Faction · Manhattan · 2020–21
Joint Task Force
Police, fire, Guard, leftover army
The emergency fusion of whatever uniformed services still had a chain of command.
JTF was stood up in December 2020 as a single badge for NYPD, FDNY, National Guard, and military stragglers. In New York it held the Post Office, the Dark Zone wall, and not much else. In D.C. it shattered faster: Ridgeway's faction walked out and became True Sons.
JTF is the Division's necessary disappointment. They have numbers and local knowledge. They also have the instincts of institutions that already failed — barricades, abandoned quarantines, shooting at crowds. Agents spend as much time keeping JTF from making things worse as they do using them.
Roy Benitez in New York is the version that still works: a cop who stayed. Ridgeway is the version that did not.
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