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. 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.

Run to your LT or Captain. These are the people in charge of setting up squads. If they do not immediately assign you to a squad, they may be short staffed and waiting for more people to form another. Follow them around until you are assigned.

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. But Most importantly, do not loose your SL. If you lose them for long enough, they may assume you are dead.

3.Get an Assignment This job is mainly meant for the Squad Leader. What he'll do is run 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 SL will then run back over to your squad was when he ran and will 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. Be Honest with yourself, you have absolutely no idea what's going on and someone just gave you some kind of direction. Trust that direction, as your direct superiors are the only people who's immediate well-being is determined by your survival

In Fact, Most of the wasteland wants to kill you and steal your stuff. Your gear isn't worth very much, but its worth a lot to people who have literally nothing but utter contempt for any kind of authority. ''' 5. Intro to not being mind-numbingly incompetent.   6. 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.
 * 1) Let people of authority do the talking.
 * 2) Do not question orders given by a superior officer. When a superior officer gives a bad order, the blame is on them, not you. You are only penalized if you do not follow the order. Bite the crayon recruit.
 * 3) Leaving the base without informing a superior officer is desertion. At this point, you don't exist to the leadership. They can't give you accurate orders, you cant defend the base, and you also cannot be healed or retrieved. Having unaccounted units in the field is the first step to getting your ass kicked in by the legion. Recruits typically do not survive without the NCR. If they go down, YOU go down.
 * 4) Abandoning your post will result in immediate brigging if you don't have a valid excuse.
 * 5) DO NOT BREAK OPSEC TO CIVILIANS.  Do not tell the civilians anything about the Soldiers, Base, Current Missions, or Anything of Importance PERIOD. Loose Lips will sink ships, and if you are caught leaking information you will be executed on the spot or brigged by your immediate commanding officer with no warning and 0 Impunity. Be really fucking careful about what you say as a recruit.

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.

Ultimately. Your goal is to keep your squad alive until you get on the train back home to California. What you do after getting of the train is up to you. Some will go directly from the station and sign up for another tour. Some will call it quits and go back home to their families.

But honestly if the worst case scenario takes place and everyone is dead except for you and you're 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 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