They were eager learners and all of them wanted to get south and begin taking their country back. All together Mike was now in command of seven thousand or so troops. This seemed like a large number but Mike hoped to have at least doubled that before taking the fight into the city of angels. With this many troops Mike and Tim were able to train up support battalions. They would now have entire medical, supply, and the weakest of the soldiers would be in a training battalion and used as backfills until they were ready for battle. With so many soldiers Mike split them into two regiments each containing five battalions. Each battalion was given between five to seven hundred soldiers and had their own medical and supply companies and one platoon of scouts that Rick himself had handpicked and trained. Mike put Tim in charge of second regiment while he himself would lead first regiment while training Steve to take over for him. The crazy man that Steve had morphed into seemed to have disappeared and Mike hoped that by training him for a larger command that maniac would stay gone.
