UNSC Army (Azure Dawn)

The UNSC Army is a uniformed service of the UNSC Defense Force, responsible for the capture and defense of wide expanses of territory, in addition to planetary defense. 
==Overview==
Created after the Interplanetary War, the UNSC Army was an amalgamation of numerous land-based forces all across the world, at first created as a massive force to secure Planets during the frequent uprisings that started as colonists began to try and break free from the Colonial Administration. After the UNSC Marine Corps began to take over the UNSC Army’s duties as an expeditionary force, many Army officers attempted to have the Marine Corps disbanded, but those pleas were lost as the Marine Corps achieved more and more victories against the Insurrection. In turn, the Army began to fall more and more into the niche of a large planetary defense force, as well as holding large spaces of territory as a defensive force. During the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC Army patrolled outer colony worlds for Rebel activity, as well as being the first line of defense against Covenant forces on many worlds, as the UNSC Marine Corps would arrive later as reinforcements. Two known UNSC Army operations were the Battle of Mare Erythraeum, where Colonel James Ackerson, then attached to the UNSC’s Office of Naval Intelligence, led a ragtag group of Army members against the more numerous and powerful Covenant occupying forces, and the Battle of Cambridge, where UNSC Army Rangers covered the extraction of Naval Special Warfare forces. Like many of the UNSCs battles against the Covenant, these were defeats, with the forces being completely shattered and routed.
Following the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC Army again grew in strength and might, becoming the forefront of UNSC clean-up operations, destroying any remaining Covenant Loyalist forces in former UNSC Colony Worlds. Following the official conclusion of those operations, the UNSC Army returned to its original mission, patrolling newly colonized planets for rebellious activities.
==Notable Members==
*Brigadier General James Ackerson
*Sergeant Lionel Jackson
*Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class Derrick Bonus
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