Combine Chain of Command

Civil Protection are seperated into two rank groups: Regular & Supervisor. Regular ranks are from i4 (lowest) to i1 (highest), with the differences being only of equipment & experience. Regular groups are commanded by the Supervisor Groups: Squad Leaders (SqL), their Divisions by their Division Leaders (DvL), the whole City & Sector by the Commander (CmD), and regularly by Dispatch; an automated Combine alien-tech artificial intelligence system.

Overwatch Transhuman Arm, regular groups being Overwatch Soldier (OWS) & Elite Overwatch Soldier (EOS), are commanded by both their OTA Leaders (LDR) & Civil Protection Supervisor Units, and regularly by Dispatch; an automated Combine alien-tech artificial intelligence system. SENTINEL units regularly receive their command from City Administrators but SENTINELS may disregard any deemed to be hostile or against the overall protection of the Union or the CA(s). OTA are held to a robotic subservient nature as they are cybernetically enhanced, extensively brainwashed, and MMR'd to the point of no free will or emotion.

Anyone, for both factions above, who disobeys an SqL, DvL, or CmD, will be declared defunct & deserved without any hesitation or thought. Simple as.

In terms of simple hierarchy, the UU chain of command is as follows:

Combine Advisor, Dispatch,

the Commander, Division Leader(s), Squad Leader(s),

regular Civil Protection units,

Civil Administration Board,

Overwatch Transhuman Arm (soldiers without rights or free will and are mindless & brainwashed cyborgs),

CWU,

...and Civilians.