Multi-Media Trainees Wanted!

Mojave Ranger School is actively looking for wasteland video producers in the New Vegas, Boneyard and Fort Fresno areas as volunteer PIO Team and Wasteland Public Access TV producers and war correspondents.

This is a paid apprenticeship, it just doesn’t pay much. The PIO Team manages the live-stream broadcasts of the Mojave Rangers game, as it happens, and makes rank-based stipends and bonuses, just like the other volunteer players, paid through the General Fund.

The rank-based awards are intended to reimburse trainee’s travel, uniform and gear expenses and is not a salary. Mojave Ranger Media, LLC is a separate for-profit publishing company that donates a percentage of each sale in corporate grants to the Mojave Ranger School General Fund, which pays the rank-based awards and course graduate bonuses for ranger school trainees and civilian volunteers.

Once fully operational, Mojave Ranger School will run trainings each weekend based around the immersive, persistent airsoft campaign happening between sponsored milsim teams.

Free Multi-Media Training

The Mojave Ranger School PIO Team works directly under the Command Staff Public Information Officer and assists with media production for the ranger school training programs.

Mojave Ranger School runs an in-house Public Information Officer (PIO) training course intended to train media producers within the Incident Command System (ICS) to work as a PIO in the emergency services. This is not an accredited program with any real agencies, but the training is real and the Mojave Ranger School PIO Team volunteers train to the same NWCG standards as a Wildland Fire PIO.

The PIO Team produces the free training videos, Wasteland News and other in-school productions that are intended to be freely distributed as part of the training programs.

The PIO Team has 4 departments managed by Lead Producers; Web and Course Management, WPA-TV, Video production and War Correspondents.  Producers are in charge of an article, show episode, or other project. Assistant Producers manage production chores for Producers and Interns are there to learn the system.

Wasteland Public Access TV

The Mojave Ranger School PIO Team manages the Wasteland Public Access TV station at Vista de Nada. WPA-TV broadcasts a selection of civilian wastelander videos on the website and team-produced videos on the YouTube channel.

Wasteland Producers without a channel can submit videos to WPA-TV.

WPA-TV is looking for videos about wasteland events, people and topics and especially how-to videos on wasteland tech, costumes and gear.

PIO Team Training

The PIO Basic Course provides 4 levels of training for PIO Team members,

• Interns are the basic trainees for the program. Interns assist with social media marketing, web maintenance and other chores while they learn the system
• Assistant Producers manage specialized production chores; camera, audio, editing, article writing, etc.
• Producers manage projects; show episodes, columns, Web Master
• Lead Producers manage Departments and remote broadcasts.

Passing Through the System

PIO Team positions aren’t jobs, they are levels to be matriculated through in order for more trainees to enter the system. The PIO Team program runs on the same yearly schedules as all the other courses, it just takes longer.

Moving Up to the Pro’s
Mojave Ranger Media, LLC is a small publishing company that publishes 3-5 books each year, as well as fulfilling sales for the Mojave Rangers training manuals.

Mojave Ranger Media, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mojave Ranger School. Graduates of the PIO Basic course may qualify to work as a publishing contractor for Mojave Ranger Media, LLC and make a team royalty for publishing training manuals, wasteland fiction/nonfiction and classic novels.

Producers can not simultaneously work for Mojave Ranger Media, LLC as a contractor and participate in the Mojave Ranger School PIO program. Doing so violates a variety of laws and IRS audits. Mojave Ranger Media, LLC producers may volunteer with the Mojave Ranger teams and play the game, but as Rangers or Settlers and not school PIO Team members.

In addition to several classic novels, Mojave Ranger Media, LLC is developing the training manuals for the ranger school,

• Mojave Ranger Player’s Guide: explains the game and business – https://mojaverangerschool.com/playersguide
• Mojave Ranger Field Manual: textbook for the Ranger Basic Course – https://mojaverangerschool.com/FMdownload
• The Park Ranger Tech course covers the Park Ranger material – https://mojaverangerschool.com/RangerTech