10th Armorsuit Brigade

Insignia of the 10th Armorsuit Brigade

The **10th Armorsuit Brigade** is an introductory Commonwealth armosuit brigade for all interstellar volunteers and mercenaries for the Mersian War. The unit was created a few weeks into the war after so many people across the stars volunteered to fight the Nationalist Resistance Army.

The brigade is commanded by the legendary armorsuit pilot Hollrick Bartovil, the highest scoring Earth Sphere ace at the time.

## Structure

The brigade is divided into solid elements and the training elements. The solid elements are regular members of the Commonwealth Army and they get occasionally transferred with front-line troops to give the front-line soldiers some respite in a more peaceful unit. The solid elements are:

* Headquarters and Signals Company
* Garrison Company
	+ 1st Garrison platoon
	+ 2nd Garrison platoon
	+ 3rd Garrison platoon
* Supply Company
	+ Medical platoon
	+ Logistics platoon
	+ Armorsuit Maintenance platoon
* Separate Transport Company

The training elements rotate every 5 weeks. The first 5 weeks are akin to the volunteers' basic training period, orienting the volunteers to the realities of war and fighting in a armosuit. Already experienced soldiers are usually tested on the front-lines earlier than civilian volunteers, though civilians rarely get accepted into the unit. Each pilot is given the rank of Private, unless they have a prior military rank in the Earth Sphere Armed Forces, in which case their rank remains the same. Generally officers are given the position of platoon leader and NCOs are assigned as squadron leaders. If there are not enough officers, the highest ranking NCO becomes a platoon leader.

The training element is simply divided into 2 platoons with each having 2 squadrons. One platoon has 11 mechs 1 for the platoon leader and 10 for the squadron pilots.

## Members

Members are divided into staff and recruits. Recruits are rotated every 5 weeks, as the last batch is redeployed to active frontline duty in one of the 4 fronts of the war; Jultust Offensive, Arujan Front, Naval Campaign of the Mersian War, and the Relbaran Front.

### Staff

* Brigade Commander: Brigadier-General Hollrick Bartovil
* Quartermaster: Major Adel Rashaman
* Senior Enlisted Advisor: Sergeant Major John Bretton
* Chief Training Officer: First Lieutenant Richter von Hamm-Reichman
* Intelligence Officer: Lieutenant Drovan Halsen
* Medical Officer: Lieutenant Lucille Klosterdach

### 1st Batch

The 1st Batch was the so called: Guinea-pig Batch, as they functioned as the experimental batch to observe the functionality of an voluntary armorsuit squadron.

#### 1st Platoon

##### Scythe Squadron

* Lieutenant Ulrich Wester
* Sergeant Kalody Miller
* Corporal Sharam Withody
* Corporal Lewis Beckett
* Corporal Arion Hezda
* Corporal Ludo Ryn

##### Hussite Squadron

* Staff Sergeant Jan Sokol
* Sergeant Paul Loemmer
* Corporal Stephan Merik
* Private Hadim Sanjak
* Private Havel Detrioni

#### 2nd Platoon

##### Principes Squadron

* Ensign Leon Frisk
* Corporal Jarik Grumman
* Corporal Demyan Lubomir
* Private Lule Al
* Private Cali Vraus
* Private Fred Kumar

##### Owl Squadron

* Sergeant Ugo Hymn
* Corporal Kerid Fesner
* Corporal Joachim Hesse
* Corporal Kim Dvel
* Corporal...