DOCTRINE: Surviving a crisis is 90% psychology, 10% methodology and gear. Survival supplies mean nothing if you are too scared to use them. Pre-event mental preparation is not optional — it is the foundation everything else rests on. — Cody Lundin
DOCTRINE: Grief is a natural extension of love. It is a healthy, sane response to loss. The goal is not to remove grief — it cannot be removed — but to reduce unnecessary suffering while honoring what cannot be fixed. Your role is companion, not rescuer. — Megan Devine
WARNING: Personality conflicts — more than any other factor — will make or break your group. One bad actor sowing dissent in the ranks can bring everything down. A good leader watches for signs of trouble and acts early. Do not wait for it to resolve itself. — Jim Cobb
DOCTRINE: Humans don't mind hardship — in fact they thrive on it. What they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. A prepared group reverses this by design. — Sebastian Junger, Tribe
ANCHOR is the part of the suite that looks after people rather than gear. Stress, grief, conflict, and low morale break groups apart faster than any shortage of food or ammunition. This module gives you simple, doctrine-grounded tools to prepare your people before a crisis, steady them during one, and keep a quiet, secure medical record for the few who need it. Everything runs on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The dark bar on the left is your menu. The PSY MODULES group holds the five readiness tools. OUTPUTS prints reference cards and forms. HELP is this manual and the Demo sandbox (RETURN TO LIVE when you are inside the demo). Click any item to open it; the screen on the right changes to match.
The conflict and morale screens (04–05) work the classic way: press + LOG, fill in a short form, press SAVE, and your entry appears as a card. Screens 01–03 work differently on purpose: anything about a named individual — a readiness baseline, a stress contact, a bereavement note — is charted through the 🔒 ADD TO MEDICAL RECORDS button into the encrypted vault, never in plain text. Group-level data (the culture checklist, conflict cases, morale assessments) stays in plain storage on this device. The medical records screen (06) is encrypted and locked behind a password. Click any saved card to reopen it — the entry comes back up in its own form for reading or correction, and corrected entries carry a visible updated stamp. Every log's footer also has 🖶 PRINT LOG, which prints the complete log — a summary table plus every entry in full detail — through the standard WATCHMAN print engine.
This screen builds a mental baseline for each member of your group while times are still normal. You record how each person is doing physically and mentally, what stresses them, their role, and any vulnerabilities to watch. Later, when things get hard, you have a reference point: you can tell who has drifted from their baseline and who needs attention first.
Work the screen top to bottom. The culture checklist (ADP 6-22) is a set of tick boxes about the group as a whole; it saves itself as you click. Individual baselines are different: press 🔒 NEW ASSESSMENT, unlock the vault in the popup, pick the person (or create their record), and the readiness assessment form opens inside their encrypted file. Score the five ratings, note vulnerabilities, and save. Repeat every few months — people change, and the readiness trend on their Visits tab shows the drift at a glance. There is deliberately no assessment list on this screen: the assessments, and the trend built from them, live only inside each member's encrypted record.
When a member is hit hard by stress, you do not improvise. ANCHOR follows an established sequence drawn from COSC doctrine and field psychology:
Two kinds of record come out of a stress event. A group-level incident (a perimeter contact, an accident, a death that hit everyone) goes in the on-screen Stress Incident Log via + LOG INCIDENT — it names the event and the response, and it stays in plain storage. Each individual stress contact is charted with 🔒 ADD TO MEDICAL RECORDS, which opens a mental-health note inside that member's encrypted record, where COSR disposition, risk, and follow-up are captured properly. Printable cards for every step live on Generate Docs — print and laminate them for your medical kit.
Death and loss inside a small group hit everyone. This screen holds your procedures for handling a death — notification, care for the bereaved, honoring the person, and watching for members who are struggling. Write these down in advance so that in the moment you are following a plan, not making one up. Log the loss event itself in the on-screen Bereavement Case Log via + LOG LOSS EVENT — who was lost, who is most affected, and the support actions in motion. Notes about a specific grieving member go through 🔒 ADD TO MEDICAL RECORDS, which opens a chaplain session note inside their encrypted record.
The reference cards (Generate Docs) include an 8-stage grief framework and a supporter protocol with a plain list of things never to say. Grief is not linear; people skip, merge, and revisit stages. The cards are a guide, not a checklist to enforce.
Confined, stressed people argue. Left alone, small disputes split a group at the worst possible time. This screen gives you a structured way to work through conflict: name the issue, hear each side without interruption, find the real interest underneath the position, and agree on a concrete next step. Log each resolution so the same fight does not quietly repeat.
Morale is a resource you spend and have to replenish. This screen plans the routines that keep people steady: shared meals, worship, rest, celebrations, recreation, and meaningful work. The culture checklist helps you take stock of the habits that hold a group together. Plan activities here and check them off as you build them into your rhythm.
This is the only screen in ANCHOR that is locked. It holds private medical and mental-health records, so it is encrypted with AES-GCM 256. Your password is run through PBKDF2 (100,000 rounds) to derive the key. Nobody — not even you — can read these records without a valid credential.
The first time you open the screen you set the suite-wide Master password — the same one used by the other encrypted WATCHMAN modules. An Operator password can be added afterward from Vault Management.
After the recovery key, setup offers the optional JWBuild rescue choice. NO (the default) means only you can ever unlock the records. YES saves a locked rescue file on this computer only — it cannot open anything by itself, but if you ever lose both passwords and the recovery key, you can send it to JWBuild, verify you are the license owner, and receive a one-time unlock code. Either way, nothing is ever transmitted. Change your choice later from Vault Management.
| OPERATOR | The day-to-day password for the medic, chaplain, or counselor who works in the records. Optional; keep it private to that role. |
| MASTER | The suite-wide password held by the group leader. It always opens the vault — emergency access if the operator is gone. |
The vault has one recovery key — a printed code shown once at setup that can unlock the records if every password is forgotten. A replacement can be issued any time from Vault Management, which voids the old one.
If rescue was enabled at setup, the lock screen shows 🛡 JWBUILD RESCUE (last resort). Download the rescue file, email it to JWBuild support with your WATCHMAN license key, and after identity verification you receive a one-time unlock code. Entering it opens the records once and immediately forces a new Master password and a new recovery key — the emailed code can never open anything again, and the Operator password must be set again afterward.
Press 🔒 LOCK in the header any time you step away. The vault also locks itself automatically after a period of no activity — 15 minutes by default, adjustable from 5 minutes to never with the AUTO-LOCK selector in Vault Management. A warning bar counts down the last two minutes and lets you stay unlocked. Locking clears the screen and the records remain encrypted on disk.
Once unlocked you see the patient roster. Create a record per person at intake. Open a record to find five tabs:
A record is only useful if the next person can trust it. These habits come straight from clinical charting practice (Richardson, Mastering Medical Charting) and apply to every note you make in this module.
The Print tab inside a patient record produces three documents, each printed one patient at a time:
| RECORD | A full transfer-of-care document: profile, allergies, active meds, all visit notes, vitals trend, and a signature block for handoff. |
| INSTRUCTIONS | Plain-language patient instructions from the most recent visit. Suitable to hand directly to the patient. |
| SAFETY PLAN | A simple one-page safety plan from the most recent mental-health visit, in large plain print, for the patient to keep. |
The Generate Docs screen prints blank, reusable reference material — nothing patient-specific. It has three groups: stress and crisis cards, grief and support cards, and blank paper backup forms. Print any single item with its PRINT button, laminate the cards, and stock them in your kit.
At the top of the screen, 📚 PRINT BINDER (ALL REFERENCE DOCS) sends every reference card and blank form to your printer in one job, each on its own page, behind a dated cover sheet. Hole-punch the stack and drop it into a three-ring binder for a complete paper backup of ANCHOR's doctrine.
The ⚙ gear opens suite settings, including the dark/light theme. On the Generate Docs screen, Data Management lets you back up and restore:
Every abbreviation ANCHOR uses, in plain language. Any of these underlined on screen will show its meaning on hover.
| AES-GCM | The strong, standard encryption protecting the medical vault. Without the key, records are unreadable. |
| AVPU | Alert / Verbal / Pain / Unresponsive — a quick check of how responsive a patient is. |
| BICEPS | Brief, Immediate, Contact, Expectancy, Proximity, Simplicity — the six principles of stress control. |
| COSC | Combat and Operational Stress Control — the doctrine (FM 4-02.51) behind the stress screen. |
| COSR | Combat and Operational Stress Reaction — and the triage card that sorts its severity. |
| DNI | Do Not Intubate — an advance directive declining a breathing tube. |
| DNR | Do Not Resuscitate — an advance directive declining CPR. |
| GCS | Glasgow Coma Scale — a 3–15 score of consciousness. 15 is fully alert. |
| NKA | No Known Allergies — confirmed by a provider, not assumed. |
| OLD CARTS | Onset, Location, Duration, Character, Aggravating/Relieving, Timing, Severity — a symptom-history prompt. |
| PBKDF2 | The function that stretches your password through 100,000 rounds before it becomes the key. |
| PFA | Psychological First Aid — the 8-step protocol for someone in acute distress. |
| PQRST | Provocation, Quality, Region, Severity, Timing — an alternative pain-history prompt. |
| SI | Suicidal Ideation — thoughts of suicide; active SI with a plan is an emergency. |
| SOAP | Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan — the standard four-part clinical note. |
ANCHOR ships with a demo sandbox — a separate copy pre-loaded with a worked example: a stress incident with a completed cool-down and reassessment, an active grief case under monitoring, a resolved conflict mediation, a weekly morale pulse, and an encrypted Medical Records vault holding three members with readiness assessments, a clinical visit, a mental-health contact, medications, and vitals.
Opening and leaving. In the live module, click DEMO in the sidebar under this manual. Inside the demo, that same slot reads RETURN TO LIVE and takes you back. The amber DEMO / SANDBOX badge in the top bar tells you which copy you are in.
The demo vault password is demo1234 — it is printed on the demo's lock screen. Unlock the records with it and explore. Everything lives in separate storage slots, including the vault, its rescue file, and the auto-lock timer, so nothing you do in the demo can touch your real records.
Practice the encryption ceremony. Unlock with demo1234, then exercise every credential control safely from Vault Management: set an Operator password, rotate the Master, issue a new recovery key with PRINT KEY CARD, and toggle the JWBuild rescue choice. A rescue file downloaded from the demo is named with DEMO so it can never be mistaken for a real rescue request.
Resetting. The ⟳ RESET DEMO button in the top bar wipes all demo data — including any password you set in the demo — and restores the clean sample sandbox.