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'''Keith Gatlin''' was a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] with [[Wolf's Dragoons]] in the early [[thirty-first century]].

==History==
Piloting an ''[[Ostscout]]'' and considered to possess veteran skills, Keith Gatlin served in the medium lance in [[Dechan Fraser|Fraser's Company]], Baker Battalion, [[Alpha Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)|Alpha Regiment]] in Wolf's Dragoons by [[3028]].<ref name=WDp51>''Wolf's Dragoons'', p. 51</ref>

Fraser's Company saw extensive action in the urban fighting against the [[Ryuken-ichi]] on [[An Ting]] when tensions between Wolf's Dragoons and their employer, the [[Draconis Combine]], came to a head in January 3028, and Gatlin was among [[Captain]] [[Dechan Fraser]]'s ad hoc strike force that spearheaded the Dragoons' final attack in the early morning hours of 13 January.<ref name="RnS">''Rise and Shine''</ref>

Fraser's company including Gatlin later fought with the Dragoons on [[Misery]]. There, a lance composed of captain [[Dechan Fraser]] (''[[Shadow Hawk]]''), [[Thomas West]] (''[[Griffin]]''), [[Calvin Wakeman]] (''[[Trebuchet]]'') and Keith Gatlin in his ''Ostscout'' captured [[Fadre Singh]] on 23 April 3028 after downing his ''[[Crusader]]'' in the Hamar Valley, in one of the earliest skirmishes of the battle.<ref>''Wolves on the Border'', pp. 299–300</ref> The same lance was implied to be the one that brought [[Minobu Tetsuhara]]'s makeshift command lance to battle on 20 May, disabling his ''[[Dragon]]'' and [[Michi Noketsuna]]'s ''[[Ostroc]]'', leading to the capture of both officers.<ref>''Wolves on the Border'', pp. 318–320</ref> In this fight, it was noted that the ''Ostscout'' with its sophisticated sensors had allowed the pursuers to track down the enemy lance. A missile barrage from Tetsuhara savaged its upper torso and amputated an arm.<ref>''Wolves on the Border'', p. 318</ref>

Ultimately, Gatlin's ''Ostscout'' was destroyed in the fighting on Misery.<ref name=WDp51/> Fraser's company was disbanded after Misery. In the [[Fourth Succession War]] that followed, Gatlin was assigned to the medium lance of the Third Provisional Company in a ''[[Commando]]''. The Third Provisional Company was nearly wiped out in the fighting on [[Wapakoneta]],<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Death to Mercenaries'', p. 24</ref> and the surviving Dragoons subsequently made a final stand on [[Crossing]]. Keith Gatlin was wounded on Crossing,<ref name=WDp51/> but apparently not killed.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Death to Mercenaries]]''
* ''[[Rise and Shine]]''
* ''[[Wolf's Dragoons (sourcebook)|Wolf's Dragoons]]''
* ''[[Wolves on the Border]]''

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