Here's another Andorran plane (to make the Pilatus feel a little less lonelier). An Aérospatiale Alouette III, one of the nation's helis in this ATL. It serves in the Gendarmerie ("Gendarmeria" in Catalan) air unit and is dubbed "Gaig" - a callsign meaning "Jay" in Catalan. Besides the obligatory
Andorran roundel at the back, the chopper also bares the coat of arms of
Andorra's capital (it's stationed at the main heliport of the Gendarmerie headquarters).
The Andorran Gendarmerie of this ATL is part of the armed forces and serves the role of military police, counter-terrorist unit and border guard. The heli is used for scouting the country's borders, especially the ones that are located on sparsely visited mountain ranges - which are easily penetrable on foot, but inaccesible to ground vehicles.
Some ATL Andorran trivia :
The Andorran military (including the Andorran Army*) has several peculiarities, among them a more fluid boundary between the law enforcement and police institutions and the armed forces themselves. Since the country is small and lacks greater manpower and military supplies, it's quite understandable that the police and army work more closely together even in peace times. The
OTL tradition of all weapon owners in Andorra automatically becoming soldiers in times of war is alive and well in this TL, but it's been modernized into a concept similar to the Swiss model of army service. The basic peace-time force is made up of cca 300 professional soldiers and personnel, but in times of war, the army grows ten times in size thanks to reservists with military training. Gun and weapon owners without military training are made into soldiers too, but they serve purely as backup militias and perform basic guarding, supplying and civil defence duties. If all goes to hell and Andorra is occupied, they are ordered to flee into the mountains and fight as guerillas alongside any surviving professionals and reservists.
* - it's more of a "general-purpose defence force", but the "Army" title is preferred in common usage just because it's more traditional both in Andorra and southern European countries (including neighbouring France and Spain)
