The Warhawks were formed in 2076, as the "59th Aerial Demonstration Squadron" of the United States Air Force, part of the American Experience Project, celebrating America's tricentennial. Several exceptionally talented pilots were relieved from duty battling the PLAAF on the Korean peninsula, and returned to the United States to perform for the American public, in an attempt to sit up patriotic sentiment. However, as American troops returned home from Alaska the following year, the squadron's pilots and their families were reassigned to a USAF base in the newly annexed "Yukon Commonwealth". When the bombs fell on October 23rd, 2077, fighters of the 59th Aerial