the paratroopers are going to being linking up with cells all over the disintegrating, balkanizing U.S. of the future. they'll be in small teams, mostly escorts for the crates and crates of shiny new chinese smart assault rifles. they'll be used like most special operations are, to train and organize.

some brave souls won't make it through the increasingly ineffective air defenses, especially as state militias seize air force bases to try to grab as much hardware as possible. but it won't matter.

then the protracted people's war begins.