Don’t call it boot camp.

Recruit rhymes with Boot. A Boot camp is for new recruits. Part of it is to help them break in, as if they were a new pair of boots, before sending them to the larger military organization. It is to provide a baseline for behavior.Don’t call your orientation boot camp. It is insulting to both the people that went through an actual basic training, and to the professionals that come in with more than 6 months of experience. Really, minimize the use of military expressions unless you know what them mean. “Locked and Loaded” means you are ready to fire your weapon in anger: the magazine is locked in its receiver, and there is a bullet in the chamber.You don’t “lift and shift.” That mistaken concept comes from the sections of the Operations Order (OPORD) where you talk about the criteria for these two actions. A machine gun support by fire section lays down heavy suppressive fire on the location where the maneuver element is going to pass through. Since you don’t want to shoot your own…

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