Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps

The Fifth Operational Corps, formally known as the Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps, were a military organisation which defended the Earth from alien from 1969. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time) The organisation was a successor to LONGBOW (PROSE: Moon Blink) and ICMG (PROSE: The Dogs of War) and a precursor to UNIT. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)

History
After ICMG was destroyed in 1966, several important people in the British government wanted to create another alien defence organisation to replace it. (PROSE: The Dogs of War) The numerous alien attacks in early 1969 gave Major General Oliver Hamilton and Ian Gilmore the leverage needed to convince the government to create the Fifth Operational Corps. (PROSE: Mutually Assured Domination)

It was funded in large by industrialist Peyton Bryden, who wished to benefit from the advanced alien tech so that Bryden Industries could continue to compete against International Electromatics. The MOD liaison to the Corps was Peter Grant, who had a niece that was into 'spy stuff'. The HQ of the Corps was located in Dolerite Base, beneath Edinburgh Castle, with their troops stationed at Stirling Castle and in Imber, England. (PROSE: Moon Blink, The Grandfather Infestation)

The Corps continued, working on some of UNIT's more secretive operations. After Lethbridge-Stewart took over UNIT UK, Walter Douglas was promoted to brigadier and resumed command. It continued to secretly protect the UK in 1990. (PROSE: Ashes of the Inferno, The Enfolded Time)