Thanks for the feedback, but this is just how i always imagined the heavy troopers. The power armor must be valued in the NCR as they went through all that trouble to have the wearer not have to have power armor training to wear it. Also i would assume the wearers of the armor would be NCR-Brotherhood war veterans so the armor would be decorated with bear heads as a sign of the service they have done for the NCR, or as a sign of rank. As Colonel Royez is the only one with a bear head I can only assume he fought in the war as well. I beleive the t-51b would be easier to aquire as that is probaly what the Brotherhood was wearing during the war. Colonel Royez leads a lot of men and women and has a high rank so I would assume they would allow him to alter his uniform a bit as long as it was respectful. Power armour is sought after by the NCR because it offers more protection than regular armour and T-45d is easier to come compared to T-51b because it was what was used by the US military shortly before the end of the Great War. Since the armour is salvaged and has it's servos ripped out I would assume the NCR would use a set even if it was missing a shoulder piece or had a few dents. After all the vanilla salvaged power armour doesn't have the shoulder pieces. I can see that working out, but its up to devinpatterson and not me. I just waiting to see what he has done with my original mod idea, and then if he wants to i can ask about those options.