Insurrectionist military tradition

As the years of the were a formative time for the, they also saw the development of  forces, and with it, a range of traditions that ran the gamut across the many militant bands and standing forces.

Reporting for Duty
The tradition of reporting for duty came with the first graduating class of the Gilgamesh Free State Officer Candidate Academy. For newly graduated enlistedmen in the Gilgamesh Free Army, they began to recreate the Gilgameshan Wedding to the Sea as a special ceremony commemorating their dedication to serving the Free State. In, the cadets at the Academy petitioned to have a similar ceremony with Marshal of Gilgamesh Edward Garan overseeing them. Garan accepted the proposal, and the Academy's cadets were summoned to meet with him in New Belgrade. Each of the individual cadets reported into Garan, who would officially admit them to active duty. This ceremony itself was based off of one Garan himself had gone through during his days as an officer with the rebels on, when Colonel would do the same with officer candidates nearing the end of their training.

After the fall of the Gilgamesh Free State, the tradition came to an end, however, with its resurgence in, the tradition was brought back. With Garan's office destroyed during the UNSC-GFS War, a replica was created on the extreme right of the offices of the Gilgameshan Armed Forces General Staff. Post-commissioning, newly-minted officers would step into the office and perform the same reporting procedures, and sign in his guestbook, which was saved from destruction during the war.