Timeline-Post Sector 12

SkyNET Strikes Back: Summer 2033-Fall 2034.
The survivors of the Battle of Sector 12 spend 2 weeks recovering at the Salinas staging area. There, many participants are awarded with high honors for their actions in the battle, and many civilians are formally inducted into the Resistance.

As Major (soon to be Commander) Sakamoto offered his men the choice of enlistment, about 50% of Tech-Com and its affiliates choose to leave the service and travel elsewhere, such as the recaptured and refurbished USS Nimitz. Those that remain are reorganized into Alpha and Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Resistance Infantry Division; at this point, the 132nd Special Operations Company, Tech-Com, technically ceases to exist, though most find the new nickname- Masa's Tigers- to be a much better one.

THe unit serves with distinction in the invasion of Nevada, though they suffer heavy losses at the Third Battle of Fallon, a long and drawn out campaign which results in a 30% Casualty ratio. During the Battle of Los Vegas, the Tigers are effectively destroyed after a disastrous ambush by SkyNET leads to the unit being caught in a barrage of their own artillery and close air support. Horrified at the loss of his men, Masa abruptly resigns from the Resistance. The survivors are not officially reassigned to any unit, and are allowed to move themselves however they choose. Some of those that survive remain with the 5th, and continue onward.

The 5th Division continues to suffer heavy casualties in its trek through Nevada: Raiders and Luddites also compound the problem, conducting hit-and-run and suicide attacks on Resistance positions. During an assault on Carson City, Luddites detonate a tactical nuclear device which decimates the division and eliminates almost all of the 5th's Command staff.

The rest of the Resistance in the West Coast Region are now spread thin: Northern Californian and Oregonian Resistance deal heavily with a large group of raiders known as the Huns, currently operating an effective guerrilla campaign against the Resistance. Southern Californian garrisons, now drained of manpower due to losses in the Nevada campaigns, are barely able to hang on to their own territories.

The situation in other states, Canada and Mexico are little different from what they were before the Battle of Sector 12: They are unable to provide assistance to California. While the Resistance establishes Civil Defense Corps and other forms of militia and community policing, it's unclear how much damage the losses in Nevada will ultimately cost.

Resistance presence in cities like Los Angeles remain scant, only there to ensure law enforcement and security against SkyNET stragglers.  Fortunately, SkyNEt conducts no offensives against California proper, and the lines remain stagnant for over a year.

From the Ashes: Fall 2034.
With the American resistance's largest unit effectively decapitated, High Command hastily establishes an Officer Candidate Program that accepts both volunteer civilians and experienced soldiers: However, recruitment drives lead to the majority of OCS graduates being the former, with little formal leadership or combat experience.

Concurrently, High Command also enacts RSOG Program, which utilizes Military-Independent-Machines (aka Self-Aware, R/W Capable Drones and Infiltrators) in special teams for special and black operations. The existence of these units are initially highly classified.

Having captured and repurposed some SkyNET production facilities and gained access to the required raw materials, the Resistance also begins to experiment with SkyNET-influenced vehicles and weaponry, beginning with the UVTOL-1 Albatross. The aircraft is essentially an armored Black Hawk chassis with the HK-Aerial Engine System, creating a human response to SkyNET airpower. These only exist in small numbers, but High Command intends to use these to create an "air assault" capability such as that seen in the Vietnam War, and the US Military in general of the late 20th Century. However, while they make advancements in vehicular technology, SkyNET's loss of California also prevents the production of Plasma weaponry: These weapons become much rarer, and maintaining them is on the user, not the group.

Spring Cleaning: January 2035.
In December of 2034, the reinstated Colonel Masayuki Sakamoto is transported to Camp Pendleton to assist in the formation and training of the 7th Air Mobile Division, along with a freshly minted officer corps. In January, an unprecedented 2000 men from the Australian Army- both raw recruits and grizzled veterans of the Solomon Islands Campaign- arrive at the reopened Camp Pendleton, and are immediately assigned to the new 7th AMD. The 7th AMD trains in quick reaction and blitzkrieg tactics utilizing Albatross troop transports and gunships.

In a bloody campaign, the 3rd Resistance Infantry Division finally eradicates the Huns. Sergeant Oliver Takaoka is awarded the Medal of the Resistance for organizing a slave uprising while in captivity, and personally killing the charismatic warlord-only known as Attila Jr.- in hand-to-hand combat. Organization and cohesion quickly collapses among the Huns, and the Resistance is finally able to resecure the California-Oregon border.