Advance Recon Teams (ARTs) Guidelines

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UPDATED 23/2/2024

The purpose of the Advance Recon Team ("ART") is to promote the Pathfinders' costumes within the Garrison, help prospective Pathfinders with their builds, encourage older Pathfinders to stay up-to-date with our CRLs and assist current Pathfinders going for L2 status.

So without further ado, here are the guidelines

1. There will only be 1 (one) ART per Garrison/Outpost.

• Once an ART has been established in your local Garrison, contact a member of Command Staff to have it added to the list of ARTs.
• In the case where more than one ART is being setup at the same time in the same Garrison, that issue must be worked out by the Garrison members before 501st Pathfinders will acknowledge an ART for that Garrison. There can only be one!

2. Permission must be sought from your local Garrison CO to form an ART.

3. Our preference is that the ART should be founded by a Pathfinder with Level 2 status or at least someone with an active L2 Application, but this is NOT a requirement.

4. It is up to the ART to decide how to organize itself (leadership, subgroups, etc.)

5. It is up to the ART to decide how to create its web presence (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or space on the local Garrison/Outpost's website) Pathfinders will not provide forum space for ARTs to operate as we are a little over-forumed anyway.

6. Pathfinders will provide an ART forum where we

• Lay out the guidelines;
• Provide a list of active ARTs for each Garrison/Outpost; and
• Indicate who the point of contact is for each ART. This will make it easy for new members to find the ART for their Garrison.

7. Any logos or merch created for the ART cannot be identified with either the 501st or the Garrison/Squad to which the members belong. This is in accordance with Legion rules.

8. In the case of a Facebook group, a member of 501st Pathfinders Command Staff and your Garrison Command Staff should be made a member, so we/they can assure that everything is running according to Legion/Detachment guidelines and that the best advice is being given.

9. The Pathfinders command staff will not moderate ART groups. Issues related to conduct should be relegated to the respective Garrison.  501st Pathfinders reserves the right to disassociate itself with any ART at any time. Your local Garrison Command Staff can rescind the permission for your ART or impose restrictions as they deem necessary.

So be cool, everybody. This is supposed to be fun!

10. ART's are run at the discretion of the local Garrison. They are not intended to replace or circumvent the normal functions of your local Garrison, including but not limited to, clearance standards and procedure, event generation/coordination/attendance, hierarchy and discipline.

11. And as with everything in life, these guidelines are subject to change.

Now go out there and make us proud. Pathfinders lead the way!