[HN Gopher] US Army Publishing Directorate - Technical Manuals
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US Army Publishing Directorate - Technical Manuals
Author : belter
Score : 53 points
Date : 2022-10-10 10:30 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (armypubs.army.mil)
(TXT) w3m dump (armypubs.army.mil)
| tommyderami wrote:
| The Army has plenty of problems you see in other large
| organizations related to bureaucracy, strategic initiatives,
| retention etc, but one thing I think they do very well is their
| documentation. It is generally organized into four(ish)
| categories of Army Doctrine Pubs (ADPs) which are summaries of
| first principals for the major domains the Army operates in,
| followed by Army Technique Pubs which cover mid-level techniques
| and descriptive frameworks for various types of work. Field
| Manuals (FMs) contain more prescriptive information and tasks for
| both small and large units, and finally Technical Manuals which
| are basically instruction manuals for specific pieces of
| equipment or specific tasks.
|
| I think it's debatable given the pace of change in most
| technology organizations whether it's even desirable to codify
| the standard tasks and competencies expected from different
| classes of information workers (ie. SRE1 vs Data Systems Analyst)
| but having at least ADP level documents that allow employees to
| align their efforts with company strategic aims is a good idea
| and having some sort of reference documents for involved
| technical tasks probably makes sense when the work is not able to
| be automated.
| TMWNN wrote:
| What a span of time! _KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; REPAIRS AND UTILITIES_
| was published in 1946, and a document on UPS selection
| /installation/maintenance was published in 2007.
| commandlinefan wrote:
| Having worked on a military base, I can confirm that the
| kitchens have not been repaired since 1946.
| linuxlizard wrote:
| I am puzzled why there are only 141 documents. There should be
| thousands. The US Army has been around a long time and
| bureaucracy begets documentation.
| rascul wrote:
| This is only a subset, apparently only those TM's in the 5
| series. Explore the Publications dropdown to find thousands
| more Technical Manuals and other publications.
| [deleted]
| tyingq wrote:
| These appear to all be from the Corps of Engineers. The menu
| pulldown shows entries like "TM - Technical Manuals (Range
| 1-8)" that have thousands of entries each. One example:
| https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/TM_1_8.aspx
| billfruit wrote:
| How do we see the actual documents themselves? Clicking on the
| link only seems to open a docket which has info about the
| document, by not the document itself.
| lreeves wrote:
| Yeah only some of them seem to be actually viewable, for
| example [1] has a link to the PDF but most seem to not have
| this.
|
| 1 -
| https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?P...
| filbo wrote:
| Anyone got a shortlist of the ones applicable to this audience?
| graderjs wrote:
| From looking at the list of 141 entries, everything from
|
| TM 5-852-1 ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC CONSTRUCTION - GENERAL
| PROVISIONS {AFR 88-19, VOL 1}
|
| onwards looks pretty interesting, as it covers:
|
| - building stuff in arctic
|
| - building stuff to resist nukes
|
| - "security engineering" including electronics
|
| But interestingly enough, I can't figure out how to get PDFs.
| gexla wrote:
| > But interestingly enough, I can't figure out how to get
| PDFs.
|
| Click on the links for each item in the first column. On the
| details page, you'll get a pdf link.
| graderjs wrote:
| Connecting from Taiwan I don't actually get a PDF link on
| the details page.
|
| _edit: I see it 's maybe not a Taiwan thing (tho some DoD
| sites are inaccessible from here), some of the other
| publications sections do have PDF links, just none of the
| details pages on the TM page in the OP link._
| mrWiz wrote:
| Thanks! Not every directorate has a PDF attached, and given
| that the first few I tried didn't have them I assumed that
| none of them had PDFs.
| belter wrote:
| You want to go higher on the menu hierarchy and explore from
| "Home" -> "Publications"
|
| I find some of the "Field Manuals" interesting. Some of them
| have sections on OSINT
|
| https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
| ravenstine wrote:
| See this comment I made in another post:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017733#33020509
|
| It's by no means an exhaustive list, but those are some good
| ones to have. Like I said there, I particularly appreciate the
| literature on radio.
| twosheep wrote:
| I doubt you'd see anything exciting that's approved for public
| release
| KineticLensman wrote:
| The US often operates as part of a coalition and it is
| desirable for coalition partners to be able to understand how
| to cooperate with US army units. If you encrypt docs that you
| want to share with partners, then you have to share your
| encryption mechanism, which may be much more problematic.
|
| Also, these sorts of docs contain general procedures, not the
| actual plans of a specific operation.
| aerostable_slug wrote:
| Some of these docs are literally how to frame a house. Or
| set up the plumbing for a communal latrine. Much of it is
| not sensitive.
| abudabi123 wrote:
| The US Navy docs are held back probably because they won ww2.
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