In 2/19th Special Weapons Group Rear Detachment usually means drinking beer, making sure nobody burns down the barracks, and trying not to freeze to death. It's usually easy duty, day on day off and kicking back. For Corporal Anthony "Ant" Stillwater and Specialists Nancy Nagle and John Bomber it's a little bit of rel...
Corporal Anthony Stillwater and Specialists Nancy Nagle and John Bomber barely survived a brutal surprise attack by a masked killer in their own barracks. Now, their convalescent leave canceled, they find themselves back in the 2/19th Special Weapons Group barracks on top of frozen Alfenwehr. In charge of Rear Detachm...
First they survived a serial killer in their own barracks. Then they went to the wall against a pre-conflict strike of Soviet Union soldiers attacking them in their own barracks, leaving behind half of their number dead and the survivors of the brutal close quarters combat shell shocked and physically wounded. Crimina...
Summer, 1985. New weapons and munitions have come out of the experimental phase and are now being issued across the United States military as the Cold War heats up and the Soviet Union has moved eight armored divisions into Western Europe. The work crew of FSTS-317 AKA Atlas have 90 days to completely reload 105 bunke...
Corporal Stillwater, US Army, has defined himself by his military accomplishments since enlisting, seeking to put his upbringing and past behind him. However, his family has other plans, plans that involve returning Anthony Stillwater to little more than a slave, bound to the will and desires of the nearly all-powerfu...
Canada, a NATO ally known for attention to population safety and cutting edge biowarfare programs, has recently finished their newest P3 lab. State of the art, with cutting edge tech from multiple NATO members, this facility is the latest weapon of the Cold War. Anthony Stillwater, just returned from SERE and Jungle W...
Life is hard at FSTS-317, AKA: Atlas, a depot where conventional, nuclear, and chemical weapons are stored, but nobody said the life of a Special Weapons soldier in the US Army would be easy. For Nancy Nagle, a medic qualified member of 2/19th Special Weapon Group and an experienced Special Weapons soldier, the day s...
Specialist (E-4) Johnathon Bomber is a member of 2/19th Special Weapons Group and the assistant squad leader of the team in charge of FSTS-317 AKA Atlas. Less than 12 hours ago Atlas suffered a massive munitions detonation that destroyed two bunkers and scattered damaged ammunition over the fifteen square mile clandes...
Paul Foster is a 17 year old boy, a white trash high school dropout without even a GED to his name, an adulteress ex-wife he married at 16, uncaring (at best) parents, who's left behind his hometown for what he felt would be an uncaring world. Once finished with Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training, he find...
His confidence and body still damaged by the explosion at Atlas early in the year and his bloody war with his family, Anthony Stillwater has been assigned to Rear-D for the third year in a row. With him is Bomber and Nancy; Aine and Foster on leave, Cromwell at Special Weapons school, and the rest of the squad dead, t...
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The Atlas crew has been torn apart. Most have ETS'd or left the military due to injuries incurred in line of duty. Of the original crew, only a handful remain. Trauma and shared pain have begun to drive apart the surviving members of Echo-Five-Actual. The Atlas Crew, mostly wiped out in a deadly explosion the year bef...
PFC James Roberts just wanted to serve his country, like his father and grandfather. He left his middle class life to join the military with the hope of making his family proud. Graduating top of his class in Basic Training, attending Advanced Individual Training for Ammunition Specialist (55B) at Redstone Arsenal, A...
Survival through the winter on Alfenwehr requires luck, toughness, adaptability and intelligence. Snow, darkness, sub-zero temperatures, low air pressure, madness, and the evil of the mountain are pitted against the men and women of 2/19th Special Weapons's Rear Detachment. Colonel John Henry (NR) has decided to try a...
Things have been going good for Sergeant Stillwater. The last winter was less an exercise in mass fratricide and more a lesson to the veterans of 2/19th Special Weapons Group how the military is supposed to run. REFORGER 88, the largest military exercise NATO had ever performed, had been successful, and the winter of...
Wattys 2018 Longlist Book! Desert Storm had been a disaster for Sergeant Cromwell. Out of the thirty men and women that had made up the reformed Actual, only a handful survived the bitter combat that took place toward the end of the Ground War. Among the fallen on those blood soaked sands were Anthony Stillwater and J...
The Cold War is over, the USSR is gone and Russia lies in economic and industrial ruin. A new president, a new mandate, and Special Weapons has been disbanded, it's soldiers scattered to new MOS slots and new units. A vital component of the MAD program during the Cold War, Special Weapons and everything it represented...
Sarah Hollings is a normal college student, heading to Hawaii on vacation to relax and have fun. When the plane she's on goes down in the Pacific, she's one of the lucky ones who manages to make it to the shore of an uncharted island. Thirteen men and women, one infant girl, have made it to what looks like a paradise...
For Anthony Stillwater, the unthinkable has happened. Command Sergeant Major Tiernan Stillwater is dead. But there are questions surrounding his sudden death. Questions that bring the remaining, surviving members of Atlas and Actual back together in grief. Even the Matrons want answers, both the McDaurns and the McCul...
Years have gone by, the Cold War is over, the Special Weapons Program has been shut down along with the old Continuity of Government Program, and the USSR is a fading memory. Old weapons have been set aside, shelved, and largely forgotten. One such weapon is Anthony Stillwater, a relic of the Cold War, trained to bri...
For John Bomber, his life is over. He's out of the military on a medical with no way to return. His sister and her husband are capable of handling the farm. He's a respected pillar of the community, a multi-millionaire who is recognized throughout the State, and can go nowhere without everyone knowing. His son is grow...
FASCAM - FAmily of SCAtterable Mines. Usually delivered to "Occupant" or "To Whom It May Concern", is a group of short stories that don't rate their own novellas or books. As time goes on I'll fill in more and more little stories. Probably just vignettes and random stuff that largely doesn't fit in the main books. Set...
Anthony Stillwater, now a civilian, lives in a small town on the coast of Oregon and has spent years putting his past behind him after the events of Kilo-61. Even though the War on Terror is in full swing, he has stayed away from the military and contents himself tending bar and being with his family, declining repea...