Todd Wainio: Denver, Colorado, USA

Today I interviewed Todd Wainio, a soldier in the, what I will call, 'reclamation army'. Once total war against the infected had been called about the army was re-outfitted and retrained. He talked about how the army was unmechanized, removal of almost all offensive attack vehicles, like tanks and Bradleys, the only vehicles they had were armored vehicles and Humvees for transport. The normal gear and armor was replaced with navy blue BDUs, just light, bite-proof combat armor. The entire army was re-outfitted with SIRs, standard infantry rifles, that were cheap and easy to mass produce. They were reliable and never jammed, they fired standard NATO 5.56 "Cherry PIE" rounds, PIE standing for pyrotechnically initiated explosive. Easy one hit kills against zombies if shot into the head. The army had been trained and practiced shooting under metronome, firing a bullet every second and relaxing, but keeping alert, in between to create maximum efficiency and accuracy. The next largest engagement beside Yonkers was held at Watershed. The army set up a defensive position in a wide area with easy LOS, line of sight, Todd explained. They dug out trenches and marked the field with orange Day-Glo tape every ten meters to mark distances. They had set up their position and started calling attention to themselves to attract the zombies and get the chain attack going, as the zombies moan they call attention to other zombies miles away and bring them all in from everywhere. The army had "Sandlers", who were used as the Recharge Team, bringing ammo to whoever ran out so that the rate of fire never ceased for too long. As the fight wore off into the night they started swarming from all sides and the army moved into a reinforced square, covering all sides that they were being attacked from and killing all the zombies. The zombies never even got close enough to have the soldiers resort to hand-to-hand combat. He said that the engagement ended at what he would guess to be 0400, the last infected emerging just at the start of dawn. As the sun let out its light it was revealed that there were so many zombies that they hand been completely encircled by a twenty-foot wall over a hundred feet deep of dead infected bodies. At the end the men got to rest and they moved on, they were "reclaiming our future".