# Military Systems — First Field Deck

Version: 1.1.0
Engine: Mapshifting Systems Engine 1.3.0
Kiduna Canon baseline: V0.45
Source refresh: 2026-08-27

This eight-card deck is an expression of Mapshifting Military Systems, not the whole System. Every card has a vertical and horizontal composition. The vertical form favors focal identity; the horizontal form favors relationship, passage, and consequence. Both forms share one semantic kernel, graph lineage, manual entry, and source boundary.

## Deck roster

1. [Military Systems — The Whole Field](card-deck/01-whole-field.md)
2. [Logistics — The Hidden Chain](card-deck/02-hidden-chain.md)
3. [73 Easting — 2d ACR at the Grid Line](card-deck/03-73-easting.md)
4. [Veterans — Service Continues](card-deck/04-service-continues.md)
5. [Gulf War Illness — The Invisible Load](card-deck/05-gulf-war-illness.md)
6. [VA Navigation — The Door Is Not the Decision](card-deck/06-va-navigation.md)
7. [Crisis Support — Connection Creates Time](card-deck/07-connection-creates-time.md)
8. [Families — The Second Sustainment System](card-deck/08-family-sustainment.md)

## Reading grammar

Use the cards as graph views:

- **Sense:** What is observed, claimed, missing, uncertain, and likely to change?
- **Choose:** What moves exist, including waiting, declining, asking, or handing off?
- **Act:** Which operation is authorized, by whom, through which interface, with what receipt and remedy?
- **Learn:** What happened, what changed, what remains uncertain, and what should inform the next Sense model?

Moving-toward and moving-away are complementary directions, not good and evil. A fitting move may be to approach, maintain, redirect, pause, withdraw, or combine. Always name the scale, horizon, affected party, mechanism, and tradeoff.

## Veteran and family boundary

- No disclosure is required. A participant may pass, remain literal, joke, change the subject, or end.
- A card cannot diagnose, treat, determine VA eligibility, file a claim, provide legal advice, or replace crisis support.
- Official records, personal memory, peer knowledge, family memory, clinical care, benefits rules, and symbolic reflection stay on separate claim rails.
- Do not store health information, claim numbers, identifiers, or private family stories in the shared graph.
- Retrieve current benefits and service information from official sources at the time of use.

## Immediate crisis boundary

If a Veteran is in crisis or someone is concerned about a Veteran, use immediate qualified support—not a reading. Call **988 and press 1**, text **838255**, or use the official chat at <https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/>. If there is immediate danger, call **911** or go to the nearest emergency department.

## Source and art records

- Engine transport: `data/engine-project-v1.3.json`
- Card asset manifest: `assets/cards/asset-manifest.json`
- Source-art audit: `docs/SOURCE-ART-AUDIT.md`
- Current official-source note: `docs/VETERAN-VA-GULF-WAR-SOURCE-NOTE.md`
- Historical case note: `docs/73-EASTING-CASE-NOTE.md`
