Please take a moment to read through the New Member FAQ and the Membership FAQ:
Hello, and welcome to the 405th Infantry Division, the world’s premier Halo Costume and Prop construction community. This document is designed to help answer some of the common questions new members have about our organization and its Forum or Message Board. First, what is the 405th? As...
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Membership FAQ How do you become a member of the 405th? If you are reading this, then chances are good that you are in fact already a member! The 405th has several levels of voluntary membership where an individual can choose how much they want to be involved with the 405th and how much they...
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As Sweed mentioned, Deployment is an optional process that is reserved for members of a Regiment.
For Clarity's sake, here in the 405th we have several levels of voluntary membership.
Just by registering a Forum account you are considered a 405th Member.
Once you have been active on the Forums for over 90 Days and have made 50 constructive posts you are eligible to join your local Regiment, which is a Regional Sub-Unit that organizes in person convention, community event, and charity appearances. A costume is not required to join your local Regiment and work with them at events. You do not even have to join your local Regiment to attend an event, you just have to get clearance from the local Regiment Command Staff to attend, which is done by just posting in the event thread you are interested in attending.
Once you have joined your local Regiment
and completed a costume, you are eligible to go through the Deployment Program, where your costume is awarded one of three Tiers based on Construction, fit, and accuracy, and you are awarded your unique Division Identity Number, a number that tracks you through this Program and in the 405th itself.