Also call ABI.Īct of mercy - In personnel recovery, assistance rendered to evaders by an individual or elements of the local population who sympathize or empathize with the evaders’ cause or plight. A function, mission, action, or collection of actions.Īctivity-based intelligence - An analytic method applied to structured data from multiple sources, to discover objects, relationships, or behaviors by resolving significant activity. A unit, organization, or installation performing a function or mission. See also active duty for training inactive duty training.Īctive duty for training - A tour of active duty that is used for training members of the Reserve Component to provide trained units and qualified persons to fill the needs of the Armed Forces of the United States in time of war or national emergency and such other times as the national security requires.Īctive Guard and Reserve - National Guard and Reserve members who are on voluntary active duty providing full-time support to National Guard, Reserve, and Active Component organizations for the purpose of organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the Reserve Components.Īctivity - 1. See also passive defense.Īctive duty - Full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including active duty or full-time training duty in the Reserve Component. See alsoĪctive defense - The employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks to deny a contested area or position to the enemy. See also amphibious force amphibious operation landing force mission.Īctivation - Order to active duty (other than for training) in the federal service. See also cross-servicing.Īction phase - In amphibious operations, the period of time between the arrival of the landing forces of the amphibious force in the operational area and the accomplishment of their mission. Also called ACINT.Īcquisition and cross-servicing agreement - Agreement, negotiated on a bilateral basis with countries or international organizations, that allow United States forces to exchange most common types of support, including food, fuel, transportation, ammunition, and equipment. exploitable proximity to or ability to approach an individual, facility, or information that enables target to carry out the intended mission.Īccompanying supplies - Unit supplies that deploy with forces.Īccountability - The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds.Īcoustic intelligence - Intelligence derived from the collection and processing of acoustic phenomena. a way or means of approach to identify a target or b. See also adequacy feasibility.Īccess - In counterintelligence and intelligence use, a.

LETTER A – TERMS AND DEFINITIONsĪcceptability - The plan review criterion for assessing whether the contemplated course of action is proportional, worth the cost, consistent with the law of war, and is militarily and politically supportable.

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