Bruce Bernstein
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Bruce Lee Bernstein | |
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| Personal | |
| Affiliation | Draconis Combine |
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| Rank | Tai-sho[1] |
Bruce Lee Bernstein was the commanding officer of the Third Proserpina Hussars as of 3025.[1]
History[edit]
Tai-sho Bernstein, serving with the Third Proserpina Hussars, was stationed on Galedon in 3025.[1]
Wapakoneta[edit]
During the Fourth Succession War, Bernstein's Third Hussars and Tarsus Bodoli's Twelfth Galedon Regulars were dispatched to strike at the Federated Suns world of Wapakoneta in late 3028. The defending Beta and Delta Regiments of Wolf's Dragoons launched the first attack, using Beta's Third Company to draw the bulk of the Hussars/Regualrs force away from their budding airfield in order to eliminate the Combine's aerospace superiority. In a bit of mixed fortune for Bernstein and Bodoli, the entire mercenary force was wiped out in the attempt but over two-thirds of their aerospace fighters were destroyed on the ground when the Third Company's command lance made a suicidal assault against their under-defended airfield. Enraged, the two Combine commanders exhorted their troops to treat the Dragoons forces with no mercy and marched off to find and destroy the remainders of the two opposing regiments.[2]
An ambush from the Third Company of the Dragoons' Delta Regiment failed to stop the Combine's march, and the mercenary unit's commanding officer was killed in a vicious battle against Bodoli's Regulars amidst a raging forest fire, but the next three months went by with no further pitched battles. It eventually became apparent to Bernstein that the mercenaries had split into smaller-sized units in order to more effectively launch hit-and-fade attacks against their more numerous foes but Bodoli, who held seniority and thus retained overall command, refused to allow the Third Hussars to break into similar-sized hunting forces. In late November, Bernstein gave up trying to persuade Bodoli to change course and the Third Hussars split off from the Twelfth Regulars in order to enact their own methods of war-fighting. This move paid off for Bernstein when, on 29 November, the Third Hussars came up behind Beta Regiment's Fourth Company and nearly annihilated the mercenary force in the midst of an assault on an unsuspecting Regulars company.[2]
After hounding the Dragoons for another week, a trio of Bernstein's companies located and began hunting down the Fifth Company of Beta Regiment. After an hour of chasing the Fifth Company, the Hussars were lead into both a minefield and the entirety of the sixty remaining mercenary BattleMechs. The following battle, coined the Fight for Ploven's Fields, cost Bernstein's men nearly half of their engaged machines and forced the Hussars to rejoin the Twelfth Regulars in order to rest and refit.[2]