# SAG-AFTRA
**Entity class:** Labor union
**Domain:** Screen, broadcast, and media performers
## Definition
**SAG-AFTRA** represents performers and media professionals. Its military-veteran programs and casting notices make it a documented labor-market interface between professional performance and scenario-based training.
## Evidence Boundary
Union infrastructure organizes, trains, and connects a labor pool. That institutional role is documented; membership or participation does not imply intelligence affiliation.
## Relationships
- **operates:** [[wiki/SAG-AFTRA Military Committees|Military Committees]].
- **works with:** [[wiki/Veterans in Media & Entertainment|Veterans in Media & Entertainment]] and [[wiki/American Legion Hollywood Post 43|American Legion Hollywood Post 43]].
- **casting channel:** paid military and veteran actors for live-action scenario training at U.S. bases.
- **pathways:** [[wiki/Training-Market Pathway|Training-Market Pathway]] and [[wiki/Dual-Skilled Uniform Pathway|Dual-Skilled Uniform Pathway]].
- **source:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [SAG-AFTRA — About](https://www.sagaftra.org/about)
- [SAG-AFTRA — Casting Military & Veteran Actors](https://www.sagaftra.org/casting-military-veteran-actors-paid-nationwide-opportunity)