Yukio Kushineda V
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Yukio Kushineda V | |
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| Birth name | Yukio Kushineda V |
| Born | 15 February 1994 Manchester, Lucis, United Kingdom |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  Lucis Army |
| Years of service | 2011 - Present |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | ILESOC |
| Awards | Georgius Cross Conspicuous Gallantry MedalKing's Volunteer Reserves Medal King's Commendation for Valuable Service Badge of Honour |
| Relations | Yukio Kushineda Jr. (great-grandfather) Yukio Kushineda IV (father) Tsukuyo Kushineda (great-grandaunt) Rikka Kushineda (aunt) Cattleya Battiste (lover, later spouse) Yukio Kushineda VI (son) Lisa Kushineda (younger cousin) |
Yukio Kushineda V (15 February 1994) is a Lucian officer serving as a member of Task Force 141 and later on, ILESOC. He served as liaison to his father, Brigadier Yukio Kushineda IV. However, he is best known for his extraordinary feat during the Battle of Kushineda's Hill, which earned him the Georgius Cross.
Like his great-grandfather, Yukio initially wanted nothing to do with the army, having to want a more successful life as a lawyer but it all changed during the Second Lucis Civil War. Following his grandfather's death, he joined as a member of the Home Army but was dragged by his father to serve as his liaison during the conflict. Eventually, Yukio attended a military academy and graduated in 2014 with a rank of Lieutenant. He later joined the Lucis Army, now wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, being inspired by the name that he carried.
He is constantly teased by his aunt, Rikka Kushineda, who was younger than him and often joked him being his old nephew. But he was relatively close with her and supported him as he began to take commanding roles in the field.
Early Life
Born to Yukio Kushineda IV, a Lucian army officer and to Risa Fitzherbert, Yukio is the only child of the 4 siblings, as well as being the second-born child. Yukio studied Chemistry and became a professor prior to the Imperial Crisis. Later, he served as a full-time army officer in 2019, after his father had requested him to undergo officer training.
Military Career
Personal Life
Awards
Georgius Cross Citation
War Office, 10 March 2037
His Majesty, THE KING has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the GEORGIUS CROSS to:-
Colonel Yukio Kushineda V, Long Range Reconnaissance Group, Task Force 141
During the Winter of 2036, the Heimdallr forces were completely taken by surprise by the Neocon forces under General Grant Vaughan. As a result, the Archadians, the Aethiopians, and His Majesty's forces were split in two, with the Lucis Commonwealth troops retreating south in order to dig in and hold off until reinforcements could arrive. However, high command realised that it could not make certain maneuvers to try and shake off the pursuing Neocon forces. At that time, Col. Kushineda was stationed near Rusape, awaiting orders from his superior whether to dig on or to retreat along with the SADC. Kushineda would realise that there was a need for a token force to remain behind the SADC in order to bid time to reorganise and regroup. With this, Kushineda volunteered himself along with the force that he commanded to remain behind the retreating SADC and offer resistance to the pursuing Neocons to prevent the SADC's annihilation. By 1 December, Kushineda and his force of 750 men had dug in at Surrender Hill to prevent the Neocons from advancing further into Mutoko.
Facing a formidable Neocon attack which, augmented by infiltration, had crashed through the front lines, he, by skillful handling of his troops, successfully withdrew his forward units to a reserve line with minimal casualties. Carefully and meticulously, Kushineda placed his troops on strategic locations to utilise their advantage by means of the hill's elevation. Small scale ambushes and aggressive patrolling were such instrumental strategies for Kushineda to inflict heavy casualties against the Neocons.
When the enemy, in a subsequent series of violent assaults, engaged Kushineda's forces in a desperate hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles, pistols, grenades, and knives, Col. Kushineda, although continuously exposed to hostie fire throughout the siege, personally directed defence of his forces against a fanatical foe of greatly superior numbers with significant technological prowess. By his astute leader ship and gallant devotion to duty, he enabled his men to cling tenaciously to the their position on the vital hill, thereby retaining control of not only the town of Mutoko, but also prevented the further advance of the Neocons, ruining the plans for capturing the Port City of Vandemeersburg.
From the start until the end, Kushineda and his men controlled the hill, allowing the SADC to regroup and reorganised for a counteroffensive by late February and ruining the Neocon plans, rendering them no logner useful. In addition, he and his men had successfully inflicted heavy casualties against the Neocons with only a little to no losses inflicted on the defenders. Kushineda's tact decisions, care for his men and country, and effective leadership has been recognised as one of the most important traits that has caused him to be recommended to be awarded with the highest decoration for valour within His Majesty's Commonwealth Armies.