Unit-wide Announcements / Headquarters
Marksmanship joins the Future Training System
Good evening,
Today the Marksmanship Combat Area moves from the Legacy Training System (LTS) to the Future Training System (FTS). At the outset I want to thank a few people who have spearheaded this FMDG, SSG mbaker5114 and SFC SkullCollector - who as you will see are moving on to the new training team which is just about to open. Alongside Sgt Jochem who is spearheading policy, they have lead the charge on this conversion and have done an outstanding job in a complete re-write of this area.
Force Manual (FM) and Skill Card
You can find the new Marksmanship Guides, Skills and Policies in the Force Manual by navigating by Skill Card to Marksmanship, any existing SOP has been nullified by this update, it will redirect to the Force Manual instead.
Role Changes
A number of changes to roles in the area have been made by the FMDG, specifically there is no longer a difference in class of sniper or spotter (i.e. Light, Medium or Heavy) - instead Spotters are in two classes, Assisted Ballistic Spotters and Manual Ballistic Spotters. You can find the new, updated roles on the Roles Center, with their new policy descriptions.
Loadouts
Loadouts for Sniper and Spotter roles will be nuked and new guidance will be added to Loadout policies in line with the update.
Tiers and Progression
To begin with, Marksmanship has one of the most FTS heavy progression requirements, in that there are no hour requirements for any of it's 6 Tiers. It's also the first combat area to use 6 Tiers for its full progression. For the most part this means that almost the entire progression in the combat area is skill based. There are some deployment based requirements, and more may be added or tweaked as with other areas if the Training Team requests it.
You can view these requirements by navigating to your Dossier, going to Tier Progression and then Marksmanship.
Training Team
The training team has been selected and confirmed by J7 as:
- SSG mbaker5114 - Chief instructor
- SFC SkullCollector - Chief instructor
- Sgt Mr.47 - Staff instructor
- Sgt Mohawk - Instructor
- SP3 CjmUK - Observer
- MSP Nomad - Observer
Grace Period
As a comparatively low trafficked role area, a 90 day grace period will apply before tier demotion will take place to assist those 13 people with Tier II or greater, and those additional 7 people at Tier I or greater with the conversion to FTS.
Wrap-up
We'll now be turning our focus onto Core Infantry and more updates will follow in due course. Other areas underway at present include Combat Support and Mission Support. Don't forget you can contact TC/J6 if you'd like to help out with this process.
Finally - there may be some bugs with Marksmanships use of Tier 6, so we'll be fixing this as it rolls out, as with any other, please report to the roadmap!
Thanks all.
Major James
Chairman
UNITAF
