Grand Commissariat of Keltia

Grand Commissariat of Keltia
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Founded	1719 AN
Brigadier General
Part of	Keltia Command
Manpower	14,400 (eleven deployable Regimental Logistics Teams and one HQ Squadron)
Garrison	Port Esther

The Grand Commissariat of Keltia has supreme authority over all aspects of the logistical supply systems required to sustain the forces of the Raspur Pact in the operational area of the Keltia Continental Theatre Command.

Organisation and doctrine

As of 1752 AN.

The Grand Commissariat of Keltia represents a multinational, pooled logistics formation of the Raspur Pact, designed to deliver sustained combat service support to high-readiness allied expeditionary forces in contested environments. Its core concept centres on the Regimental Logistics Team as the primary deployable building block, modelled closely on the Benacian Logistic Regiment but scaled and multinationalised to provide integrated second-line sustainment for brigade-sized formations of approximately 7,200 personnel. This approach emphasises modularity, rapid deployability, and a commando-like ethos across all trades, ensuring that logistics personnel are capable of operating in forward areas alongside the combat elements they support. The service prioritises common-user items such as rations, fuel, water, ammunition, and field services, while minimising national duplication through framework-nation leadership and contributing-nation specialisation.

Doctrine

Doctrinally, the Grand Commissariat adheres to principles of distributed sustainment, forward projection, and interoperability within a coalition framework. Logistics are treated as an enabler of manoeuvre rather than a rear-area function, with Regimental Logistics Teams trained and equipped to insert early, often by air or amphibious means, and to establish forward resupply nodes in austere conditions. The doctrine stresses resilience against disruption, incorporating protected mobility, modular field hospital facilities, and robust recovery assets to maintain operational tempo. Multinational integration is fundamental: a rotating framework nation provides command and core enablers, while partner nations contribute specialised subunits, such as petroleum troops, catering elements, or heavy transport, fostering burden-sharing and political cohesion.

Employment doctrine emphasises early entry and persistent forward presence, particularly in littoral, arctic, or expeditionary theatres where host-nation support may be limited. Regimental Logistics Teams deploy as cohesive units or in modular packets, establishing beachhead or airmobile supply points, managing bulk fuel installations, and coordinating local procurement to extend endurance beyond thirty days. Medical support is forward-leaning, with surgical groups capable of damage-control resuscitation within the golden hour, while equipment maintenance and recovery focus on rapid return to service rather than depot-level repair. The overarching aim is to reduce the logistic footprint of national contingents, enhance freedom of action for Pact Forces, and present a unified sustainment capability that deters aggression through demonstrated readiness and interoperability.

Organisation

The Grand Commissariat of Keltia reports to the Logistics Directorate of Keltia Command.

In organisational terms, the force is structured around a total strength of 14,400 personnel, enabling the simultaneous sustainment of up to eleven brigades, each comprising 7,200 combatants organised into two demi-brigades of 3,600, six regiments of 1,200, or further subdivisions down to sections of eight. Each full Regimental Logistics Team, numbering approximately 1,300 personnel, is tailored to support one brigade, with the capacity to detach scaled task groups for demi-brigades or individual regiments as required. This hierarchical alignment ensures that logistics mirror the supported force’s structure, facilitating seamless distribution from brigade rear nodes to forward cohorts and squadrons.

Regimental Logistics Teams

The Regimental Logistics Team is organised around a compact headquarters element and ten subordinate squadrons, a structure designed to optimise its limited manpower of approximately 1,300 personnel while delivering comprehensive second-line sustainment to a brigade of 7,200 combatants. The headquarters provides overall command, multinational coordination, planning, and communications oversight, allowing the squadrons to operate with focused specialisation and modular detachment.

Of the ten squadrons, six are Logistics Support Squadrons, sequentially designated First through Sixth, each comprising 120 personnel and aligned directly to one of the brigade's six regiments of 1,200 combatants. These squadrons form the core commissariat capability, handling transport, bulk fuel and water distribution, general stores, and field catering, with integral eight-man deployable warehouse sections enabling rapid forward resupply nodes tailored to regimental needs.

The remaining four squadrons provide brigade-wide enablers that complement the regimental-focused Logistics Support Squadrons. The Medical Squadron delivers forward surgical groups and casualty evacuation coordination, with multinational medical specialists ensuring coverage across the entire brigade footprint. The Equipment Support Squadron concentrates on second-line maintenance, recovery, and technical repair for vehicles, weapons, and electronics, deploying recovery assets and specialist teams as required. The Protected Mobility Squadron operates all-terrain and armoured transport vehicles, providing secure movement for personnel and critical loads in contested environments. Finally, the Landing Force Support Squadron specialises in amphibious and early-entry operations, managing beachhead establishment, ship-to-shore transfer, and initial distribution points to facilitate rapid brigade insertion.

Logistics Support Squadrons

Subordinate to the Regimental Logistics Team, the Logistics Support Squadron forms a key deployable subunit, typically organised at a strength of 120 personnel to provide dedicated commissariat and distribution support to a single regiment of 1,200 combatants. This squadron-level element reports directly to the RLT headquarters for operational priorities and resource allocation, but functions semi-autonomously in forward areas to ensure responsive sustainment tailored to regimental needs. The squadron commander, usually a major, manages the rapid movement of critical commodities such as rations, fuel, water, and general stores, dividing the squadron into specialised troops for petroleum handling, heavy transport, and stores management. Given the RLT's overall manpower limitations, each Logistics Support Squadron maximises efficiency through protected convoys, digital stock tracking, and minimal forward stockpiling, allowing an RLT to field multiple such squadrons, typically five or six, to cover all regiments without excessive duplication.

Nested within the Logistics Support Squadron, the eight-man deployable warehouse section serves as a tactical-level stores capability, reporting directly to the squadron headquarters for tasking and integration with transport and distribution troops. This compact section, led by a corporal or sergeant, focuses on establishing and managing temporary forward warehouse nodes, handling receipt, storage, and issue of supplies in austere conditions to support cohorts or squadrons within the regiment. Its personnel—storemen, labourers, and a driver-mechanic—are cross-trained for security and basic maintenance, embodying the commando ethos to operate under threat with minimal overhead. In the context of the RLT's constrained manpower, the warehouse section exemplifies lean design: it deploys only as needed, relies on just-in-time resupply from higher nodes, and enhances overall agility by reducing the logistic footprint while ensuring critical items reach forward troops without delay.

This hierarchical arrangement allows the constrained manpower of the RLT to be employed with maximum flexibility and effectiveness. By aligning logistics directly with the brigade's regimental and sub-regimental structure, the system prioritises forward-leaning sustainment, multinational specialisation, and rapid modularity, mitigating personnel shortages through efficient procedures, protected mobility, and a shared emphasis on resilience in high-tempo coalition operations.

Warehouse Sections

An eight-man deployable warehouse section represents a highly mobile, tactical-level stores element designed to provide immediate forward supply support to a Regimental Logistics Team operating in austere or contested environments. Operating as a subsection within an Logistic Support Squadron, this compact team focuses on the rapid establishment and management of a temporary forward warehouse node, capable of receiving, storing, and issuing critical commodities such as rations, ammunition components, spare parts, and general supplies directly to supported regiments or cohorts.

Personnel typically comprise a section commander (corporal or sergeant), two storemen qualified in inventory management systems, three labourers for handling and distribution, a driver-mechanic for light vehicles or forklifts, and a multifunctional specialist cross-trained in security and basic maintenance. All members adhere to the commando ethos, enabling them to deploy by air insertion, light vehicle, or foot march, and to operate under threat with personal weapons and minimal force protection.

Doctrinally, the section deploys in the second echelon of an LSS to secure and prepare a forward resupply point, often containerised or tented for rapid setup within hours. It maintains real-time stock visibility through digital logistics tools, coordinates push-packages from brigade-level stocks, and facilitates just-in-time distribution to minimise forward stockpiles and reduce vulnerability to disruption. This lean structure enhances the agility of a deployed LSS, allowing sustained support to a brigade's leading elements while preserving the overall commissariat's emphasis on modularity and reduced footprint in high-tempo operations.

Medical Squadrons

Medical services within the Regimental Logistics Team are delivered through a dedicated Medical Squadron, positioned as a parallel major subunit directly under the RLT headquarters rather than distributed amongst the Logistics Support Squadrons. This squadron, typically comprising around 120 multinational personnel including surgeons, nurses, paramedics, and support staff from contributing nations with strong medical traditions, provides forward surgical teams, damage-control resuscitation, emergency stabilisation, and limited holding capacity for casualties prior to evacuation.

Doctrinally, the Medical Squadron operates with a high degree of autonomy to ensure rapid response across the brigade footprint, deploying modular surgical groups that can be attached to regimental forward nodes or concentrated at a brigade main dressing station as the situation demands. While it coordinates closely with the Logistics Support Squadrons for resupply of medical stores, blood products, and evacuation transport, medical personnel and facilities remain organisationally separate to preserve clinical focus, chain of evacuation integrity, and specialised command oversight. In manpower-constrained operations, the squadron detaches small forward medical teams, often section-sized, to align with regiments supported by individual Logistics Support Squadrons, enabling treatment within the golden hour while the warehouse sections and distribution troops of the LSS handle non-medical commodities.

This structural separation reflects the Grand Commissariat's recognition that medical support requires distinct expertise, equipment sterility, and prioritisation protocols that differ from general commissariat functions, yet it integrates seamlessly at RLT level to maintain a unified sustainment picture for the brigade commander. The arrangement thus balances the RLT's limited overall manpower by avoiding dilution of medical specialisation within broader logistic subunits, while ensuring forward-leaning casualty care that directly contributes to operational resilience and morale.

History

Established in XII.1719 AN, the Grand Commissariat began with the establishment of supply depots and the raising of logistics regiments in Anahuaco with the intention of supporting allied operations against the Confederacy of the Dispossessed during the Wars of the Disinherited.

A Victualling Board, established in 7.XIV.1719 AN, had the onerous duty of providing sufficient rations for the armies of Normark and the Kingdom of Moorland, as well for the various deployed allied expeditionary forces active in northeast Keltia. Contracts fell, inevitably, into the hands of Superabundance Foods. Gentlemen nominated by the board of Superabundance Foods were commissioned as officers by the Grand Commissariat and in turn appointed by the Victualling Board to establish themselves in major cities and producing areas of the Wechua Nation; officers in charge at these locations were responsible for buying food in bulk and repackaging for delivery to field units. These packets would receive the stamp of Superabundance Foods before receiving the seal of warranty from the officer in charge of the designated subsistence depots.

In addition to food; fuel, lubricants, oils, and munitions, were also purchase in bulk throughout the Keltian regions of Nouvelle Alexandrie by agents of the commissariat. The Grand Commissariat would be reliant however upon the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie to operate the air bridge between Parap and Elijah's Rest which would be responsible for the delivery of the majority of stores into theatre.

The transfer of stored materiel accumulated at Elijah's Rest onward to the Kingdom of Moorland and the allied contingents engaged in Ostland, in view of the distances occupied by hostile forces in-between, was another headache for the Grand Commissariat. Again the air fleet of the New Alexandrian Federal Air Force would prove indispensable, yet the diversion of half the available transport aircraft to airlift operations in support of Hurmu during its own civil war would hamper timely deliveries. Alternative routes, by sea up the Strait of Haifa, or overland from Anahuaco via the District of Moorland were consequently also pioneered, albeit in the face of enemy resistance.

The Strait of Haifa supply route would be pioneered by the Haifa Trading Group, an affiliate of the Honourable Company in Keltia. The route had been made practicable by the occupation of former Bassarid outposts by the Imperial Federation before the Confederacy of the Dispossessed could introduce itself into the region. Nonetheless, enemy activity was appreciable towards the northern part of the strait and thus armed convoys would prove an inevitable precaution.

Reorganised in IV.1752 AN – V.1752 AN for deployment in support of Operation Sacred Ground.