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Trooper (sometimes called a Private or other equivalent) is the generic term for the lowest enlisted rank in the Imperial Guard (only Conscripts, or Whiteshields, are lower), no matter their speciality (including Drop Troops). Troopers are typically equipped with flak armor, a lasgun or autogun, a bayonet, a copy of The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, various survival gear, and a few other pieces of equipment, all of varying design (old campaigners will have been provided many pickings from which to choose all of their gear, but new recruits and veterans alike are limited in their choices by the local manufacturing abilities of their warzone). Specialist troopers are typically equipped with plasmaguns, flamers, meltaguns, or grenade launchers; heavy-weapon crews typically tote around heavy bolters, missile launchers, lascannons, mortars, or autocannons, although heavy stubbers are also not uncommon. Again, equipment preferences vary from regiment to regiment and also depend on local manufacturing capabilities.

Troopers have few personal rights as soldiers of the Imperium, although like the regiments in which they serve, they can eventually (provided they fight long enough and in the right warzones) retire or even earn the Right of Settlement.