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Snippets From "Warday" (TWD - WDS alternate universe)
Topic Started: Jun 3 2016, 04:21 PM (166 Views)
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...for several years, reporters Rebecca Ainsley and Zack Roberts of American Public Media (APM) followed elements of the U.S. Army during the Great Reclamation; what follows are snippets from their book series The Good War: A History Of The American Reclamation...



October 2017 on the march to New York City with elements, 1st NY Regt. (1st Army)

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Capt. Anne McKenna, Airship Cmdr. - 1st NY Regt.
(on watching a survivor run right into a walker horde along the Hudson) Running....big mistake there, but given man's nature to panic, entirely understandable. (after turning away for a moment, adds) Sucks though, seeing someone run right into a horde from 1000 feet up and not be able to do anything; that's a memory I don't want to ever see again...


R. Ainsley: Colonel McKenna, you were with 1st Amry for most of the war, as I recall; how was 1st Army organized? How were the other American armies organized, for that matter?
Col. McKenna: Ever read Starship Troopers? No? You should, miss; its' a great book...when the Reclamation began, there was a decision made way up the top of the food chain, back at West Point, that whenever we came upon a large stronghold, we would ask if they wanted to join forces with us. If they said no, we still offered to protect them as best we could, making a notation in our logs so that we'd know which place was which; if they said yes, we'd try to organize them into regimental-sized units as best we could.

Those units at first were pretty odd-ball sized but over time we'd mix-master people from one group to another as circumstances warranted.

Ainsley: Mix-mastered?
Col. McKenna: Yeah; bascially, all that means is that if we had, say, one regiment that had around 500 people and another with say, 440 people, we'd move about 30-40 over to the short regiment to level them out. It was similar to how the U.S. military used to organize battalion-size task forces in warzones, if you need a quick comparison.


....October 2017, inside New York City with elements of the 1st Composite Bde (Units: 2nd NY Regt, 69th NY Regt & 2nd Airship Company)....
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Capt. Tegan Lyall, Scout Company Cmdr. - 2nd NY Regt (Rikers' Island Volunteers): (upon coming across the ruins of a survivor compound in Elmhurst, Queens) Rikers Command, this is Scout 6; looks like we were late to the party here. Someone was here and by the looks of it they had one hell of a fight. (thousands upon thousands of spent cartridge brass lay scattered about the area, interspersed with the cooling bodies of the dead). Whoever was here had a good plan, though; barricaded walls, good fields of fire in all directions....they just ran out of ammo and once there was a breach, that was it. Scout 6 moving to next set of coordinates, out.
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Sgt. Dillon Battistini, Scout Company - 2nd NY Regt.: (while on guard duty, clearing a fenceline north of Yankee Stadium of ghouls) Fun times, you know? Gleaming steel, all covered in blood and brains...granted, we're all infected, but still, don't wanna' get either on a wound. Still, its' fun, stabbing ghouls through a chain-link fence...fun, fun, fun....

1st Lt. Stephanie Harrington, Section Ldr. 2nd NY Regt Scout Company: (looks over at APM's Zack Roberts) Don't print this, sir, but have I mentioned that sometimes Dillon's off his meds...like, right now. (whistles innocently)

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(During the Battle of LaGuardia, this was heard often) (2nd NY Regt. company commanders) ....one, two, three, fire! (first line of troops fire, then fall back behind second line...this goes on in several locations during the course of the battle)


...fun moments...
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1st Lt. Jessie Larson, Section Ldr. 2nd NY Regt. Scout Company: Alright, Scouts, let's go play tag with the rotters! Headshots mean the rotters' are tagged out!
...fun moments indeed...
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Order of Battle, 1st Army (Northeast USA) - November 2017
-1st NY Regt. (The Old Guard)
-2nd NY Regt. (Rikers' Island Volunteers)
-3rd NY Regt. (Long Island Rifles)

-4th NY Regt. (Rochester Rifles)
-5th NY Regt. (Buffalo Volunteers)
-69th NY Regt (The Fighting 69th)

-1st MA Regt. (Boston's Own)
-2nd MA Regt (P-Town Rifles)
-1st ME Regt. (North Woods Regulars)
note #1: the regiments above were organized with 10 companies per regiment as stated in FM 1-1 (Table of Organization)


-Hampshire Regt. (NH-VT) -- under direct 1st Army command (see note 1)
-Black Robed Regiment (CT-RI) -- under direct 1st Army command (see note 1)
-1st, 2nd, 4th & 7th Airship Companies (Goodyear Mk.2 Airship)
note #2: Airship companies carry 12 non-rigid Goodyear Mk.2a airships
-1st & 2nd Motorized Bn. (HMMV)
note #3: each motorized battalion possesses between 30-36 HMMVs' and other vehicles as needed
-1st & 2nd Sustainment Bn. (Support)
-1st & 2nd Dragoons (Mounted Rifle Battalions)
note #4: both mounted rifle battalions consist of four company-sized elements known as Troops; each Troop is organized in the same manner as those of standard line infantry above
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....here's a creative use for school supplies that no one's likely ever thought of before...or since...
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Cpl. John Knoxville, 2nd NY Regt. Scout Company: (upon seeing a fellow Scout dispatch a biter on a Scout patrol in West Brooklyn) Okay! That is officially the first time someone's ever used a plastic ruler in that manner....


...overheard in the chow line back at Rikers Island, HQs of the 2nd NY Regt....
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--Person 1: What meat are they serving today?
--Person 2: Pigeon...again.
--Person 1: Pigeon?!? Why can't we have chicken? I haven't had chicken in so long I no longer know what it tastes like...
...random thoughts, part 1....
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Sgt.. Dillon Battistini, 2nd NY Regt. Scout Company: Zombies only eat brains, right? If that's true, why are so damn many in New York City to begin with?


....there's no kill like overkill....
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2LT Carrie Throckmorton, 69th NY Regt: (to one of her soldiers during a sweep of Liberty Island) Alright, its' dead, private; you can stop stabbing it now....


...do people really get bored? Let's think about that one with this snippet from the 2nd NY's Scout Company....
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--Sgt. Battistini: You know, Lt., shooting ghoulies really gets boring after a while...can we go out and bash their heads in with bats, just for a change of pace?
--1Lt. Larson: No.
...alright, what's his name again?
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-1Lt. Harrington, 2nd NY Regt. Scout Company: Yo, Simmons, Captain Tegan wants everyone up in 5. We got a mission that just dropped...
-Cpl. Earl Simmons, 2nd NY Regt. Scout Company: Enh, alright...been bored; ran out of shamblers to kill around here. Right, be out in 5.
-1Lt. Harrington: (looks over at Simmons' team leader) Are you sure that boy's not related to Rorschach, Sgt. Pastrana?
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