Irish Defence Forces
The Irish Defence Forces, were at one time the military of Ireland. In December of 2010, Ireland was wiped by the United Kingdom. Because this failure of national defence, was in part due to a great lack of organization in the two militaries of the time (the Irish Citizens Army and the Irish Defence forces), in the months following a new military entity was created called the Irish Army. This new army was intended to combine both the ICA and the IDF in order to strengthen Ireland's defences.
As the official army of Ireland, the Irish Defence Forces (IDF) are supported by the government.
They defend Ireland's borders and are occasionally deployed on foreign soil to aid other nations in retaining their sovereignty.
Orders are relayed through the Department of Defence's newspaper and through the military battlescript in Mozilla Firefox.
The history of the IDF can be found here and here.
Contents
Leadership
Each month, the President of Ireland selects the Minister of Defence who handles the legal and diplomatic decisions regarding the military in the Dáil (Congress).
Every three months, the President also selects a Chief of Staff who organizes the divisions within the IDF and relays orders from the Minister of Defence. This three month period is so that the military remains relatively stable from month to month rather than having the entire formation changed each presidential election. The Chief of Staff also selects the Commander General and Commanding Officers for each division. She (or he) also assigns which commanding officers the soldiers will serve under.
The Commander General of the IDF is a position that answers to the Chief of Staff. He (or she) maintains the army, disciplines it, monitors the chain of command and implements any changes that may be required.
The Commanding Officers are the leaders of their divisions. They are responsible for recording damage, relaying orders and encouraging activity in their respective units.
Whether they are the Minister, Chief of Staff, Commander General or Commanding Officers, all military leaders are selected based on activity, reliability, rank and strength.
Soldiers
New Soldiers will be assigned to a Division regarding their Strength to either Irish Air Defence Forces, Irish Tank Division, Irish Artillery Division or Irish Rifle Division.
Elite Force Na Fianna is only for strong soldiers who are very active and deployable.
If IDF soldiers move out of Ireland for any reason, but remain loyal to the IDF and fight for Ireland, they are transferred to the Foreign Legion.
There are soldiers of all strengths in this unit.
Divisions
Na Fianna (Elite Division)
Irish Air Defence Forces (Helicopters)
Irish Tank Division (Tanks)
Irish Rifle Divisions (Rifle men)
Irish Artillery Division (Artilleries)
Foreign Legion
Current Officer Positions (June 2010)
Minister of Defence: Marcus Suridius
Chief of Staff: ian arbuckle
Quartermaster: JohnSmith 2K9
Supply General: vacant
Irish Air Defence Forces: Ian arbuckle
Irish Artillery Division: Sean Power
Irish Rifle Division: Einberliner
Military History
V2 Home conflicts
Operation Ireland's Call
Ireland had been struggling to get orangized into the Military module and had very low supply stock which gave United Kingdom advantage to attack our main food supply, Dublin. This event occured around in the month of June and early August. UK opened a front in Dublin and the six counties Northern Ireland the Irish Defence Force tried very hard to defend Northern Ireland but they focused on Dublin which was their main food supply and main defence target. United Kingdom successfully conquered Northern Ireland and failed to conquer Dublin. Irish Country President Irishbhoy1967 opened number of fronts on the United Kingdom which activated their mighty MPPs. Also Irishbhoy1967 was responsible for the low supply of the Irish Defence Force when he locked them out of the organizations and he successfully returned some of them but he refused to give back the rest for some silly reason. Dáil Éireann impeached President Irishbhoy1967 for his actions for activating the MPPs of United Kingdom and stealing Irish Defence Forces supply. Successor [5n4keyes]] took over and his first act was getting State jobs on the market to boost IDF's supply and revive the Private Sector. This was a success but not many Private Companies came back to life. United Kingdom opened a second front on Ireland in Dublin and this region was successfully conquered by UK because of their mighty 9 MPPs Irishbhoy1967 activated. On a strange day eRepublik's Phoenix Presidents John Bartlett of United Kingdom and Igor Elez of Serbia were hacked by an unknown citizen. The hacker opened numberous of battles and UK lost 2 important MPPs Russia and Netherlands. Although with Phoenix members busy with many battles around the world this gave Ireland a chance to regain Dublin and this happened on Day 992 when we successfully captured 99 % of tiles and the Capital and this shows a sign that our advantage was good. The credit goes to the President of Ireland 5n4keyes and members of the Irish Defence Forces High Command for their effort in regaining our Capital Dublin. This event occured in August 2010.
Operation "Brits Out!"
On September 24th 2010 Ireland's Country President Nogin the nog accomplished her goal to capture Northern Ireland from British control to a United Ireland. The Irish Defence Forces were preparing their brave Irish soldiers for the biggest battle in Irish military history. Ireland succeeded into capturing Northern Ireland without getting it land swapped for the first time in Irish History and most importantly Ireland played with stragedy while UK's Multi Protection Pacts were busy in Hungary. The brave Croatian Army lended support by taking UK out by surprised in under 20 minutes with Ireland's greatest warrior Donovan Thomas taking Irish Battle hero with him took Ireland to glorious victory.
V2 Deployment History
Medals
Campaign Medals
These are medals earned during the various campaigns in which the IDF has participated. All soldiers who have taken part in a campaign can wear the Campaign medal or ribbon.
File:Slovakia.JPG- Slovakian Defense Campaign Medal (November 2009)
File:Shannon.JPG- Shannon Excercise {June 2009)
File:Greece.JPG- Greek Defense Campaign Medal (August 2009)
File:Italy.JPG- Italian Defense Campaign Medal (January 2010)
File:NI.JPG- Northern Ireland Operations (February 2010)
File:South-africa1.JPG- South African Campaign Medal (April 2010)
File:Croatia1.JPG- Croatian Campaign Medal (April 2010)
File:Norway.JPG- Norwegian Campaign Medal (April 2010)
File:India.JPG- Indian Campaign Medal (April 2010)
File:Australia.JPG- Australian Campaign Medal (April 2010)
File:Canada.JPG- Canadian Campaign Medal (May 2010)
File:Usad.jpg - USA Defence of Liaoning Campaign Medal (May 2010)
File:Usru.jpg - War between USA and Russia Medal (June 2010)
File:Polscot.jpg - Polish attack on Scotland (Operation Polish Corridor June 2010)
File:Lab.jpg - Irish attack on Labrador and Newfoundland (Operation Polish Corridor June 2010)
File:Doi2.jpg - United Kingdom invasion of Ireland (June 26,2010)
File:Dublin.jpg - Liberation of Dublin (August 2010)
File:Nor1.jpg - Deployment to Norway (August 2010)
File:Eng.jpg - Battles in UK (August 2010)
File:Nk.jpg - North Korean attack on USA (August 2010)
File:Rus2.jpg - Russian attack on Alaska (August 2010)
File:Port.jpg - Portugal attack on USA (September 2010)
File:NI2.jpg - Liberation of Northern Ireland (September 2010)
Individual Soldier and Unit Medals
File:Unitbrave.JPG- A unit citation medal for Highest Battle Damage from an IDF Division
File:Battle.JPG- Awarded to a soldier for exemplary individual bravery by doing the highest total damage in a single battle.
File:Unit2.JPG- Awarded to soldier's for Service in the IDF for a certain period of time (Time period yet to be determined by Command Staff)
How To Join
Enlist here.
Sign up on the website and ask for access to the barracks or airfields.
Read the articles in the newspaper for more details!
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