1st Combat Team Vice Commander

**1st Combat Team Vice Commander** is an unnamed JGSDF major and a vice commander of the 1st Combat Team of the JGSDF's Fenn Kingdom Civilian Rescue Deployment Force, 1st Battalion.

## Appearance

In the manga version, 1st Combat Team Vice Commander is depicted as a young man, wearing a camouflage combat bulletproof vest and Type 88 helmet.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

In response to the massacre of the two hundred Japanese tourists at Nishinomiyako, the vice commander and his 1st Combat Team, 1st Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Amano, was dispatched to the Fenn Kingdom to rescue the remaining Japanese tourists in Amanoki and repelled the Parpaldian Imperial Army from Fenn. The next morning, Amano and the commanders of each platoon gathered inside the headquarters tent in Amanoki. He was analyzing the reconnaissance reports from his subordinates, ascertaining the location of the Parpaldian Imperial Army ground legion force. The vice commander, who made his anxiety obvious in his facial expression, spoke Amano that the Parpaldian ground legion force outnumbered them 10 to 1. Amano didn't matter their trifling numbers or how medieval JSDF opponents were. But since there were settlements in the area, they couldn’t just bombard them with artillery, for they would be missing the point of their deployment if they had caused civilian casualties. The vice commander asked him to request support from the JASDF. Aside from their assortment of vehicles and mobile weaponry, Amano had access to three AH-64D Apache helicopters, the only other unit capable of battle in the area they could borrow from the JMSDF’s helicopter carrier before the Parpaldian Imperial Army would soon arrive at the Coate plains. The decisive battle on which the fate of the Fenn Kingdom lay was about to begin in the Coate plains.

After the majority of the Parpaldian ground legion force and all their land dragons were decimated by JGSDF's ten main battle tanks and three AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, they decided to surrender by waving their unit flag to the left in big, sweeping circles, the Third Civilization's signal for surrender. With the five Type 99 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzers and ten MLRS platforms positioned to their right facing towards the southwest, they were to end the engagement in a rain of munitions on the densely packed enemy formation. On Type 89 armored combat, the vice commander spoke that the imperial soldiers reversed their flags, waving them counterclockwise. Amano looked at the enemy formation through a pair of binoculars, confirming that they were desperately waving them around.

Since Parpaldians refused to acknowledge the standard surrendering procedure of waving a white flag told by Japanese diplomats, Amano assumed that they might try to conduct a magical attack on his forces. However, he called out to his officer Yamada, who was also in Type 89 armored combat. Amano confided to Yamada about the loss of his niece and brother-in-law in the massacre of the 200 innocent tourists by the Parpaldian, turning an act of vengeance. Yamada already knew what Amano was thinking, but he also knew that he was powerless to stop him, so he nodded in agreement with his statements.

Amano mercilessly ordered an artillery strike on the Parpaldians troops with the full force of their Type 99 self-propelled howitzers and MLRS platforms, killing them in an act of vengeance.

## Trivia

* 1st Combat Team Vice Commander only appears as character in the light novel and manga, not the web novel; however, his name is unknown.