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| image          = [[Image:Star League Logo.png|150px]]
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| image          = [[Image:Star League Logo.png]]
| Designation    = Eighty-first Mechanized Infantry Division
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| Designation    = 81st Mechanized Infantry Division
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| formed        = unknown
 
| Disbanded      =  
 
| Disbanded      =  
 
| Previous Designation =  
 
| Previous Designation =  
| Nickname      = Tau Ceti Rangers<ref name=FMSLDFp99>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 99</ref>
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| Nickname      = Tau Ceti Rangers<ref name=FM:SLDFp99>Field Manual SLDF, page 99</ref>
| Affiliation    = [[Star League]]
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| Affiliation    = SLDF
 
| Parent Command = [[LVIII Corps (Star League)|LVIII Corps]]
 
| Parent Command = [[LVIII Corps (Star League)|LVIII Corps]]
 
| Sub-Command    =  
 
| Sub-Command    =  
 
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==Overview==
 
The '''Eighty-first Mechanized Infantry Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army.<ref name="SLp154">''The Star League'', p. 154</ref>
 
The '''Eighty-first Mechanized Infantry Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army.<ref name="SLp154">''The Star League'', p. 154</ref>
  
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The Eighty-first formed a part of [[LVIII Corps (Star League)|LVIII Corps]], [[7th Army (Star League)|Seventh Army]], and in [[2764]] was stationed in District 3 of the [[Capellan Confederation Military Region]]. Following the [[New Vandenberg Uprising]] the Eighty-first was deployed into an undisclosed area of the [[Periphery]] in [[2765]].<ref name="SLp154"/>
 
The Eighty-first formed a part of [[LVIII Corps (Star League)|LVIII Corps]], [[7th Army (Star League)|Seventh Army]], and in [[2764]] was stationed in District 3 of the [[Capellan Confederation Military Region]]. Following the [[New Vandenberg Uprising]] the Eighty-first was deployed into an undisclosed area of the [[Periphery]] in [[2765]].<ref name="SLp154"/>
  
The Eighty-first took heavy losses during the Periphery Uprising and by [[2766]] the [[division]] had been disbanded. A complete sub-unit of the Eighty-first, the [[Fourth Tau Ceti Rangers]] [[regiment]] survived the [[Periphery]] campaign, and opted not to join [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]] but instead became mercenaries in the employ of the [[Capellan Confederation]].<ref name="SLp154"/>
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The Eighty-first took heavy losses during the Periphery Uprising and by [[2766]] the [[division]] had been disbanded. A complete sub-unit of the Eighty-first, the [[4th Tau Ceti Rangers]] [[regiment]] survived the [[Periphery]] campaign, and opted not to join [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]] but instead became mercenaries in the employ of the [[Capellan Confederation]].<ref name="SLp154"/>
  
 
==Officers==
 
==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 81st Mechanized Infantry Division'''
 
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 81st Mechanized Infantry Division'''
 
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| [[Major General]]||[[Tamika Ho]]||[[2764]]<ref name=FMSLDFp99/>
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| [[Major General]]||[[Tamika Ho]]||[[2764]]<ref name=FM:SLDFp99/>
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==Composition History==
 
==Composition History==
As an SLDF mechanized infantry [[division]], the Eighty-first would have been formed from one [[brigade]] of [[BattleMech]] regiments and two brigades of mechanized infantry.<ref name="SLp133">''The Star League'', p. 133</ref>
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As an [[SLDF]] mechanized infantry [[division]] the 81<sup>st</sup> would have been formed from one [[brigade]] of [[BattleMech]] [[regiment]]s and two brigades of mechanized infantry.<ref name="SLp133">''The Star League'', p. 133</ref>
  
In [[2761]], the Division was gifted a battalion of ''[[Xanthos (BattleMech)|Xanthos]]'' BattleMechs by the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces.<ref name=FMSLDFp99/>
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In [[2761]] the Division was gifted a battalion of ''[[Xanthos]]'' BattleMechs by the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces.<ref name=SLDF99>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 99</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
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*''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''
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*''[[The Star League]]''
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[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Mechanized Infantry Division|Mechanized Infantry Division, 0081st]]
 
[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Mechanized Infantry Division|Mechanized Infantry Division, 0081st]]

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