29th Infantry Division

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Twenty-ninth Infantry Division
Nickname The Rift Regulars[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XXIII Corps

The Twenty-ninth Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was sationed on Marlowe's Rift,[2] assigned as part of XXIII Corps, Fifteenth Army to District 2 of the Draconis Combine Military Region.[3] The Twenty-ninth guarded the unique Meat Trees in the deep jungles of the planet's equatorial regions as well as the spaceport, large cities, and the Terran Hegemony research station.[1]

The Twenty-ninth was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery in 2765 to take part in the Periphery Uprising. The unit was destroyed during the Hegemony Campaign.[3]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Twenty-ninth Infantry Division
Major General Mika Weir 2764[1]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Infantry division, the Twenty-ninth would have been formed from two brigades of grunt infantry and a brigade of light BattleMech regiments.[4]

References[edit]

  1. a b c Field Manual: SLDF, p. 183: "29th Infantry Division"
  2. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 256: "SLDF - Draconis Combine Military Command"
  3. a b The Star League, p. 148: "Fifteenth Army"
  4. The Star League, p. 133: "Divisions - Infantry Division"

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