Walther Hokala
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Walther Hokala | |
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| Affiliation | Screaming Eagles |
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| Rank | Colonel[1] |
Walther Hokala was the aide to the commanding officer of the Crucis March's Broken Wheel Combat Region as of 3025.[1]
History
Colonel Hokala, serving under Major General Paula Winters, was executive officer of the Federated Suns' Broken Wheel Combat Region in 3025. Simultaneously, Hokala was commanding officer of the Screaming Eagles mercenary brigade and was stationed on Skepptana.[1]
During Operation Rat's first wave, Hokala and the Screaming Eagles were tasked with capturing the Capellan world of Pleione from the Third Battalion of McCrimmon's Light Cavalry. While the cavalrymen had occupied a dilapidated Star League Defense Force facility named Thunder Rock, most of the defenders were caught in the open and destroyed by Hokala's aerospace assets. Those troops who managed to make it into Thunder Rock endured a three-week long siege before the Screaming Eagles penetrated their defenses and destroyed half of the survivors in the ensuing fighting, with the remaining Light Cavalry company choosing to surrender soon after. Hokala left two of his own battalions behind on Pleione while the rest of the Screaming Eagles parted for the fighting on Gan Singh, although the entire brigade would be reunited in time for the later battle of New Canton.[2]
On New Canton, Hokala commanded the Screaming Eagles' Second Regiment in their pursuit of the Third Battalion of Trimaldi's Secutors through the Blue Dragon Mountains. The Secutors were outmatched but still managed to deal the Eagles heavy casualties, causing a frustrated Hokala to order an airdrop of supporting FedSuns infantry ahead of the Secutors' advance. While the plan was to have the infantry delay the Secutors for only six hours until Hokala's men could hit them from behind, suicidal attacks from a regiment of New Canton armor slowed the Eagles advance so badly that the infantry were left alone for six whole days. The deaths of two-thirds of the FedSuns infantry during this action, combined with war crimes perpetrated by Colonel Opson Mathis of the First Screaming Eagles elsewhere on the planet, served to destroy the Screaming Eagles' reputation with the Federated Suns.[3]