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you said "The killing efficiency of trained fire teams is awesome and unhindered by fears. Order and peace among many can be restored by few of them rather quickly"

I know you want to believe that, but recall in New Orleans, after the hurricane, the snipers, the fires, and how long it took to restore order. How much looting took place before the troops arrived? How many days were the people at the mercy of the thugs and gangs roaming the streets? Impassable roads could prevent any kind of response for days or even weeks, especially if devestation is in multiple locations. Considering the botched response for one area a hundred miles wide, what if there are ten disasters nationwide? Who will be prioritized?

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina should be considered a test response of disaster preparedness. From my view, the government failed to deliver on it's promise of protecting the people. From the top all the way down to the bottom of the bureaucracy. And it will continue to fail because bureaucracy has trouble learning from mistakes and not repeating them. It is very naive to believe that a humvee is going to come straight to your neighborhood immediately after the crisis and save you.

"you said 'The killing efficiency of trained fire teams is awesome and unhindered by fears. Order and peace among many can be restored by few of them rather quickly'

I know you want to believe that, but recall in New Orleans, after the hurricane, the snipers, the fires, and how long it took to restore order. How much looting took place before the troops arrived? How many days were the people at the mercy of the thugs and gangs roaming the streets? Impassable roads could prevent any kind of response for days or even weeks, especially if devestation is in multiple locations."

...hurricanes to nuclear weapons attacks--apples to oranges. Light combat units are not like MP and construction units. Rural living is nice, when it's over 100 miles from and 5,000 feet higher than the nearest sizable city (which is more civilized than most eastern cities). As for N'Orleeeeens, that mobbed-up lagoon should've been left to rot, IMO.

...and "save" me? I was a combat soldier, as were some of my neighbors, for few years. We wouldn't have any trouble with cooperating with our local law enforcement to stop wandering, eastern rustics (not that those kind could make it this far). It would be like flanking and overrunning a herd of drooling, dying slugs. If they can't run a mile in their lowlands, they wouldn't get more than a few feet before falling out up here.