The mismatched 133th

Kea 1f4b431d-0373-4b6d-b721-a458eb238640 was talking to his wife, while reading his mail. *

"I just got my deployment orders. I made colonel!"
"Woo-woo! Congradts honey, I knew you could do it. Where are you going? What, you've gone pale, what's wrong?"
"The 133th. Out of all the terra-forsaken regiments, I had to end up with that one."
"Surely, some of the bad luck is hyperbole?"
"Honey, none of their commanders lived to transfer their genes. Ever."
"You could be the first?"
"With these fitness evaluations, I could get re-rated dogcatcher, more likely."
"Wow, talk about my husband being a go-getter."
"They're the laughingstock of the entire genearmy."
"How come?"
"Because they don't belong, they all volunteered for the genearmy, but they're all genemixes. And someone out there is still working to correct the paperwork. But fixing paperwork in a meritocracy would undermine the fact that it is a meritocracy, or somesuch."

Motto

Making the best out of the worse

Also known as:

The aberrants

Footnotes

* The uuid/guid you see identifies a clone uniquely, and replaces their given name up to the point they become 'genetically worthy', when they can add a second name(given last, not first), before their uuid. These names are not unique, but there is pressure for them to be distinct. When someone's both names are those of geneparents(like Kea Dogstar 3b275667-3c6b-43db-b154-66f8e0ebcc1a, one knows that the deeds of this person are splendid, or that this person is a geneticist(who are themselves held up in high esteem automatically, being key to the genemod programs that allow the meritocracy to have a military without explicit conscription).

Fun fact: to refer to someone only by their uuid/guid is a strong insult, implying they are no more than their genetic material.