Mojave Ranger School is a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit that uses a quasi-military structure for team safety, game management and fundraising.

As a nonprofit Mojave Ranger School is happy to accept donations to cover operating expenses (insurance, toilets, water, etc.), but the primary goal is to cover the clubs expenses through events and product sales.

Paid Staff

Developing a paid, professional staff is the long-term goal. Mojave Ranger School has books on Amazon.com and a variety of products on our website, which provide a monthly rank-based stipend for Ranger School staff.

The General Fund

Income from Amazon.com book sales and other untrackable sources goes into the General Fund, along with donations earmarked specifically for the General Fund.

Each month the General Fund pays a variety of stipends and bonuses for Ranger School staff,

How Team Links Work

Each page and post on the Mojave Ranger School website has product links that lead to our in-house Supply Shed catalog, which is not otherwise publicly available.

The goal with the Mojave Ranger School sales system is to keep as much money inside the club as possible, while supporting as many of our Wasteland/Fallout vendors as possible, in a win/win situation.

Mojave Ranger School uses a simple affiliate software to create a closed sales system with five (5) ‘affiliates’; the 4 platoons of Baker Company and the OpFor Platoon.

The club advertisements on our website and social media randomly use all 5 links, so ‘native’ sales from our website still get credited to one of the platoons.

Every sale made through the Mojave Ranger School website creates multiple ‘commissions’ for the entire school. The platoon team links give a direct 10% commission to the platoon that made the sale, paid through the General Fund.

WHY It’s Set Up This Way: Bearocracy, Bearocracy Never Changes

Imagine that you’re a 3rd rate, burned out, semi-retired NCR staff officer who gets handed a piece of land in the Mojave Desert with the mandate to build a fort (Ft. Edwards, 14 miles north of the still-radioactive remnants of Edwards AFB) and  create a secure trade route system between Ft. Fresno and the Hub (Barstow), and the Boneyard and New Vegas, using 1 company that you have to raise and train and as many reservists and auxiliaries as possible.

Developing Mobile Training Teams in the Boneyard, New Vegas and Ft. Fresno creates a funnel within a 3-4 hour radius of Ft. Edwards, inhabited by 30 million people.

Developing a road security/convoy system between outlying Mobile Training Teams and Ft. Edwards gives us a built-in way to pay club staff to carpool real-world club members to a remote site with limited vehicular access, while meeting the ‘road security’ missions. It also develops an in-house transport system between the Central Valley and LA to New Vegas, btw.

Developing a School Economy

The NCR is a remote and inaccessible, broken leadership system in a broken economy (the Mojave in general).

Ft. Edwards is the equivalent of an Old West cavalry fort where we have to support and maintain our troopers by developing local cash flow while developing and maintaining Continuity of Local Authority for the NCR while winning the hearts and minds of the residents, by removing the balls of the raiders, etc.

• Our business licenses (NCR charter, for roleplay purposes) let us use flea markets and Meetup groups as retail/training resources.
• Online books and other products, as well as products from other Wasteland/Fallout vendors, creates multiple streams of passive income (trade rather than taxes) to help provide rank-based stipends and bonuses for troopers.

The General Fund

The goal with the Mojave Ranger School sales system is to fund a garrison at a small desert fort, rather than pile increasingly worthless money into a desk-bound CEO’s offshore bank account.

A portion of each sale has to go into the operational expenses for the school, obviously, which includes small royalties for authors, War Correspondents and content creators that manage the Public Information Officer functions of the school. The remains of each sale, however, can go into the General Fund.

The General Fund is also the destination for income from Amazon.com book sales for the classic novels, yearly fiction/short story projects and school manuals. Using publishing to boost the General Fund opens the school up to literally unlimited amounts of money from products that we create once and sell forever.

Other untrackable income sources, such as YouTube, if we were to accidentally make money there, also go into the General Fund.

Getting Paid From the General Fund

Each month Mojave Ranger School pays rank-based stipends for every active member of Baker Co. and the OpFor Platoon. Troopers who consistently participate in the Training Days (4 hours, once a month) and the Drill Day (4 hours, once a month), earn a rank-based stipend which is a direct percentage of the school’s success.

The General Fund has several payments and bonuses,

• Monthly rank-based stipend for all active team members
• Ranger Basic Course Graduate Bonus: a monthly bonus for Ranger Basic Course grads who remain active with the school
• Leadership Course Graduate Bonus: Invest the time in the NCO/Officer Leadership Course in order to make rank, and get a continuing monthly bonus for staying active with the school
• Team Medics Bonus: take the first aid training seriously and step up as an active Team Medic. The upcoming Team Medic course meets the standards for Wilderness Emergency Medical Responder
• Team Rado Bonus: get stepped bonuses for your FCC ham radio licenses, for active team radio operators

Command & General Staff
Command and General Staff are officer-level positions that require some education and experience if you want to get grandfathered in, but which will eventually all be trained in-house.

Each position on the C&GS has a small rank-based stipend from the General Fund. Platoon Leaders and the Baker Co. Commander are also active retail management positions and the officers and troopers who assist with the flea market and event management make additional event-based commissions and bonuses.

Jobs the School Provides
Shipping products through our in-house catalog requires an in-house fulfillment solution.

As our retail sales operation expands, and it can, a lot, then the school can pay a percentage of the shipping and handling fees paid by the customers to pay school staff for packaging and fulfilling orders.

Active Ranger School troopers have first dibs on extra paid work, after which the opportunities get passed on to school reservists and auxiliaries.

The goal with the Mojave Ranger School sales system is to keep as much money inside the club as possible, while supporting as many of our Wasteland/Fallout vendors as possible, in a win/win situation.

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