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[Misterstone]

OK, maybe all this really amounts to is a work around for the horrendously complex and inconsistent military interface (the military management SYSTEM is great BTW, but the interface is a nightmare).  Anyway, I think it would be cool if you could simply turn on a designation for dwarves from 'V' mode that would allow you to designate them as military trainees.  Then, a separate menu (in the military screen, or maybe the work management screen) would allow you to set broad standing orders for all dwarves marked as 'trainees'.  For instance you could:

1)  Make all trainees forbid or activate certain tasks en-mass.  This way you could make them all do muscle-building work such as pumping, or mining.
2)  Turn on sparring, etc., for trainees without making them join a squad
3)  Tell trainees to use only wooden weapons while sparring, without having to make a training uniform and assign it to specific squads.
4)  Tell trainees to train up to only a certain skill level, then go back to normal civilian life.  Perhaps also switch training on and off when they get 'rusty', so they can take the rust off of their combat skills.
5)  Automatically make any dwarf below a certain amount of professional skill levels become a trainee

etc. etc.

The main reason I would want to do this is that manually creating squads (which are limited to 10 dwarves) can be slow, and having to set up each individual squad specifically for training orders would be a pain in the buttocks.  No doubt this whole thing could be made obsolete when the interface gets an overhaul...  perhaps I am off base here?

[dwarf_sadist]

You mean like a dwarven levee or reservist?

[Girlinhat]

Seconded, except the equipment usage would be iffy.  You could end up with two dozen speardwarves and all you need is a single axedwarf, and training up shield/armor would be difficult too.  If the "boot camp" menu allowed you to specify what weapon type to train, if any, and whether or not to use a shield and armor, that would be great.  Or even multi-training, like showing a grid with dwarves on the left and their tasks on the right, allowing you to assign ~5 different skills which will be trained in order.  So, you could have axe-shield-armor-wrestle-spear, and that dwarf would train axe skill when possible, then shield skill, then armor...  Copy-pasting like you do with scheduling would be essential, so you could batch-train axe dwarves.

[Misterstone]

You mean like a dwarven levee or reservist?

Yes!  Reservists.  They practice a bit, but are not actively defending the fortress most of the time.