The Department of Defense (DoD) identifies Human Performance Optimization (HPO) and Total Force Fitness (TFF) as fundamental to ensuring appropriate targeting of resources, establishing competencies, and validating an operational return on investment in military communities. The HPO/TFF Capability-Based Blueprint (CBB) and Targeting System was developed to address these concerns at the unit and career field level. The CBB utilizes community-based participatory research principles and practices to identify health and performance priorities across the TFF domains (e.g. physical, psychological, and social) that are related to core tasks and unit mission essential task lists (METLs). The CBB consists of a combination of Rapid Qualitative Inquiry (RQI) data collection techniques, task simulations, and the construction of a Health and Career Field Sustainment survey in collaboration with career field stakeholders. This case study, conducted with Weapons Armament Systems career field members (2W1) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (DM) in 2021, exemplifies the CBB process from the first plenary meetings, through data capture and analysis, and the enacting of the action plan by base leadership. It also highlights how a community-based research process can provide a starting point for collaboration between career field, medical and embedded personnel to address unit/career field-specific health and performance priorities. In the three years that followed the CBB engagement at DM, career field and medical leadership as well as embedded health and performance assets enacted a musculoskeletal injury prevention program, a “Weapons Expert” course, updated guidance on vibration hazards, and the 355th Maintenance Group Center of Resilience on the flight line for all maintainers to use. The center includes a 24- hour gym, a kitchen, and access to a wide range of embedded health and performance assets, including an on-call chaplain to improve access to, and engagement with care. This case study illustrates the value of engaging a range of stakeholders as equal share collaborators in a research process in order to effectively transition results and address community health and performance needs.