WCGW Chpt 128

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==Chapter 128 - What Could Go Wrong==
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15 June 3043
Wokha (Former Outworlds System)
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As the former SLDF base slowly came alive, Chief Warrant Officer Penelope Rodgers stood at the entrance to Mech Complex One, as she was calling it. At the entrance was a large ball of the SaRI stencils. This was repeated at Mech Bay Two and Three along with Vehicle Bay One and Two and the Aerospace Bay. It was obvious that there would be no salvaging the stencils, they would have to be completely remade before they could be used. Lieutenant Colonel James Woodall had come up beside her quietly and said, "Almost like someone or something is trying to tell us something."
Chief Warrant Officer Rodgers groaned "Not you too, sir? I have half my people already spooked by last night."
"I have never believed in the supernatural, but there are too many accounts over the centuries for something to not be there." Lieutenant Colonel Woodall replied
"We will see about that. Sergeant Mansey, get the people to work making new stencils. You will have to go to my quarters to get the master copy." Chief Warrant Officer Rodgers said
Lieutenant Colonel Woodall pulled his Velcro unit patch off and looked at it. "Hold on Mansey. What if we dropped the Inc off the bottom arch completely, we could add 200th Royal Light Horse along the bottom arch of the patch. Or even reverse them, Search and Recovery at the bottom, 200th Royal Light Horse across the top. We can then place SaRI in the center over the map of the Inner Sphere. We keep the name in honor of the fallen, we can do that same thing with the Infantry, Armor, Aero, and even the Engineers." 
"We would need to discuss that with the Colonel and maybe even put it to a vote, the troops designed the unit patch, only right that they get a say in any new design." Chief Rodgers said
"That's fine with me. Look at the Eridani Light Horse, they have kept the Regimental Designations from the Star League, same thing for the Blue Star Irregulars and a bunch of other units. It's not like we are plugging equipment in, we are literally absorbing the entire unit here. Seems like the right thing to do. Who wants to be called SaRI Battlemech Regiment or SaRI Engineer Battalion and so forth. A unit has to have some character to it." Lieutenant Colonel Woodall replied
Later that evening, over dinner, Lieutenant Colonel Woodall made his pitch to the gathered group of officer, complete with his own unit TOE written on two large pieces of paper. "Compare these two and be honest, which would you rather see."
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Search and Recovery Inc - TO&E
SaRI Battlemech Regiment
SaRI Air Wing
SaRI Armor Battalion
SaRI Infantry Regiment
SaRI Engineer Battalion
Search and Recovery Inc - Salvage
200th Royal Light Horse 
200th Royal Light Horse Air Wing
3328th Armor Regiment
4287th Infantry Regiment
2597th Engineer Brigade
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He continued talking after a brief pause for everyone to look at both pieces of paper. "I would prefer to have the second one myself, it just has so much more character to it. Like the First Davion Guards, we had the Battlemech Regiment that was called the First Davion Guards, but we also had the First Davion Guards Armor Regiment, Eighteenth Shabuta Recon Regiment, 370th Point Barrow Grenadiers, 256th Avalon Mechanized Infantry, and 352nd Crucis Mechanized Infantry to name a few.
Some units have a long and storied history. The same for the 200th Royal Light Horse and attendant commands. We may not know they exact history of those units, but we can bring them back to life and add to their history. We all know that the troops latch onto such things, it brings pride to a unit. Not that we do not have that already, but you all know what I mean. So, feel free to pick it apart."
Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Noble spoke first "I like it. Heck, we could even go back to what the SLDF considered an Aero Wing. Three Groups make a Wing, a Group is three squadrons. So, what we call a Wing is actually only a Group to the SLDF. With the new planes, once we have pilots to fully field them all, we are at or over the old SLDF Wing size. My two cents anyway."
The discussion lasted several hours but no one really protested the idea, but all agreed that the troops should make the final decision.
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