Editing Irregular Militia Group (section)

==IRL==
Politics and history aside, Militia usage on the continental US has not been a thing since the 20th Century. Which makes sense given that the US has three barriers known as The Atlantic Ocean, The Pacific Ocean and 1.64 Trillion in defense spending. Even if an invading force made its way onto the continental US, there is still the presence of the National Guard. 

That being said, the idea of regular Americans rising up to the defend their home has been taken into account by most foreign armies. While often misattributed, the idea of a "Rifle Behind Every Blade of Grass" is very much a valid one. And in the event of an emergency severe enough where National Guardsmen are sent to the front lines, its likely that volunteer forces at home would be hastily organized, if only to take over the Guard's other duties of disaster response and riot control. Did we mention that the US has [[Dakka|more firearms than the entire population of the continent of Australia?]]

Another thing to take into account is the presence of armed groups in the US. While it's easy to think most partisan groups during a possible invasion are wholesome patriots, the reality is a lot less nice. Groups ranging from gangs to religious fundamentalists would also be present to fight back against, though many of the heavily-armed survivalist groups are more concerned with protecting their own farm from societal collapse / the man than they are with proactively fighting off a foreign invader and are at best going to be difficult to contact since they tend to live waaaaay off the grid. If you want a real life example, just look up the Basij. When given a common enemy, differences tend to be placed aside. Or you could look at the French Resistance, which was composed of a huge number of ideologically diverse cells that would fight one another until British Intelligence managed to get a handle on things and coordinated them into a more effective group. Or hell for a modern example: literally everyone in Ukraine strong enough to carry a .22. 

This unit might also be an attempt to replicate an "International Brigade/Legion" formation. During multiple conflicts with major ideological components such as the Spanish Civil War or the ongoing Ukraine/Russian you might get many thousands of volunteer fighters, which while of dubious quality are still useful and better than nothing. 

Still all that brings the question: why the heck is this an American unit? 

'''They're the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front.'''

After Fidel took over Cuba, the US recruited a bunch of Cuban refugees to liberate the country and restore it to the mafia-owned banana republic tax haven it'd been for decades.  A couple thousand Cubans were given crash training in which end of a gun to point at the enemy and sent off to storm the beaches with the promise that the whole USAF would be flying overhead shooting anything that got in their way.  

They got as far as far as storming the beaches, looking up at a bright sunny Caribbean sky with no planes in it.
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