Sun Zhang MechWarrior Academy
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The Sun Zhang Academy Cadres consist of graduates from the first phase of training from the Sun Zhang MechWarrior Academy. Their training continues as active duty in the Cadres. The students are evaluated after tours of duty that last nine months, after which those that pass graduate.[1]
Contents
History
Located on the Draconis Combine's original capital world of New Samarkand, the Sun Zhang MechWarrior Academy is particularly notable in that it graduates the most MechWarriors per year of any training facility in the Inner Sphere at over four hundred. The Academy also has an AeroSpace Fighter pilot program. It is considered the most prestigious military academy in the Draconis Combine and all of its graduates receive a daisho sword. The Sun Zhang MechWarrior Academy boasts Coordinator Theodore and his son Hohiro Kurita among its alumni.
Though traditionally the Academy trained only MechWarriors and AeroSpace Fighter pilots, the arrival of the Clans prompted the DCMS to add a course of study for Battle Armor infantry as well.[2]
After the Jihad the ISF and O5P added severe psychological and loyalty testing to their evaluations to prevent another Black Dragon Society coup.[3] During the Jihad the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Cadres were used along the Combine's border with Clan Ghost Bear. The Fifth was stationed on Kessel, and suffered heavy losses against the Word of Blake. The Fourteenth Cadre was effectively destroyed on Luthien, with the few survivors being drafted into the 1st Genyosha.[4]
As of 3145 the rigors of recent years has strained the Academy, the best cadets being whisked away to line units before they can serve in one of the Cadres. Though this meets the demands for units bulking out their forces, it starves these cadets of finishing their training. With the same orders to expand their rosters, the Academy has increased its enrolment tenfold. This has led to the creation of the 17th, 18th and 19th Cadres.
Units of the Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- First Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed in 3052 by Clan Ghost Bear during the Clan Invasion)
- Second Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the Second Succession War)[5]
- Third Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the Second Succession War)[6]
- Fourth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the First Succession War)[7]
- Fifth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Sixth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the First Succession War)[8]
- Seventh Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the Second Succession War)[9]
- Eighth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the First Succession War)[10]
- Ninth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Unknown; Thought to have been destroyed during the Clan Invasion in Operation Revival or shortly after)
- Tenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Eleventh Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Twelfth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed in 3051 by Clan Ghost Bear during the Clan Invasion)
- Thirteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Fourteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed during the Jihad)
- Fifteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre - (Destroyed in 3057 by Clan Smoke Jaguarduring the Clan Invasion)
- Sixteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Seventeenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Eighteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
- Nineteenth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
Color Schemes and Insignia
An Quickdraw in 14th Sun Zhang Academy Cadre colors.
References
- ↑ Field Manual: Draconis Combine, p. 89
- ↑ Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 29
- ↑ Field Report: DCMS, p. 5
- ↑ Field Report: DCMS, p. 14
- ↑ Second Succession War, p. 97, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery: Deployment Table"
- ↑ Second Succession War, p. 97, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery: Deployment Table"
- ↑ First Succession War, p. 137, "Deployment Table"
- ↑ First Succession War, p. 137, "Deployment Table"
- ↑ Second Succession War, p. 97, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery: Deployment Table"
- ↑ First Succession War, p. 137, "Deployment Table"