Kalistani Major History

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REVOLUCION-  The Voice of the Kalistani Left
RSMoK of Kalistan activated
First Regiment of Infantry Stood up in Ananto, Fastboats launch on Anantonese Ocean
Kaliburg, Ananto District
June 15, 4407


The First Recruit Regiment of the RSMoK forms up in Kaliburg, preparing for a forced march into the Angry Mountains

The Socialist Party of Kalistan has announced that it will be standing up several regiments of the Revolutionary Socialist Militia of Kalistan.  Units will be primarily composed of irregular partisans for the time being, as Artillery has not yet come on line.  Utilizing several million Rubles of Party money, including generous donations from several wealthy industrialists who are concerned about Kalistani Security, the Party has acquired weapons, ammunition, uniforms and logistics for one regiment of Partisans already.  The Ananto Regiment will immediately go into the field in and around Mt. Schmee to begin Officer and Recruit training, led by Officers and NCOs of the Regular Military.  Training will last for 12 weeks, and will include discipline, endurance building, courses in field survival, close combat training, land navigation, marksmanship training, psyops and counter espionage training, improvised explosives, and political education. 

One recently joined partisan said he looked forward to the training:  "It should be fun.  I always wanted something to do with my life, and playing soldier sounds like a blast."  A Regular Lieutenant standing nearby laughed and said "It is.  Army life is one of the easiest lives one could have." 

Both were immediately dressed down by the Political Commissar assigned to the platoon, with the most stringent toungelashing reserved for the Lieutenant.  The Commissar explained to both men that the training was meant to prepare them for the rigors of combat, where the odds against their survival are 50:1.  In a clear, calm voice, the Commissar explained:  "The life of the Partisan is pain and misery, filth, disease and starvation.  You will be dehydrated.  You will come very near to hypothermia.  At any moment, you won't be paying attention, and then it is my job to push you off the trail and down a hill, where you will break ribs or legs.  That's because you both are screwing around and not paying attention, and that gets people killed.  Don't think the enemy won't hesitate to shoot you to death if you are screwing around and you give him half a chance. 

"But, if you make it through this training, Not you, Lieutenant, but you, Recruit Rodriguez, you will kill effectively and unthinkingly.  And you will continue to fight until you are killed or the battle is over and the enemy is all killed.  There is no retreat, there is no surrender.  There is only death and grief, and the only choice you have in this matter is whether you visit that on some other poor family, or you visit it on your own.  Now.  Snap to.  You are a Partisan!  And you, sir...  Don't you ever encourage these militia members to think this is fun.  If it is fun, I am not doing my job, and s--t rolls downhill.  You're the first stop on that slope, you f--king clown."  The Commissar turned and headed up the line to harangue some "new joins", still wet behind the ears, for smoking in formation.

Once the 12 week training cycle is completed, the Commissars will select the most promising 20% of the recruits and they will receive battlefield promotions to either officer or NCO ranks, and will form the core of the new Recruit Training Regiment stationed in Odufaray, who will train all Recruits to the Militia.  The remainder of the Milita recruits will either be cashiered, or form the nucleus of further Militia recruitment efforts.


Unable to right the deliberately capsized fast attack ship, LAFA militia completes first capsized ship challenge by swimming ship into port instead

Also stood up was a small squadron of 12 Militia Fastboats, normally used for interdiction on the high seas, but which have been re-purposed for coastal patrols around Ananto and the Mainland Ports.  These fast boats are lightly armored, and are fit for stinger attacks, rather than large scale engagement.  Each of them have been armed with a fifty caliber machine gun and two crew served .243 machine guns acquired from the privatized small arms dealers in Kalistan.  The Fastboats will be deployed immediately, in a series of naval wargames designed to teach fastboat "Wolf Pack" techniques.  As new fastboats join the militia, the training will be repeated over and over again.  As part of the training, a dummy fastboat will be capsized a mile offshore and crews must right the ship or swim it back to shore.  If they abandon the ship at sea, they will repeat the drill until they accomplish the task.  Crews will be on standby to ensure that nobody drowns, but only excellent swimmers are chosen for the crews in the first place, so drowning in the waters off Kaliburg is unlikely.

The Ananto Straights, between Ananto and Mainland Kalistan will be the primary theater of operations for the fast attack crews.  Kalistan has recently proposed a withdrawal from the Laws of the Sea with an assertion of full sovereignty over all waters surrounding Ananto and between Ananto and the Mainland.  The fast attack crews will soon begin enforcing Kalistani Law in those straights.