
Pro-Federation loyalists were assigned specific comm frequencies for OPSEC, while former Air Force pilot J. The Wild Boar Regiment, commanded by Elizabeth himself, notably held out much better than other National Guard units on both sides. The Cascadian Conflict erupted 15 years later following much pressure from pro-war/independence elements of the National Guard after disagreement with the Federation's continuing imperial expansion, resulting in the fragmentation of the National Guard the CIF, although gaining the upper hand at first, was swiftly scattered and wiped out, losing over 30% of its active forces. The war shaped not only their skills, but also their perception of mercenaries drastically, for respectively better and worse. The National Guard got involved in the Oceanian War, with Morgan Elizabeth being Cascadia's representative to the Federation Peacekeepers. When Cascadia entered an association with the Federation in AC 382, it added to its already sizeable military power, sharing bases such as Rowsdower Air Force Base and enforcing the lockdown of exclusion zones such as in Solstitium. They also built an elaborate air defense network at Wensleydale Range designated the Chaohord Defense Region, meant to target trespassing freelancers and possibly other Dustland incursions. Over the next 400 years, the National Guard's activities began to cross over with the Dustlands in eastern North America, leading to Cascadia earning a bad reputation with a number of smaller countries in-continent, which lasted up until the Cascadian Conflict where the Federation's awesome power terrified these nations enough into supporting Cascadian independence.

Branchesįormed during Cascadia's early days, the National Guard made its first moves setting up facilities (such as Brite Fortress in Audrerie Valley) between highly contested factions in order to dissuade any final grievances lasting since before national unification from being carried out, as the bad blood between said factions still persisted.

By the end of the war, however, it was almost completely decimated, being supplanted by mercenaries in the Cascadian Foreign Legions. The National Guard's military strength is implicitly powerful enough that theoretically, a unified National Guard would've stood on equal footing in a war against the Federation, such as the above conflict.

As a mainly defensive force, its only offensive deployment in history is the Oceanian War.Įxperience and battle tactics learned in the war had hardened a number of National Guard units, primarily the Wild Boar Regiment, though when the Cascadian Conflict began, it was split between Pacific Federation loyalists and those aligned with the Cascadian Independence Force. The Cascadian National Guard is the state military organization of Cascadia.
