Orders for Cmdr NATO Forces

 

Situation

Last known position of possible Hotel SSBN is 6 hrs old. All available NATO units have deployed to the general location to search and sink the submarine. Intelligence from a trusted source in the Kremlin has indicated that the Hotel is on a first strike mission with possible targets of Boston and New York.

President Gerald Ford is now airborne in Air Force One with destination unknown. NORAD is now at DEFCON 2 with B-52s flying Chrome Dome (airborne alert) race-tracks over Greenland, awaiting strike orders.

Soviet strategic forces are also at their highest alert level, with increased deployments of mobile MRBMs and SRBMs in East Germany.


Enemy Forces

Subsurface : Hotel Class SSBN


Friendly Forces

NAS Argentina : VP-30 Pro's Nest (P-3C Orion)

CFB Greenwood : 415 Sqn (CP-107 Argus Mk.1)

CFB Shearwater : 423 Sqn (CH-124A Heltas SeaKing)

Naval forces : HMCS Annapolis DDH, HMCS Assiniboine DDH, HMCS Iroquois DDH, HMCS Margaree DDH, HMCS Terra Nova DDE.


Mission

Locate, classify and destroy any Soviet submarine in your area.

 

Execution

1. Investigate Datum 1327 0 Position 045 00N 054 57.23W - Error 1nm, Speed 5 kts, Time 190200ZOCT75.

2. Use Argus and Orion LR MPA to sanitize the area of operations.

3. DDHs and DDEs and associated helicopters to localise and classify subsurface contacts. Any contacts free to be attacked, including unknowns.


Command & EMCON

Command: CFB Greenwood
EMCON: Alpha-limited emissions