Corkonian Coast Guard
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The Royal Corkonian Coast Guard or the Corkonian Coast Guard, or just the Coast Guard, is the naval component of the Royal Corkonian Defence Forces, it comprises of a fleet air arm and a patrol fleet. The coast guard's main responsibility revolves around protecting and maintaining orders around Cork's coastline and ensuring no danger approaches shore.
The coast guard works with the navy and actively trains with them.
History
Creation
Organization
Uniform
The coast guard as of January 25th 2024 consists of two uniforms. The service dress, aka No.1s and formals aka No.2. Service dress is used for everything from PT to exercises to deployments. Formals are used on base when doing drill, general garrison or when not doing active duty.
No.1s
The No.1s camo pattern follows a blue DPM style, the camo is from the Kuwaitian navy's DPM. The uniform was adopted on the 25th January 2024 and was put into service since. Previously when the Navy was fully responsible for the patrolling of the coast, the coast guard always used naval No.8s (camos).
When wearing the No.1s the only gear attached is a DPM vest used to carry ammo, flag batch and a beret. The beret is of the wearers division, either that of patrol fleet, fleet air arm or civil arm. Only headgear the coast guard can expect to be equipped with is a beret.
The No.1s are not to be worn with a stablebelt. Only members of the Fleet Air Arm are permitted to wear jumpsuits. Berets are to be worn at all time.
When wearing the No.1s the wearer will have a rank slide on their webbing. This rank slide is mandatory.
No.2s
The No.2s aka the formals are a set of uniform that are to be used on base, on public grounds and on parade. They are not to be worn in deployment or active duty unless garrisoning under specific situations. The formals are also used in training when conducting drill/marching. They were adopted on the 25th January 2024 and were put into service, all ranks are to wear the stablebelt with the formals.
Formals are also to be worn with beret, the only two permitted gears with formals are berets and stablebelts, the rest will go against uniform guidelines.
When wearing formals the wearer will have their rank either on their sleeve or shoulder.
When in formals, no individual unless given proper authorization is permitted to carry a gun. Only such authorizations are given when on garrison, when guarding or when in hostile areas.
Headwear
The Royal Coast Guard only wear berets, of which there are three. One for each division. The blue beret with a black background is for all members of the Patrol Fleet, this beret is the second least common given it's for specific deployed personnel, mostly on ships in hostile areas or in contested waters.
The second beret is for the fleet air arm, this beret is the least common as it is only for pilots, officers, engineers and other fleet air arm specific personnel.
The third beret is the most common one, it is for the civil arm division. This is the most common one to be found on ships, bases and other installations.
All headwear use the same capbadge, the one of the coast guard.
Divisions
Patrol Fleet
The Patrol Fleet is the main aspect of the coast guard, all ships are allocated to it. It will mainly consist of naval engineers, navigators, medicals, police, communications officers and more. When it comes to main functions on the ship it will be the Patrol Fleet's job.
When on active deployment, servicemen on ships are equipped with the standard Aug A1 rifle, however some may find themselves with the older FN Fal. All coastguard servicemen are additionally given a pistol if in hostile areas. All servicemen in the Patrol Fleet must undergo basic combat training and cqb training to qualify.
The Patrol Fleet is the main group that actually surveys the coast and patrols it.
Fleet Air Arm
The Fleet Air Arm is the division that handles all aviation. Not all members of the F.A.A are pilots however. The F.A.A majority wise is engineers/communications specialist/trainers and ground crew. The F.A.A mainly consists of helicopter aircraft with very few planes in it's stockpiles, all fixed wing aircraft are however logistics and transport. When it comes to rotary aircraft the majority are also logistics and transport which can be also used as patrol aircraft and rescue.
Civil Arm
The civilian arm is all service. It consists of logistics, engineering, transport
Ranks and Insignias
Equipment
Here is a complete list of all the equipment used in the Corkonian Royal Coastguard
Current Equipment
| Name | Origin | Type | Caliber | Photo | Notes |
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| Pistols | |||||
| Heckler & Koch USP |  Germany
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Semi-Automatic Pistol | 9x19mm | 
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The USP entered service in the coast guard due to it being in large stockpiles across the airforce, navy, police and army. It is issued to all deployed personnel and there are no plans of retiring or replacing the gun. |
| Assault Rifles | |||||
| Steyr AUG |  Austria
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Assault Rifle | 5.56×45mm | 
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The Steyr Aug is standard issue rifle in the Corkonian coast guard, only issued to personnel in areas of tension. |
| Rifles & Sniper rifles | |||||
| FN Fal |  Belgium
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Battle Rifle | 7.62x51mm | 
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The FN Fal is still in large use mainly by non-combat arms of the Corkonian Army, it is heavily used by the Airforce, Navy, Border Guard and Coast Guard. Additionally the FN Fal is still in active combat service. It is to be replaced by the Steyr AUG |
| L115A3 |  United Kingdom
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Sniper Rifle | 7.62×51mm (.308) | 
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The L115A3 is the main sniper rifle of the Corkonian Army, after the Corkonian War of Independence and the 3rd-Cork Celtic War a lot of these were put in the stockpile. They are issued to sniper units and special forces. |
| Machine Guns | |||||
| FN Mag | Belgium
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Machine Gun | 7.62×51mm | 
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The FN Mag is the standard issue machine gun for all Corkonian Infantry men. Taken from Irish and Celtic Army stockpiles. Plans to be replaced by the M249 or MG4 have been seen but not acted on. |
Active Ships
| Class | Picture | Type | Ships | No. | Comm. | Displacement | Note |
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| Patrol vessels | |||||||
| LÉ Eithne Class (cn-1) | 
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Offshore patrol vessel | LÉ Kilcalf | RCN-OVN-01 | 2022 | 1,920 tonnes | Training craft. |
| LÉ Kinsale | RCN-OVN-02 | 2024 | In reserve since January 2024. | ||||
| LÉ Ballinlough | RCN-OVN-03 | 2024 | |||||
| LÉ Bridgend | RCN-OVN-04 | 2024 | Planned to be decomissioned. | ||||