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==Chapter 82 - The Glow of a Worm inside a Child's Eye==
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Unit Profile: 171st Kowloon Volunteers (3052)
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Unit Overview: The 171st dates back to the war against Stefan Amaris, though they are not a formal SLDF formation, and the organization was inactivated shortly before spring of 2784 and sent home.
The present 171st is the "Kowloon Korps" and consists of the following:
1st. BDECO: Lt. General Samantha CleesXO: Colonel Marthe Pryde
-Components:
Air Boss: Lt. Colonel Von Jankmon
1st Battalion (Cluster)- 3 Nova Trinary
2nd Battalion (Cluster)- 3 Trinaries mixed Elemental and 'mech
3rd Battalion (Cluster)- 1 -Binary Field Artillery, 1 Trinary combat engineer (Infantry with organic support), 1 Trinary Nova ('mech and elemental)
55th Coast Guard Air Wing 
1875th Lohengrin Detachment (for monitoring, 2 companies special forces infantry, 2 companies Military Police)
2nd Division;CO: Lt. General Charles VanhXO: Colonel Moshe Dayyan
-Components:
1st. Battalion (airmobile)
2nd Battalion (Armored)
3rd Battalion (Mechanized Infantry)
56th Coast Guard Air Wing
3rd Division: under construction/appropriations. 
-Currently, 3rd Division is being recruited and organized using recruits from across the Melissia Theater and exists primarily on paper as a procurement and training exercise.
Unit Mission:
The 171st's primary duty is the defense of the habitable world of Kowloon, with a secondary (actually primary) role as an organic OpFor for training units headed for the Clan front at the National Training Center Camp John region of Kowloon. Aerospace and transport assets are borrowed from the outer system's Coast Guard Militia, including Aerospace fighters with the exception of 1st Brigade, which has some 30 or so SB-27(K) modified Sabers piloted by former Jade Falcon personnel under the command of former Jade Falcon officers.
Overall command of the 171st remains in the hands of Duke Patrick Ngo, though charter obligations permit this to be overridden by AFFC central command at the pleasure of the Archon or First Prince or their designated oversight. (Typically this is assigned through Lohengrin.)
The unit, since being restored to an active role, has not seen active combat on any front, though it does conduct realistic training exercises with most of the MTM and FedCom regulars units moving through the coreward end of the Lyran Commonwealth.
The 171 gets the bulk of its equipment from sources inside the Lyran member state, and often serves as a testing ground for designs intended to fill roles in the AFFC regulars formations, with an emphasis on dealing with Clan tactical methods and mindset.
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