Posted on Jun 16, 2019
What publication covers how ALARACTs are written?
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What publication covers how ALARACTs are written? FM 5-0 indicated that we were supposed to move to Title Case. FM 5-0 was superseded by ADRP 5-0, but I cannot find any reference to Title Case.
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I guess I am not understanding your question fully? ALARACT's are used by the Army Staff at the Pentagon as strategic communication to spread information quickly down to the Company Commander level so they can execute. I am wondering WHAT about ALARACT's being written do you want to know?
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CSM Carl Cunningham
Ah, ok. I can answer this then. An ALARACT is a type of United States Military Text Format (USMTF) message. Those are "old school" messages that are still a DoD standard today for a lot of our combat mission command systems, even though most people do not understand how to use them. All USMTF messages are all caps, and that is probably because all caps was the only things back when computers were first used.
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MAJ (Join to see)
SGM, your thinking is correct...
it was commonplace back when AUTODIN aka ADNS distributed messages to the force.
Only coded for all upper case.
it was commonplace back when AUTODIN aka ADNS distributed messages to the force.
Only coded for all upper case.
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SFC(P) (Join to see)
MAJ (Join to see) who do we contact to try and get the system modernized? MILPERs are no longer all caps. At some point someone must have asked the right question to the right person in order to make that happen.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SFC(P) (Join to see) there was supposed to be a move away from GENTEXT. It is possible a DODI trumped the Army.
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AR 25-30 and DA PAM 25-40. These are the published policies and procedures for ALARACTS as a part of the Army publishing program. However Army pubs pretty much governs the ALARACT guidelines so they basically publish and post a template for creating them. See: https://armypubs.army.mil/Tools/PubsResources.aspx
Publishing Resources Army Publishing Directorate
The Army Publishing Directorate (APD) uses the following references and style manuals. Please refer to these resources when preparing documents for publication:
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