The First Battle for Tunnel-Through was an assault on Tunnel-Through made by President Thomas Voss in a plan to eliminate New American Republic's leader, Judge George Ramsey, after the judge had destroyed the United States Federal Government's Freedom Base One in Ozark national forest. Captain Marvin Kawecki was in charge of Ramsey's execution and realising that Tunnel-Through was heavily defended, decided to go around and recruit citizens of nearby towns and villages. Having lost the battle, all survivors of the Alliance fled, knowing that Judge Ramsey would be planning to hunt them down.