88th Shock Troops Division

The 88th Shock Troops Division, nicknamed the Mighty 88s, was a formation of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers in the UNSC Marine Corps.
==History==
The 88th was one of many units to participate in Operation: TREBUCHET, the UNSC's campaign against the mounting colonial Insurrection. Seeing deployments on New Rijeka, Lagash, and Uruk, the 88th took part in some of the harshest fighting of the operation, including fierce urban combat in rebel strongholds and high intensity boarding actions against insurgent-occupied orbital installations. Throughout TREBUCHET, the 88th was renowned for their lightning fast assaults against hostile targets.
When the Covenant arrived in 2525, the 88th were immediately redeployed to face the alien menace. One of the first units to drop onto the frozen surface of Harvest, they were instrumental in capturing key territories, allowing the UNSC to establish suitable beachheads and more permanent firebase facilities before further pushing back Covenant forces. During the latter years of the Harvest Campaign, they were redeployed to neighboring worlds that had also come under heavy alien assault and were pivotal in the evacuation of civilians on Numidia. In these early years of fighting, the division suffered heavy casualties as human commanders adjusted to the tactics and weapons employed by the Covenant, to the point where it was briefly withdrawn from service in early 2532 to replace devastating combat losses.
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