Greetings, so far, the Ministry of Defense has been mainly doing its job to keep the SPSF running as usual. While it’s true that nothing extremely impressive has been achieved, the SPSF is indeed doing its job as one of NS’s main defender armies: participating in updates often, accepting new applications, tracking the progress of the SPSF’s newest members, and keeping contact with the SPSF’s command.
That initial paragraph is pretty much a summary of everything that’s been done so far, but here’s more detailed information about it:
-Applications accepted: Since the start of my term as Minister of Defense, a total of 12 new applications have been accepted (including those during the electoral period). Clearly, being realistic, not all of the new SPSF soldiers have participated to the same degree, with some of them not participating at all in any operation. However, it is a fact that the SPSF has been able to find some actual people which are interested in military gameplay in NS, that have been participating often and have already pretty much learned all the basics about said gameplay.
-Discussion about promotions: It is obvious that, with new people participating within the SPSF, and them having learned and done the necessary, promotions have been talked about and they are on their way. While no promotions have been done yet, it is a clearly possible goal for the Ministry of Defense to promote several of its newest and other members which have earned it. There have also been suggestions to change the prerequisites to evaluate promotions, mainly rewriting them for them to be clearer to read and understand.
-Service Reports: As usual for the Ministry of Defense, I’ve been taking care of the monthly Service Reports, hopefully giving enough insight about the SPSF’s situation and how much activity it actually had each month. We’re a bit more than halfway through my term as Minister of Defense (2 months), and both reports for said two months have been published, hopefully in a reasonably quick time span since the end of the months. At least this situation can’t be compared to February and March, which lack SPSF Service Reports.
-General SPSF Activity: It is clear that, when my term started, SPSF activity was on an all time low. Coupled that with Nationstates’ 2 week long downtime in April, it made the SPSF activity on the start of my term look horrific, with the number of pretty much all the operations having diminished in a large percentage. However, SPSF’s activity thankfully recovered on May; although it is not shown in the Service Reports, SPSF participated in plenty of supports in the majority of updates in the last month. It is also to note that, the SPSF has kept its presence as one of the most numerous forces when it comes into liberations, as we successfully rallied 11 SPSFers in a minor update for a siege.
-The Tidal Force’s situation: While the Tidal Force was up and running at the start of my term, and kept relatively good numbers of operations even in April, since May, operations have been suspended since the call of support from RotWW, as the Tidal Force pledged its support to the region’s delegate for the transition. Ever since said call, operations haven’t been restarted; Even though I asked for it I was told it would be better to keep the order to support RotWW.
-Training: There’s two different situations when it comes into training, I’d say. When it comes into training cadets into becoming ensigns, this is mainly done in Libcord, explaining things on the go, just as always. I haven’t seen the SPSF soldier guide get much use, and I’ve been mainly explaining things myself (with help of others) to cadets. Meanwhile, on the other side, there has been some officer and captain going on lately, and I’m hoping it leads to promotions soon enough.
With all of this said, the SPSF seems to be moving forwards, instead of staying put and falling into irrelevancy or powerlessness when it comes into a NS military. As the Minister of Defense, I am indeed in charge of analyzing our army’s situation, but the help from our officers is truly what’s keeping the SPSF going as well! I would like the SPSF, officers or whoever might want to, to comment about the army’s situation, and if I’ve been doing a decent job, instead of just complimenting my effort by myself.
