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The following courses and activities are considered mandatory for all Cadets within the Pan Pacific Defense Corps Jaeger Academy:

• Swimming lessons. Rangers are required to know how to handle open sea swimming and survival and fitness skills.
• Diving Lessons, as contingent upon performance from Swimming Lessons. Will include both free diving, scuba diving, and deep sea diving familiarity.
• Officer training. Recruits study tactics, engineering, and basic Kaiju science. Should they make the cut, they move on to Pons training.
• Kwoon Combat Room training. Trainees are required to master an array of combat disciplines to properly condition their bodies for battle in Jaeger. These include a total unconscious mastery of the 52 positions of Jaeger Bushido. Candidates will then be matched against each other in training battles to assess drift compatibility. Drift compatibility is measured through brain scans, personality screenings and observations of the training ground during their trial period in the shatterdome.

Upon completion of the first cut, on average three months into Cadet training, the following courses and activities are considered mandatory:

• Drift Sync Testing/Pons training. Recruits train in the mock-pod simulator and learn how to drift with their potential partner(s). Trainees are required to master their minds while a commanding officer of the PPDC observes in preparation for the Jaeger’s two-pilot system. The quicker they are inside the simulation, the better the synchronization is likely to be. A vast majority will be cut here.

Upon completion of the second cut, if a Cadet does not choose to be reassigned during the above time period, the following courses and activities are considered mandatory:

• Jaeger training/Ranger Ready. The few recruits who make the second cut are allowed to start logging time on the test range in an actual Jaeger.
• Drivesuit Testing. Trainees are made familiar with the mechanics of a Drivesuit and unpredictable nature of combat within a Conn-Pod. How quickly they react to a loss of a balance of systems control within the Jaeger sets them apart from the rest of their colleagues.

The following courses and activities are considered secondary requirements for all Cadets within the Pan Pacific Defense Corps Jaeger Academy:

• English lessons. A crash course in English reading, writing, and speaking, any and all individuals who do not have English as one of their fluent languages will be automatically enrolled. Assessment tests will be performed upon Academy entrance to determine relevant level of English knowledge.
• Condensed Physics & Mathematics Tutoring. Assessment tests will be performed upon Academy entrance to determine current level of knowledge in regards to Physics and Mathematics as is deemed necessary for a basic understanding the engineering and piloting of a Jaeger.

Electives will be offered covering a variety of subjects, including the local dialect of Spanish spoken in Valparaíso, Chile.

The following is a rough timetable of the projected course of a Player Character (PC) through the Jaeger Academy:

• Month 1-3: Characters will be considered to be in a trial state at this time, having passed an initial Drift Compatibility Potential test in their home country. This is considered the first make-it-or-break-it run, and Cadets who do not make the first cut are encouraged to join in with different areas of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. As a player, it means the decision to move your character from the Ranger program into any of the following is made after your character has been in game for three (3) months:
  • Jaeger Academy Staff.
    Including positions such as Kwoon Fightmaster, Assault Specialists, Psych Analysts, and Conn-Pod Control Instructors.
  • K-Science: Kaiju detection and analysis.
    Including divisions such as K-Watch, Kaiju Bio-Harvester, Hazmat Officer, and Cryptozoologists.
  • J-Tech: Jaeger Systems and Robotics.
    Including divisions such as Weapons Specialist, Jaeger Engineer, Battle Programmer, and Neural Bridge Operator.
  • Strike Groups: Deployment and Combat.
    Including divisions such as PPDC Strike Troopers, LOCCENT Mission Controllers, Jumphawk pilots, and the remainder of the command structure of the PPDC.
  The divide between each is not as clear as it may seem. Characters with a good mind for tactics and strategy may find themselves working in the LOCCENT as part of mission control, or crossing over into J-Tech depending on preference and areas of interest.
  
  
• Month 4+: Characters in a high school age range who have not yet graduated from high school will be enrolled into the PPDC Academy and given a high quality education while continuing to operate within the confines of whatever career program they remain in. In other words, they'll now be going to school full time along with training and volunteering time with the branch of the PPDC they want to work with after graduation. For Jaeger Academy students, it means continuing Kwoon Combat Room Training and logging hours in the simulators around their academic schedules.
  
  For students at a University level of schooling, they will have a choice of attending one of the local Universities around a similar sort of schedule as those in high school. There is a greater degree of freedom offered to University students, as they will be taking courses off the Shatterdome base, but they are expected to maintain week-day curfew unless they apply for a special accommodation from the stand-in for Marshall Pentecost at the Shatterdome.
  
  For working age professionals and those with families, enduring the first three months of training will qualify them to remain in the program of their choice. Should they still be in the Jaeger Academy hoping to be a Ranger, they'll be encouraged to help train new recruits in the Jaeger Academy while maintaining their own training regimen. They're in the fine tuning and testing phase.
  
  Should any in the Jaeger Academy find their Drift Partner after the three month mark, they will be considered for live field training in a semi-retired Mock-II after completing the second cut.
  
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