PER EVENT
A drill
One drill run end to end: venue, PT shirts, chow, and materials. The entry point for local businesses, gyms, and running clubs.
SEC 28 / SUPPORTERS
FREE FOR THEM. FUNDED BY YOU.
Everything Drill Zero does is free for the recruit. That is the point, and it is also the bill. Supporters cover it: the drills, the materials, the Schoolhouse, and the Cadre who sit down with someone before they sign. If you want more of the right people walking into service prepared and sure of the fit, we are aimed at the same thing.
SELF-FUNDED TODAY · NOT ACCEPTING SUPPORT YET
We are not taking money yet, and we will not until we can accept it properly and legally. Right now we are introducing the program and hearing from the people and organizations that want to back it. Tell us you are interested, and you hear from us first when support opens.
SEC 29 / HOW IT WORKS
You set the number.
There is no checkout here, on purpose. You decide the amount, and whether it is one time or ongoing. When we talk, we suggest ranges that fit what you are trying to do. More support means more of the work: more drills run, more recruits carried, more families kept steady. It grows the work, not a billboard with your name on it.
SEC 30 / WHAT YOUR SUPPORT FUNDS
Concrete things, not overhead.
Support does not disappear into a general fund. It pays for specific things, and you hear which ones. These are what giving will fund the day it opens.
PER RECRUIT
A certification
One Recruit's full path to Drill Zero Certification as the first formal drills stand up: drills, fitness testing, materials, and packet support. You get an anonymized outcome note when a Recruit certifies. Identities stay protected, always.
PER QUARTER
A Baseline report
A quarterly Baseline report as the program stands up. The first publishes after the first Graduates file, a public document anyone can cite.
RECURRING
A family on the Watch
The check-in calls and the driveway visits as the network stands up: one named Cadre, one household, on a schedule, while their Soldier trains or deploys.
SEC 31 / THE SHIP-DAY FIFTY
Fifty dollars ships one Recruit right.
ELIGIBILITY VERIFIED · AS FUNDS ALLOW
Recruits are told to ship to Basic with only a small amount of cash, no more than about fifty dollars. Some cannot cover even that. The Ship-Day Fifty closes the gap: we verify eligibility, then put the fifty in a shipping Recruit's pocket, as funds allow. The fund moves one way, and no Recruit is ever asked for anything.
It is the smallest concrete unit we offer, and one of the most direct.
SEC 32 / THE THANK-YOU
What you get back.
Recognition, not a receipt. This is how we say thanks for backing the work. It is our gratitude, not a thing you bought, and it is recognition, never an ad we run on your behalf.
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Your name on the work
Your name or logo on the Drill Zero site and at our events, sized by how deep your support goes. Recognition of support, kept on our own surfaces, not paid advertising we place for you.
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A place in the room
A table at our events when you want one. Meet the recruits, meet the Cadre, and see where it goes.
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Founding supporters
The earliest and deepest partners are named as founding supporters, and they stay named.
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A straight accounting
You hear where it went: drills run, recruits carried, families kept steady. Results back, not a thank-you card.
SEC 33 / THE LINES WE HOLD
Some things support never buys.
We do not take support from political organizations, or from alcohol, tobacco, vape, gambling, or payday-lending businesses. Supporters never receive recruit, roster, or family data, and never shape our programming, our curriculum, or what a Baseline report concludes. Support funds the work. It does not steer it.
The Guard is not a customer here. Nobody pays us to point a recruit anywhere, and support never changes that. If a recruit ever sits down with a recruiter, it is because they chose to.
Drill Zero is a South Carolina nonprofit corporation, federal 501(c)(3) recognition in progress. We do not claim tax-deductible status until the IRS grants it, and we will say so plainly the day that changes. Everything Drill Zero does is free for recruits.
SEC 34 / START THE CONVERSATION
Back the work.
No checkout, and nothing owed today. Tell us who you are and how you would like to help, and a founder follows up directly.