Introducing the new armoured, augmented, and impressively muscular addition to the USA's ranks. Not only can these soldiers resist most small arms fire, they can also carry higher calibre weapons with more mobility than both standard infantry and larger vehicles.
While the soldiers selected for this role are incredibly strong in their own right, this powered armour provides mechanical augmentation to further enhance their physical abilities.
Two weapons have been developed specifically for use by these soldiers: the M1600 assault rifle, and the M6000 machine gun (huge thanks to ninja_bait for letting me almost completely rip off the rifle design).
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These soldiers tower over their unaugmented brothers.
While not an exact equivalent, augmented soldiers provide a pretty close counterpoint to the 45th Union's Centurions. What these units lack in sheer size and stronger metal structure, they make up for in cost efficiency and versatility. They also tested far better with the citizens of the USA than robots did.
They also make for great pictures like this, making them a recruitment officer's dream come true.
Sorry that the pictures aren't fantastic. Less-than-ideal lighting combined with black-on-black makes these hard to photograph well.
