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Military schools - Glossary of military school terms Category: Military and Defence > Glossary of military school terms Date & country: 10/11/2010, USA Words: 396

Backup Aircraft Authorization
DOD) Aircraft over and above the primary aircraft authorized to permit scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, modifications, and inspections and repair without reduction of aircraft available for the operational mission.

Bale Cubic Capacity
(DOD, NATO) The space available for cargo measured in cubic feet to the inside of the cargo battens, on the frames, and to the underside of the beams.

Ballistic Trajectory
(DOD, NATO) The trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acted upon only by gravity and aerodynamic drag.

Basic military route network
(DOD, NATO) Axial, lateral, and connecting routes designated in peacetime by the host nation to meet the anticipated military movements and transport requirements, both allied and national.

Basic undertakings
(DOD) The essential things, expressed in broad terms, that must be done in order to implement the commander's concept successfully. These may include military, diplomatic, economic, psychological, and other measures.

Battery (troop) left (right)
(DOD) A method of fire in which weapons are discharged from the left (right), one after the other, at five second intervals.

Beach landing site
(DOD) A geographic location selected for across-the-beach infiltration, exfiltration, or resupply operations.

Beam attack
(DOD) In air intercept, an attack by an interceptor aircraft attack which terminates with a heading crossing angle greater than 45 degrees but less than 135 degrees.

Beleaguered
See missing.

Bilateral infrastructure
(DOD, NATO) Infrastructure which concerns only two NATO members and is financed by mutual agreement between them (e.g., facilities required for the use of forces of one NATO member in the territory of another).

Binary chemical munition
(DOD, NATO) A munition in which chemical substances, held in separate containers, react when mixed or combined as a result of being fired, launched or otherwise initiated to produce a chemical agent.

Biological warfare
See biological operation

Blast wave diffraction
(DOD, NATO) The passage around and envelopment of a structure by the nuclear blast wave.

Brometric Altitude
(DOD, NATO) The altitude determined by a barometric altimeter by reference to a pressure level and calculated according to the standard atmosphere laws.

Calibrated focal length
(DOD, NATO) An adjusted value of the equivalent focal length, so computed as to equalize the positive and negative values of distortion over the entire field used in a camera.

Camera axis direction
(DOD, NATO) Direction on the horizontal plane of the optical axis of the camera at the time of exposure. This direction is defined by its azimuth expressed in degrees in relation to true/magnetic north.

Cancel check firing
(DOD) The order to rescind check firing.

Cantilever lifting frame
(DOD) Used to move Navy lighterage causeway systems on to and off of lighter aboard ship (LASH) vessels. This device is suspended from the Morgan LASH barge crane and can lift one causeway section at a time. It is designed to allow the long sections to clear the rear of the ship as they are lowered into the water.

Capacity load (Navy)
(DOD) The maximum quantity of all supplies (ammunition; petroleum, oils, and lubricants; rations; general stores; maintenance stores; etc.) which each vessel can carry in proportions prescribed by proper authority.

Cartridge actuated device
(DOD) Small explosive devices used to eject stores from launched devices, actuate other explosive systems, or provide initiation for aircrew escape devices.

CDSO
See Counterdrug Support Office.

Central air data computer
(DOD, NATO) A device which computes altitude, vertical speed, air speed and mach number from inputs of pitot and static pressure and temperature.

Chalk commander
(DOD, NATO) The commander of all troops embarked under one chalk number.

Check port/starboard
(DOD) In air intercept, a term meaning, "Alter heading ____ degrees to port/starboard momentarily for airborne radar search and then resume heading."

CIRVIS
(DOD) Communications instructions for reporting vital intelligence sightings.

Civil censorship
(DOD) Censorship of civilian communications, such as messages, printed matter, and films, entering, leaving, or circulating within areas or territories occupied or controlled by armed forces.

Civil engineering support plan
(DOD) An appendix to the Logistics annex or separate annex of an operation plan that identifies the minimum essential engineering services and construction requirements required to support the commitment of military forces.

CJCS Memorandum of Policy
See Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum of Policy.

Clear weather air defense fighter
(DOD, NATO) A fighter aircraft with equipment and weapons which enable it to engage airborne targets by day and by night, but in clear weather conditions only.

Close-controlled air interception
(DOD, NATO) An interception in which the interceptor is continuously controlled to a position from which the target is within visual range or radar contact.

Cluster bomb unit
(DOD, NATO) An aircraft store composed of a dispenser and submunitions.

Coastal convoy
(DOD, NATO) A convoy whose voyage lies in general on the continental shelf and in coastal waters.

Coastal frontier defense
(DOD) The organization of the forces and materiel of the armed forces assigned to provide security for the coastal frontiers of the continental United States and its overseas possessions.

Collection management
(DOD) The process of converting intelligence requirements into collection requirements, establishing priorities, tasking or coordinating with appropriate collection sources or agencies, monitoring results and retasking, as required. See also collection; collection agency; collection requirement; collection requirements management.

Collision course interception
(DOD) An interception which is accomplished by the constant heading of both aircraft.

Combat area
(DOD) A restricted area (air, land, or sea) which is established to prevent or minimize mutual interference between friendly forces engaged in combat operations.

Combat surveillance radar
(DOD) Radar with the normal function of maintaining continuous watch over a combat area.

DADCAP
(DOD) Dawn and dusk combat air patrol.

Damage assessment
(DOD, NATO) 1. The determination of the effect of attacks on targets. (DOD) 2. A determination of the effect of a compromise of classified information on national security.

Dangerously exposed waters
(DOD, NATO) The sea area adjacent to a severely threatened coastline. (NATO)

DART
(DOD) See Disaster Assistance Response Team.

DASC
See direct air support center.

Date-time group
(DOD) The date and time, expressed in digits and zone suffix, the message was prepared for transmission. (Expressed as six digits followed by the zone suffix; first pair of digits denotesthe date, second pair the hours, third pair the minutes.)

Datum error (antisubmarine warfare)
(DOD) An estimate of the degree of accuracy in the reported position of datum.

DDG
See guided missile destroyer.

Debarkation schedule
(DOD, NATO) A schedule which provides for the timely and orderly debarkation of troops and equipment and emergency supplies for the waterborne ship-to-shore movement.

Deception course of action
(DOD) A deception scheme developed during the estimate process in sufficient detail to permit decisionmaking. At a minimum, a deception course of action will identify the deception objective, the deception target, the desired perception, the deception story, and tentative deception means.

Decrypt
(DOD) To convert encrypted text into its equivalent plain text by means of a cryptosystem. (This does not include solution by cryptanalysis.) (Note: The term "decrypt" covers the meanings of "decipher" and "decode.")

DEFCON
See defense readiness conditions.

Defense Communications System
(DOD) Department of Defense long-haul voice, data, and record traffic system which includes the Defense Data Network, Defense Satellite Communications System, and Defense Switched Network.

Defensive sea area
(DOD) A sea area, usually including the approaches to and the waters of important ports, harbors, bays, or sounds, for the control and protection of shipping; for the safeguarding of defense installations bordering on waters of the areas; and for provision of other security measures required within the specified areas. It does not extend seaward b...

De jure boundary
(DOD, NATO) An international or administrative boundary whose existence and legality is recognized.

Demilitarized zone
(DOD, NATO) A defined area in which the stationing, or concentrating of military forces, or the retention or establishment of military installations of any description, is prohibited.

Demolition tool kit
(DOD, NATO) The tools, materials and accessories of a nonexplosive nature necessary for preparing demolition charges.

Deployed nuclear weapons
(DOD) 1. When used in connection with the transfer of weapons between the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, this term describes those weapons transferred to and in the custody of the Department of Defense. 2. Those nuclear weapons specifically authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be transferred to the custody of the storage...

Desired ground zero
(DOD, NATO) The point on the surface of the Earth at, or vertically below or above, the center of a planned nuclear detonation. See also actual ground zero; ground zero.

Detailed photographic report
(DOD, NATO) A comprehensive, analytical, intelligence report written as a result of the interpretation of photography usually covering a single subject, a target, target complex, and of a detailed nature.

DEW
See directed-energy warfare.

Diplomatic authorization
(DOD, NATO) Authority for overflight or landing obtained at government-to-government level through diplomatic channels.

Directed exercise
See JCS-directed exercise.

Direct liaison authorized
(DOD) That authority granted by a commander (any level) to a subordinate to directly consult or coordinate an action with a command or agency within or outside of the granting command. Direct liaison authorized is more applicable to planning than operations and always carries with it the requirement of keeping the commander granting direct liaison...

DIRLAUTH
See direct liaison authorized.

DISN
(DOD) See Defense Information Systems Network.

Dispersed movement pattern
(DOD, NATO) A pattern for ship-to-shore movement which provides additional separation of landing craft both laterally and in depth. This pattern is used when nuclear weapon threat is a factor.

EALT
See earliest anticipated launch time.

Earliest anticipated launch time
(DOD) The earliest time expected for a special operations tactical element and its supporting platform to depart the staging or marshalling area together en route to the operations area.

Earmarking of stocks
(DOD, NATO) The arrangement whereby nations agree, normally in peacetime, to identify a proportion of selected items of their war reserve stocks to be called for by specified NATO commanders.

Echeloned displacement
(DOD, NATO) Movement of a unit from one position to another without discontinuing performance of its primary function. (DOD) Normally, the unit divides into two functional elements (base and advance and, while the base continues to operate, the advance element displaces to a new site where, after it becomes operational, it is joined by the base el...

EEFI
See essential elements of friendly information.

Electro-explosive device
(DOD) An explosive or pyrotechnic component that initiates an explosive, burning, electrical, or mechanical train and is activated by the application of electrical energy.

Electronic reconnaissance
(DOD) The detection, identification, evaluation, and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations emanating from other than nuclear detonations or radioactive sources.

Electro-optical intelligence
(DOD) Intelligence other than signals intelligence derived from the optical monitoring of the electromagnetic spectrum from ultraviolet (0.01 micrometers) through far infrared (1,000 micrometers).

ELINT
(DOD) See electronic intelligence.

EMCON
See emission control.

Emergency relocation site
(DOD) A site located where practicable outside a prime target area to which all or portions of a civilian or military headquarters may be moved. As a minimum, it is manned to provide for the maintenance of the facility, communications, and data base. It should be capable of rapid activation, of supporting the initial requirements of the relocated ...

Emission control
(DOD) The selective and controlled use of electromagnetic, acoustic, or other emitters to optimize command and control capabilities while minimizing, for operations security: a. detection by enemy sensors; b. minimize mutual interference among friendly systems; and/or c. execute a military deception plan.

Encipher
(DOD) To convert plain text into unintelligible form by means of a cipher system.

Enemy capabilities
(DOD) Those courses of action of which the enemy is physically capable, and that, if adopted, will affect accomplishment of our mission. The term "capabilities" includes not only the general courses of action open to the enemy, such as attack, defense, or withdrawal, but also all the particular courses of action possible under each general course ...

EPA
(DOD) See evasion plan of action.

Espionage against the United States
(DOD) Overt, covert, or clandestine activity designed to obtain information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that it will be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation. For espionage crimes see Chapter 37 of Title 18, United States Code.

Essential industry
(DOD) Any industry necessary to the needs of a civilian or war economy. The term includes the basic industries as well as the necessary portions of those other industries that transform the crude basic raw materials into useful intermediate or end products, e.g., the iron and steel industry, the food industry, and the chemical industry.

ETAC
See enlisted terminal attack controller.

Facility substitutes
(DOD) Items such as tents and prepackaged structures requisitioned through the supply system that may be used to substitute for constructed facilities.

Fallout contours
(DOD, NATO) Lines joining points which have the same radiation intensity that define a fallout pattern, represented in terms of roentgens per hour.

Fallout safe height of burst
(DOD) The height of burst at or above which no militarily significant fallout will be reproduced as a result of a nuclear weapon detonation.

Farm gate type operations
(DOD) Operational assistance and specialized tactical training provided a friendly foreign air force by the United States Armed Forces to include, under certain specified conditions, the flying of operational missions in combat by combined United States/foreign aircrews as a part of the training being given when such missions are beyond the capabi...

Feasibility test
(DOD) An operation plan review criteria to determine whether or not a plan is within the capacity of the resources that can be made available. See also logistic implications test.

FEBA
See forward edge of the battle area.

FFE
See flame field expedients.

Field artillery observer
(DOD) A person who watches the effects of artillery fire, adjusts the center of impact of that fire onto a target, and reports the results to the firing agency.

Field press censorship
(DOD) The security review of news material subject to the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces of the United States, including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public.

Fighting Falcon
(DOD) A single engine, supersonic, turbofan, all-weather multipurpose tactical fighter/bomber. It is capable of employing nuclear/nonnuclear weapons. Air superiority is its primary mission with air interdiction and close air support as secondary. An air refueling capability increases its flexibility. Designated as F-16.

FIM-92A
See Stinger.

Final protective fire
(DOD, NATO) An immediately available prearranged barrier of fire designed to impede enemy movement across defensive lines or areas.

Fire capabilities chart
(DOD, NATO) A chart, usually in the form of an overlay, showing the areas which can be reached by the fire of the bulk of the weapons of a unit.

Fire for effect
See call for fire.

Firepower umbrella
(DOD, NATO) An area of specified dimensions defining the boundaries of the airspace over a naval force at sea within which the fire of ships' antiaircraft weapons can endanger aircraft, and within which special procedures have been established for the identification and operation of friendly aircraft.

Fire support coordinating measure
(DOD) A measure employed by land or amphibious commanders to facilitate the rapid engagement of targets and simultaneously provide safeguards for friendly forces.

Fire task
See fire mission.

First salvo at
(DOD) In naval gunfire support, a portion of a ship's message to an observer or spotter to indicate that because of proximity to troops, the ship will not fire at the target but offset the first salvo a specific distance from the target.