Team Training

[Project_Sardonicus]

Team training's an interesting conundrum particularly for recon teams. They have to infiltrate a wide area full of unwelcoming locals and probably battle hardened marauders. They need to scout without being spotted and possibly carry out acts of violence and sabotage.

It's not the kind of thing a basic infantry man would do, it's more like the tasks of a Green Beret etc.

Which recon most certainly aren't.

I think they'd probably look to the second world war when the Allies between 1939-41 had to come up with some response to the far more militarly powerful Nazis.

So they formed SOE a combination resistance, spying organisation. Like Morrow they had a narrow range of candidates, basically people willing to do the job who spoke fluent French.

training could be broken down into.

1 Key technical skills, spy trade craft, radio operations, coding etc
2 Basic fitness and infantry skills, enough to get by if things went wrong.
3 A few specialized skills like sentry removal or basic demolition.
4 A lot of silly nonsense to build their confidence, like Defendu.

The main thing was finding people with the right stuff. Confident, calm, quick thinking and able to live in the lion's mouth for years at a time.

So I guess Recon would probably be trying to find the right people, rather than train the wrong ones. I suspect this process would be broken into two parts.

First of all recruiting the right people before they even enter the project. Using personality assessments etc much like many corporations do, but backed up psychic skills.

Secondly agressively washing out trainees with the wrong stuff. Somewhere the project may have a very large warehouse filled with frozen, unsuitables who would one day be trained up, hopefully.

I do think the project would put any trainee group through a hard week of field training, to see how they perform in a real world setting.

[ArmySGT.]

Wait until you try to justify the existence of the "touchy feely" jobs...... How and why does a social worker become a Morrow specialist. Where do you get sociologists versed in group dynamics in disaster? How about crisis councilors?

Those people that become specialists in the Scientist teams. How do you convince a political science major to give up his or her 250,000k a year job in government for the Project?

It stretches plausibility very thin.

[Project_Sardonicus]

I think social workers and sociologists may well be attuned to the collapse of civilisation more than most.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Project_Sardonicus

I think social workers and sociologists may well be attuned to the collapse of civilisation more than most.

Probably so but, how do you recruit them for the Project? MARS and Recon ought to be fairly simply from veterans and law enforcement.

[stormlion1]

Might be as simple as a want ad and a thorough interview process. Maybe advertising to develop a third world country and don't spring the freezing bit and the nuclear war bit until the Project is certain they would be a good match.