PROJECT BlueBolt - AMERICAN UPRISING: BOOK III - AMERICAN UPRISING

by Marshall Huffman

  PROJECT BLUEBOLT

  BOOK III

  AMERICAN

  UPRISING

  BY

  MW HUFFMAN

  Project BlueBolt – Book III American Uprising

  ©2014 By MW Huffman

  WaJe Productions

  FORWORD

  Project BlueBolt was an ambitious plan to turn America into a one party nation that was controlled by the government. It had first been devised in the 1990’s with a very different intent. The original concept was to protect Americans in the event of a large scale terrorist attack. It wasn’t until ambitious President Clemons came into office that the project was dusted off and revised to suit her own purposes. One of her first acts was to create the ISS or Internal Security Service. They had broad sweeping powers that allowed them to arrest and detain citizens for unspecified lengths of time, and even to place them in ‘internment camps’.

  Internment camps had been set up in New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Alaska. The camps were operated by the ISS under the direction of Taylor Spears until recently. Taylor had fallen out of favor with President Clemons for a series of blunders, the biggest being the escape of 1,200 prisoners from a remote island internment camp in Alaska. It ultimately led to his replacement and the ISS was turned over to General Douglas who was already in charge of all military branches.

  General Douglas placed the ISS under the command of General Lamb. Lamb was given control over all intelligence matters, the daily operations of the ISS, and creating a new branch to spy on the ISS to ensure that they were doing their job.

  By now almost all elements of the Bill of Rights had been stripped from the Constitution and President Clemons was considering declaring Martial Law. She was holding off to see how General Douglas was able to handle the latest problem that had cropped up, the militias that were forming and growing in strength.

  General Douglas was preparing to go after the South Dakota Militia because they had staged a raid on a National Guard Armory. Even though none of the National Guardsmen had been harmed, the very idea that the militia would even consider challenging the might of the US military was unacceptable.

  Initially Clemons had been regarded as highly effective by the American people. Her claims to have lowered crime by 38%, eliminated gangs, and cut five trillion dollars off the national debt bolstered her approval. Even when she suspended Congress under the guise of their not fulfilling the job the American people had elected then to do, she was still considered to be leading the nation in the right direction.

  She circumvented the 1st amendment by creating a Media Czar who now controlled all print and electronic media throughout the US. Any criticism of the administration was dealt with by shutting down the venue or taking it over. Banks had been nationalized as well and she was now considering a way to intervene regarding religion. Too many churches were telling their congregations that the administration was operating outside of the Constitution and that the citizens were in danger of losing all of their freedom. This, she considered, amounted to treason and would simply not be tolerated.

  The only thing holding her back at this point was her reluctance to declare Martial Law. She wanted to delay that in case they had a massive uprising. She was still relying General Douglas to eliminate all militia groups and the ISS to keep the people under control.

  General Douglas had decided to destroy the South Dakota militia and was preparing an all-out attack. His men were starting to assemble at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota.

  “One is left with the horrible feeling that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

  - Agatha Christie -

  MAJOR CHARACTERS:

  GOVERNMENT:

  President Helen Clemons

  Vice President Carlton Blaine

  General Chester Douglas Head of Combined Military Forces

  General Fenton – Second in Command - Daily Operations under Douglas

  Jack Eckman – Media Czar

  RESISTANCE/MILITIA (ARM AMERICAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT- ARM):

  General Randal Lamb – Inside man for Thomas Waggener

  General Thomas Waggener – Supreme Commander of ARM

  General Ivan Baker – Executive Officer of ARM

  Admiral Lincoln Bix – Intelligence Officer

  General Lance Uber – Executive Officer Intelligence

  Gerhardt Burger – Head of Special Forces

  Colonel Kim Dare – Special Forces Operations Officer

  General Ashcroft

  Major Pearson

  Colonel Ben Flemings (Air Force)

  2nd Idaho Militia Leader – Don Casey

  XO Idaho Militia – Al Sharp

  Commander of Idaho Militia – ALBERT (AJ) Watson

  Ben Fleming – Wyoming Militia

  Montana Militia – Terrance Jones

  Indiana Militia - Colonel Gentry –– Hellfire missiles

  South Dakota Militia – Jim Deal

  New Mexico Militia – General Connor

  CANADA:

  Prime Minister Walter Buchard

  CHAPTER ONE

  - ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, SOUTH DAKOTA –

  The general arrived before the first plane touched down. As usual he wanted to make sure everything was done just the way he thought it should be. The first plane had hardly dropped its tail gate before he was giving orders to them. Put this load here, that one there and on and on. The men could say little so they did it exactly as he directed.

  Everything was sorted out by the type of equipment it was. All munitions in one space, all rockets and motor shells in another, and small arms in their own place.

  Other planes began to land and the men unloading sighed in relief when he went to pester them. They knew how to do their job. Eight A-10 Warthogs landed and he had them lined up at the end of the field in a row.

  “Can you believe he wants us to park like this?” one of the pilots said when he got out of his cockpit.

  “Seems kind of dangerous, he must be damn sure about security. I would have moved them into the hangers, out of sight.

  “It would appear that this is going to be a walk in the park.”

  “I hope you’re right.”

  “Shall we go check in with the general and see what he has in mind for us while they are unloading the planes?”

  The two men had no idea that just outside the fence, five hundred militia from Idaho and South Dakota were waiting for the signal to attack.

  ***

  “Nice of the general to put all the planes in one spot. He must either be damn sure of himself or is underestimating us.”

  “I don’t care. All I know is we can do the maximum damage with a lot less risk now,” Jim Deal, the South Dakota Militia leader said.

  “Alright. You guys get rid of the A-10 and then any other aircraft you can disable. I hate to knock out the B-1B bombers but they could be used against us. Take out as many as you can. We will take care of the C-131s and the stuff on the ground. We will take as much of the heavy munitions as we can along with anything else we have room for. With any luck at all we should get a pretty good haul from this.”

  “I just hope we don’t have to end up having a firefight with our own soldiers.”

  “Unfortunately we will once they realize what is going on.”

  “What about Douglas?” Jim asked.

  “I would love to capture him if we can but I won’t just shoot him. He would be a great bargaining chip. We will have to play that by ear,” Thomas replied.

  “Man, this
is a little scary,” Jim said.

  “Yeah. I understand exactly what you are feeling. Once we get through that fence everything changes. We will have started a real internal war. I honestly don’t have a clue what will happen. They have the media on their side so until we can capture enough radio stations, we will be portrayed as the bad guys.”

  “I don’t mind that so much. I just don’t like killing other Americans, especially the soldiers who are just following orders. The grunts have to do what they are told,” Jim replied.

  “You know Jim, I thought that way too until the President ordered me to do something that I knew was morally wrong. I revolted and said no. I knew that from that moment on I would be a hunted man. A good many of these soldiers have had their loved ones taken off to internment camps. When the time comes, I think we will have a lot more join us than you think.”

  “I sure hope you are right.”

  “I’m pretty sure I am. On top of that, if we can get the people behind us, even more will refuse to follow the orders of President Clemons. At some point they are going to realize that what she is doing is totally unconstitutional and they will abandon her.”

  “Like I said, I just hope you are right about all of this.”

  “Look, we haven’t done a thing wrong so far. We can call this whole thing off and send everyone home. If you’re not sure you are committed and need more time, let’s just fade away before it is too late,” Thomas said.

  The last thing he wanted was to go into battle with a leader who was not totally focused on the objective. More troops got killed by bad decisions than almost any other way. He needed Jim to be totally committed or he wasn’t about to risk his men.

  “No. We go. Everything is set. They are hell bent on starting this one way or the other. We have everything in place so let’s do it,” Jim replied.

  “Alright. We go in exactly fifteen minutes. Don’t wait for us. You guys break through. We want them to focus on you at first. Then we will come in behind them. With a bit of luck we will pull this off with no one getting killed.”

  “Fifteen minutes. I need to get back to my troops and get them ready.”

  “We will be ready,” Thomas replied.

  “What do you think?” Thomas asked after Jim headed back.

  “Just a little nervous. I think he will be fine once he gets going. I think it is just the waiting and thinking about it for so long,” Lincoln replied.

  “I agree. Just nerves,” Lance replied.

  “I sure hope you are right. We need them to create a diversion if we are going to have time to grab those supplies,” Thomas said.

  “It will all turn out just fine,” Lincoln replied.

  ***

  “We go in ten seconds,” Jim whispered into the microphone.

  “Copy,” came the reply from Thomas.

  “Go,” Jim said and six of his men rushed forward and began cutting a large hole in the fence. They were at the far end of the facility and no one even knew they were doing it until the first few trucks started racing through the fence. They went straight for the Warthogs and immediately started planting explosives under each of the eight A-10 aircraft. They were all planted and there still had been no alarm. They raced toward the hangers and suddenly people started running toward them.

  “Blow the craft,” Jim ordered and a huge explosion rocked the base as all ten went up at the same time.

  Flames and smoke shot into the air as flight crews and airmen started racing to the planes. No one seemed to know what was going on which gave Jim’s men the advantage of having time to set charges on three of the F-16s in the first hanger.

  The second hanger had two B-1B bombers. They set charges under the middle of them and detonated them as soon as they cleared the hanger. They were racing from hanger to hanger setting charges before the first gun shots were heard. One of the South Dakota Militia dropped as he was running across the tarmac.

  At the other end of the base Thomas was surprised when everyone just stood in place for what seemed like an eternity. Finally they started running toward the other end. That is when his people cut the fence and drove their trucks through. They went immediately to the piles of weapons and started loading them in the back of the trucks.

  As soon as one was full it took off and they would continue to load the next and then the next. They were making good progress when the first bullets started to hit the trucks.

  “Shoot over their heads if you can. Try to keep them pinned down,” he ordered but in the heat of the exchange he saw two airmen go down.

  The weapon’s fire would be interrupted every once in a while with a tremendous explosion.

  Thomas looked at this watch. He couldn’t believe it had been less than ten minutes. The amount of gunfire started to increase. Obviously someone had started arming the airmen and they were fighting back.

  “Time to go. Let’s get the heck out of here,” he said, jumping into the last truck.

  The rushed through the hole in the fence and immediately saw several of Jim’s vehicles. They fell in with them on County Road 214 heading west. They stayed on it until they reached a small mountainous area west of Rapid City.

  The South Dakota Militia had moved their headquarters there just two days ago so no one knew of its existence.

  Considering their success, no one was exuberant. It was quite the opposite. Everyone realized that Americans had died today. Thomas learned that the South Dakota Militia had lost three of their men.

  “We knew that was a possibility,” Thomas said.

  “I know. I just don’t have to like it.”

  “Jim, before this is over, we will have lost a lot of good men. We are fighting for our freedom. The only way you get freedom is by spilling blood. You did an outstanding job. You got all the Warthogs, three f-16 and nine B-1Bs taken out. You saw the haul we got. It was beyond my wildest imagination. To have lost only three people is a miracle.

  “I still have to tell their wives.”

  “You’re right and that really sucks. I’ll be happy to go with you.”

  “No. It’s my place. They were my men,” Jim replied.

  “All right, while you are doing that, I will have the men start making an inventory of everything we got and we can split it up.”

  “Sure. I’ll be back as soon as I can.”

  ***

  General Douglas had just climbed the stairs to the base tower so he could have a bird’s eye view of the entire operation. He had been watching his men unload the latest plane when he heard the tremendous explosion from the north end of the field. The entire tower shook and windows rattled. The huge fireball and smoke caused him to just stare in amazement. He was trying to reconcile in his mind what could be happening.

  His first thought was that one of his planes had somehow had an accident when refueling or adding munitions but he soon realized that the explosion was far too great for just one plane. When the hanger with the F-16’s went up he knew they were under attack. He was speechless for a few seconds. He simply could not believe that someone would attack a US military base. When the hangers with the B-1B bombers started blowing up, he knew this was a well-coordinated attack.

  He ran for the stairs and started down. He pulled his .45 from the holster as he saw a man running by the tower with a M-16. It was not one of his men or an airman. He fired three times and the man went down. Just as he started to grab the rifle, a bullet caught him in the shoulder spinning him around and throwing him to the ground. He felt like he had been hit with a brick. He tried to get to his feet but dropped back down holding his shoulder.

  He lay there as more explosions rocked the base. He could hear some gunfire but it wasn’t long before it stopped and just the sounds of secondary explosions filled the air.

  The next thing he knew someone was standing over him and he was being lifted onto a stretcher and placed in the back of an ambulance. Then he blacked out.

  CHAPTER TWO

  “Well it has begun,” Lincoln said
when they got out of the vehicle at the South Dakota base camp.

  “At least we are off to a good start. That was a hell of a haul. The men did a great job of prioritizing and taking the most important items,” Baker replied.

  “I know Jim is upset because he lost three men but it could have been a lot worse. I figured we would lose a dozen or more,” Lance added.

  “I saw Thomas talking to him. He is really good at putting things in perspective. I’m sure he can help Jim get through this. Before this is all over a lot more people are going to die on both sides. We all knew that going in,” Lincoln said.

  “It is still hard when it is your men that are lost and wounded,” Baker said.

  “So, we need to do an inventory and figure out how best to divide the stuff we raided,” Lincoln said changing the subject.

  Men started unloading the trucks as Lincoln and Lance took an inventory. They were staggered by the quantity and well as the quality of the munitions. It exceeded their wildest hopes.

  When Thomas came to check on them they showed him what the haul was.

  “One thing about it, Douglas wanted his men to have the best firepower. That tells us something. He wants to wipe us out. If we had waited, they would have eradicated us in pretty short order. They brought some serious fire power. This is exactly why we can’t go head to head with them. The FIM-92 Stingers at least give us a fighting chance at air craft. I don’t know why he would have brought them unless he thinks we have some operational aircraft,” Thomas said.

  “Whatever his reason, I’m sure thankful to get our hands on them. Fifty aren’t going to save our butts but it will sure help,” Baker said.

  “Obviously without aircraft, we need more Stingers. That has to be one of our priority targets.”

  “It is going to be a lot harder now. They will be on alert for raids,” Lincoln said.

  “Still, we have to have them to hold. What concerns me most are the standoff weapons Douglas is bound to use from this point on. He came feeling cocky this time, thinking this would be a pushover. We bloodied his nose and he isn’t going to like it. He won’t make the same mistake again,” Thomas told them.