United States | Operation Solid Chance

[Odinson]

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OPERATION SOLID CHANCE​

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SECRET​

NAVY DEPLOYMENT​

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SUBMARINE DEVELOPMENT SQUADRON 5
Captain Drake Riley​

Ship Class	Vessel	Compliment	Home Port
Seawolf-class Submarine (J. Carter variant)	USS Jimmy Carter	Blue: 141	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

DETAILS

Seawolf-class (J. Carter variant) - Fully Fueled; Non-perishable food/water for 6 month journey; x50 M4A1 Carbine and associated ammo and x50 M1911 and associated ammo in barracks;
Countermeasures: x96 ADC MK5 acoustic decoys;
Armaments: x5 TLAM-E Block IV Tomahawks; x15 UGM-84A Harpoons; x30 Mark 48 torpedoes.

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DEPLOYMENT ORDERS​

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CONTEXT​

An unspeakably horrific problem had come back to haunt the United States, and the world, at an inconspicuous location in Antarctica. Only a handful of people knew the full scope of what was at hand and how to eliminate it. However, the entire truth of the matter could never be revealed to the world. In fact, it was decided amongst a few key leaders in the Sinclair Administration that it was best to not even disclose the full information of what was happening to the rest of the government or even the President's inner-circle. That meant, however, that a serious conundrum existed: how would a handful of people in the government convince the rest of the government and the world that the United States must have some kind of a military presence in Antarctica, and how would they get the military to eliminate a threat which everyone from the admirals and generals to the privates and seamen can't be told about?

It was ultimately decided that the President would inform his inner circle that he wanted the United States to take a tougher stance on Sweden's control of Antarctica. To justify doing this, the United States would need to find evidence that Sweden was violating the various Antarctic treaties and agreements, or at least the spirit of them. Because of the Swedish government's proclivity to skirt international law, the top brass at the Pentagon figured that there was a solid chance that Sweden had militarized Antarctica, had some secret black sites, or was otherwise doing things on the continent that it shouldn't be. On the advice of the Commander of Naval Intelligence, the President ordered that the USS Jimmy Carter deploy to the Southern Ocean to find evidence of any Swedish wrong doings. Whether or not the evidence would ever be published to the world, or just used in diplomatic talks with Sweden, would be at the discretion of the President.

The deployment of the submarine was Top Secret and took place in the middle of the night, sometime around two in the morning. Special measures were taken to ensure that certain views of Pearl Harbor were obscured, public cameras in certain places were disabled, and that there would be no press releases about the deployment of the submarine.​

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