California Cadet Corps
Training • HQ — the Commandant Portal
Short walkthrough videos for HQ — the Commandant Portal. Watch them in order, or jump straight to the one you need — each video has chapter links and a full transcript.
01Getting on the PortalSigning in with Microsoft, the onboarding profile, requesting your role, and the training gate. Everything between the landing page and your dashboard.
5:56 · Updated Jul 26, 2026
02The Classroom CommandantThe three modules a battalion commandant lives in and the monthly loop that connects them. Keep the roster current, mark attendance on the calendar, then verify and close the Strength and Activities Report.
3:25 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
03State and Corps Request FormsThe paperwork rack. Facility requests, rental vehicle requests, travel claims, the property forms, and Personnel Action Requests. When to use each one, where it goes after you submit, and how to track its status.
7:05 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
04The Brigade Advisor: Running Your ChainOrient a brigade advisor in HQ: the brigade dashboard, what the reporting tree lets them see, why rollups are read only, how the TDA mans billets down the chain, the promotion endorsement queue, and where the only write path lives when a battalion's numbers look wrong.3:34 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
05The Regimental Advisor: Closest Eyes on the BattalionsOrient a regimental advisor in HQ: the regiment dashboard, where a regiment fits in chains that may skip it, subtree visibility, read-only rollups and annotations, TDA manning of the battalions below, the PAR queue at regiment, and the battalion-only write path for corrections.3:26 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
06The Division Commander: The Aggregate ViewOrient a division commander in HQ: the division dashboard, the cross-brigade view the reporting tree grants, why every figure is a read-only aggregate of battalion facts, manning brigade advisor billets through the TDA, the division PAR queue, and the battalion-only write path when numbers need correcting.3:20 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
07The S-1 Experience: Travel OrdersTrain new State S-1 shop members end to end: how movement requests arrive from the Activity Calendar, how to review and cut a State Order, where the signed PDF is filed, what PERSTAT certifies for pay, and what lands in a member's 201 file.4:34 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
08The S-3 Experience: Calendar & Annual TrainingTrain State S-3 staff on the operations side of HQ: the one Activity Calendar every echelon shares, why attendance is the only thing that creates an activity, the battalion Training Schedule, and the Annual Training certificate matrix with its review workflow and August rhythm.4:53 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
02The Classroom CommandantThe three modules a battalion commandant lives in and the monthly loop that connects them. Keep the roster current, mark attendance on the calendar, then verify and close the Strength and Activities Report.
3:25 · Updated Jul 27, 202603State and Corps Request FormsThe paperwork rack. Facility requests, rental vehicle requests, travel claims, the property forms, and Personnel Action Requests. When to use each one, where it goes after you submit, and how to track its status.
7:05 · Updated Jul 27, 202604The Brigade Advisor: Running Your ChainOrient a brigade advisor in HQ: the brigade dashboard, what the reporting tree lets them see, why rollups are read only, how the TDA mans billets down the chain, the promotion endorsement queue, and where the only write path lives when a battalion's numbers look wrong.3:34 · Updated Jul 27, 202605The Regimental Advisor: Closest Eyes on the BattalionsOrient a regimental advisor in HQ: the regiment dashboard, where a regiment fits in chains that may skip it, subtree visibility, read-only rollups and annotations, TDA manning of the battalions below, the PAR queue at regiment, and the battalion-only write path for corrections.3:26 · Updated Jul 27, 202606The Division Commander: The Aggregate ViewOrient a division commander in HQ: the division dashboard, the cross-brigade view the reporting tree grants, why every figure is a read-only aggregate of battalion facts, manning brigade advisor billets through the TDA, the division PAR queue, and the battalion-only write path when numbers need correcting.3:20 · Updated Jul 27, 202607The S-1 Experience: Travel OrdersTrain new State S-1 shop members end to end: how movement requests arrive from the Activity Calendar, how to review and cut a State Order, where the signed PDF is filed, what PERSTAT certifies for pay, and what lands in a member's 201 file.4:34 · Updated Jul 27, 202608The S-3 Experience: Calendar & Annual TrainingTrain State S-3 staff on the operations side of HQ: the one Activity Calendar every echelon shares, why attendance is the only thing that creates an activity, the battalion Training Schedule, and the Annual Training certificate matrix with its review workflow and August rhythm.4:53 · Updated Jul 27, 2026