NXSC Marine Corps

The **NXSC Marine Corps** is a branch of the NXSC Armed Forces responsible for conducting land-based expeditionary amphibious and airborne combat operations, using the mobility provided by the NXSC Navy to rapidly deliver forces. Marines are also charged with the defence of Navy vessels and installations from hostile forces. While structured under the Unified Ground Combat Command, the NXSC Marine Corps operates closely with the NXSC Naval Command and has some authority within the office.

## Structure

The NXSC Marine Corps is another senior service of the NXSC, and was formed alongside the Navy in 2721. The Marine Corps is the naval infantry department of the NXSC, and works closely alongside the Navy to effect military action across nevian space. The administrative head of the Marine Corps is the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC), who serves as the Marine Corps' senior general and service representative on the NXSC Security Council and Unified Combat Ground Command staff. The CMC is responsible for organising, planning and implementing all Marine Corps activities. The Marine Corps is headquartered at Fleet Command Headquarters on Nexonia Prime. The Marine Corps is responsible for maintaining an expeditionary force in readiness, which can seize and defend terrestrial and extraterrestrial strategic sites in advance of a larger main NXSC deployment.

As such, the Marine Corps organises, trains, equips and maintains land, air and space-based combined-arms teams capable of being rapidly deployed by the Air Force and Navy. They are the general-purpose combat force of the NXSC, and employ a wide range of personnel from sharpshooters to combat engineers to xenolinguists. Marine Corps forces are under administrative control (ADCON) of Marine Corps Forces (MARFOR), which focuses on the ability to reorganise, train and direct a given unit's long-term activities. Operational control (OPCON) of combat forces is handed to one of two combatant commands; Naval Command (NAVCOM) and Unified Combat Ground Command (UNI-CCOM) - which provides the authority to conduct missions and delegate tasks, but not the ability to alter the internal organisation of subordinate units.

Marine Corps forces are unique in that they can switch between combatant commands in combat zones, which is coordinated by Joint Deconfliction Teams. Marine Corps personnel assigned to NAVCOM comprise Fleet Marine Forces, which operate under the operational supervision of FLEETCOM command. Marines assigned to vessel and site security, boarding parties, and the majority of aeronautical assets comprise the Fleet Marine Forces. NAVCOM retains jurisdiction over landing parties and expeditionary ground combat troops, notwithstanding UNI-CCOM's vigorous opposition to this interpretation of the regulations. Marines executing long-term planetary security operations, train-and-equip details, and force augmentation for NXSC garrisons, on the other hand, are under UNI-CCOM command.

The Marine Corps' collateral functions include;

* Total Enforcement of emergency military law in designated crisis areas.
* Development of doctrine, procedures and equipment that are of common interest to the Army and Navy.
* Furnishing security teams for the protection of NXSC property and high-value personnel.
* Deployment of security detachments and organisations for service on Navy ships.
* Development of doctrine, tactics, techniques and equipment for the rapid deployment and utilisation of powerful interstellar combat power.

Marine Corps forces are typically deployed as part of a Marine Expeditionary Force, which may include multiple divisions as subordinate units and is subordinate to Fleet Marine Forces.