Talk:Office of the National Army (Faneria)

The Office of the National Army is one of the eight major Offices of Faneria's government, and oversees the armed forces of the Republic. The Office itself is an administrative and mixed military and civilian organization, while actual operations are planned and performed by its component Bureaus. In Fhainnin nomenclature, the Army covers the entirety of the armed forces, leading to some confusion between the Army and the Land Bureau, the latter of which is the land army of Faneria. The Office of the Army responds primarily to the Director of the Republic outside of disaster situations where units are delegated to local authorities or subordinated to the Office of State Security.

Traditions and Holidays
The two major military holidays, aside from each branch's personal Day, are Revolution Day (date) and Founding Day. Revolution day marks the death of Rih ________ on (date), while Founding Day is April 23rd, the day of the formal ceremony in 1910 that instated the RPA as the official military of the Fhainnin Popular Republic. Revolution Day is also a general holiday for the country, and is marked with parades and celebrations that extend to military installations outside of combat operations areas.

Training and Sourcing
Training for skills and jobs in the Army is highly organized, with a wide variety of dedicated schools for officers, engineering, basic training, and dozens of mission profiles and specializations being operated by the Army, often in conjunction with state-owned colleges or coordinated with private enterprises. Staff in the state-run schools are typically employed by the ONA, but are considered civilians rather than military personnel unless they also hold a military rank.

Procurement for the military is often done through the use of state-owned production and RnD teams supported by materials, skilled labor, and cooperatives from the private sector rather than direct purchasing from public or private military corporations directly, although the military is not above using purchased equipment outside of the electronics sector. This has created a situation where the private sector does much of the work in parts production and design, which is then filtered through state-controlled enterprises for assembly and testing to reduce the final cost of equipment. State-owned companies also frequently have what are referred to as 'cooperative parallel relationships' with private companies, trading personnel for cross-training, doing collaborative RnD work, and creating a list of companies that the state does not directly own but operate intimately with the state defense industry.

Army Land Bureau
Main Article: Army Land Bureau (Faneria)

The Land Bureau is the primary combat branch of the Army, and fields its own transport aircraft and transport/support helicopter and combat drone wings.

Army Aerospace Bureau
Main Article: Army Aerospace Bureau (Faneria)

The Aerospace Bureau manages land-based fixed-wing and other plane-centric aviation duties with a considerable degree of overlap with the Naval Bureau. It also theoretically manages out-of-atmosphere operations, though this has never been required.

Army Naval Bureau
Main Article: Army Naval Bureau (Faneria)

The Naval Bureau manages the maritime forces of the Army, including coast guard duties, amphibious assault, and naval aviation.

Army Strategic Bureau
Main Article: Army Strategic Bureau (Faneria)

The Strategic Bureau directly interacts with the civilian government, plans joint operations,

Army Logistics and Procurement Bureau
Main Article: Army Logistics and Procurement Bureau (Faneria)

The Logistics and Procurement Bureau is responsible for order and purchase of equipment on request by the other Bureaus of the Army, as well as overseeing state RnD efforts and parts of base maintenance. It also is responsible for fielding Rdedicated supply units for deployments of large formations.

Rank Structure
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Ghrúpcaptaen

Man-at-Arms, Corporal, Sgiobair-Leiftenant, Sgiobair, Serdeant, Captaen, Leiftenant, Ardcaptaen, Quartermaster-Ceitern, Leiftenant Ceitern, Hospitaller-Ceitern, Leift. General, Quartermaster-Bragorra, Leift. Bragorra, Hospitaller-Bragorra, General-Bragorra, Quartermaster-Rhonorra, Leift. Rhonorra, Hospitaller-Rhonorra, General-Rhonorra, General, Quartermaster-General, Hospitaller-General, Marshal

All COs are technically considered officers in the Fhainnin rank structure, and non-officers are referred to as Men-at-Arms. Any soldier can theoretically attain the rank of Captaen, though this typically is reserved for officer training school candidates and higher ranks require such training as a prerequisite. Appointments to the ranks of Lft. General and higher almost always require appropriate political leanings and specialized schooling in addition to the demonstrated competence and leadership qualities expected of the upper echelons.

Pay
base pay for a soldier is approximately 30,000 Barra a year for enlisted, 45,000 for lower officers, 60,000 for staff officers, and 140,000 Barra/year for generals before bonuses. Combat awards typically include bonuses of one to ten thousand Barra; campaign medals and ordinary medals do not. Soldiers killed in battle are awarded a year and a half of tax exempt pay to be paid to the willed persons or nearest kin if nobody is selected. Soldiers killed in peacetime for reasons unrelated to existing health issues, disorderly conduct, and suicide are awarded one hundred to one hundred fifty thousand barra over three years. Maimed veterans receive a varying pay of 10-15 thousand Barra per year for fifteen years after discharge, and all combat veterans are entitled to tax-funded mental health services. Veterans and active personnel additionally are additionally exempt from Faneria's railway use tax.

Budget and Development
about 36 billion in salaries (average 37000 barra/26.5k thalers pay, but many bonuses available plus minor pensions)

misc.
Naming Conventions for small arms, weapons systems, and ships

SS, CV, CVA, BB, BC, CA, CC, CL, DD, CL, DL, TP, N- (nuclear-powered), M- (missile), C- (conventional)

Additional Ranks - Chaplain, Corps-General, Brigade-General, Division-General, Amry-General, Knight- award prefix, Citizen Militant (conscript)

APC, IFV, MOT, MCH, L-ARM, ARM, H-ARM, AT, SP-AT, AA, SP-AA, R-ART, ART, H-ART, L-ART, SP-ART, SPR-ART, etcetera

CIWS, SAMS (surface-air missile), SSMS, AAMS, IMGS (machine gun)

Common system designation example - L-ART Type 2017/1 = mortar, designed 2017, first variant designed in category that year

example 2 - NM-BC 2001-1 #2 - nuclear-powered, missile-equipped heavy cruiser/battlecruiser designed 2001, second of class

859,124 active, 5,117,866 reserve, 36,881 paramilitary = 6,013,871 total

38.4% of pop in eligible age range, 12.82% of total pop in age range and within service parameters

Gantsgun Heavy Engineering

Ladvner Technical Solutions

Hydrus Arms

Spetsford Shipyards United

Seaplane Carriers

Carrier Conversions

Airships

Submarines

Submarine Carriers

Command (Field Command, Installation Command, Central Command):

Quartermaster (Logistics, Supply and Procurement):

Labor (Transport, Engineer Support):

Signals/Intelligence (Communications, Electronic Warfare):

Engineering (Bridging, Mine Warfare, Ordinance and Demolitions, Technical, Labor):

Infantry (Light, Mot, Mech):

Artillery (Field, SP, Missile SP):

Armor:

Recon (Cav, Mot Cav, Mech Cav):

Medical (Hospital, Field Hospital, Mortuary, etc.):

Special (Chemical, Nuclear, Military Police, Law):

Organization
Standard Unit Types:

Infantry: Light, Motorized/Mechanized, Garrison

Armor: Light, Normal

Artillery: Light, Field, Self-Propelled, Anti-Air Field, Anti-Air Self Propelled, Field Rocket, Self-Propelled Rocket, Self Propelled Missile, Anti-Tank Field, Anti-Tank Self-Propelled

Support: Hospital, Logistics/Quartermaster, Signal, Headquarters, Engineering, Ordinance, Recon (Cavalry, Motorized Cavalry, Air Cavalry)

Generally speaking, a Rhon will be marked as Infantry, Armor, or Support, with Infantry and Armor Rhonn containing their own support Bragadts, Catalionn, and Cuartoris; a Support Rhon is composed of several identical noncombat Bragadts with additional support units under a more robust command staff to support local Chorp operations as required. In some cases, additional combat support formations (i.e. Recon or Ordinance) may be attached temporarily to a Rhon or even to a Bragadt within a Rhon - for example, an ad-hoc formation created to counter an armored advance may be assigned an entire anti-tank Catalion per frontline Bragadt in addition to or instead of the one assigned under direct Rhon command, tripling or quadrupling the usual anti-tank armament of the formation as a whole (assuming full staff and supply).

Medical, Signals, and other support formations typically are grouped into Cuartori or at most Bragadt, but normally these personnel are distributed throughout the larger formations they serve with to fulfil their roles directly. Proper formations of these may be grouped into information centers, field or proper hospital units, etc.

Unit types:

HQ (HQ): covers command and bureaucratic units.

Infantry (X): variants include light infantry, mot/mech infantry (x with box), mountain (x, filled bottom), air drop (x, filled top), and marine units (anchor).

Recon (/): variants include horse recon (slash), wheeled (slash, boc, and bottom dots) and tracked recon (slash, block, and bottom line)

Armor (box): variants include light armor (box) and line armor (box with vertical middle line), plus miscellaneous armored wheeled (box with bottom dots) or tracked (box with bottom line) units

Artillery (dot): variants include field guns (dot), self-propelled artillery (dot with box), mortars (x with top tot), and aa guns (self-propelled - dot, box, up-chevron -, static - dot, up chevron -, and missile - up chevron, up triangle)

field (box with and self-propelled missile or rocket (box with down chevron and middle dot)

field missile

sp-missile (

Engineering (E): covers units handling ordinance and bomb disposal, general combat engineering, and construction planning.

Quartermaster (Q): covers supply and logistics bureaucratic units.

Military Police (MP: covers policing and courts units.

Labor and Supply (shovel): covers construction and supply line units.

Maintenance (wrench): covers equipment management units

Hospital (+): covers combat medical personnel, field and rear hospitals, mortuary units, and specialist units such as dental, radiological, etc.

Signals (connection symbol): covers military intelligence, electronic warfare, radio and other communications methods, counterintelligence and other units.

The Army is generally organized into Infantry, Armored, and irregular Rhon and smaller units. As of 2020, these were:


 * 39 Infantry Rhon (18 organized into the Chorps structures, 21 'free')
 * 9 Armored Rhon (all organized into the Chorps structures)
 * 31 Support Rhon (27 organized into the Chorps structures, 4 'free')
 * 1 Marine Rhon, 1 Air Drop Rhon, 1 Special Service Rhon, 2 Light Infantry Rhon
 * several independent smaller units, typically recruitment, training, and armory/base permanent garrisons

Of these units, the majority of them (9 Armored, 18 Infantry, and 27 Support) are organized into three field armies, each formed of three combat Chorps of one armor and two infantry Rhon and one logistical Chorps of three Support Rhon. Generally, one support Rhon shadows each combat Chorps on campaign.

Of the remaining units, 16 of the remaining infantry Rhon and two of the Support Rhon act as semi-permanent garrisons around the metropole. One infantry Rhon is based in the colony of Mharnsgate, and the remaining two Support and four Infantry Rhon are deployed as-needed. The nonstandard units (marines, paratroops, Special Services, and various military police, intelligence, and minor task forces) are generally split into constituent parts and attached as needed to other units.

Standard Chorp: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori, three combat Rhon, and one support Rhon. Other units are usually attached at this organizational level for specialized tasks.

Standard Combat Rhon:

Standard Support Rhon:

Air Service Catalionn: Composed of a Pilot/Technical Cuartori and a logistical Cuartori; 400 men in total typically operating anywhere from 4-40 aircraft depending on type.

Air Supply Bragadt: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori, one medical Cuartori and a logistics Catalion; 1000 men in total commanding and supporting 2-6 Air Service units.

Army Marine Rhon:

Army Air Drop Rhon:

===Standing Units===

Army Central Command:

Basic Training Rhon:

Specialist Training Rhon:

Reserve Coordination Bragadt:

1. Army: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori and five standardized Chorps, all of which are mechanized/motorized with tank elements. Attached are two of the Army Special Services' four Catalionn, five Air Supply Bragadts, and eighteen Air Service Catalionn.

2. Army: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori and five standardized Chorps, one of which is mechanized with tank elements and four of which are motorized. Attached is one of the Army Special Services' four Catalionn, four Air Supply Bragadts, and fifteen Air Service Catalionn.

3. Army: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori and three standardized Chorps, two of which are motorized and one which is not properly motorized.

Army Special Service HQ and 1st Catalion

Army Marine Rhon:

Army Air Drop Rhon:

Army Garrison/Reserve Coordination Bragadts: Composed of one Headquarters Cuartori and eighteen Bragadts, each including one Headquarters Cuartori, one nonstandard infantry Catalion (which may have anti-aircraft, anti-tank, or other assets depending on placement on a military base or in a city), and one logistical Catalion.