Training and Drill
This chapter goes over some training and drill that you would do in regiments.
Faces
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Left Face = 90° turn left
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Right face = 90° turn right
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About face = 180° turn
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Right incline = 45° turn right
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Left incline = 45° turn left
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Center face = Face towards the closest 90 degree angle towards where the host is; Forward and 180 degrees from starting face is prioritized in the case that this is given in an incline.
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Control eyes = Keep facing towards the instructor until he says "Center face"
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Dress face = T
- Eyes front = (Only for going out of dress face, Center face is also valid)
Gun Commands
- EVERY command is only valid in the case that it can be reached by only pressing maximum one key bind. (This means that you can not go into port arms from rest arms for example)
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Shoulder arms = Equip your weapon / Return weapon to original position.
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Make ready = Left click.
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Present = F.
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Salute = V.
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Pull back your hammer = Left click. (while in present, without making ready.)
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Fire = Left click while in present, and hammer is pulled back.
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Rest arms = H.
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Advance arms = G.
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Port arms = J.
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Slope arms = N.
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Fix bayonet = B.
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Charge arms = X.
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Support arms = L.
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Trail arms = K.
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Ground arms = Unequip. (Valid regardless of what gun command you are in prior.)
- Free aim (3rd person only) = Y.
- At Ease = Z.
- Attention = Z. (Drop at ease.)
- Prime and Load = R.
- Recover = Make ready after prime and loading.
Firing Commands
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Volley fire = Fire at the same time
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Parade fire = Aim 45° up and fire at the same time
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Blanket fire X sheets = Keep firing X times, when you are done, you must say "Done, [RANK]!"
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Ripple fire = Fire one by one, starting from the officer's position
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Fire & Advance = After the first line fires, the second line must advance
- Fire at will = Keep firing, prime and loading, making ready, presenting and firing again indefinitely until given the command "Cease fire".
- Cease fire = Stop firing for fire at will.
When you have multiple ranks (rows), your commands will only apply to the first rank unless otherwise specified. The term "Company" is valid when directing a command towards everyone in a stagger. At the end of the training, a quiz should be conducted to make sure they paid attention. NCOs should use a Training Comms channel for Recruitment Trainings.
Formations
The hardest element to understand (stagger) is what is explained in this quick 3 minute video: https://youtu.be/NEdOJ6Jf-Jw
As a general rule of thumb, left is prioritized for formations, this means that when forming a stagger, it is done from left to right, same goes for rank order, and same goes for any odd numbers in an arrowhead.
Shoulder To Shoulder (STS)
Single File Line (SFL)
The spacing in an SFL should be wide enough to the point that people should be able to do an individual face at any perpendicular angle (right or left face), and then they would be in a STS, without touching each others shoulders. As shown in image 2.
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Image 2:
