Pyrion Combat Force
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Pyrion Combat Force (commonly referred to as PCF) is the main private military force of Belhavian defense contractor the Pyrion Group. It was created in 1981, several months after the passage of the Military Modernization and Reform Act. It consists of honorably-discharged former military personnel of the Imperial Armed Forces of Belhavia, as well as of foreign militaries.
Characteristics
Organization
PCF personnel are usually referred to as operatives or contractors rather than "soldiers," and fiercely deny the pejorative "mercenaries." They imitate the rank titles and structure of the Belhavian Imperial Army, from which most or nearly all of the PCF contractors came from before joining the Pyrion Group, in their organization's command.
This emulation of Army ranks stops at "Captain," after which higher-ranking corporate military leaders use a variety of non-military titles, such as "Chief," "Vice-President" (for the head of the PCF, who sits on the Pyrion Group's Board of Directors), and the use of "Commander" ubiquitously for other senior PCF officers.
Nominally, their headquarters is in the Pyrion corporate headquarters compound in Ashkelon, West Dakos, Belhavia; however, the PCF is known to concentrate at several other Pyrion properties throughout Belhavia, and it is believed by observers of the private defense contractor that its military wing is actually based out of one of these facilities. This claim has been confirmed by sources within the Imperial military and intelligence services, though not publicly.
Operations
PCF operations are organized around a hybrid corporate-military structure.
- Central Command: The headquarters and command-and-control nerve center of the PCF, based in the PCF Annex in Ashkelon. However, it is rumored that the main command center for senior PCF leaders, or at least an auxiliary command center used on a more frequent basis, is located at another Pyrion facility. Under this are several divisions:
- Combat Division: The main PCF unit. The organization of the direct combat forces.
- Training Division: A secondary unit. Composed of PCF instructors and higher-ranked officers and commanders, it is used deployed in "consultancy" services to Pyrion clients.
- Auxiliary Division: The support, logistics, and supply unit of the PCF.
Activities
- Private military consulting: The PCF is contracted by clients to offer comprehensive private military training, tactics, strategy, information, and direct combat services to private entities and governments with military or paramilitary forces. This could consist of rear echelon training, classes, and seminars, or direct PCF-led and -overseen operations against armed forces of their client's opponents, such as an insurgent or terrorist group (on behalf of a government client) or armed militants (against a corporate client's properties, such as a mining company in a war-torn country). No matter the event, the PCF consults - either directly or indirectly - but simply oversees, and/or leads operations consisting of armed forces of their client rather than PCF units.
- Private military conflict: Unlike its consultancy service above, in this scenario the government or corporate entity has retained the Pyrion Group's PCF to directly and solely (or partially) engage in skirmishes with their clients' opponents. Often this involves a PCF assault company, consisting of 80 combat operatives divided into 5 platoons of 20 men each with a command and support staff of twenty. The PCF can deploy up to a full Imperial brigade-strength force (approximately 4,500 men, or 10 standard Army regiments) but only has done so in one occasion, during the last stages of the Myrdesia War.