Guidelines for Implementation
1. Upon notice that a trooper is to graduate from Drill squad, they will send an email to their Squad Leader designating their primary and secondary choices of specialty. Provided with this information, Army High Command will try to best acknowledge the trooper's choice and place them in a comparable squad. In some instances this will not be the case; thus, should an opening appear in another squad at a later date, the trooper has first preference at the position.
1a. Should a trooper be selected by a squad leader, and the trooper accepts, the trooper will be accepted into the squad provided all other conditions apply. These would entail, but are not limited too: excessive vacancies in other squads, need for skills elsewhere, personality conflicts.
2. Each squad should intend to make a distinction between combatants and support staff. If all of your troops are front line people, then who is available to call in fire support or perform emergency surgery? While every member of a squad is expected to fight, call upon those whom you can rely on to take on other, critical specialties. Specifically, each squad should have someone who is focused on a medical specialty and another with a communications goal.
3. Once a trooper has been given a specific specialty training path, the squad leader can assign an MOS designation. This is a way of more clearly defining a trooper's role and may aid in focusing on specific parts of character development. Clearly, some MOS types are highly specific; others tend to encompass a large but well-defined skill set. Between the trooper's intended goals and the squad's needs, a common ground can usually be met.
3a. While not appropriate for all troopers, some courses are available outside the realm of the specialties line up. As troopers complete their specializations, they may wish to expand their horizons as it were and pick up additional training. Some of these course offerings can lead to a skill modifier which becomes a part of their MOS nomenclature. More information is available in the Expanded Studies section.
4. Once a trooper has both completed their training regimen and have served in the Corps for a period of six months time, they can opt to pick up a secondary MOS. This can be composed of skills within their current specialty in addition to pertinent training from other specialty subsets, or can be composed of the General Skills of another specialty entirely.
5. After nine months of service and specialty training, a trooper can request to earn another specialty assignment. This does not diminish the original training to a secondary level unless such assignment is to a designated Advanced specialty program. At this stage, approval must come at the platoon level or above.