Star Fleet Ground Attack Marines

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The Star Fleet Ground Attack Marines (SFGAM) (later the Star Fleet Marine Corps) are a direct descendant of the United Earth's Military Assault Commandos (MACO), as well as the naval infantry of the other UFP founding members that participated in the Romulan War. Upon the UFP Star Fleet's founding, the SFGAM was consolidated from available ground units into several expeditionary forces, each led by a Lieutenant General (who themselves reported to the Commandant of the Marines).

These expeditionary forces are deployed from each of the five founding worlds into major combat areas of operation (CAO) and are comprised of the number of divisions determined to be appropriate to the situation. Logistics Command maintains transports to deliver Marines to combat areas and assault ships to the battlefield, whether they be on a planetary surface or other stellar body.

Enlisted Marines would receive their initial training on one of the founding worlds, each also a center of one or more environmental training centers (see below), while officers would graduate from Star Fleet Academy. From their, they would proceed to one of the two possible posts, an expeditionary force (usually at the battalion level) or to the Fleet Marine Force, to serve onboard a Defense Command ship or at any number of Star Fleet facilities or Federation embassies or consulates.

Environmental Training Centers

• Arctic: Andoria
• Desert: Vulcan
• Jungle: Alpha Centauri IV
• Mountain: Earth
• Swampland: Alpha Centauri IV
• Woodlands: Earth