Cossack Volunteer Artillery

The Cossack Volunteer Artillery was a unit formed of Cossack refugees from Glabetov after the fall of the planet to the in . Hoping to bring in other refugees from planets that had been lost to the UNSC to form into foreign units under their command, the Gilgameshan government created the Volunteer Artillery as an elite unit, placing Captain Dominic Abreu, a Victorian Independent State refugee from a Cossack family and former officer in the Victorian Armored Corps, in charge. Their armament consisted of the newest UNSC howitzer, the M440 112mm, in order to further their status as an elite unit. 
While other foreign units such as the Victorian Light Infantry were planned, only the Cossack Volunteer Artillery and Glabetovan pilot trainees became official foreign units. This was mainly due to supply troubles from preparations for the counteroffensive after the initial UNSC invasion that meant their ability to raise new units was limited.
During the UNSC-GFS War, the Volunteer Artillery became the only unit to successfully escape from the Battle of the Borderlands with its organization intact, and withdrew to the staging area for Operation: TIDAL WAVE. During the final UNSC reclamation of Gilgamesh, it once again survived, although for the next thirteen years it would trade its howitzers for mortars and light artillery, before again becoming a part of the Gilgameshan Army after the passage of the Commonwealth Act.
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