Overview: Persons
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What are persons?
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A :ref:`person`` is a human being who existed at some point in time. The Monitor structures data on persons affiliated with or holding positions (a :ref:`posting`) in any specific :ref:`unit` of security forces at a particular point in time.

Data about persons are captured in two claim types:

 - :ref:`person`: this claim type records basic information about a person's identity such as their name, aliases and the country in whose security forces they serve.
 - :ref:`posting`: data about a person's career in the security forces, including the units to which they've been posted, their roles in those units, ranks and titles obtains.