NCR Recruit

You are the Trooper Recruit. Given two weeks and a firearm, you were sent from your home somewhere in California to defend some other piece of the wasteland in the name of freedom, democracy and the Californian way. With little experience and the worst equipment money can't buy, you're expected to follow orders from nearly everyone who comes your way. Eat your crayons and enforce the rule of law. Every person in the NCR had to do it at some point.

Being the Recruit
The Recruit starts with a .308 Hunting Rifle, 1 Stimpack and a Pocket full of Broken Dreams. Put the Stim in your pocket for easy access, whip out the rifle and hit z while holding it make sure a round is chambered. You're gonna need it. Fucking Legion Could Pop Out at any second.

Follow the basic steps, and you'll Seize the day or whatever. Fucking boot. Keep your head down and maybe you'll make it out of this alive. 1.Report for Duty Nobody Likes a Lonely Looser, especially a lonely looser with a bolt action rifle and no friends to poke them with a Stim when they inevitably get downed and die in a dusty hellhole. Find a Lieutenant or a Captain. Salute. State your Rank, Your Last Name and then State you are Reporting for Duty. The Officer will likely assign you to a Squad and assign you a Sergeant, who will be leading your squad. 2.Join Your Squad   There are typically (when NCR is fully populated) 3 squads active. They go loosely by the names Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. The Sergeant will assign you to a Trooper unless he forgot. There are no squad identifiers (YET), but they are typically all lead by Sergeants. The Likelyhood of a recruit surviving alone in the wastes is slim to none, and the likelyhood of you surviving the ensuing Military Tribunal for Desertion is only slightly better.

Your Squad is like a good relationship, the more you put in, the more you get out. Familiarize Yourself with them, get to know them, Protect them. 3.Get an Assignment This job is mainly meant for the Sarge. What he'll do is go to a position of leadership, and he will ask for a assignment. He will (usually) get one of 3 answers. 1. You are to garrison the base. 2. You are to patrol into the field and complete a field objective. 3. You are to conduct a raid on an objective. The Sarge will then run back over to your squad and deliver your orders. IF YOU ARE NOT NEAR YOUR SL TO RECEIVE ORDERS IT'S UNLIKELY YOU'LL RECEIVE THEM. ''' 4. Follow your Orders. ''' Your Sarge has seen shit you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C-BEAMS glittering off the Tannhauser gate, all that David Copperfield shit. Trust them, as they are the only people that give a shit about your immediate survival. You're gonna have to put your faith in them, or the face the ensuing Military Tribunal for Insubordination 5. Live to tell the Tale. lets just say that the NCR has a fast turnover rate. By that logic you need to make sure your squad is healthy, but sometimes you can't do anything. Most of the time, you can't do anything. However you can always do the right thing, you just have to know what the wrong thing is and pump it full of hard things until bad things stop happening.

However, know that your survival depends more on the survival of the Company than your immediate skills in combat. I get it, you're ready to get into the action and kick a puppy into orbit, but your sergeant is bleeding out in that corner, and he's just as eager to send Laika back to space.

But honestly, if everyone is dead and you are 100% sure the NCR is no more,

hoof it.

FAQ
I cant find any officers to give me orders, what do?
 * Make sure the armory is clean and that the weapons and ammo aren't strewn across the floor.
 * Make sure character's who's players are disconnected (you'll see a message about Space Sleep disorder or Catatonia) are placed in a bed in one of the bunks, so they don't get ganked or raped in broad daylight.
 * Make sure some larping furry sapper isn't mining their way into the base by the subway tunnel in the southeast corner of the fort. Breaching the fort's walls is escalation- blast 'em.
 * Make sure prisoners don't leave, and that trespassers don't come in.

'''Hey I just took 5 healing powders to heal, but all of a sudden I died, what gives? '''
 * Two doses of healing powder are the largest amount you can safely do in a short amount of time.
 * The same applies for Stimpacks. You'll overdose on too much.

Chain of Command
You're at the very very bottom.
 * Captain
 * Lieutenant
 * Medical Officer (Equal to LT.)
 * Sergeant
 * Heavy Trooper (Equal to SGT.)
 * Engineer (Equal to SGT.)
 * Trooper
 * Recruit