40th Dragoon Regiment

Fortieth Dragoon Regiment
Nickname Kinnol's Cuirassiers[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XXXVI Corps

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

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as part of XXXVI Corps, Sixteenth Army, to District 3 of the Draconis Combine Military Region.[2]

The unit was the mobile hammer of XXXVI Corps, responding rapidly to any hot spot to deliver the First Lord's displeasure.

The unit was ill-equipped to deal with the type of hit-and-fade raiding common along the Combine-Commonwealth border, and the regiment soon found the situation like trying to swat flies with a hammer, which increased the unit's frustration and increased collateral damage. Colonel Chia Samrin found his actions criticized by the Corps command staff and even its divisional commanders. When the unit assaulted the Hand Vrijheid stronghold of Nieuwegein on Utrecht, it flattened most of that city's downtown area, killing as many civilians as terrorists, and failed to destroy the terrorist organization, as it was able to resume normal operations within three months.[1]

Over the objections of Colonel Samrin, Major General Rebecca Rhodes ordered the Fortieth to stand down and allow reported hostilities to be investigated by other units. First response duties increasingly fell to subunits of the Eighteenth and Ninety-ninth Mechanized and the Fifty-ninth Jump, such as the First Texas Rangers, the Green Jacket Rifles, and the 596th Mechanized Infantry Regiment.[1]

The unit was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery.[2] The Fortieth was destroyed during the Periphery Uprising in 2765.[2]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Fortieth Dragoon Regiment
Colonel Chia Samrin 2764[1]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 192: "Independent Regiments"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Star League, p. 149: "Sixteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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