{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.military-guard","code":"thing-q3095378","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3095378/","name":"military guard","alternateNames":["Guards Division","tsujiban","King's Guard","London Guards"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A military guard is a military unit, assigned detachment or individual military position tasked with protecting specified people, places, property or persons in custody, or with performing ceremonial duties.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a military guard as an organised military body or individual military position, assess its mandate and continuity, and identify which administrative actions require competent authorisation.","scope":{"in":["Identity and continuity of a military body or individual military position designated or constituted as a guard.","Founding or assigning authority, military status and authorised guard functions.","Command, oversight and relationships with protected persons or institutions.","Personnel assignment, qualifications and organisational establishment.","Activation, reorganisation, suspension and dissolution of guard units or establishment and termination of guard positions."],"out":["An individual soldier's personal identity and biography beyond their assignment to a guard position.","A particular guard shift, patrol or protection operation.","Civilian private security organisations and ordinary civilian police units.","The protected person, premises or institution itself.","Weapon specifications, tactical deployments and security vulnerabilities.","Guard buildings, uniforms and insignia as independent physical or symbolic objects."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Evidence identifies either a collective military body or an individual military position assigned guard duties.","An authoritative designation or mandate establishes its guard identity; the word 'guard' in an informal name is insufficient.","Its military affiliation and command relationship distinguish it from civilian security providers and civilian police.","A guard unit or position has an identity distinct from the protected institution and from the personnel currently assigned to it.","Evidence distinguishes protective duties, ceremonial duties and an inherited 'Guards' title rather than assuming they imply the same function."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"guard-identity-and-constitution","name":"Guard identity and constitution","description":"Establishes which military body the record denotes and why it qualifies as a guard.","layers":[{"id":"organisational-referent","name":"Organisational referent","description":"Resolves the collective entity represented by the registry entry.","findings":[{"id":"unit-versus-duty","name":"Unit versus duty","description":"Record whether the referent is a standing military body or a constituted detachment, and distinguish it from a guard assignment.","questions":[{"text":"Does the registry referent denote a military organisation, a temporary collective detail or an individual guard role?","id":"unit-versus-duty-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What establishes a continuing organisational identity beyond a particular shift or assignment?","id":"unit-versus-duty-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"constituting-evidence","name":"Constituting evidence","description":"Connects military status and guard designation to authoritative records.","findings":[{"id":"military-and-guard-status","name":"Military and guard status","description":"Record the evidence for military affiliation and the basis of the guard designation without presuming separate legal personality.","questions":[{"text":"Which instrument or official record establishes this body's military affiliation and guard designation?","id":"military-and-guard-status-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the guard independently constituted or an organisational component of a parent military body?","id":"military-and-guard-status-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"guard-mandate-and-boundaries","name":"Guard mandate and boundaries","description":"Captures whom or what the guard serves and the functions its mandate actually supports.","layers":[{"id":"mandate-and-protected-entities","name":"Mandate and protected entities","description":"Identifies the authorised purpose and its institutional beneficiaries.","findings":[{"id":"protected-entity-relationship","name":"Protected entity relationship","description":"Record whether responsibilities attach to a person, an office, an institution, premises or another documented category.","questions":[{"text":"Which persons, offices, institutions or sites fall within the documented guard 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jurisdiction?","id":"protective-ceremonial-and-titular-functions-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"guard-command-and-personnel","name":"Guard command and personnel","description":"Models the relationships and establishment through which the guard operates as a military body.","layers":[{"id":"command-and-accountability","name":"Command and accountability","description":"Distinguishes command powers, administrative control and institutional oversight.","findings":[{"id":"principal-versus-command-authority","name":"Protected principal versus command authority","description":"Record each authority's documented role without assuming the protected person commands the guard.","questions":[{"text":"Who holds command, administrative control and oversight, and where are those responsibilities documented?","id":"principal-versus-command-authority-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What authority, if any, does the protected principal have over appointments or changes to the guard's mandate?","id":"principal-versus-command-authority-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"establishment-and-assignment","name":"Establishment and assignment","description":"Records authorised staffing and the basis on which personnel belong to the guard.","findings":[{"id":"guard-membership-and-capacity","name":"Guard membership and capacity","description":"Distinguish permanent assignment, attachment and temporary duty, together with documented eligibility and aggregate staffing.","questions":[{"text":"What establishes membership in this guard, and which qualifications or appointments are required?","id":"guard-membership-and-capacity-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What are the dated authorised establishment and assigned personnel totals, and do their counting boundaries match?","id":"guard-membership-and-capacity-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"guard-state-and-continuity","name":"Guard state and continuity","description":"Tracks whether the guard currently exists and how 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evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of military guard this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of military guard this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of military guard this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the duties and ceremonial roles of military guards from official sources.","Give visitors public information on ceremonies."],"mustNot":["Help anyone evade, provoke or attack a guard or the people or sites they protect.","Publish guard positions, schedules or security details that are not public.","Impersonate a military guard or wear its uniform fraudulently."],"requiresHuman":["Any action at a guarded site beyond public visiting."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Guards protect people and places, and their security protects lives.","Guards of detainees hold power over vulnerable people, so treatment matters."],"affectedParties":["Guards","Protected people","Detainees"]},"owners":{"steward":"The armed forces of the state that 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