OverWatch Recruitment and Enlistment Corps

The **OverWatch Recruitment and Enlistment Corps** is an off shoot of the 5th Army's Defense union, where it has the job of enlisting, drafting and recruiting members to the 5th Army's Armed Forces. The branch also operates a special "bootcamp program" where citizens who wish to learn as much about military before entering combat as possible are allowed to do so in specialized bootcamps, earning the title of "cadet" when entering. Enlisted soldiers only receive 2 years of training, whilst those who undergo bootcamp training receive 4 years, graduates are immediately enlisted as commissioned officers, while enlisted soldiers are directly appointed as a non-commissioned. The branch is an official agency of the Union of Defense, and not an official branch in the armed forces, therefore it answers directly to the government.

## Organization

Because the Enlistment Corps is an official agency of the Union of Defense, all affairs are overseen by an appointed civilian officer that reports directly the Administrator of the Armed Forces. Each conscription facility are given directly to military officers, whereas a special Recruitment facility are directly under the responsibility of the Corps. Directors and Instructors are exclusively given to retired and-or serving officers of the military, that are trained to educate commissioned officers. Recruitment process takes about four years, while conscription takes less than two. Conscription and recruitment have only ever been excercised by the Army and Navy (including the Marine Services), having facilities in every major worlds around the supercluster, whereas the Starfighter Corps and the OWISCB are responsible for their own training, both have an official Academy on Homebase Central.

On a local level, all recruitment and conscription operation are supervised by the Chief of Recruitment, a seat within the Joint Staff Commission, only given to a selected Director of a Recruitment facility. Because of this special placement, protocol places the Chief at the same authority level as a General in the Army.

## History

Enlistment started taking place just shortly after the formation of the Armed Forces - there was a great demand of soldiers as the 5th Army began reclaiming lost territories, then soon after began rapidly expanding across the LANIAKEA Supercluster. The agency was formed as a means to keep a proper system in recruiting members.

Before the short lived Sector C civil war, Naofa Niro and a few of her relatives enlisted themselves as an agreement to keep her home systems, the Micrea Micro Cluster, under OverWatch sanction. She was trained and supervised under an Instructor and Navy veteran named Wolf Truro, becoming much of a father figure to her. After her graduation, a war had broken out, and in an act of emergency, she was made a Colonel in the Army, leading a special Fae Regiment.

At some point, Wolf retired as an Instructor in favor to pursue his career within the Internal Affairs Bureau, reaching up to the rank of Chief Inspector, commanding the entire Surveilance Department.

Ryan Ericsson, a Director of an unknown Recruitment Academy, was present at the Joint Staff meeting with Earth's Inquisition Team as the sitting Chief of Recruitment for Sector C. He was more active in the joint summit between the Joint Staff of Sector C and the Ruling Council of the 5th Army, where he mentions that there's a surplus of conscripted soldiers that were "dying to be deployed" in the wake of a possible large scaled whipe out operation.

In a conversation between Director Ericsson and Fleet Admiral Kirsk, that took place sometime after the promotion ceremony in the aftermath of Operation: DAY-BREAK, Ericsson mentioned that he has been lobbying to J.W., the Chief of the Corps, for an expansion of medical treatment in the Recruitment Academies, after being made aware of the severe casualty counts of the large scaled operation.

## Members

### Current members

* J.W. - Chief of the Corps
* Ryan Ericsson - Academy Director