Liberty Department of Military Affairs File 653, 54

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Liberty Department of Military Affairs (LDMA)
Liberty Marine Corp file 653 (LMC)

Section 1 - 22nd Space Force Brigade

Ever since the beginning of the new colonial era, the prospect of land warfare has been relatively dim a menace for Liberty, close to nonexistent. Such encounters happened highly irregularly and has never required much more than small numbered intervention forces, mostly to answer terrorist actions or to perform special operations. Over the years, the Liberty Navy has always remained the largest and most powerful branch of our military, charged to defend our nation, while internal security has been assigned to the LPI.

The rising need for a military force capable of land forces encounter has been felt more pressing in recent years due to the increased political tensions between Houses government sectorwide. We must now face the possibility of planetary combat, be it within homeland or abroad, and must be ready to respond to it appropriately.

The LDMA has approved to enlarge the effective strength of the LMC by augmenting the annual budget, as have been stated in the previous file. It is hereby approving the request to augment the total personnel count of the force, as well as the creation of the 22nd Space Force Brigade as a all-purpose force.

The 22nd' goal will be the defense of Libertonian held land. It must be capable to intervene on planets and satellites, with or without atmosphere, as well as space ships and stations. In time of war, the 22nd must be capable to secure any target with opposition's land targets, as well as be able to operate boarding operations against warships, opposition' freight vessels and opposition' station.

The components of the 22nd will include;
-22nd Brigade Headquarter, planet Manhattan
-22nd Regiment, 1st Battalion, planet California Minor, Light Infantry
-22nd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, planet Los Angel, Light Infantry
-22nd Regiment, 4th Battalion, planet Manhattan, Heavy Infantry
-34th Regiment, planet Los Angel, Combat Engineer
-55th Battalion, planet Los Angel, Service Battalion
-47th Regiment, planet California Minor, Armored
-601st Squadron, planet Los Angel, BDR-804 Fighter Squadron


Section 2 - Commanding general officer

General Isabelle Kaitlyn - profile

Kaitlyn is native to planet California Minor, born from a father who has served as a naval officer and a mother in the Deep Space Engineering military development section. She graduated from the LMC Academy of Quantico in her officer course ranking first, one of the rare female military personnel to have achieved such result. Her outstanding intelligence, ability to adapt to every situations and to learn rapidly, as well as a natural potential at leadership caught the attention of Special Operations, in which she served from rank captain to colonel, making a progression as a rising star never heard before. The details of her promotions in her time in the Special Operations has never been made public, and as such will not be discussed in this document (Files N791WW, confidential, LDMA Top Secret). Isabelle Kaitlyn leaves the Special Operations and soon receives her promotion to general at age 25, the youngest to ever achieve this rank in the Liberty military.

Kaitlyn is known to have refused twice the nomination to five star general for undisclosed reasons.

Section 3 - Logistic and equipment

Most notably, the 22nd will be fielded with the Constitution-class light battleship, capable of sustaining atmospheric flight and as such highly appreciable in any possible planetary combat. Previously assigned to the Naval Research and Development.

12 BDR-804 "Guardian" fighters will be put to the disposition of the 22nd, along with a full support crew fielded by the Navy.

20 logistic support crafts and troop transports fielded by the LMC, ranging from Rhino to Armored Transport.

3 marine infantry units

1 armor unit, including mobile light artillery

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