US Army Remnants

**"80,000 men gone in the blink of an eye. The failure of Operation Avenging Spirit has seen several divisions encircled and wiped out - on paper, that is. In truth, the CIA has contacted these lost divisions several times across the decades - even as late as this year. The vengeful claws of the Eagle are still sunk deep into the throat of the Bear, fighting an endless war that respects no truce or peace talk. The war in Europe rages on, unbeknownst to even high ranking US Army officers. Equipment disappears overnight from American Army bases, can you guess where it ends up?"**

**-- Darian Whittaker, CIA whistleblower, 23rd February 2086, two days before his enigmatic suicide.**

## Operation Avenging Spirit:

Operation Avenging Spirit represented a massed american assault across the Austrian frontline with the goal of creating a bulkhead into Central Europe and to then split the Soviet forces in half, surrounding the Western European contingents with the push into France from Spain and Italy. It showed some initial success, managing to clear plenty of ground for the APF, though soon it backfired. The USSR used tactical nukes to destroy any and all supply hubs leading to the bulkhead, after which creating a "wall of fire" behind the bulkhead utilizing several nuclear strikes and creating a radioactive deadzone that is still active in 2087. The 5th Motorized Division, 23rd Rifle Division, 67th Rifle Division and the 103rd Armored Brigade were all listed as MIA on official papers.

In actuality, the divisions lived on despite the precarious conditions they were in, dividing into several smaller taskforces which managed to slip under the Soviet radar and behind enemy lines, figuratively yet also literally, with the help of multiple mysteriously-sourced communication jammers, secretly fuelling the fires of rebellion inside the Union.

## American Victory Taskforce:

**"Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list**

**And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist**

**And the eagle will fly man, it's gonna be hell**

**When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell**

**And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you**

**Brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue"**

**-- Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue**

Years after the Great War, some of the scattered taskforces reunited, forming the so-called American Victory Task Force, or AVTF, operating all across the European continent from their main base hidden in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains.

While there are a couple of other US army task forces beside the AVTF which operate independently of it, they all work towards one end goal: Winning the Great Invasion. Many of these task forces are not even aware of the fact that the war has long since ended - and any intel they do receive from outside generally tends to come from rather secretive sources and is always vague.

The equipment that these taskforces receive is also of dubious origin. Generally, it is thought that they likely scavenge for old american equipment (or otherwise dig up american equipment caches left behind after the war), though others say that there might be a lot more at play than meets the eye. It is said that American intelligence service operatives deliver equipment in secret over the Atlantic to continue fuelling the "war effort" (see ⁠⁠war-in-europe theory).

Generally speaking, the US Army remnants are better equipped than most militias or bandit gangs out in the Soviet wildlands, but they are still far from more modernized armies such as the proper Red Army, the Special Forces of the US Mainland, certain PMCs or the private armies of Megacorporations.