CompForce

CompForce is subdivided into the hundreds of Sector Force Groups ( Sector Force). Each Sector Force Group has its own component Observation Units (Observation) and Assault Units (Assault).

Sector Force Group

Sector Force Groups are the sector based command units to which the trained CompForce volunteers are assigned, subdivided into Observation Units and Assault Units. In either case, they are attached to the regular local Imperial Military divisions where they are viewed as over-equipped amateurs at best and and rabid political spies at worst.

Observation Unit

Observation Units are despised almost to a being by the regular military. Observation units are members of SAGroup selected for their political loyalty. In theory, they are then sent to observe the Imperial Military in action so they might learn how the Imperial war machine works. In practice, they are spies who insure that the officers and enlisted folk of the Imperial military are acting with the proper respect for the New Order.

Everyone serving knows they are spies (with the possible exception of CompForce Assault teams, who are pretty blind to the shortcomings of the New Order), and officers and enlisted personnel alike detest having to pretend otherwise. Acting in an insulting manner to an Observation officer is a good way to have a promising career cut short, and Observation knows this very well.

When their stint with Observation is up, most volunteers forgo joining the military proper but opt for the ISB or another COMPNOR group instead.

Assault Unit

There is no branch of service which takes higher casualties in training than the Assault arm of CompForce. SAGroup has such a large supply of primed volunteers that the Assault arm can afford to train by attrition - if you make it through training you are combat ready. Of the 88 percent who fail to make it through training, nearly one quarter of these are combat fatalities. There is little exaggeration and a lot of perverse pride in Assault's claim that "two die for every one that gets through."

The ferocious training and indoctrination of Assault arm does provide strong unit cohesion for its troops, as well as instill a willingness to fight on despite heavy casualties. Training-by-attrition does have a serious defection in that it selects those who have been merely lucky, as well as those who have natural combat skills, and it processes so many volunteers through training that it does a mediocre job of teaching vital combat skills to its soldiers.

In the field, this lack of training shows in higher than necessary casualties and failure to succeed in objectives against well-trained troops. This deficiency is not seen as important for these reasons: the supply of volunteers is not large, but it is certainly larger than the pool for the war-weary resistance and local governments, and training an Assault arm volunteer is cheaper than training the equivalent trooper in the regular Imperial Army.

Additionally, the Assault arm is a recent addition to the Imperial military. Some of the units are lasting long enough to train themselves and pass on the skill to the volunteers who replace casualties. These veteran units are gaining a fearsome reputation which is well-deserved.