Aus DoD: New Military Structure [UPDATED]

Day 536, 10:41 • Published in Australia Australia • by Australian Defence Department

Ok listen up wannabe elite soldiers of eAustralia.

The Australian Department of Defence has gone through some major changes since I've stomped my foot into the DoD HQ and sat my battle weary ass at my desk. These changes are about 95% done in implementing them into the Dropbears. They're one bad-ass, fine tuned fighting unit.

Now it's time for the Redbacks to go through the same transformation. You don't like change? Get outta the military, son!

In a nutshell, here are the changes;

New Military Structure
Minister of Defence: Cottus Arci
Deputy Minister of Defence: Cheeseball

Dropbears Squad Commanders
Alpha: Ben P
Bravo: Ottogustavo
Charlie: Cozza
Delta: Theodeus

Redbacks Squad Commanders
TBA

- No Commanders & Squad Leaders... just Squad Commanders
In charge of motivating, maintaining & leading their squad.

- Redbacks to become a "junior Dropbear" fighting group
With our Dropbears always having the ability to heal at a Q4 or Q5 Hospital, there simply has become no need for the Redbacks in a gifting capacity.

- Redbacks gifting function kept for defence of the homeland only
A condition of being a Redbacks under the new system is that if a war threatens Australia directly, not only will the Redbacks fight alongside the Dropbears, but will also have to keep inventory free for emergency gifting runs for the Dropbears to fight once more per day.

- Dropbears & Redbacks Squads are ranked by their damage.
The Dropbears are the top 32 soldiers in eAustralia, ranked by their damage capability. The Redbacks are the top 33-64 soldiers. This means soldiers are responsible for ensuring their damage keeps up with the rest of the squad.

- Squad Promotions/Demotions will only occur once a month
This will prevent constant change between squads. Monthly squad revisions will coincide with the Commander Elections (explained later).

- Big Brother is watching
Derek Apollyon (our Minister of Technology in disguise) has built a script that is on our new host (don't worry, this host actually is online). Within 1 minute, it can provide information on our Dropbears & ACAR. This data is pasted into a gDoc which I've built, and provides an easy-to-use visual roster of our units, complete with clicky links to PM, Donate and see the Profiles of all personnel.

This frees up the Squad Leaders (now known as Squad Commanders, or just Commanders) from mass data gathering (strength/rank/wellness of DB's) and mass PM'ing... now they will Command!

- Drills
Both Dropbears & Redbacks will be subject to training drills.

A training drill will happen in one of two formats;

a. Myself or Cheeseball will make 1 announcement for each squad in the Dropbears & Redbacks forums.

b. Myself or Cheeseball will PM Squad Commanders and they will create the announcement for their squad in their respective forum (Commanders will of course also be scored on how quickly they respond).

You see the announcement, you respond to it (and the instructions if applicable) and get scored as follows;

0-4 hours: 6 points
4-8 hours: 5 points
9-12 hours: 4 points
12-16 hours: 3 points
17-20 hours: 2 points
21-24 hours: 1 point
More than 24 hours: Nada, zero, zilch

Announcements will be made regularly on the forums, so it's a MUST to check in there as often as you can.

Each week, tallies will be taken and the following prizes will be awarded;

Highest Scoring Dropbears
1st: 1 Q5 Weapon, 2 Q1 Weapons
2n😛 2 Q1 Weapons
3r😛 1 Q1 Weapon

Highest Scoring Redbacks
1st: 1 Q5 Weapon, 2 Q1 Weapons
2n😛 2 Q1 Weapons
3r😛 1 Q1 Weapon

Highest Scoring Dropbear Squa😛 1 bonus Q1 weapon for each member

Highest Scoring Redbacks Squa😛 1 bonus Q1 weapon for each member

- Squad Commander Elections

Now that the Squad Commander job is a whole lot easier (no more stats monitoring and mass PM'ing), I'm certain we'll see more interest in the Squad Commander positions.

Since the PM & Senate elections tend to get more interest, I want the Commander Elections to coincide with the Party President elections. Registration for Squad Commanders will open on the 6th-9th, then the election to take place on the 10th of each month.

However, these will happen next month for the Dropbears (as we have MachineMadness, Ottogustavo, Cozza and Theodeus already as Commanders), but for the Redbacks, we'll be holding a special inaugural delayed election to determine it's Commanders!

- Reforming the Redbacks
I understand there is some ill-sentiment in changing the Redbacks role... I assure you, it's not a personal choice and was simply one that betters Australia's defence capabilities.

The ACAR will remain as is, as a Citizens Army Reserve... and will only receive weapons/supplies in the event of a war on Australian shores.

However they're are now 32 spots within the Redbacks up for grabs.

PM this Org (screw the forums, they're unstable until we get the new host sorted) if you are interested (this applies to all current ACAR, Redbacks & anyone else) and we'll be holding a draft when we have sufficient numbers to determine the best 32 of the bunch! After this, we'll hold elections to determine who the Redback Squad Commanders are.

That is all... at ease, soldiers !

Cottus Arci
Minister for Australian Department of Defence

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