Blackhelm Confederate Town Guard

Blackhelm Confederate Town Guard
Active	1997 – present (Current form)
Country	Blackhelm Confederacy
Allegiance	Locality
Type	Army
Size	12.3 million
Headquarters	Ministry of the Town Guard, Paradise City
Commanders
Current commander	Legate Octavius Glassdagger

In addition to the active ground forces, the Blackhelm Confederacy has a large Town Guard that can be mobilized in wartime to support the war effort within their home provinces. The functions of militia vary from locality to locality, covering diverse tasks such as air defense, emergency response, and technical support which can include technical maintenance and repair, as well as computer network operations.

Description

The Blackhelm Confederacy's Town Guard system provides a large pool of personnel for national defense. All white males upon reaching the age of 18 are placed into the military, with the vast majority falling into the Town Guard system, and tasked with duties in and around their local town or city. In times of emergencies, the Town Guard can be deployed to assist the Confederacy's 7.1-million regular troops.

The Town Guard is an armed mass organization not released from production. It is a reserve force and the basis for the prosecution of a people's war under modern conditions. The General Staff Headquarters administers the building of the Town Guard under the leadership of the Senate and local representatives. Under the command of military organs, the Town Guard in wartime helps the standing army in its military operations, conducts independent operations, and provides combat support and manpower replenishment for the standing army. In peacetime, it undertakes the tasks of performing combat readiness support, taking part in emergency rescue and disaster relief efforts, and maintaining social order.

In accordance with provisions in the Military Service Law of the Blackhelm Confederacy, white male citizens who reach 18 years of age and are fit for military service, excluding those enlisted for active service, shall be regimented into Town Guard units to perform reserve service. The Town Guard may recruit female citizens when necessary, but this is an extremely rare measure.

Town Guard work is under the unified leadership of the Senate and the leadership of local committees, local governments as well as the local military commands. The General Staff Headquarters supervises Town Guard work nationwide. The military area commands are responsible for Guard work in their respective jurisdictions. Provincial military commands are the organs of military leadership and command, and responsible for the Town Guard work in their respective jurisdictions. The grass-roots people's armed forces departments established in town-ships (towns), urban sub-districts, enterprises and public institutions are responsible for organizing and carrying out Guard work. Local committees and governments at all levels make overall plans and arrangements for Guard work.

In recent years the Confederacy has persisted in reform and innovation in Town Guard force buildup, adjusted its size and structure, and upgraded its weaponry and equipment. The organizational structure has optimized to increase the capabilities of the Town Guard to support combat and emergency response forces, and to gradually shift the center of its responsibilities from rural areas to cities, areas along communication lines and other key areas. Importance has been attached to establishing Guard organizations in emerging enterprises and high-tech industries to increase the technology content of the Town Guard force. Investment in weaponry and equipment has been increased to systematically and organically provide a series of new types of Town Guard air defense equipment such as air defense artillery and portable air defense missiles in key areas. Equipment for emergency response and stability-maintenance operations has been improved. Some types of weapons have been upgraded.

Rural towns and townships, administrative villages, urban sub-districts, and enterprises and institutions of a certain scale are the basic units in which the Town Guard is organized. Guardsmen are separately organized for concentrated military training in Town Guard military training bases of administrative areas at the lowest level. Currently, there are emergency detachments, and such specialized technical detachments as anti-aircraft artillery, anti-aircraft machineguns, portable air defense missiles, ground artillery, communications, chemical defense, engineering and reconnaissance detachments.

To ensure that Guardsmen are always ready to respond to the call in case of a contingency, the Confederate government has formulated a Town Guard combat readiness system, whereby combat readiness education is carried out regularly among the Town Guard with the purpose of enhancing their national defense awareness, and exercises are conducted in accordance with combat readiness plans to enhance the Town Guard's operational capabilities.

Equipment

Main article: Equipment of the Blackhelm Confederate Town Guard