He is the towns favorite football player. Through the windows of the school, parachutes appear in the sky. Troops land, and everyone assumes that some US army training mission has sent its particpiants way of course. The history instructer heads outside to try to find something out about this spectacle. Soldiers unveil generators and large weapon caches and immediately open fire, killing the instructer.
Troops then fire into the school.
Students head for a place to hide, with many unsuccesful in this endeaver. Jed and other football players escape in a truck that is forced off road by a road block. A tank turret trains directly on them and prepares to unleash a flurry of bullets. At that moment a US Helicopter flying over head destroys the tank with a flurry of small missiles. The battle lines it appears are coming into focus.