Everyone posted while I wrote guff... Sad.
Tell me about it.
recruit: 20 rangers (spec ops.) for 20c
60 regular jar heads for 15c
9 scientists for 18c.
1 Whitehawk BC-37 for 18c
1 Land Hopper 391 for 12c
2 H36 interceptors for 44c
3 spare harasser missiles
10 X-78Cs for 5c
135c all gone. And that, my friends, is why we had an economic crisis.
Squad design:
Rapid response squad:
Whitehawk BC-37
(all ranger)
10 rangers armed with X-78s
2 snipers
2 machine gunners
3 scouts (SMGs, interchangeable upon request- they're not meant to engage in active combat anyway)
1 light anti-armor (think LAW)
2 man ATGM team (think TOW).
Defense Squad
Land Hopper
(all military)
50 men armed with whatever they sent them with.
form 2 rapid response squads, temporarily using the Whitehawk on a rotational basis, and a defense squad.
send rapid response squads to places with alien activity.
keep defense squads near major cities (changed every couple of days) use them to defend the city if we luck into a nearby incursion or to clean up past alien activity sites (freeing up rapid response squads to do the fighting)
have H36s engage UFOs if any are spotted in our airspace. Use of harassers is authorized (except over major cities, naturally).
research projects:
find someone who knows something: What the hell happened? Why weren't the nukes fired? and what's with the reports of people disappearing
before the invasion? 5 "scientists"
the second C: contact other anti-alien agencies, there must be some by now. 2 "scientist"
UFO defense: look into the best ways to identify UFOs 3 scientists.
development:
Superior firepower: make me a squad support "machine gun" based on the X-78. 9 scientists
edit: reduced the amount of spec. ops due to not having enough planes.
editx2: and noticed we have researchers from the start.