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| Designation    = First Dumassas Legionnaires
| formed         = [[2765]]
| Disbanded      = 
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = Guardians of the Badlands<ref name="FR2765:Pp26">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 26: "IV Corps"</ref>
| Affiliation    = [[Taurian Concordat]]
| Parent Command = [[IV Corps (Taurian Concordat)|IV Corps]]
| Sub-Command    = 
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Formed during the [[Star League era]], the '''First Dumassas Legionnaires''' was one of a number of commands that comprised a part of the rebuilt [[IV Corps (Taurian Concordat)|IV Corps]].

==History==
In contrast with the other Corps that began rebuilding in earnest after the repeal of the [[Council Edict of 2650]], the "new" IV Corps was rebuilt using units that had no links to those formations that had fought under the IV Corps banner during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>

The revitalized IV Corps began with the expansion of the Taurian Concordat during the colonization efforts of the Star League era, during which a number of worlds were settled in the region of the Concordat that became known as the [[Dumassas Union]]. The Concordat traditionally founded settlements that included the creation of local militia forces to protect the settlers against the pirate activity, and when these local militias received [[BattleMech]]s, two of the local militias managed to reorganize themselves into new units, the Dumassas Legionnaires. The First was one of these units.<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>

The First Dumassas Legionnaires and a sister regiment, the [[7th Dumassas Legionnaires|Seventh]], formed from militias within the Dumassas Union that reorganized themselves; the other two sister regiments to be active within IV Corps by 2765, the [[4th Dumassas Legionnaires|Fourth]] and [[12th Dumassas Legionnaires|Twelfth]] mustered from worlds outside the Dumassas Union but were subsequently moved into the Union.<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>

The First's origins as a planetary militia presented a number of problems; its equipment was initially amongst the oldest still in service in the [[Taurian Defense Force]], with an abundance of old designs such as the ''[[Locust]]'', ''[[Talos (BattleMech)|Talos]]'', and ''[[Wasp]]'' within the regiment, with many of the 'Mechs dating back to the Reunification War even if the regiment itself didn't.<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>

Like the other regiments of IV Corps, the First suffered a steady stream of equipment losses as a result of attrition inflicted via a combination of raider activity, hazardous operating environments, and poor-quality equipment. The First reached its lowest ebb in [[2764]] when the command dropped below fifty percent operational readiness; this proved a pivotal moment, forcing the TDF to be taking the problems that plagued IV Corps seriously. Although the TDF rerouted two [[battalions]] of new BattleMechs that had been destined for [[II Corps (Taurian Concordat)|II Corps]] to IV Corps and to the First in particular, the First and her sister regiments continued to be plagued with low morale and discipline problems due to the lack of operational equipment or the poor condition of much of the equipment that was operational, making the various commands fertile ground for other nations to try and recruit clandestine sources of intelligence.<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 1st Dumassas Legionnaires'''
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==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
=== 2765 ===
'''First Dumassas Legionnaires''' (Regiment/Regular/Fanatical)<ref name="FR2765:Pp26"/>
:At this point in time the First was deployed to the [[Badlands]] system within the [[Badlands Cluster]].

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''

[[Category:Taurian Concordat Commands|Dumassas Legionnaires, 01st]]