Guide Blocks

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The FM outlines our core skills, policies and guides to ensure every member stands ready for the mission ahead.

Guides within the Force Manual present best practices and recommended approaches. They offer valuable insights, suggestions, and practical advice to enhance member performance and unit effectiveness. While Guides are not mandatory policies and are not formally enforced or evaluated, they provide extra context, a more in-depth explanation, or explain how systems work. They play a role in sharing collective knowledge.

For optimal construction, a Guide Block:

• Primarily text: The core information should be conveyed through text, not solely reliant on attached images.
• Not required knowledge: Content should be beneficial but not essential for basic unit function or mandatory knowledge.
• Provide supplementary information: Offers extra context, in-depth explanations, technical details, or optional advanced techniques.

Interpretation: Should be considered “best practice” suggestions or helpful advice.

Enforcement: Not directly enforced, or explains how a system works - where that system automatically enforces something.

Published by LtCol James on 11/03/2025 at 16:46

Guides within the Force Manual present best practices and recommended approaches. They offer valuable insights, suggestions, and practical advice to enhance member performance and unit effectiveness. While Guides are not mandatory policies and are not formally enforced or evaluated, they provide extra context, a more in-depth explanation, or explain how systems work. This doesn't always mean that Guides are optional, some guides just explain how systems work, where the system enforces something in a certain way wheres Policies are needed when enforcement is not automatic. They play a role in sharing collective knowledge.

For optimal construction, a Guide Block:

• Primarily text: The core information should be conveyed through text, not solely reliant on attached images.
• Not required knowledge: Content should be beneficial but not essential for basic unit function or mandatory knowledge.
• Provide supplementary information: Offers extra context, in-depth explanations, technical details, or optional advanced techniques.
• Should be considered “best practice” suggestions or helpful advice.

Published by LtCol James on 11/03/2025 at 16:41

Guides within the Force Manual present best practices and recommended approaches. They offer valuable insights, suggestions, and practical advice to enhance member performance and unit effectiveness. While Guides are not mandatory policies and are not formally enforced or evaluated, they provide extra context, a more in-depth explanation, or explain how systems work (where systems may be enforcing). They play a role in sharing collective knowledge.

For optimal construction, a Guide Block:

• Primarily text: The core information should be conveyed through text, not solely reliant on attached images.
• Not required knowledge: Content should be beneficial but not essential for basic unit function or mandatory knowledge.
• Provide supplementary information: Offers extra context, in-depth explanations, technical details, or optional advanced techniques.
• Should be considered “best practice” suggestions or helpful advice.

Published by LtCol James on 11/03/2025 at 16:24

Guides within the FM present best practices that offer valuable insights and suggestions for members. While they're less stringent than policies and are not enforced or evaluated they can provide context or play a crucial role in providing direction and recommended methods of operation, ensuring UNITAF's continued effectiveness and adaptability.

Published by LtCol James on 02/09/2023 at 02:29

Guides within the FM present best practices that offer valuable insights and suggestions for members. While they're less stringent than policies and are not enforced or evaluated they can provide context or play a crucial role in providing direction and recommended methods of operation, ensuring UNITAF's continued effectiveness and adaptability.

Published by LtCol James on 02/09/2023 at 02:28