US Army Publishing Directorate – Technical Manuals

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/TM_Admin.aspx

by belter • 4 years ago

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filbo• 4 years ago

Anyone got a shortlist of the ones applicable to this audience?

graderjs2• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

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.

twosheep• 4 years ago

I doubt you'd see anything exciting that's approved for public release

abudabi123• 4 years ago

The US Navy docs are held back probably because they won ww2.

KineticLensman2• 4 years ago

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.

belter• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

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.

TMWNN• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

Having worked on a military base, I can confirm that the kitchens have not been repaired since 1946.

linuxlizard• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

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.

tyingq• 4 years ago

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

tommyderami• 4 years ago

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.

billfruit• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

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...

US Army Publishing Directorate – Technical Manuals

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