Basic Soldier Skills
Basic soldiers skills are defined as follows:-
(1) Team Spirit
(2) Military show (Basic military demonstration, armed military demonstration)
(3) Army Inspection
(4) Dressing uniform
(5) Physical fitness
(6) Safety
(7) Sentry
Basic Military Capabilities
Taking a substantial responsibility as the official armed forces which is obliged to protect the country and its people, the members of the PDF shall possess and be equipped with various different capabilities as elaborated as below:-
Weapon Use
- Small arms course
- Firing
Map Reading Skills
- Map and Conventional Signs
- Scales
- Topographical Forms
- Grid System
- Gradients
- Finding North
- GPS
- Map to Ground
- Ground to Map
- Point to Point March
Field Engineering
- Various types of tying ropes
- Overcoming obstacles
- Building mines
- Passing mines
- Cleaning mines
- Differentiating mines
- Passing water territories
- Camping
- Living in the forests or jungles
- Preparing defence
Fieldcraft
- Defining Battlefields
- Reviewing Battlefields
- Identifying distances
- Setting goals and targets
- Moving without arms
- Moving with arms
- Battlefield protection plans
Battlecraft
- Field Signal
- Fighting Goal
- Placing in the fight
- Surprise shootings
- Shooting positions
- Reviewing Fire Power
- Fire Control Procedures
- Community patrols
- Civil war
- March
- Night shootings
- Battle preparation
Communication
- Military communication technology
- Communication machines
- Line Communication
- Manual guide for Walkie-talkie
- Obstacle Course
- Simulations for overcoming obstacles
First Aid
- Putting on bandage
- Injury care
- Blood pressure, Temperature and Breathing rate measurement
- Feeding patients
- Transporting patients
- Treatment for poisoned patients
- Storage of and storing medicines
- Caring of mine victims