Meropis Expedition Structure

[Jason Conway]

Meropis Expedition Structure

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Meropis Expedition Commanding Officer: Colonel John Callaghan, USMC
Meropis Expedition Executive Officer: 
Special Advisor to the Meropis Command Team: Lieutenant General Jason Conway
Meropis Expedition Civilian Lead: 
Meropis Expedition Chief Medical Officer: 
Second Expeditionary Wing: Commodore Sir Dylan Hawkins

Meropis Personnel


Triangulum Galaxy Natives



MX-1 Off-World Exploration Team

CO: --
XO: 



MX-2 Military Support Team
CO: 
XO: 


MX-3 Scientific Support Team
CO: 
XO: 

BC-304 HMS Invincible
Commanding Officer: 
Executive Officer: 
Flight Control Officer: 
Weapons Officer: 
Medical Officer: 
Chief Engineer: 
Navigation Officer: 

[Jason Conway]

Military Standard Staff Arrangement
Commanding Officer (CO)
Grade: O-07 / GS-16
Responsibility(ies): Be the final decision maker in all areas that effect the mission, command and/or the personnel involved. Be held responsible for all the unit does or fails to do.

Deputy Commanding / Executive Officer (DCO/XO)
Grade: O-06 / GS-15
Responsibility(ies): Take over for the CO if/when the Co is unable to discharge their duties, or are absent. Coordinate the staff functions. The XO is also responsible to make the CO look good. That is, when the CO issues punishments or reprimands, he passes them on to the XO, who then verbalizes and exercises them in order to keep the personnel of the unit having a good faith and support for the CO.

Manpower / Personnel Officer (C1)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The manpower or personnel officer supervises personnel and administration systems. This department functions as the essential administrative liaison between the subordinate units and the headquarters, handling personnel actions coming from the bottom up (such as a request for an award be given to a particular soldier) or from the top down (such as orders being received from the army level directing a particular soldier be reassigned to a new unit outside the command). In army units, this person is often called the Adjutant. C1 also works with the postal mailing office.

Intelligence & Security Officer (C2)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The intelligence section is responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence information about the enemy to determine what the enemy is doing, or might do, to prevent the accomplishment of the unit's mission. This office may also control maps and geographical information systems and data. At the unit level, the C2 is the unit's security officer, and the C2 section manages all security clearance issues for the unit's personnel.

Operations Officer (C3)
Grade: O-06 / GS-15
Responsibility(ies): The operations office, which may include plans and training. The operations office plans and coordinates operations, and all things necessary to enable the formation to operate and accomplish its mission. In most units, the operations office is the largest of the staff sections and considered the most important. All aspects of sustaining the unit's operations, planning future operations, and additionally planning and executing all unit training, fall under the responsibility of operations. The operations office is also tasked with keeping track of the weekly training schedules. In most military units (i.e. battalion, regiment, and brigade), the operations officer carries the same rank as the executive officer (XO), but would obviously rank third in the unit's chain of command while the other staff officers are one rank lower. For example, in a battalion, the S3 would hold the rank of major (like the battalion XO) while the remaining staff officers are captains.

Logistics Officer (C4)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The logistics office is responsible for managing the wide scope of materiel, transport, facilities, and services:
*Design, development, acquisition, storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel.
*Transport of personnel and materiel.
*Acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities.
*Acquisition or furnishing of services.

By N.A.T.O. doctrine, the logistic staff is tasked with overseeing logistic aspects and principles, where focus is that logistic support must be focused towards ensuring the success of the operation and prescriptions of elements such as responsibility and authority. A logistic staff may be divided into sections based on branch or geographic area. Each section may in turn be divided into tasks and roles as well. The size of the logistic staff can vary greatly, depending on the environment and complexity of operations. N.A.T.O. in example work with a Multinational Joint Logistic Center, that exist outside of the force commanders staff, but runs as a separate entity/unit, with only few logistic personnel in the commanders staff, that acts as liaisons.

Plans Officer (C5)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The plans & strategy office is responsible for civil military operations (CMO) strategy planning. At the unit level, the C5 is the primary adviser to the Commander on the civilian-to-military and military-to-civilian impact of the mission/operation within the Host Nation's (HN) Area of Interest (AOI), Area of Operations (AO) or the Target area of Interest (TAOI). The G5 serves as the Mission Support Office (MSO) at the Division level and HHC for civil military plans and strategy.

Signal (i.e., Communications or IT) Officer (C6)
Grade: O-05
Responsibility(ies): The signal office directs all communications and is the point of contact for the issue of communications instructions and protocol during operations as well as for communications troubleshooting, issue, and preventative maintenance. Communications at this level is paired with digital as well as voice (radio, computer, etc.). At the unit level, C6 is also usually responsible for all electronic systems within a unit to include computers, faxes, copy machines, and phone systems.

Training Officer (C7)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The training branch will organize and coordinate training activity conducted by a Headquarters and also supervise and support subordinate units.

Finance & Contracts Officer (C8)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): The finance branch, not to be confused with Administration from which it has split, sets the finance policy for the operation. Operationally, the Administration and Finance may be interlinked, but have separate reporting chains.

Civil-Military Co-operation Officer (C9)
Grade: O-05 / GS-14
Responsibility(ies): Civil-Military Co-operation or Civil Affairs are the activities that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between the military forces, the government or non-government civilian organisations and authorities, and the civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or hostile area of operations in order to facilitate military operations and consolidate and achieve mission objectives.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
Grade: O-04 / GS-13
Responsibility(ies): Chief Medical Officer is the title used in many countries for the senior government official designated head of medical services.

Chaplain / Moral Officer
Grade: O-04 / GS-12
Responsibility(ies): United States military chaplains hold positions in the armed forces of the United States and are charged with conducting religious services and providing counseling for their adherents. There are about 2,900 chaplains on active duty.