Editing 3rd Striker Regiment

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| Designation    = Third Striker Regiment
| formed         = 
| Disbanded      = 2784<ref name="FSWp34"/>
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = 
| Affiliation    = Star League
| Parent Command = [[251st BattleMech Division]]
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The '''Third Striker Regiment''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army.

==History==
=== Reunification War ===
The Third Striker Regiment was one of the [[SLDF]] commands mustered during the early decades of the [[Star League]], and took part in [[Operation BULL RUN]], the conquest of the [[Taurian Concordat]] during the [[Reunification War]]. The Third saw action during the brutal campaign to conquer [[New Vandenberg]], and was involved in the final major battle of the assault; on the 23rd of August [[2588]], the Third and a sister regiment, the [[1st Striker Regiment|First Striker Regiment]], surrounded and captured the last few surviving [[companies]] that constituted all that was left of the [[122nd Concordat Chasseurs]] near New Vandenberg's south pole.<ref name="H:RWp89">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 89-91, "Charon's Express"</ref>

=== Star League Era ===
In [[2764]] the Third was a part of the [[251st BattleMech Division]] and was assigned to [[XIV Corps (Star League)|XIV Corps]], a part of the [[14th Army (Star League)|Fourteenth Army]].<ref name=CS13>''ComStar (sourcebook)'', p. 13</ref><ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 38</ref>

Stationed in District 1 of the [[Draconis Combine Military Region]] and then later transferred to District 3 by [[2765]] to take part in the [[Periphery Uprising]].<ref name=SL147>''The Star League'', p. 147, "Fourteenth"</ref>

=== Post-Exodus ===
Despite the fate of the Third being regarded as unknown for several centuries after the fall of the [[Star League]],<ref name=SL147/> subsequent publications released in the thirty-first and thirty-second centuries revealed that the Third almost certainly survived the Hegemony campaign and remained in the [[Inner Sphere]], joining [[Major General]] [[Lauren Hayes]] and the other SLDF units who chose to join [[ComStar]] in support of [[Jerome Blake]]. The Third is believed to have formed the basis of the "mercenaries" used to create the [[8th ComStar Expeditionary Division|Eighth ComStar Expeditionary Division]] in [[2784]], along with the [[Eighty-ninth Dragoon Regiment]], [[231st Striker Regiment]] and [[321st Hussar Regiment]].<ref name="FSWp34">''First Succession War'', p. 34, "Those Left Behind (Continued)"</ref> 

Operating alongside the [[Thirteenth Royal Infantry Division]]<ref name=CS13/> (masquerading as the [[5th ComStar Expeditionary Division|Fifth ComStar Expeditionary Division]])<ref name="FSWp34"/> the Third was involved in the most serious fighting of SILVER SHIELD, when they assaulted two former SLDF Mechanized Infantry Divisions<ref name=CS13/> - the [[71st Mechanized Infantry Division|Seventy-first]] and [[123rd Mechanized Infantry Division|123rd]]<ref name="FSWp52">''First Succession War'', p. 52, "Operation SILVER SHIELD"</ref> - in the Amazon rainforest on [[Terra]].<ref name=CS13/><ref name="FSWp52"/> 

Following SILVER SHIELD in June [[2788]] the vast majority of the Expeditionary Divisions were demobilized and their equipment cached for the future, forming the basis of the later [[Com Guards]].<ref name="H:LOTV2p117">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 117, "ComStar and the Com Guard"</ref>

==Officers==
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 3rd Striker Regiment'''
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
Unknown.

==References==
<references/>

==Bibliography==
* ''[[ComStar (sourcebook)|ComStar]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

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