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on about what he did.  The bottom line is that they have an active Army and Air Force, they have a Navy for what it’s worth, that has ships that can bring the fight, and they have the Marine Corps, which fought hard to survive. We’re behind the gun on this, gentlemen and we have a ways to catch up.”
    “Is there a plan?” General Moon asked.
    “You bet there is,” exclaimed the President.  “General Clayton is here in Washington now working with the Pentagon and putting together a plan as we speak.  We have aircraft generals; we have B-29s and B-52s. We can go where and when we want.”
    Every single jaw dropped in the conference room, “Sir what are your orders?” General Portson asked.  The commander of the 82 nd Airborne Division smiled, “Looks like we’re back in business!”
     

Chapter Four
     
    It had been a year since the event and life at the Camp One near the main gate to United States military post Camp Parks was tolerable.  They had electricity twelve hours a day, which was free of charge provided by the military.  They had shelter, which was also free of charge and also provided by the military with specific stipulations such as a home inspection once a quarter.  This was to ensure cleanliness and functionality of the dwelling, since they were all living in very close quarters. Because of the demise of modern medicine, disease was a very real worry.  To be fair the military had the same expectations of the military families on Camp Parks.
                  Every adult was required to work, but there were many jobs to pick from – administrative, security, laborer, nurse, doctor—many of the same ones that existed prior to the event.  However, several of the jobs required traveling around each township and collecting the dead bodies, trying to identify them, then moving them to the rather large morgue on Camp Parks to be dealt with there.  They were also jobs that went around cleaning up the fallen aircraft that had literally dropped out of the sky on the day of the event.  As they found out it took a long time to clean up the crash of a fallen airliner.
                  There was also the searching of empty homes, places people had abandoned and never returned.  After searching and taking anything that could be used which was sent back to Camp Parks they marked the house or building for destruction.  The rationale behind that was it was unsanitary and dangerous, especially as time passed and the buildings fell into disrepair and started to fall down.  This created all sorts of hazards where wild animals took refuge and many of those animals were from local zoos: large cats such as lions, tigers, jaguars, mountain lions and others that seemed to be flourishing without people around.  There had been dozens of attacks by these animals over the past several months, which killed adults and children alike.
                  These buildings were also fire hazards, especially during lightning storms.  These fires had spread over many blocks consuming the dilapidated structures.  The fear that one of these days the fire would spread to well within the camps and hurt and or kill many people.  Tribal bands who didn’t belong to a camp also started fires. They were nomadic and as they moved from town-to-town and city-to-city they occupied these old buildings.  They accidentally or purposefully set fires, which in some cases did get close to the camps that surrounded Camp Parks. 
                  There were exceptions to the ”Everyone work” rule; for instance a man or woman was given the opportunity to say home with a newborn until the child became a toddler. Then there was a community daycare or preschool for the child to attend that ran twenty-four hours a day.  Everyone was paid in coined currency, which was minted in San Francisco in the US Mint.  The value of the coin in gold, silver or copper was the actual value of the coin.  Each