at least one working train which now that Colonel Lambert had cleared the tracks all the way to D.C. they could move troops that way too. But, they needed to get on the …show more content…
We do have some limited ability to move large assets by air as you can see. Navy pursuing alternate plan will let you know more as I do.
Colonel Lambert’s mouth was opened with jaw dropped in this stunning news, C-17’s where the hell did they get them he thought. All those type of aircraft were grounded due the EMP event. Regardless, as small as the armor assets were he knew it was better than nothing and he wondered what the hell the Navy was up too. Colonel Lambert sent a message back thanking General Clayton and stated he’d take good care of the men and vehicles. After that message was sent another message was received and asked the RTO to prepare to copy.
The distant RTO relayed that the information that was being relayed from one of the Camp Park A-Teams in the field. This caught Colonel Lambert’s attention he knew that General Clayton had sent in three of his own teams a couple of days ago. He was surprised they worked so quickly and information was going to start to flow in, at least he hoped what his is. The distant RTO stated, “Prepare to copy, over.”
“Roger ready to copy, over” Stated the
in 2-3 days and he expected a high-level plan to defend the capital with current forces at hand. General Clayton told Colonel Lambert not to worry, if Bragg couldn’t get off their fat asses, he’d drop the 184th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) to help secure the city. He was also sure that the Department of the Navy could spare a couple thousand Marines to help. General Clayton told him they had the aircraft to move them, but it would take a while that he needed to know as soon as possible what the plan was. If Bragg was going to get involved they needed to get the Air Force to Pope, but needed troop counts and other resources to be moved. Bragg now had at least one working train which now that Colonel Lambert had cleared the tracks all the way to D.C. they could move troops that way too. But, they needed to get on the …show more content…
We do have some limited ability to move large assets by air as you can see. Navy pursuing alternate plan will let you know more as I do.
Colonel Lambert’s mouth was opened with jaw dropped in this stunning news, C-17’s where the hell did they get them he thought. All those type of aircraft were grounded due the EMP event. Regardless, as small as the armor assets were he knew it was better than nothing and he wondered what the hell the Navy was up too. Colonel Lambert sent a message back thanking General Clayton and stated he’d take good care of the men and vehicles. After that message was sent another message was received and asked the RTO to prepare to copy.
The distant RTO relayed that the information that was being relayed from one of the Camp Park A-Teams in the field. This caught Colonel Lambert’s attention he knew that General Clayton had sent in three of his own teams a couple of days ago. He was surprised they worked so quickly and information was going to start to flow in, at least he hoped what his is. The distant RTO stated, “Prepare to copy, over.”
“Roger ready to copy, over” Stated the