Present and Past Commanders of 2INF-A - Profiles

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Past and Present Company Commanders of the Lego States Army, 2nd Infantry Division, "A" (Alpha) Company

The following section contains profiles for the past and present Commanders of the Infantry Company. They are arranged in order of tenure i.e. the first Company Commander's profile will be followed by his successor, and so forth.

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Lego States Armed Forces Service Personnel Profile AAG-1009-0108 - John Macmillian (retired)

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Full name: John "kaboom" Macmillian
Date of Birth: 21 June 1956
Former Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity: Caucasian (North American)

Service number: AAG-1009-0108
Branch: LS Army
Present rank: Captain (retired)
Positions of Responsibility:

2007-2011

• 2INF-A Company Commander (retired)
• 2INF-A-HQ-1 Squad Leader (retired)

Tenure as Company Commander: 2007-2011

Born in Ontario, Canada in the summer of 1956, Macmillian was descended from a long line of soldiers, with his father having served in the Second World War and Korea, his grandfather in the First World War and the Boer War in South Africa, as well as numerous ancestors who served for the former British Empire in its hey day. Aspiring to continue the family tradition, he enlisted in the Force Mobile Command of the Canadian Forces (now Land Force Command) in 1978, and underwent training at CFB Petawawa near his hometown. Subsequently transferred to CFB Edmonton in Alberta the next year, he was assigned to Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1 CMBG).

Macmillian excelled as a marksman due to experiences attained while hunting as a teenager with his parents, and eventually specialised to become an infantry sniper in PPCLI, seeing action in various post-Cold War deployments. In Former Yugoslavia (now Croatia), his unit was engaged in a heavy firefight with Croation Forces while part of a peacekeeping detachment in Operation Medak Pocket, and Macmillian distinguished himself in assisting his colleagues and commander Colonel Jim Calvin to safety - earning him a valuable citation from Calvin in person. During the Persian Gulf War, he was assigned as an infantry advisor aboard a naval task force Canada deployed in support of the US-led coalition to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

Returning as a non-commissioned officer to PPCLI in 1999, Macmillian once again took up his sniping speciality, which was put to good use in Afghanistan in 2001, when a US-led coalition engaged the Islamic Extremist leadership there, the Taliban. It was during his service here that he met US Army Green Beret and future LS DSOC inaugural general Thomas Surge, as well as British SAS operative and future LS Army Chief of Staff Norris Barrington. Macmillian and his unit were often assigned to assist either Surge's or Barrington's units in subsequent operations, building up a strong friendship.

With Canada's involvement in the counter-Taliban offensive coming to a close, and various coalition nations recalling units in preparation for Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, Macmillian returned to Ontario to his wife and son, where, during a chance reunion with Surge and Barrington, discussed about the anti-Terramarian coup in the future Democratic Republic of Lego States. Convinced that resistance leader Edward D. Simmons was a defender of the democratic ideals of the old non-dictatorial Terramaria, the trio, together with Macmillian's colleague Charles "Charlie Boy" Washburne, joined a motley but fast growing group of volunteers shipping themselves off to the distant land to participate in the resistance's efforts to topple Dictator Solomon Kaine. It would be his proficiency with the Barrett M82A3 Sniper Rifle that earned Macmillian his nickname of "kaboom" in this time, especially as his ammunition of choice was almost always the .50 Cal. HEIAP round.

With the founding of the new federal republic, the Democratic Republic of Lego States, in late 2007, Macmillian reunited with his family, and turned down many offers to become a general officer in the new Lego States Army, choosing instead to remain with newer friends in the disbanded resistance to form the 2nd Infantry Division's "A" Company, with his friend Washburne as the commander of the parent division itself. While taking an Accelerated Training Program for highly experienced veterans like himself, he befriended fellow program participant and distinguished ex-KSK commando Wolfgang A. Köhler, whom was to become the inaugural Company Executive Officer (XO)

Captain Macmillian's first taste of leadership came in the 2008 Northern Frontier War, when the BestLockLand insurgency threatened the political stability of both Lego States and the neighbouring City-State of Tabletown. In the frozen evergreen forests of the Northern Frontier, and hampered by long delays in getting modern equipment to his unit (including a rather embrassing case where Cold War-era surplus jeeps were used in place of the promised Humvees and the new M110 Jackal APCs), he and Köhler nevertheless led the unit to many key victories, including a raid on a BestLockLand munitions depot and the liberation of a beseiged Tabletown bunker. His unit's subsequent deployment to Saudi Arabia during the 2009 Red Sea Incident was just as notable, highlighted by a cunning Trojan Horse-esque attack on Federated Republic of Cassegrain (FRC) troops who were unaware that Alpha Company was hiding inside FRC resupply containers they received the night before.

The greatest test imposed on Macmillian came in the LS Army's near-disasterous involvement in the Chechen Uprising of the same year. After a botched glider drop resulting in a 48% overall casualty rate in his unit, he refused an order to retreat back to a US-Russian coalition-controlled staging area, instead planning and executing, with the resourceful Balkans veteran Köhler, a seemingly suicidal charge up a key strategic position designated Hill 452. The capture of the hill, which allowed friendly artillery to be located in support of the offensive against the forces loyal to the coup led by Mikhal Pulkhin, led to the court-martial against Macmillian being dismissed and securing him a reputation as a personable commander and brilliant tactician - as well as an Army Distinguished Service Cross.

Using the events from the uprising and his own experiences working alongside unconventional warfare units, Macmillian and several others championed for a major reorganisation of the LS Armed Forces to allow lower unit-level commanders more operational autonomy. His proposal was validated in Exercise Easy Rider '10, where LS Army forces using his decentralised tactical structure, as well as the high-tech combined arms combat force vision of OSP-DSOC's 2Lt. (later Colonel) Robin Chang, easily defeated a simulated enemy force that insisted on using the old LS Army structure.

Macmillian remained as Company Commander throughout Operation Brushfire in Colombia of 2010, and Operation Scimitar in Emelan of 2011. In the latter, he was seriously injured when his M112 Coyote ICV ran over an IED planted by retreating FRC troops in a failed ambush on the unit, but survived to see the conflict to its conclusion. Thereafter, he concluded his four-year tenure in a much publicised ceremony in December 2011, retiring from the military altogether. Macmillian would later run for Mayor of Dilworth Falls, AZ, hometown of Alpha Company and its garrison Ft. Dilworth Falls, and political insiders speculate his possible interest in running for Vice President in the 2016 Presidential Elections in Lego States.

Macmillian is married to Abigail May Macmillian (nee Larsen); his son George has carried on the family tradition, currently serving as a sniper in Alpha Company; his daughter Emma is in her final year of Politics at the University of Blockington, BL.

MOS and Qualification Badges

• Combat Infantry Specialty Badge
• Expert Infantry Specialty Badge
• Weapons Qualification badge, Expert level with the following bars:
  
  • Rifle (Sniper/Marksman)

Award and Campaign Ribbons (in order)

Personal

• Army Service Ribbon
• Army Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Professional Development Ribbon
• Northern Frontier War Ribbon
• Interservice Legion of Merit
• North Sea Incident Ribbon
• Army Overseas Service Ribbon
• Chechen Uprising Ribbon
• Interservice Distinguished Service Cross
• Operation Brushfire Ribbon
• Army Superior Service Medal
• Emelanian Campaign (Operation Scimitar) Ribbon
• Intersevice Red Chervon

Unit

• Interservice Valourous Unit (During Northern Frontier War)
• Interservice Meritorious Unit (During North Sea Incident)
• Interservice Presidential Unit Citation (During Operation Berserker)
• Interservice Valourous Unit (During Operation Scimitar)

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Lego States Armed Forces Service Personnel Profile AAJ-1974-0108 - Wolfgang A. Köhler

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Full name: Wolfgang Alois Köhler
Date of Birth: 9 November 1976
Former Nationality: German
Ethnicity: Caucasian (Europe)

Service number: AAJ-1974-0108
Branch: LS Army
Present rank: Major General
Positions of Responsibility:

2008-2011

• 2INF-A Company Executive Officer (XO)
• 2INF-A-HQ-2 Squad Leader

2012-2015

• 2INF-A Company Commander
• 2INF-A-HQ-1 Squad Leader

2008-present
Branch representative (Army) in the Combat Technologies Advancement Program (CTAP)

Tenure as Company Commander: 2012-2015

Wolfgang Köhler was born in the German city of Hamburg in 1976, to a commissioned officer in the Deutsches Heer (German Federal Army) and a female US Air Force pilot whom the former had met while on an exchange program at Spangdahlem Air Base. The family often moved between his father's garrison in Hamburg, and his mother's one at Langley AFB in Hampton, Virginia, and thus from a young age Köhler was fluent in both German and English, developing a uniquely blended accent that persists to the present day.

Incidentally, Köhler's paternal grandfather Alois was one of several German soldiers who secretly assisted Industrialist Oskar Schindler in his efforts to save over 1200 Jew from persecution during the Second World War. This strong sense of duty towards standing up for those less fortunate was instilled into Köhler at a young age, despite having yet to express any interest in the armed forces. After attending college, he held a respectable desk job for some time until he became bored with its predictability. Reinspired by his parent's own careers after his father was invited to speak at a conventioned for retired servicepersons, he applied for service in the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte). After a long, gruelling training course, he graduated, and soon was deployed to the Balkans; he later attained commissioned officer status for his commendable actions in combat.

With the founding of the Democratic Republic of Lego States in 2007, word came to Köhler's unit of citizenship opportunities for volunteers willing to bolster the Lego States' fledging Army. Again, in search of new opportunities, he and several colleagues from both the KSK and regulars of the Federal Army made the decision to emigrate. Owing to his prior experience in the Balkans and his excellent military record, Köhler was briefly separated from his colleagues as he was assigned to an Accelerated Training Program for personnel with prior experience in foreign armed forces.

It would be here at Fort Dilworth Falls that he would meet John Macmillan, a Canadian national and a distinguished veteran of the 2001 War in Afghanistan, as well as a key member of inaugural President Edward D. Simmons’ pro-democracy revolutionaries. Macmillan had opted to remain “close to his troops”, and so unlike his peers, who received handsome promotions as inaugural general officers in the Army, he elected to retrain as a Commissioned officer, becoming good friends with Köhler due to their unconventional views on warfare doctrine.

Upon the successful completion of the course, Macmillan accepted an offer from fellow ex-revolutionary and Commanding Officer of the 2nd Infantry Division (2INF), Maj. Gen. Charles “Charlie Boy” Washburne, to lead many of his former colleagues from the Seven-Year Revolution as Company Commander of the 2INF’s Alpha Company. Köhler jumped at the opportunity to become its inaugural Executive Officer (XO), and used this position to recruit his old colleagues from Germany into his friend's unit.

XO 1Lt. Köhler first saw action as in the 2008 BestLockLand insurgency against both the City-State of Tabletown and Lego States, otherwise known as the Northern Frontier War. His foresight in evenly distributing new recruits to the unit amongst those who were veterans of the Seven Year Revolution, resulted in many key victories during the war, including the raid on a BestLockLand munitions depot and the liberation of a Tabletown bunker.

During the 2009 Red Sea Incident, Köhler participated in Alpha Company’s intrepid storming of several Saudi Arabian oil refineries occupied by the forces of the Federated Republic of Cassegrain (FRC). One notable achievement was a cunning strategy of capturing FRC transports and hiding himself and fellow LS Army infantrymen inside, jointly devised by himself and SSgt. (later Col.) Robin Chang, DSOC.

But it was in the Chechen Uprising of that same year was Köhler’s true abilities revealed; indeed, his wealth of combat experience in the Balkans helped to keep surviving members of Alpha Company together after their disastrous glider deployment. Despite orders to retreat and be relieved by other infantry units, Köhler and Capt. Macmillan risked a court martial in planning and executing a suicidal charge up Hill 452, resulting in the capture of a key position overlooking the capital Gronzyy, and earning the pair each an Army Distinguished Service Cross.

At the conclusion of Exercise Easy Rider ’10, Köhler received the Legion of Merit for his consistent meritorious service to the Lego States Armed Forces as the representative for the entire LS Army in the new Combat Technologies Advancement Program headed by long-time colleague Col. Robin Chang, DSOC.

Köhler continued his service both in Colombia, as part of a UN effort to oust a communist dictatorship, and the Emelanian campaign, where he engaged rejuvenated FRC forces in the Middle Eastern island nation. For his post-conflict work in helping the reconstruction of the war-torn region, he, along with several others, received the prestigious United Nations Humanitarian Service Medal at a much-publicised ceremony in 2011.

Upon the retirement of his mentor Capt. Macmillian at the conclusion of the War in Emelan, Köhler was immediately seconded as his successor. Captain Köhler would go on to continue to lead the unit in the capture of St. George's Island by the LS Armed Forces, as well as the the conflict in North Korea that ultimately led to the reunification of the country. At the conclusion of his own four-year tenure in 2015, Köhler was promoted to Major General and is the current commanding officer of the LS Army 1st Infantry Division, but often returning to his old unit for the frequent reunions.

MOS and Qualification Badges

• Combat Infantry Specialty Badge
• Expert Infantry Specialty Badge
• Parachutist Specialty Badge
• Weapons Qualification badge, Marksman level with the following bars:
  
  • Rifle (Sniper/Marksman)
  • Auto Rifle
  • Machinegun

Award and Campaign Ribbons (in order)

Personal

• Army Service Ribbon
• Army Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Professional Development Ribbon
• Northern Frontier War Ribbon
• North Sea Incident Ribbon
• Army Overseas Service Ribbon
• Chechen Uprising Ribbon
• Intersevice Red Chervon
• Interservice Distinguished Service Cross
• Interservice Legion of Merit
• Operation Brushfire Ribbon
• Army Superior Service Medal
• Emelanian Campaign (Operation Scimitar) Ribbon
• United Nations Humanitarian Service Medal
• Operation Trident Ribbon
• Operation Trinity Ribbon

Unit

• Interservice Valourous Unit (During Northern Frontier War)
• Interservice Meritorious Unit (During North Sea Incident)
• Interservice Presidential Unit Citation (During Operation Berserker)
• Interservice Valourous Unit (During Operation Scimitar)
• Commended Army Unit (During Operation Trident)

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Lego States Armed Forces Service Personnel Profile CHF-2731-0110 - Tim Weston

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