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Due to the strict requirements posed by the drill master, only four recruits made it through to the end of training and became members of the Thunder. Soon after, she ordered the camp reactivated to fill out the ranks of the Thunder. Together with her unit, Taggerdy moved to Camp Venture, an old survival training camp, where they spent the dark winter of 2077. Army apparently disappeared in nuclear fire overnight played a key role in the decision.
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Although she was hesitant about speaking to a confessed traitor, her friendship made her decide to give Maxson a chance. What Taggerdy didn't expect to find on the radio bands was Captain Roger Maxson, looking for someone in Appalachia.
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With the chain of command in tatters and nothing but static on the radio, they attempted to raise any kind of ranking officer to receive new orders and move forward through the desolation of the nuclear war. After first dismissing the attacks as part of the simulation, the nuclear warheads that struck Appalachia soon revealed that war came home. She never got the chance to execute that strategy, as the Thunders were surprised by the Great War. As usual, Taggerdy planned for a hard and fast attack, hugging the edge of the exercise area and striking where the Marines were least expecting it. Deployed to war games organized in Appalachia in October 2077, Taggerdy led the Thunder against a unit of United States Marines. The origins of the Appalachian chapter are closely tied to Taggerdy's Thunder, a US Army Ranger unit led by Lieutenant Elizabeth Taggerdy.