Trainee
Objective criteria:

• Applied for and been accepted into the military
  

Subjective criteria:

• None.
  

Soldier
Objective criteria:

• Basic understanding of update mechanics (regions update in a set order)
  
• Prepare multiple nations for use during a single update
  
• Identify when a nation or region has updated during update
  
• Switch World Assembly membership from one nation to another within a minute during an update
  
• Move a nation based on a trigger (within 3s)
  
• Move a nation and endorse another nation based on a trigger (within 8s)
  
• Follow a nation into a region (within 5s)
  
• Follow a nation into a region and endorse the extant Delegate there (within 10s)
  
• Dossier Management
  
• Using the Activity feed to identify nations admitting to the World Assembly in a given region
  
• Familiarity with regional controls
  
• Detagging a region
  
• Participate in 5 updates within the past 3 months
  

Subjective criteria:

• Demonstrate understanding of responsibilities and privileges of SPSF membership
  
• Demonstrate ability to follow arbitrary orders phrased in battlefield-typical terms
  

Officer
Objective criteria:

• Consistently set trigger nations updating within 30% of the nominal time
  
• Consistently call trigger nations within 2s of actual update time
  
• Perform simple influence calculations to determine whether or not a nation can be subject to a border control action by another nation
  
• Use the Activity Feed to identify stealth raids, sleeper movements and other irregular happenings
  
• Participate in 20 updates within the past 6 months
  

Subjective criteria:

• Demonstrate understanding of current update time
  
• Demonstrate ability to lead troops for smaller operations using battlefield-typical terms
  
• Demonstrate ability to clearly and level-headedly communicate with other military officers regarding operational cooperation, both in the present and future
  

Commander
Objective criteria:

• Banject or eject nations moving into a region during update (no slower than 3s per nation)
  
• Consistently trigger for a region using API triggering within 30% of the nominal time
  
• Be familiar with, and know when to use, liberation strategies (sieges/attrition runs, fake puppetmaster)
  
• Be familiar with, and know when to use, region occupation and griefing strategies (flash password, flash refound, fortify)
  
• Be familiar with, and know when to use, stealth strategies (instant jump points, false flag, sleeper)
  
• Perform influence calculations for banjecting, ejecting, banning, passwording, and influence gain both in GCRs and UCRs
  
• Participate in 40 updates within the past 12 months
  

Subjective criteria:

• Demonstrate the ability to craft a battle plan for any arbitrary set of planned operations in one update
  
• Demonstrate an ability to quickly adapt to fast-changing circumstances in the heat of battle
  
• Demonstrate knowledge of various strategies, and an ability to draw upon that knowledge to craft a plan for a large scale operation
  
• Demonstrate ability to clearly and level-headedly cooperate with affected native residents for incoming and ongoing raids