Standard Qualification 1: Difference between revisions

'''General Qualification Initiative 1''' (GQI-1) is a [[Certification and training|certification course]] that aims to teach the basic skills necessary to play Arma with others (though a portion of material may be specific to {{Abbr|EDC|Endurance Coalition}}). Being certified on this course is required in order to progress to a Cadet and subsequently be approved to participate in immersive operations.

EDC (and a lot of Arma units) makes use of an addon known as '''[https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=463939057 ACE]'''. It's difficult to describe what ACE does succinctly (and it will be referenced frequently), but one of the many things it does is introduce an interaction system. This is accessed via holding the left {{Key press|Win}} key. Movement of the mouse will move the cursor, slightly move the camera, but any interaction options available will remain in place. When you are close to an object that can be interacted with an interaction option will appear in the form of a circle. Hovering over it will expand into further options (if applicable). To select an option, hover the mouse over the option, and then release the {{Key press|Win}} key.

{{Note|There is a theoretical pace faster than sprinting, which is sprinting with your weapon fully put away by pressing {{Key press|0}}. This is discouraged, bordering forbidden, as in a ''warfare simulator'' it is rarely ''ever'' appropriate to put your weapon away ''entirely''. An exception would be leadership ordering it be done squad or fireteam wide in an extreme situation, but that's about it.|type=error}}

You have spotted an the enemy. When you do, you should do the following.

* '''Alert''' {{Emdash}} Notify your element you see contact.

* '''Orient''' {{Emdash}} Give a direction of the contact and, if close, an indication danger is imminent

* '''Describe''' {{Emdash}} Give brief description of what the contact is.

* '''Expound''' {{Emdash}} Other information immediately useful to the element that further observation would not gleam (or because further observation will not happen due to the threat)

First, '''alert''' your element. Some ways of doing this include yelling "''Contact!''", "''Enemy!''", "''Red Air!''", and so on. If the contact isn't an immediate threat (e.g they are sky lining a hill multiple hundreds of meters away), you should still alert, but you can be less dramatic to set the tone. Regardless, you need to tell your element a hostile force is within your line of sight. This gets everyone to sober up, and it signals to leadership that they need to make a call on what to do.

Second, '''orient''' your element to the direction of the contact. In order of preference, it's: compass bearing<ref>Not ''always'' best. More useful for specifying a particular contact in a group, when time permits, or when being so specific is imminently useful (e.g you have a sharpshooter in your fireteam).</ref>, cardinal direction (e.g North, South), clock bearing where element travel direction is 12 o'clock (e.g 3 o'clock), and then relative bearing (e.g right, left). In most any situation you are doing fantastic if you can give a quick and accurate cardinal direction, but something is better than nothing. If the hostile is close enough where it's imminently going to be a threat of harm, append "close!" or ''any'' kind of phraseology that gives the impression it's urgent.

Third, '''describe''' to the element the contact type. By default, without this, it's assumed it's infantry unless there is context to the contrary.<ref>This is a statement of an observed tendency and not necessarily the ideal.</ref> Examples of this include "infantry", "APC", "tank", "armor", "helicopter", etc. The more specific you are capable of being, the better (e.g "Black Hawk" is slightly preferable to "helicopter"), but you are doing fine if you can accurately say quickly if it's infantry, air, armor, or combination of the 3.