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Oborous · March 29th, 2010, 13:26

Built up area thread

So... I drank the koolaid and now got "suckered" into running several of noob days.

We ran the first one, sixty people turned out. This is planning for the third day, in forests. The format it Safety Briefing, Training Exercises, Safety Briefing, Mini-Milsim (We're really stressing the safety, and some people are going to show up just for the mini-milsim).

I'm wondering what exercises people have experienced or ran for noob days? We are building up complete noobs here, so nothing is too basic, however yelling and screaming at them isn't going to work. We need to have them understand that they want to do things a proper way rather than just tell them. We need them to get that "Ah, I get it" moment.

In discussions, we've come up with four core skills.
1) How to Move
2) How to Shoot
3) How to Work in a Team
4) How to use a Radio.
(Really, three, that using a radio is apart of teamwork, but it's large enough that it needs to be on it's own... Disable VOX!!)

I/We want exercises that start showing the value of combining two or more of these core skills at once. Exercises that also show more advanced usages of these core skills are also welcome (such as proper positioning from shooting behind cover). We're looking at multiple simultatenous exercises running so we can run everyone through them while still having decent supervision.

I/We do -not- want ambush/counter-ambush exercises. In Edmonton that was commonly what a training day was... 8 hours of it. We also don't want exercises that take an hour or two to complete each, we want mulitple exercises for everyone so that one might not be the 'ah, I get it' but something else might do that.

March 29th, 2010, 13:26	#1
Oborous Trader rating Join Date: May 2008 Location: Edmonton, AB	Training Excerises for Noob Day - Forested area Built up area thread So... I drank the koolaid and now got "suckered" into running several of noob days. We ran the first one, sixty people turned out. This is planning for the third day, in forests. The format it Safety Briefing, Training Exercises, Safety Briefing, Mini-Milsim (We're really stressing the safety, and some people are going to show up just for the mini-milsim). I'm wondering what exercises people have experienced or ran for noob days? We are building up complete noobs here, so nothing is too basic, however yelling and screaming at them isn't going to work. We need to have them understand that they want to do things a proper way rather than just tell them. We need them to get that "Ah, I get it" moment. In discussions, we've come up with four core skills. 1) How to Move 2) How to Shoot 3) How to Work in a Team 4) How to use a Radio. (Really, three, that using a radio is apart of teamwork, but it's large enough that it needs to be on it's own... Disable VOX!!) I/We want exercises that start showing the value of combining two or more of these core skills at once. Exercises that also show more advanced usages of these core skills are also welcome (such as proper positioning from shooting behind cover). We're looking at multiple simultatenous exercises running so we can run everyone through them while still having decent supervision. I/We do -not- want ambush/counter-ambush exercises. In Edmonton that was commonly what a training day was... 8 hours of it. We also don't want exercises that take an hour or two to complete each, we want mulitple exercises for everyone so that one might not be the 'ah, I get it' but something else might do that.