Character Situation Report
The characters find themselves assigned to Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Special Operations Group (IRSOG) 37, a highly specialized unit that is used for a variety of unconventional operations; they are the first to land on a battlefield, securing high value targets, prepping the battlefield or acting as an elite spearhead in the various operations of the Republic Army. There is a high turnover, because the Mandalorians are extremely good warriors, even though they are mass-recruiting their 'Neo-Crusaders' these days.
The veterans of the IRSOGs have seen heavy fighting and are aware of the dangers inherent in their trade. They are at the tip of the spear, in the most extreme of circumstances and some of their missions resemble nothing if not suicide operations; many of the most motivated recruits have had their homes devastated by the Mandalorians, or lost loved ones. That is, of course, the non-Jedi, the ones that'd carried the war to this point.
With the entry of the Jedi into the war, the Mercy Corps Revan formed is technically supposed to provide battlefield support as healers and the such, and yet the line is blurred in the IRSOG unit where the missions are not always direct combat. But the Jedi are authorized to defend themselves, and a convenient circumvention of the restrictions the Masters placed on them is for a Jedi to find themselves in a combat situation. Of course, there is circumvention and downright disobedience.
For the Jedi, this is the first step into unfamiliar territory, actual resistance, in deed, to the Jedi Masters at the various temples. They are generally believers in the rightness of this course, perhaps the Force even tells them that this is the right thing to do, the course of compassion. Many of they younger Jedi chafe at the inaction of the Masters and yet, chafing and disobeying are two different things, particularly for rigorously disciplined Jedi.
These new arrivals are not greeted by open arms by their would-be comrades. They sat out much of the war, and the average line trooper does not understand or care much about Jedi politics; there is a split of opinion between relief and derision, a sort of 'about time you got here' attitude that runs the gamut from forgiveness to bitterness for previous Jedi inaction in the face of a Mandalorian menace that seems intent on swallowing the Republic whole.
IRSOG 37 faces these problems, as well as the other problems shared by the Republic Army as a whole; the integration of Jedi and their capabilities into their structure, the adaptation of command and control and tactics to this infusion of Jedi. For while there is bitterness about the Jedi, there is no doubt that even a handful of Jedi can change the course of a battle. Much as resentments may divide allies during the downtime, there is a greater enemy that looms.