Every Sunday morning, the men from the villages would go to the town center to attend the worship service and then receive military training in the afternoon.
Since the initial purpose was merely to prepare for beastly disasters, rather than to send the militia into battle, the training program Winters had devised did not include formations or close-order drills. It was simply basic weapon use, plus some tactics against wild beasts that Winters had summarized.
The old Hunter was no longer there; Winters had originally wanted the militia to patrol the nearby woods once a week.
However, he realized that patrolling and standing guard were the tasks requiring the most perseverance, something the militia certainly couldn't sustain in the long run. Therefore, all he could do was to instruct those who went into the mountains to collect firewood to pay extra attention to the situation within the woods.