SUPPORT

No organisation can function without logistical support.

The Support branch have a wide variety of roles and skills to help keeping vehicles moving, weapons firing, defuse or deploy explosives, and provide a safe place for troops to rest and conduct admin.

Phase 2

The Support branch are perhaps the most widely skilled corps within The Black Order. During your Phase 2 training you will learn how to conduct the following:

Maintenance, repair, rearm, and refuel of vehicles both in the field and back at base.
Identify and defuse mine/IED threats.
Deploy explosives to destroy key objectives.
Construction of defences.
Logistical supply convoy drills and rolling replenishment areas.
Indirect fire support.
Recon and intelligence gathering.

While primarily providing a a supporting role, you will often be performing these actions on the battlefield or even under threat of taking enemy fire.

Roles and Specialisations

As a Support specialist, you will be called upon to carry out a multitude of tasks in a variety of different environments and situations.

General Duties:

Logistics
Mechanic
Combat Engineer
Construction
Indirect Fire Support
Drone Operator
Forward Observer

Logistics

With all the will in the world, troops and vehicles cannot continue fighting without supplies, ammunition, and fuel.

Refuelling, rearming, and basic maintenance of vehicles between objectives can be a dangerous task.

You will need to be both vigilant and efficient to get these vehicles back onto the battlefield as soon as possible. The longer it takes for us to get ourselves into the fight, the more time our enemy has to prepare.

Standard

Mechanic

Vehicles break down and take damage as the battle rages on. Support includes mechanical specialists that can help ensure those vehicles are not written off as scrap or taken out of the fight prematurely.

In some cases, this may also include towing damaged vehicles off the battlefield or bringing repair vehicles up to the frontlines in the heat of battle.

Combat Engineer

Train with the Infantry to enable you to better integrate with them when the role requires it.

As a Combat Engineer you will be on the frontlines while carry various tools and equipment that can be used to deploy hasty defences, cut wire, handle explosive ordnance, etc.

Construction

A soldier can only carry so much food, water, and ammunition. As such, construction of Forward Operating Bases or FOBs is necessary.

Support specialists will construct these FOBs to allow storage of materials, vehicle parking, and set up fortified defensive positions.

Indirect Fire Supoprt

With the use of mortars and artillery, it is your job to bring high explosive ordnance down on the enemy from extreme ranges, even without direct line of sight.

You will be able to operate weapon systems such as 81mm Mortars, 105mm Howitzers, 155mm Self-Propelled Guns (SPG), Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS), as well as various anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapon systems.

Drone Operator

Drones are an ideal solution when a situation is too dangerous to observe on foot.

In most cases, the intelligence gathered from a short drone flight over hostile territory can be invaluable.

A skilled drone operator can pick out a sniper in a bedroom window from over a kilometre away.

Forward Observer

Due to their nature, artillery batteries usually cannot see the enemy. Forward Observers are attached to a friendly unit on the ground.

It is their job to is identify enemy positions and communicate with the gunners to bring their rounds on target. Their map reading skills need to be on point.