How do I GARRISON a unit in a city?

[Jim Hacker, M.P.]

When I originally bought Civ 5 soon after it came out; you had an option to garrison a unit in the city. That does not seem to be here, anymore. Yet, the game mentions "garrisoned units" and so on, quite a bit, in fact.

Where did this option go? And how do you now garrison your units in cities?

[thedUWUmslayer]

Just leave a unit in a city. Bam, its garrissoned.

[nathan_Oak]

a garison unit is a unit in a city or you could use the f key that will keep them garrisonised.

[Jim Hacker, M.P.]

and which f-key is that?

[leandrombraz]

Originally posted by Jim Hacker, M.P.:

and which f-key is that?

F=sleep

but the unit doesn't necessarily need to be sleeping. Just leave it over your city and it's done..

[nathan_Oak]

pressing on the F key board is fortifly the unit it raises their defenives if they have in in the same spot for a least a turn and the h key makes them stay until they have been healed

[Vargas78]

I prefer to press A for alert, but it depends what the unit is

[TheFergmiester]

Originally posted by Jim Hacker, M.P.:

and which f-key is that?

The one which you used when you typed "f-key".

[xycotta]

Letter F, the confusion is the top row is called F keys

[Lena]

The old garrison mechanic was kinda wonky, especially if you wanted to move a unit through a city manually instead of having it end its turn there. That system was removed, thankfully; now, as everyone else has said, any (military?) unit in a city counts as garrisoned, even if it just happens to be out of moves there. Really helps city defence, especially with a strong ranged unit.

[Jim Hacker, M.P.]

OK, thanks guys :)

the reason I had asked is, that some policies say "garrisoned troops increase happiness" or "pay not maintenance", etc, etc.