Strike First was a para-military and survivalist organization established by Commander Vance Wingfield in Montana. Wingfield encouraged his recruits to cut all ties to their old lives, and to relocate their families to the camp. The group was secretly funded by Cobra, who supplied the militia with two nuclear warheads and a number of T-60E tanks.[1]
Wingfield also believed that the collapse of civilization was coming, and wanted to prepare his recruits for the grim reality of rebuilding in the wake of it. He was so sure the collapse was approaching that he planned to trigger it himself by dropping a nuclear bomb on Vladivostok and then retreating into armored bunkers while the United States and Russia fought a nuclear war. Wingfields plans were foiled by the G.I. Joe Team.[1]