Battle focused training

"How difficult will training be? No harder than necessary." -- from a Legion recruiting pamphlet

Induction Training

Legion training is extremely difficult and dangerous, on purpose, and despite reasonable safety precautions solders are routinely hurt and killed in training exercises. While this is obviously undesirable, it is considered preferable to sending out Legion soldiers who are not prepared for the horrors of the modern battlefield.

In-Service Training
Most of the Legion deployments and combat actions have been low intensity combat (LIC) against terrorists, bandits, guerillas and tribesmen, except for brief logistics pushes in Sumer and Pashtia. This type of fighting places unusual emphasis on personal bravery and diligence to duty. However, these types of operations do not adequately prepare for general warfare of the type expected when the long-awaited Balboan Civil War breaks out and the Legion will have to first seize the Transitway and the disputed areas, then hold the country against main line adversaries with superior equipment.

Therefore the Legion emphasizes battle-focused training not only during induction but during unit service. It is not uncommon for a unit to rotate home from a deployment in Pashtia or Sumer and promptly go through a live-fire refresher course, even before troops are released on leave.

Carrerra continues to take a personal, even heavy-handed interest in the quality and performance of unit training activities and training doctrine generally. His line of reasoning with respect to battle drills is that few battlefield tasks are suited for drill, and even among those, the training time would best be spent on something else.

Troops trained in chemical warfare protective techniques are taught to don masks upon hearing the words "GAS GAS GAS." It is widely rumored that Carrera once interrupted a training exercise by shouting these words during an assault exercise, which then had to be halted to treat the casualties that resulted when otherwise trained and prepared men stood up into machine-gun fire, merely because they were doing what they had been drilled to do. It is noteworthy that Legion forces do not in fact stop training exercises when injuries or even fatalities occur, so this is almost certainly just a rumor.