What This Field Means
The number of positions the unit is officially designed or permitted to have.
This is the approved number of positions the unit is designed or permitted to have. It gives readers the intended organizational capacity against which actual staffing can be understood.
How to Read It Correctly
Authorized strength is not assigned strength, present-for-duty strength, deployed strength, or a timeless fact. Authorizations change with organization tables, force-design decisions, and dates.
Example
A unit may be authorized 500 personnel while having fewer assigned.
Technical Specification
The database column is [USMIL-Unit].[Unit].[AuthorizedPersonnel]. Optional integer authorization strength. It represents approved positions, not the number of people actually assigned on a particular date.
Store a nonfractional personnel count only when a source identifies it as authorized strength for a known configuration or period. The SQL type accepts an integer, but the evidence must establish what the number measures.
| Property | Definition or current value |
|---|---|
| Database column | AuthorizedPersonnel |
| Column order | 26 |
| SQL data type | int |
| Kind of information | Whole-number measurement or count |
| Cardinality | One stored value per Unit row. |
| Required | No; NULL is permitted |
| Database default | No database default |
| Key or relationship | None |
| Database check constraint | ([CurrentStatus]=N'Planned' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Status unknown' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Historical' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Inactive' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Current') |
| Live population | 9 of 9341 Unit records (0.1%) |
| Distinct nonblank values in the live table | 9 |
| Live profile measured | September 2, 2026, 20:43 UTC |
Allowed Values and Definitions
No preset menu applies to this field. It stores an identifier, relationship, measurement, date, timestamp, or evidence-derived narrative. Valid content is governed by the SQL type, key relationship, nullability, retained evidence, and the field-specific recording rule above. A list of observed contents would be data, not a list of allowed options.
Missing, Unknown, and Conflicting Information
A database NULL is permitted and means that no value is presently stored. It does not prove that the fact never existed, that the answer is no, or that the concept does not apply. Missing information must remain visibly different from a supported negative or inapplicable conclusion.
Connections to Other Fields
- Assigned Personnel — The documented number of people actually assigned to the unit at a particular time.
- Authorized Equipment — The equipment the unit is officially structured or authorized to possess.
- Organic Composition — The people or subordinate organizations that belong to the unit by its normal design rather than by a temporary assignment.
- Effective From — The date from which the facts represented by this unit record are known to apply.
- Effective To — The date through which the represented facts are known to apply.