Recruit Training (Phase One)

RMT 101 · Recruit and Military Training · Level 100 (Phase One, the entry course)

The initial training course of the Royal Kaharagian Army.

Course length: approximately 8 to 12 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.

Welcome

This is the first course you will do as a recruit of the Royal Kaharagian Army, and it is the most important, because it is the one that makes you a soldier. Everything that follows in your service is built on it. Phase One does not try to teach you everything; it gives you a little of everything, the broad foundation of soldiering, so that by the end you are a basically trained soldier of the Principality, ready to go on and learn any part of the work in depth.

You should know from the outset how this fits together. The Army's full reference is the Basic Training Manual, nineteen modules that cover the soldier in complete detail. That manual is long, and it is not where a new recruit begins; it is the depth you grow into. This course is the front door. Each of its lessons gives you the essentials of a subject, points you to the manual module where that subject is set out in full, and points you to the specialist Phase Two course where, later, you will master it. Learn Phase One well, and the rest of the College opens to you.

The two phases

The Army trains its people in the British and Commonwealth manner, in two phases.

• Phase One, this course: the common training every recruit completes, whatever their eventual role. It makes a civilian into a soldier.
• Phase Two, the specialist courses: the College's deeper courses (leadership, first aid, the law of armed conflict, aid to the civil power, drill and ceremonial, navigation and fieldcraft, weapon handling and safety, humanitarian outreach, cold-weather operations, civil resilience, and field health), which you take after Phase One according to your role.

The recruit's journey

flowchart TD
    C["Civilian recruit"] --> P1["Phase One: Recruit Training<br/>eight lessons, a little of everything"]
    P1 --> FIT["Recruit Fitness Programme<br/>self-paced, to the Annual Fitness Test"]
    P1 --> FX["Airsoft milsim final exercise<br/>everything applied, in person"]
    FIT --> SOL["A basically trained soldier of the Principality"]
    FX --> SOL
    SOL --> P2["Phase Two: the specialist courses<br/>leadership, first aid, law, drill, navigation,<br/>weapons, patrolling, signals, and the rest"]

What you will be able to do

By the end of Phase One you will be able to:

• explain what the Army is for, take the soldier's oath, and live by the Army's values;
• keep the discipline, drill, and bearing of a soldier;
• follow the Recruit Fitness Programme and meet the Army's fitness standard;
• care for your kit and look after yourself in the field;
• handle a weapon safely, and train safely by airsoft military simulation;
• find your way with map and compass;
• give basic first aid and look after the people beside you; and
• understand the law and conduct of the humanitarian soldier, and apply the whole in a final exercise.

How the course works

Phase One has three parts that go together. The knowledge is learned online, lesson by lesson, at your own pace. The fitness is built over time through the Recruit Fitness Programme, which you follow on your own schedule (see Lesson 03). And the practical skills, drill, weapon handling, fieldcraft and navigation on the ground, first aid, the fitness test, and the final exercise, are taught and certified in person, under instructors, gathered into training weekends or a recruit camp. You learn the why online; you earn the standard in person.

The two practical components

Phase One is studied online, but two things are built and proven by doing, not reading, and the College keeps them as separate practical components that you complete in your own time and have signed off (see ../../components/). Both are required, in time, to finish your training; neither holds up your online study.

The Physical Training Component builds you to the Army's fitness standard. The College gives the plan, the safe technique, and the standard (the Recruit Fitness Programme, set out in Lesson 03); you train in your own time and keep a log; and you are tested and signed off against the Annual Fitness Test.

The Airsoft Milsim Component is the lived experience of soldiering as a team. The Army does not train through live combat; it trains the whole craft of soldiering, moving, working together, communicating, and deciding under mild pressure, safely through airsoft military simulation under a strict safety standard. You take part at an airsoft field, apply what you have learned, and have it approved by a qualified person there. It is the whole experience, not the shooting, which is a separate skill in the Weapon Handling and Safety course.

The final exercise

Phase One culminates in a final exercise that gathers everything you have learned and asks you to apply it as a whole. The exercise you work through as part of the course is a scenario you reason through online: given a task, you plan it, brief it, and show how you would move, communicate, keep the safety rules and the honour system, and make lawful, restrained decisions. The lived version of the same thing, putting it into practice as a team in the field, is the Airsoft Milsim Component above, completed at an airsoft field when you can. The course assesses the understanding; the component gives the experience.

Structure

A note on the Basic Training Manual

Nothing in the full Basic Training Manual is replaced or removed by this course. The manual remains the Army's complete reference, and each Phase One lesson tells you which module to turn to for the full treatment. Think of Phase One as the map of the country and the manual as the country itself: the map gets you moving and shows you where everything is, and you walk the ground in detail over the rest of your service.

A note on sources

This is the College's own course, condensed from the Army's own Basic Training Manual and the Phase Two courses, in the British and Commonwealth recruit-training tradition, and written fresh in Kaharagian terms.

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