ARCAM Private Army

The ARCAM Defense Unit or ADU is an armed military wing of the fictional ARCAM Corporation from the manga Spriggan. The force consists of armed troopers, mostly ex-soldiers from various nationalities. They are lightly armed with various small arms from semi-automatic pistols to heavy machine guns and rocket launchers. The unit also equips its soldiers with various load bearing vests and military/police gear such as ballistic vests, ballistic helmets with protective face shields, etc.

The unit has various mission objectives while under the ARCAM Corporation, which consist of the following:


 * Protection of ARCAM employees and officials.
 * Security duties on ARCAM establishments and excavation sites.
 * Covert assistance to Spriggan operatives.
 * Recovery of ARCAM establishments/excavation sites/other ARCAM-related facilities from enemy forces.

Due to their inadequate indoctrination and training methods, the group tends to be outmatched in terms of arms and tactics used by various paramilitary and special forces units, such as the incident in Britain when ADU troopers were ambushed and killed by British SAS commandos as they were about to rendezvous with Yu Ominae as backup support in fighting against the Berserker. The ADU came unprepared once again when American-led COSMOS soldiers launched a commando raid on ARCAM's Japanese headquarters just after the US Armored Corps had raided the facility in order to kidnap Dr. Rie Yamabishi, which resulted in failure.

The ADU had its major loss of its troopers when the Machiner's Platoon, lead by Fatman, Little Boy and Colonel MacDougal, massacred hundred of ADU soldiers on ARCAM's research facility on Mount Ararat in Turkey. At one point, Colonel MacDougal cakked them the ARCAM Defense Forces, though it is not being referred to as such.