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One of the original [[Tanith]] members of the First and Only, Merrt signed up when Tanith was called on to raise its first [[Imperial Guard Regiment]]sfor the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]. He was regarded as having a good aim, but was not one of the regiment's designated as a [[Imperial Guard Sniper|snipersnipers]] due to the fact that enough snipers had already been recruited at that pointby the time he joined. Notably he Merrt considered himself a better shot than even the regiment's foremost sniper , [[Hlaine Larkin|Larkin]], believing that Larkin had been chosen as the last sniper over himself due to both Larkin's mental disposition rendering him unsuitable for line infantry work and Larkin's friend [[Colm Corbec|Corbec]] pulling some strings, although Merrt admitted that he had a smart mouth that would probably get him in trouble.{{Fn|1}} By the time of the Tanith First's deployment on [[Caligula]], Merrt's skills had been recognised and he was considered one of Corbec's favoured [[sharpshooter]]s.{{Fn|2a}}

On By the time of the Tanith First's deployment on [[Caligula]], Merrt's skills had been recognised and he was considered one of Corbec's favoured [[sharpshooter]]s. While on Caligula, he was part of a Tanith detachment assigned to escort a supply convoy from [[Aurelian Hive]] to [[Hive Calphernia]], manning the [[Autocannon|guns]] of an outrider driven by [[Trooper]] [[Kelve]]. When the convoy was attacked by bandits, their outrider was destroyed and Merrt was forced to mercy-kill Kelve after the latter was impaled by the wreckage of their destroyed outrider. Despite this, Merrt performed well in the subsequent battle, managing to snipe a number of bandits before they could launch a [[missile]] salvo at the Tanith positions.{{Fn|2a}}