Security And Assault Corps
The Assault Guards, officially known as the Security and Assault Corps (Spanish language, Spanish; Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto), were a gendarmerie and Military reserve force, reserve force of the blue-uniformed municipal police, urban police force of Spain under the Second Spanish Republic. The Assault Guards were special paramilitary and gendarmerie units created by the Spanish Republic in 1931 to deal with urban and political violence. Most of the recruits in the Assault Guards were ex-military personnel, many of them veterans. They would later on be reformed and utilized in the Spanish Civil War as army infantry divisions. At the onset of the Spanish Civil War, there were 18,000 Assault Guards. About 12,600 stayed loyal to the Republican government, while the other 5,400 defected to the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), rebel faction. Many of its units fought against Nationalist forces and their allies. Their loyalty to the former Republican government led to their dis ...
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