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=== Training ===

All Arcer soldiers go through an initial branch-agnostic basic training for 10-weeks. This takes place at the Craigfearn Garrison, at the Arcerion Armed Forces Leadership and Recruit School (AAFLRS). This initial 10 weeks is focused on giving recruits the skills they need to function as a member of a team, understand how to wear a uniform and orient themselves to function properly in a military setting. After these 10 weeks, recruits are sent either to their respective Army, Air Force, or Naval schools for an additional 4-week integration for service-specific indoctrination. For the Army, this enhances the extremely basic field skills recruits learned in Basic Training. These 4 weeks are known as "Advanced Army Training," and cover a range of activities from handling of additional weapons systems to section- and platoon-level operations. During this period initial assessments for leadership capability are assessed and developed and added to the soldier's personnel file. After this period, candidates are then sent to their individual battle schools for the combat arms, or technical schools for supporting or specialist trades. Examples for this include prestigious institutions such as the Royal Arcerion School of Infantry (RASI) or the Royal Arcerion Signal Corps School (RASCS). In the infantry context, soldiers will arrive at the Royal Arcerion School of Infantry for a 10-week indoctrination into infantry culture, Regimental history, and gradually progress from fighting as a member of a section all the way up to company live-fire events. Soldiers in their Trade Course 1 learn the basic fundamentals that qualify them in their respective field, be that infantry, signals, combat engineering, basic medicine, or other required roles within the Army. After this, they are posted to their first garrison unit or Regiment for their initial developing period. After some time has elapsed, they are sent on their Trade Course 2, where they learn advanced skills that assist with their ability to become a subject matter expert in their field. Whereas Trade Course 1 only qualifies a member to Private, the Trade Course 2 standard allows them to be promoted to Lance Corporal. To again use the infantry context, whereas Trade Course 1 qualifies a soldier to be a rifleman or light machinegunner in an infantry section, Trade Course 2 qualifies them to act as a Section 2IC, or a weapons detachment commander, giving them greater access to educational materials and teaching on advanced weapons systems they may not ordinarily encounter such as vehicle-mounted ATGMs or some MANPADs, in addition to other application for machineguns.  

By this point, Arcer soldiers are ready to begin their leadership training, and based off their quarterly and yearly assessments, the soldiers are loaded onto their Junior Leadership Course, a 6-week program designed to give them the ability to teach, instruct, lead, and manage a section (8 members). Graduating from this difficult course qualifies them to be Corporals. The course is considered difficult as it has an attrition threshold to ensure that only physically and mentally fit members pass. This is usually followed by most trades with Trade Course 3, or the advanced skills training. This training not only builds on previous training, but gives them the ability to now be supervisors over multiple specialties within their trade. To use the Armoured crewman example, a TC1-qualified Trooper could be a driver or loader, a TC2-qualified Lance Corporal is usually a gunner or in extremis a Vehicle Commander, but Trade Course 3 now gives a crewman his Vehicle Commander's qualification, as well as the ability to qualify multi-platform (ie. LAV-91 and main battle tanks).  

The Arcer military education system year-by-year succeeds on force generating thousands of newly qualified soldiers and leaders to sustain the Army's needs for an educated, physically fit, and well-led force to defend Arcer interests.  

[[File:LAV live fire.png|thumb|A light armoured reconnaissance vehicle of the King's Arcer Borderers conducts nighttime live fire ranges as part of readiness training. May, 2018. ]]

=== Major Installations ===

==== Kinnaird Garrison ====

==== Dalfearn Garrison ====

==== Craigfearn Garrison ====

==== Arcerion Maneuver Training Centre (Presdale Garrison) ====

The Arcerion Meanuever Training Centre is located at the Presdale Garrison in Northern Arcerion. It is almost 5,000km², and is the largest live-fire and air-ground training centre in Crona. AMTC provides the ability for Arcer units to train live with multiple battlegroups and enabling assets such as rocket artillery, aerial strikes, and large-scale maneuver warfare. It also is co-located with the Royal Arcerion Armoured School (RAAS), which trains armoured crewmen for the Arcer Army. AMTC was created after the 1GW as part of an initiative to foster a small armoured corps in Arcerion. Over the successive decades and wars, it has continued to grow in size both in terms of the garrison proper, but also the training area, which now covers a vast swathe in the northern portions of Northlea governorate. AMTC annually hosts multiple large-scale brigade-level exercises, and every month hosts a variety of training events, from Trade Courses for the combat arms, to live-fire ranges, or force-on-force exercises as part of annual readiness training. As part of regular Cronan Security and Trade Union verification, AMTC now has the ability to host foreign brigades belonging to [[Alstin]] and [[Paulastra]] for extended periods of training, including the [[Arco-Paul Brigade]].  

=== Ranks and Titles ===

==== Officers ====