Closed Hand

The 5th Special Operations Wing, also known as the Closed Hand, is an autonomous squadron attached to the Earth Federation Forces that specializes in clean-up and intervention operations on Earth and its orbiting satellites. It is featured in Mobile Suit Gundam The Phi.

Organization
Closed Hand, along with several other Special Operations Wings, was formed after the in order to expand efforts by the Earth Federation in cleaning up Zeon remnants still on the planet. The Wing consists of only a single MS carrier, the Ra Cailum-class Outreach Arms, and a handful of highly skilled Federation personnel led by Captain Leo Garner. A single Mobile Suit squadron is stationed on the Outreach Arms, known as Index Squadron, that consists of several Jastos, Jasto Modifys, and Jegan Stealth Types.

The 5th Special Operations Wing acts in coordination with the other SOW units and answers directly to EFF Command and as attachments to both. While the SOW units hold limited autonomy over what operations they conduct, they can be mandated to rejoin into the main forces as reinforcement if necessary and be drafted into ECOAS investigations as a back-up tactical unit. When all SOWs are brought together, they collectively make up the unified Special Operations Wing. When normally broken up, they act in shifts across the local Earth space, with the 5th SOW being the only ones to travel both on the Earth's surface and around the upper orbit as part of their routing.

Known Members

 * Leo Garner
 * Maboroshi Nou
 * Rebecca Hulsey
 * Isaak Logan
 * Helen Katravich
 * Achi Malik