Drill Instructors

Hello there, Marines,

As you know we're in great need of people to become a part of a small and proud sect of our clan that we like to call: the Drill Instructors. These are individuals with the highest of military virtues. They honor themselves, their choices, the clan, and display the highest commitment to the members of our clan that they can possibly exert. To be a Drill Instructor is by no means easy and below you're going to find key things that a Drill Instructor can expect to be doing if they truly decide to choose this career path. The key things are:

• Training recruits six days out of the week.

• Examining and evaluating recruit performance.

• Keeping the recruiters up-to-date with the status of the recruit.

• Filing reports on recruit platoon progress throughout boot camp cycles.

• Studying and re-learning military knowledge, history, and traditions.

• Administering and overseeing each recruit platoon's Crucible events.

I will explain each of these in detail so that all of you have an idea of what it is really like as well.

Currently boot camp runs under a twenty-one (21) day system that is packed with essential information for a recruit to learn, understand, and recite by the time they have graduated. Currently boot camp cycles start on Wednesdays and end on Saturday's. You will literally (aside from the first week) be training the recruits six days out of the week as Sunday's are considered days off; however, any good DI will tell the recruits that Sunday is study day, not slack off day. Boot camp sessions always start at 1900 (7:00 PM) EST and generally end between 2000 and 2100 EST (8:00 or 9:00 PM respectively).

You will be required to stay with the recruits and teach every last morsel of information scheduled to be taught on that specific day. You cannot leave recruits alone to themselves. They must be monitored at all times and it can become very boring and very time-consuming (as well as exhausting). By the time you're finished with a particular day's training you will most likely be glad it is over (as will the recruits, trust me). But just like them you have to suffer through it and you cannot lose your professionalism and your strictness even for a minute.

Also every day you will be examining the recruits progression and evaluating their daily performance. You will be looking to find who is improving, who is remaining static, and who needs additional training. Your goal as a Drill Instructor is not only to graduate recruits. While yes, part of your job is weeding out non-hackers, you need to know the difference between a problem recruit and a non-hacker. A problem recruit is someone who has trouble learning the information being taught. He's not stupid, just slow. As a Drill Instructor YOU HAVE TO accommodate to that individual's learning style. There are ways too many ways to list how you can do that. But you must be able to keep an accurate record of recruit's progression.

Another essential part of the job is keeping close ties with the recruiters who recruited the people you're now training. The reason being that the recruiter must continually monitor the progress of a recruit to know if the person has dropped out (thus declining their application and permanently disbarring them from rejoining) or any number of other things. The recruiters have to be kept in the loop, so to speak. This can sometimes be difficult but it must be done.

As a Drill Instructor you are required to fill out paperwork. Yes. It is not all fun and games being a DI. There is paperwork involved and it comes to you in the form of weekly reports. Yes. Weekly. The Commanding Officer of the Recruit Training Command (whomever they may be) needs to be kept in the loop about recruit progress and performance. The recruits meet him twice: once on the first day of Receiving and again at their graduation ceremony. He needs to know when the recruits will graduate so that he can be there. He also needs to know how our future Young Marines are being trained and that they're showing the appropriate amount of progress. In the end if a problem recruit cannot be fixed, the Recruit Training CO might have to order the DIs to do one of two things: recycle the recruit (put him in the next training cycle) or kick him out altogether with an "Unfit for training" notice.

To become a Drill Instructor you must attend Drill Instructor School (DIS) and accomplish all the courses and meet all the physical, mental, and emotional standards to become a DI. While there you will be forced to re-learn the same material you had to learn in boot camp (no surprise there) and be required to study it daily. When you officially become a DI it does not stop there. You have one hour before boot camp to prepare for the day's events (called DI Time). During this hour the Senior Drill Instructor informs you what is scheduled to be taught and who will teach what. When you're given your assignments you will be required to spend the remainder of your time preparing for what you'll be doing (that includes studying the information that you'll be required to teach). You will also have to practice the lesson on each other so that you're comfortable teaching it and that you know you won't make any mistakes.

Finally, we come to the most important part of boot camp. The climax to all the training and preparation the recruits had been administered throughout their cycle. The Crucible. At the end of the recruit cycle, days before graduation, the Crucible begins. The Crucible and the events the recruits undergo are different in each cycle. There is no set event list for the Crucible. During the course of the cycle the Drill Instructors will get together and plan out events that they could do for the Crucible. Two days prior to beginning the Crucible the Drill Instructors will set out a List of Events (LOE) for the current cycle's Crucible so that a temporary set list has been established. The Recruit Training Commander will, of course, have to see the Crucible LOE and may have to approve certain things. But for the most part it is up to the DIs on what they want to do for the Crucible.

Though remember that the Crucible is the culmination of all of the recruit's training. The events must pertain and fall back on the concepts and lessons they were given on previous days. Everything must be tested. In-game skills to common knowledge. They must be challenged in order for the Crucible to effective and not just some boring old event. It must be difficult, yet passable. That is not to say that some of the events may be impossible to accomplish. Some may. But overall the Crucible must be a passable event that evaluates the recruits on everything they have learned.

So there you have it, being a Drill Instructor is by no means easy. Much will be expected of you and you are the key factor in any person's online career in this clan. You will be molding future Young Marines. Their actions and discipline after boot camp will be a direct reflection of how you train them. If the quality of our boot members are poor, it shows that you have done a poor job. You make or break future members. You are the stepping stone for those people who want to join and be a part of a true realism clan. I will be looking for seven people (other than who're already DIs) to fill the positions of Drill Instructor. Four for Recruit Training and four for OCS. The application to join is below. Please do not be discouraged if you do not make it into the Drill Instructor field for whatever reason. There will be other things coming in the near future for you to do to help the clan and limitless opportunities.

For now, if you're interested in being a clan Drill Instructor please fill out the following application.

Good luck, Marines!

Name:
Rank:
TIS: (your time in service to the clan listed by months)
Reasons to Join: (your reasons for wanting to join as well as any previous training experience you may have; must be at least a paragraph (three to five sentences) in length.)

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SIDENOTE: Marines must have reached the rank of Corporal (E-4) to qualify for the Drill Instructor billet and MOS.