Union Army Ranger

Union Army Ranger

(not to be confused with the Union Ranger Service )

Taking its roots from Pre Astro United States Army Special Forces, the Union Army Rangers still do the same things.

Recon, Demolition, Infiltration and fight in assymetrical combat situations.

The Rangers are sub divided into several traditional units: Green Berets, Delta Force , Space Born (Orbital Assault).[1]

The Ranger Force operates a fleet of destroyer sized ships that are FTL capable, but they are officially designated "Boats" to circumvent the

No FTL ship regulation. These Zodiac Class Army boats carry only Class IX weapons, and mainly used for inserting and extracting troops.

Rangers are not trained or used for boarding action.

However they are sometimes used to train friendly non Union military.

In  4400 a califerm drug smuggling operation marred the reputation of the Army Rangers. While the responsible individuals have been caught and the

Rangers are working hard to regain their reputation, the incident is still talked about in 5050.

Currently there are 1 million Rangers. Their head quarter is at Fort Sewastopol on planet Jolly Green.

A force of 50,000 Rangers have been depoloyed to Haroby's Bazaar ( Most distant known Golden Bazaar).

[1] The Union Army has several other traditional units carried over from Pre Union and Pre Astro times and not from Terra alone, but no other society

developed so many different special forces units as Pre Astro Earth)