Talk:United States of America/@comment-24938973-20151217150917/@comment-24938973-20151218191502

It has been more than 24 hours since the operation began, and still no word on the admiral's condition. Biofoam shipments from the UCG are stuck in customs, so the hospital would have to wait for them a little bit longer.

A doctor walks into the waiting room, and the guests waiting for the news walk to him, including Harmon's adopted sister, Ellen Anders, and Senator Irons.

Mitchell: Well, doctor. Any luck?

Doctor: He lost about 35 percent of blood wherever he was. When we took an xray before operating him, we found a small communication system under the jaw, a heartrate moniter in the chest cavity, and a bunch of other gadgets none of us could determine. But he IS going to make it.

Anders: (gives a sigh or relief) Oh, thank God.

Doctor: The biofoam's still stuck in customs, but hopefully NORAD'll get it here in no time.

Irons: NORAD doesn't exist anymore.

Doctor: What? By who's orders?

Ford: Mine. Well, technically Harmon was going to decommission all NORAD facilities and hand them over to the Special Operations Department today if whoever was behind the recent Chicago attacks didn't decide to try and invade the whole damn state of Illinois.

Anders: Why?

Smith: It was for the better good, Ellen. Admiral Patton's been threatening brute force ever since the President promoted him to fleet admiral back in March, but thanks to Gerry's discussions with the Secretary of Defense, he worked to keep NORAD alive.

Irons: And hell, that's why Patton demoted you to Vice Admiral, right? You convincing the Secretary to keep them active?

Ford: Yeah, I even tried to convince Patton to think that NORAD could've had a purpose to stay as a more elite coast guard. Guess we'll try to work things around now that it's disbanded.

Irons (breaking the fourth wall): I cannot believe this. Admiral Marcus Patton wanted to shut down a US-owned defense contractor that basically created the Special Ops Department. Hell, this is noncense. Utter noncense. Patton should at least have the decency to to feel sorry for someone who is a national hero who was brutally tortured, mind you, by someone who we don't know and is responsible for destroying the second largest city in America. ..... This disgusts me, BEYOND belief.

OOC: That was just Iron's belief about Patton wanting to close NORAD, not my feelings towards Marc.