UNSC Airbourne Corps

The UNSC Airbourne Corps is the corps of the UNSC Army specialising in rapidly deploying airbourne units in an area in a planet which it is garrioned on. It is currently lead by Lieutenant General Lloyd Thomsom. The UNSC Airbourne numbered at around 100,000 in peace time although increased to 250,000 in times of The Insurrection and 500,000 in the Human-Covenant War and after it. However it suffered heavy casualties in regards to paratrooper operations against the Covenant due to the inefficency of parachuting in against a tier 2 civilisation and was constantly recruiting to keep that number to 500,000.
==History==
===Origins===
Since World War Two, the idea of dropping soldiers from the sky was greatly admired. Paratroopers would perform something heroic which would win a battle and even win a war. The fact that they could be dropped behind enemy lines to destroy vital targets was facinating. Later, many of the paratrooper units such as 101st Airbourne of the United States would become air cavalry units, who used VTOL aircraft to attack territory not yet fully secured from the air and to deploy troopers into those areas.
During the Interplanetary War, the UN Airbourne Corps, the predessor to the UNSC Airbourne Corps, had the same role as their 20th and 21st century counterparts. They were garrisoned on colonies on Earth, Luna and Mars to eliminate resistance from their enemies, the Friedans and the Kolosovics. Units at the time were garrisoned on the Jovian Moons, Mars, Luna and Earth and were in almost every stage of the war. They would aid in the defense of colonies through offensive operations against their enemy. At the end of it in 2070, the UN Airbourne Corps was renamed the UNSC Airbourne Corps, marking the official formation of the corps.
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