RMT 120 · Recruit and Military Training · Level 100 (introductory)
A Royal Army College course on discipline as habit, the customs and courtesies of the service, and the conduct expected of a servant of the Crown.
Course length: approximately 10 hours of online self-study, studied asynchronously at the student's own pace, together with any in-person practical instruction and assessment the course requires.
Foreword
An army is held together by two things its drill square makes visible but does not by itself create: discipline, and the customs and conduct that are discipline lived out day by day. A soldier who can march beautifully but cannot be relied upon when tired, unsupervised, or tempted has missed the point of the square entirely. This course is about the thing the square is for.
Discipline is widely misunderstood as punishment, or as the grim suppression of the self. It is neither. At its best it is self-discipline, the settled habit of doing the right thing, to the right standard, because it is right and because others depend on it, especially when no one is watching and when it would be easier not to. That habit is built deliberately, and the customs and courtesies of the service are part of how it is built and shown: the small, constant marks of respect, order, and belonging that turn a group of individuals into a body that trusts itself.
This course teaches what discipline really is and why it comes first; how disciplined habits are formed so that they hold under pressure; the customs and courtesies of military life; the compliments and the salute as the everyday courtesy of those who serve; the standard of conduct expected of a servant of the Crown, on duty and off; dress, turnout, and the care of kit as discipline made visible; comradeship and the looking-after-each-other that binds a body together; fault, correction, and the difference between discipline and punishment; followership and the conduct of being well commanded; and the chain of command and the responsibility, and the firm limit, that come with obedience.
How this course works
This is a knowledge course, studied online at your own pace, lesson by lesson. It teaches the meaning, the standard, and the reasons; the physical drill in which much of it is expressed is taught and certified in person on the square in Drill and Ceremonial (RMT 130), and the values it rests on are deepened in Foundations of Military Leadership (LDR 201). There is no separate practical component to this course.
Structure
| Lesson | Title |
|---|---|
| 01 | Discipline: What It Is and Why It Comes First |
| 02 | Building Habits That Hold Under Pressure |
| 03 | The Customs and Courtesies of the Service |
| 04 | Compliments and the Salute |
| 05 | Conduct Becoming a Servant of the Crown |
| 06 | Dress, Turnout, and the Care of Kit |
| 07 | Comradeship, Cohesion, and Looking After Each Other |
| 08 | Fault, Correction, and the Difference Between Discipline and Punishment |
| 09 | Followership: the Conduct of Being Well Commanded |
| 10 | The Chain of Command, Responsibility, and the Lawful Order |
Where this sits
This course covers the ground the Basic Training Manual sets out in Module 02 (discipline, customs, and conduct as habit). It runs alongside Introduction to the Royal Kaharagian Army (RMT 110) and Recruit Training (Phase One); it feeds the practical drill of Drill and Ceremonial (RMT 130), the values of Foundations of Military Leadership (LDR 201), and the conduct in the public eye taught in Aid to the Civil Power and Public Order (HCR 210).
A note on sources
This is the College's own course, written fresh in Kaharagian and Commonwealth terms on the British and Commonwealth tradition of service discipline and custom, condensed from the Army's own Basic Training Manual. It is written in formal British English and carries Crown Copyright. Its teaching examples are illustrative and use generic settings, since the Principality holds no territory of its own.
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