What makes them special is their job and custom armor, not weapons. Giving custom weapons to named characters will just make them overpowered and other battalions have more than others and some just have none. Battalions use their lore characters in different ways and giving them better weapons than everyone else would not be fair to the rest of the server -1
But what purpose would they serve then?
IF you're going to say To hunt down deserters and stuff, another post requesting a battalion that actually does that already is covered. There would be no reason to have them in the server unfortunately, as nice as they would be.