Land Navigation
Terrain association, azimuths, and pace count by day. Then the same course at night with red light and no GPS.
Brotherhood
What brothers do together: a published syllabus in four disciplines, a chapter that meets every week, and traditions that hold the standard in place.
Chapter life
Chapter
The brotherhood meets weekly. Business first, then instruction: a brother who has passed a block teaches it to the ones who have not.
Field weekends
The syllabus is taught where it is used. Land navigation by day and night, medical scenarios, radio nets, and supervised range time.
Stand Ready
The call and response. One brother says it, the rest answer. Prepared, present, accountable, every time.
One standard
Every block ends in a graded evaluation against a published standard, the same for the newest member and the president.
Training
Medical
Stop the Bleed and TCCC-style trauma care. Brothers learn to control hemorrhage, assess a casualty, and hand off a report that a medic can act on.
Communications
Radio procedure that is clear under stress. Checks, prowords, phonetic alphabet, and formatted position reports.
Firearms Safety
Safety before skill. The four rules, safe handling, and range commands. Instruction is classroom first and always supervised.
Skills by discipline
Medical
- Tourniquet application
- Wound packing and pressure dressings
- MARCH assessment sequence
- MIST casualty reports
Communications
- Radio checks and net discipline
- Prowords
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- Position and situation reports
Firearms Safety
- The four safety rules
- Safe handling, clearing, and storage
- Range commands and etiquette
- Supervised, classroom-first instruction
The new member class
Candidates who meet the standard at Selection form the new member class and train together through the syllabus that follows. The class moves as a squad, the way it navigated.
Hazing has no place in it. The class earns full membership by completing the four disciplines, taught by the brothers who completed them first.
Brotherhood begins with Selection.
Membership is earned in one night. The syllabus begins the week after.