396th Dragoon Regiment

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396th Dragoon Regiment
Disbanded 2785[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XLV Corps

The 396th Dragoon Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XLV Corps, Eighteenth Army, to an undisclosed district within the Periphery, though it was pulled out by 2765 to some unknown location during the Periphery Uprising.[2] The 396th survived the war and the Hegemony Campaign, to be absorbed by the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns.[2] The AFFS recruited the surviving battalion of the 396th in 2785, merging them into the Third Ceti Hussars along with a battalion recruited from the 199th Dragoon Regiment, the AFFS having founded the Third Ceti Hussars two years earlier using a battalion of troops recruited from the 250th BattleMech Division.[1]

Officers

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 396th Dragoon Regiment

Tactics

Unknown.

Composition

As an SLDF Dragoon regiment the 396th would have been composed primarily of heavy to assault 'Mechs, tanks and hovercraft.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 First Succession War, p. 33, "Those Left Behind"
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Star League, p. 156, "Eighteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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