Only thing for that is if/when we split back into two branches, the things people need to know about the Navy are decidedly different than from the Army. At least in terms of what they will be writing about (flight maneuvers vs ground movements). I'm not saying I'm against it, especially for now, but if things ever get large enough again it only makes sense to split it up - maybe do a joint basic training kind of thing to get writing styles sorted out, and once a new recruit has chosen a division, there is an advanced training section geared more specifically towards either side?

I believe we had a discussion several years ago about this. Trevor's basic-basic training for unified training would work well. I think you could then leave it up to the Flight Leader/Fireteam Leader to help train for the writing.

100% agree.

Ok, so nothing specific yet, but here is just some ideas I brought up with Drac on Facebook wanted to share here.

Proposed New Training Department:

Chief of Training:

Position to be filled by the Chief of Training for either the Navy or the Army, directly responsible for All training related events in their branch, and Primary advisor on the administrative side of things for their counterpart in the opposite branch.

Chief of Naval Training/Army Training Officer:

Responsible for the branch not served by the Chief of Training, Has the final say within their branch, but assists the Chief of Training with the overall running of the overall running of the training program.

Chief of Staff:

One per branch, replacing the old Training Executive Officer position, responsible for day to day running of their respective branches training operations in the absence of their Chief.

Operator levels 1 and 2:

Initially will only be one or two of these per training department, Responsible for day to day operations of Basic Training and Initial Starfighter Training/General Infantry Training, answers to their Chief of Staff and/or Chief of Training (level 1 responsible for Basic only, Level 2 responsible for Basic and Branch Specific)

Trainer:
Responsible for grading and guiding members through the Officer Candidate School for both branches, and for running Squadron Command/Ship Command/Squad/Platoon/Company Command training for their particular branch.

Now I do not expect this to be implemented all at once, and as a matter of fact, we can probably make do with a Chief of Training, Chief of Naval Training/Army Training Officer, and a single Chief of Staff for each branch, with one or two Operator Level 1's for right now until we make sure exactly what we want to do more in depth.

Thoughts?

OOC:

Sorry Drac and I were talking about this, wanted to get this up before I went to bed.

I think three people total would be ideal right now. One person to run the academy and oversee putting material together, as well as doing a lot of the basic training. And then two others, preferably one who primarily writes a trooper and one that primarily writes a pilot, who can be available to help recruits through the basic training as well so that it's not all dependent on the head of the academy's activity. Or even just two people, with the assistant writing primarily on the other side than the head of the academy.

From there we can eventually grow it toward Slasher's model or something similar as the club's needs dictate.

It's just not wise to put it all on one person, though, while at the same time the 6-person minimum that Slasher outlined is way more than we need right now. Two or three is a good number for the academy staff.

-Drac

I literally just did all this, including the wiki pages, in the last couple days, over at the EE: http://empiresedge.com/holonet/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=667&p=6868#p6868

It's simple, it's streamlined, it gets people writing.