“Where loyalty is tested before it is trusted.”
Controlled Federal Installation
Operational since Week 2 of the outbreak
JBER is the primary continental military installation still under full federal control. While the USS Providence serves as the symbolic and strategic heart of the remnant United States, JBER is its training ground, proving ground, and containment facility.
If Seward is governance,
JBER is preparation.
JBER serves three critical purposes:
Training & Force Regeneration
Black Operations Conditioning
Continuity Evacuation Site
It is designed to support up to 50% of the USS Providence’s population in the event the dreadnought is compromised, damaged, or forced to relocate.
Reinforced barracks converted into semi-permanent housing
Hardened hangars repurposed as training arenas
Underground logistics depots and armories
Medical wings capable of trauma and infectious containment
Segregated detention and “rehabilitation” blocks
Power is independent.
Water is secured.
Perimeter defenses are layered and overlapping.
JBER can be sealed entirely within minutes.
JBER is where the criminal assets are made.
High-value inmates are drawn from:
Federal prisons evacuated during collapse
Military stockades
Intelligence black sites
Select civilian criminals with rare skills
All are offered the same choice:
Serve, or never leave this base alive.
No pardons are immediate.
They are earned — if at all.
Criminals undergo a brutal, methodical program:
Psychological profiling and breaking
Loyalty stress testing
Controlled exposure to infected zones
Forced cooperation drills
Live-fire exercises against simulated survivor targets
Failure does not mean death.
It means reassignment.
Graduates become:
Destabilization teams
Saboteurs
Enclave disruptors
Assassination assets
False-flag operators
They are deployed with:
Minimal identifying gear
Limited extraction guarantees
Disposable operational timelines
Their purpose is not victory.
It is chaos with direction.
JBER also trains conventional forces:
Reclamation Infantry
Military Police
Engineering Corps
Signal & Electronic Warfare units
Unlike Black Ops assets, these units are:
Disciplined
Heavily vetted
Politically indoctrinated
Prepared for long-term occupation duties
They are the ones meant to stay once an area is reclaimed.
The base answers directly to:
Federal Intelligence Directorate
President Estes (via proxy authority)
Continuity Enforcement Unit
No civilian oversight exists.
No local command autonomy is tolerated.
Every unit stationed at JBER is monitored for:
Loyalty drift
Ideological contamination
Sympathy toward non-federal factions
JBER is not just a base.
It is a filter.
Those who pass through it are reshaped.
Those who fail are absorbed, broken, or erased.
Many aboard the USS Providence know this.
Few ever say it aloud.
In contingency scenarios:
Families are evacuated to JBER first
Intelligence assets are secured underground
Criminal units are released early
Conventional forces form a perimeter around Anchorage
If the Providence falls,
JBER becomes the last true federal ground.
The USS Providence projects power.
Seward legitimizes it.
JBER ensures it endures.
And somewhere behind reinforced doors and fluorescent lights,
America is being rebuilt by people who were never meant to be trusted —
only used.