Strategic Scientific Reserve

"The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man."

- Chester Phillips The Strategic Scientific Reserve (S.S.R.) was the top secret Allied war agency during World War II. It later was absorbed by S.H.I.E.L.D. after its founding.

History
The Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed in 1940 on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Though the United States wasn't directly involved in World War II at the time, Roosevelt knew that such situation was only temporary, because Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich were the greatest threat to the free world.

The commanding officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was Colonel Chester Phillips. The same year when the Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed, he persuaded the American industrialist Howard Stark to join the agency, after the group of assassins sent by HYDRA, Hitler's special weapons division, tried to kill them both.

Shortly after, they organized the rescue of Abraham Erskine from Castle Kaufmann where he was being held by Johann Schmidt, the commanding officer of HYDRA. Phillips sent one of his best agents, Peggy Carter, to secure Erskine's release.

The goal of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to create an army of super soldiers that could defeat anything the Axis powers had on the battlefield. This led to the Project Rebirth based on the work of their newest acquisition, Erskine, and transformation of Steve Rogers into Captain America.

After Abraham Erskine was killed by Heinz Kruger, the top priority mission of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to take down HYDRA.

In November 1943, several members of the Strategic Scientific Reserve were in Italy. When Steve Rogers discovered that his friend Bucky Barnes was captured by HYDRA, he flew behind enemy lines and led a successful escape of prisoners from the HYDRA factory in Austria.

In 1945, the efforts of the Strategic Scientific Reserve were successful. Peggy Carter and a team then took down the last known HYDRA base in Austria, capturing General Reinhardt and the first 0-8-4, the Obelisk. HYDRA was destroyed, and the Axis powers defeated. The Strategic Scientific Reserve continued for a short time after the war, taking on cases such as the Zodiac, but was disbanded in 1946 and its former membership absorbed into a new agency, S.H.I.E.L.D..

After the formation of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Scientific Reserve became the scientific division of the agency, making weapons and inventions for the organization and training gifted young adults to become S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists.

Membership

 * Chester Phillips
 * Howard Stark
 * Peggy Carter
 * Abraham Erskine
 * Gilmore Hodge
 * Steve Rogers
 * Howling Commandos
 * Dum Dum Dugan
 * Jim Morita
 * Gabe Jones
 * John Flynn
 * Agent Johnson
 * Agent Miller
 * Agent Wilkes
 * Agent Yauch