Aequatio
17-09-2007, 03:45
Hartmann Air Base, Brühlberg, Shtenaya Ledna
The massive C-181A Starlifter II strategic airlifters landed on the base's tarmac as they were guided in by the Lednan air traffic controllers. The aircraft would be followed by the usual C-767A airliners carrying the entire personnel force of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment from the 22nd Infantry Division's first brigade. As the entire division was currently undergoing reorganization into an air assault unit, the second and third brigades already having done so, the three battalions of the first brigade had yet to be converted and remained a pure light infantry unit. As the C-181A transports taxied into their positions and worked with the Lednan Air Force ground crews to unload the few vehicles that the battalion possessed, the C-767A aircraft taxied to their own positions as they began to unload their own cargo of the combat infantry, command staffs and other personnel.
Sergeant First Class Anton Stolz, a platoon non-commissioned officer for D Company, disembarked from one of the C-767A aircraft with the other soldiers of Delta Company, each soldier carrying their new G120 rifle in their hands while they hefted the large rucksacks characterized by the light infantry units in Aequatio as they made their way down the stairways and onto the tarmac where they assembled into the company areas and awaited the deployment orders from battalion command. Sergeant Stolz went through the ranks and inspected the soldiers as they assembled, as the battalion had just come off a reconstruction or "down" cycle, it was filled with a large number of new recruits freshly graduated and although more than eager and motivated, were not as experienced as Stolz would have liked them to be. Although the battalion, nicknamed "Tigers", was organically a light infantry unit and was trained as such, it had been augmented with a few extra units for the particular exercise, including a cavalry troop with fourteen of the new wheeled 8x8 M72 "Foxhound" Light Armoured Vehicles and a Military Intelligence Imagery Detachment with three RQ-20A "Shade" unmanned reconnaissance drones.
Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Berger, the battalion's commanding officer, and his staff had arrived some time before the majority of the battalion's equipment and personnel to meet with the Lednan Defence Forces officers who they would be participating and opposing in the coming weeks of the exercise. In particular, Berger met with his counterpart, Major Alicia Von Graf, former Executive Officer for the 916th Panzergrenadier Battalion, she replaced the unit's commander when he was called away upon the announcement of his son's birth. They discussed what would consist of the coming exercises, which included a number of small unit drills, offensive and defensive tactics and deception, in hopes that once completed, the battalions could return to their respective units and pass on the knowledge and conclusions there to their comrades.
The massive C-181A Starlifter II strategic airlifters landed on the base's tarmac as they were guided in by the Lednan air traffic controllers. The aircraft would be followed by the usual C-767A airliners carrying the entire personnel force of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment from the 22nd Infantry Division's first brigade. As the entire division was currently undergoing reorganization into an air assault unit, the second and third brigades already having done so, the three battalions of the first brigade had yet to be converted and remained a pure light infantry unit. As the C-181A transports taxied into their positions and worked with the Lednan Air Force ground crews to unload the few vehicles that the battalion possessed, the C-767A aircraft taxied to their own positions as they began to unload their own cargo of the combat infantry, command staffs and other personnel.
Sergeant First Class Anton Stolz, a platoon non-commissioned officer for D Company, disembarked from one of the C-767A aircraft with the other soldiers of Delta Company, each soldier carrying their new G120 rifle in their hands while they hefted the large rucksacks characterized by the light infantry units in Aequatio as they made their way down the stairways and onto the tarmac where they assembled into the company areas and awaited the deployment orders from battalion command. Sergeant Stolz went through the ranks and inspected the soldiers as they assembled, as the battalion had just come off a reconstruction or "down" cycle, it was filled with a large number of new recruits freshly graduated and although more than eager and motivated, were not as experienced as Stolz would have liked them to be. Although the battalion, nicknamed "Tigers", was organically a light infantry unit and was trained as such, it had been augmented with a few extra units for the particular exercise, including a cavalry troop with fourteen of the new wheeled 8x8 M72 "Foxhound" Light Armoured Vehicles and a Military Intelligence Imagery Detachment with three RQ-20A "Shade" unmanned reconnaissance drones.
Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Berger, the battalion's commanding officer, and his staff had arrived some time before the majority of the battalion's equipment and personnel to meet with the Lednan Defence Forces officers who they would be participating and opposing in the coming weeks of the exercise. In particular, Berger met with his counterpart, Major Alicia Von Graf, former Executive Officer for the 916th Panzergrenadier Battalion, she replaced the unit's commander when he was called away upon the announcement of his son's birth. They discussed what would consist of the coming exercises, which included a number of small unit drills, offensive and defensive tactics and deception, in hopes that once completed, the battalions could return to their respective units and pass on the knowledge and conclusions there to their comrades.