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[Quarque]

When you define a barracks, you can pick a number of options per squad.

You can switch Training on and off.. and you can switch an option called "squad eq", as well as "indiv eq". What do the two latter options mean?

[Bumber]

I think they involve storing equipment in the barracks while off duty. There's no good reason to use them, since your dwarves are better off always carrying their equipment.

[Broms]

Pretty sure the weapon racks/armor stands containing equipment is bugged too. Hopefully some of the "forum elders" can chime in to comment further if "squad eq" even does anything right now.

[Salmeuk]

It's not worth it in the current version, except perhaps for RP purposes, and even then. . . considering how Toady hasn't touched military matters for a few years now, so it's probably still buggy and/or outright broken.

I still locate my armor/weapon/ammo stockpiles close to the barracks should a dwarf refuse to fight before equipping all their gear. Which I totally understand, but oh what a pain it is! And if they're legendary, it's kind of like, do you even need a breastplate when you're 1-hit KOing the entire siege?

[knutor]

I use Ind Eq(i) on a cabinet, next a bed in a 1x5 room.  I dont think I label the bed, just plop it down, inside cabinets access arc.  I use it primarily to assign my raiding squadmates beds and bags inbetween raids, since they tend to lose their bedrooms the minute they path off the embark map.

Having these 10 individual cabinets setup for each member of the raiding squad, gives um a place to drop junk(if a bags in cabinets access arc, too) if they pickup {personal items}, before/after, traveling to distant and scary foreign parts. Seemed to work well in my last fortress. 

Once ya get cabinets associated to ea of the 10 soldiers, any squad you put an i and z on it, will use them, according to their positions 1-10.  On map squads dont need ind eq, imho, since they do not lose their beds, in travel.