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Therefore, we need to build a military base near Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon.  We’ll bring in the equipment, vehicles, weapons, supplies, and trainers to outfit a military force big enough to defeat the British Army in short order.  I’ll have to read up on it some, but my first estimate is that we can do this with a reinforced brigade, about 4,000 men.  Our core of personnel will be a company of the best soldiers we have.  Add to that a support staff of doctors, political scientists, teachers, top research men, medical people, and some naval vessels, from this time, it will add up to three or four hundred people to the become the core of the American Colonial Army.”
                  “Where are you going to get the men,” asked Sampson?
                  “From throughout all 13 colonies,” said Arcadia.  “We want the force to feel they are an American Army, without all the problems of being from any of the particular colonies.  Unity and cooperation will be important parts of our training.”
                  “So how is this going to work?”
                  “We’ll build our facility outside of Washington, away from the radiation danger.  When everything is ready, the entire camp will be transported to 1770.  That’s when I make contact with George Washington at Mt. Vernon, gain his support, and get him to bring in the other Colonial leaders we’ll need…Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, and Hamilton, assuming I can get support from the main leaders by just telling them the entire plan.  My idea is to do this at our new facility, which I’m calling Fort Independence.”
                  “You do know that Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1801,” said Sampson.             
                  “Not in our new world,” said Arcadia, “he’s far too important of a leader to not have.  He’ll be one of the early Presidents.”
                  “You know, honey,” said Sampson.  “Women weren’t exactly at the top of the political heap in the 18 th and 19 th century.  How do you intend to convince all these great men to follow your lead?”
                  “It won’t be easy,” said Arcadia, “However, I’m pretty good.  Plus, I’ll hold all the cards in finance, firepower, and technology.”
                  “Where do we go from here?” asked Sampson.
    “I know we’ve taken a huge hit as a country, what’s left?” asked Arcadia.
                  “A surprising amount,” said the President.  “The vast majority of our military is intact along with a great deal of our infrastructure.  We’re organizing all the remaining officials of government who were not killed to get our Federal structure running again.  We’ve cordoned off the contaminated areas of the country and have all our medical people treating the injured and those who have suffered radiation poisoning.  We put our total losses at about 150 million people.  However, we haven’t detected any other active threats, either inside the country or among other nations.  Apparently, they all believe we’ll collapse on our own without any help from them.  My threat of retaliation seems to be taken seriously.  I think we’ve bought ourselves some time to rebuild and to implement the mission you’ve been given.  I must say that you’ve taken on quite a job.  Nevertheless, tell me what you need first.”
                  “Just off the top of my head, I need to know the closest we can built a military headquarters safely to Mt. Vernon, Virginia.  We need a cordoned off area with tall fences that is five miles square.  The location needs to have a fresh water supply that is not contaminated and with a stream or waterfall where we can install generators to produce a lot of electricity.  These things we need right away.