396th Dragoon Regiment

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396th Dragoon Regiment
Disbanded 2785[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XLV Corps

The 396th Dragoon Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XLV Corps, Eighteenth Army, to an undisclosed district within the Periphery, though it was pulled out by 2765 to some unknown location during the Periphery Uprising.[2] The 396th survived the war and the Hegemony Campaign, to be absorbed by the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns.[2] The AFFS recruited the surviving battalion of the 396th in 2785, merging them into the Third Ceti Hussars along with a battalion recruited from the 199th Dragoon Regiment, the AFFS having founded the Third Ceti Hussars two years earlier using a battalion of troops recruited from the 250th BattleMech Division.[1]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 396th Dragoon Regiment

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition[edit]

As an SLDF Dragoon regiment the 396th would have been composed primarily of heavy to assault 'Mechs, tanks and hovercraft.[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 First Succession War, p. 33, "Those Left Behind"
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Star League, p. 156, "Eighteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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