# American Grade System **Domain:** Aesthetic / Mission Context **System:** [[wiki/American Aesthetic|American Aesthetic]] ## Definition The American Grade System classifies mission context rather than human worth. Citizen, Field, Headquarters, Diplomatic, and Reserve describe different requirements for access, mobility, institutional reliability, ceremony, and stored strength. The same person may move among grades as the room and duty change. A grade is useful only when it helps the person prepare without turning context into caste. ## Place in the American System American Grade System is developed from [[american/American Aesthetic - The Grade System|American Aesthetic - The Grade System]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/Citizen Grade|Citizen Grade]] · [[wiki/Field Grade|Field Grade]] · [[wiki/Headquarters Grade|Headquarters Grade]] · [[wiki/Diplomatic Grade|Diplomatic Grade]] · [[wiki/Reserve Grade|Reserve Grade]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Aesthetic - The Grade System|American Aesthetic - The Grade System]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].