Strategic Scientific Reserve

The Strategic Scientific Reserve, or SSR, was a top-secret Allied war agency during World War II. It was formed in 1940 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to battle HYDRA, the Nazi special weapons division.
== History ==
=== World War II ===
==== Project Rebirth ====
The Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed in 1940 on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although the United States was not directly involved in World War II at the time, Roosevelt knew that the situation was only temporary, because Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich were the greatest threat to the free world.
The commanding officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was Colonel Chester Phillips. The same year the Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed, he persuaded the American industrialist Howard Stark to join the agency, after a group of assassins sent by HYDRA, Hitler's special weapons division, tried to kill them both.
The goal of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to create an army of super soldiers that could defeat anything the Axis powers had on the battlefield. This led to, Project Rebirth, based on the work of their newest acquisition, Erskine, and the subsequent transformation of Steve Rogers into Captain America.
After Abraham Erskine was killed by Heinz Kruger, the top priority of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to take down HYDRA.
==== Battling HYDRA ====
: "I spoke to the President this morning. As of today, the SSR is being retasked.""Colonel?"
: "We are taking the fight to HYDRA."
: ―Chester Phillips and Peggy Carter[src]
In November 1943, several members of the Strategic Scientific Reserve were in Italy. When Steve Rogers discovered that his friend Bucky Barnes was captured by HYDRA, he flew behind enemy lines and led a successful escape of prisoners from HYDRA Base Camp C3.
In the SSR's headquarters in London, Chester Phillips wanted to form a team of soldiers to assist Rogers in taking down HYDRA bases, but he turned down the offer, instead forming the Howling Commandos from the rescued prisoners.
Over the next year, the Howling Commandos progressively managed to destroy most major HYDRA operations, every time postponing Schmidt's planned worldwide offensive. At the beginning of 1945, Schmidt's top scientist Arnim Zola was captured and brought to the SSR's headquarters in London, where he revealed Schmidt's plans.
==== Loss of Captain America ====
: "HYDRA's last base is here. In the Alps. Five hundred feet below the surface."
: "So, what are we supposed to do? I mean, it's not like we can just knock on the front door.""Why not? That's exactly what we're gonna do."
: ―Chester Phillips, Jim Morita, and Steve Rogers[src]
With the intelligence obtained from Arnim Zola, the SSR planned an attack on Schmidt's fortress in the Alps. A huge detachment of the United States Army assisted the SSR in the attack and the fortress was captured after a relatively short fight. Though Red Skull escaped with the massive aircraft bomber, the Valkyrie, with the intent to use weapons of mass destruction on the United States of America, Steve Rogers managed to board the plane and cause its fall into the icy waters of North Atlantic.
== Members ==
=== Former ===
* Bucky Barnes - Soldier; Deceased
* Peggy Carter - Agent
* Dum Dum Dugan - Soldier
* Abraham Erskine - Scientist; Deceased
* Gilmore Hodge - Super Soldier Serum Candidate; Denied
* Gabe Jones - Soldier
* Jim Morita - Soldier
* Chester Phillips - Leader; deceased
* Steve Rogers - Soldier; Presumed Deceased
* Howard Stark - Scientist; Deceased
== Facilities ==
* Strategic Scientific Reserve Headquarters
* Camp Lehigh
* Strategic Scientific Reserve Brooklyn Facility
== Equipment ==
== Appearances ==
* Captain America
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