- Industry: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
1. All action taken to retain materiel in or to restore it to a specified condition. It includes: inspection, testing, servicing, classification as to serviceability, repair, rebuilding, and reclamation. 2. All supply and repair action taken to keep a force in condition to carry out its mission.
Industry:Military
1. any sequence of activity that an individual member or a military unit may follow; 2. in wargaming, the possible COAs available to each warring party are explored along with their respective consequences and the reactions of the other parties. 2. A possible plan open to an individual or commander that would accomplish or is related to accomplishment of the mission. 3. A feasible way to accomplish a task or mission which follows the guidance given, will not result in undue damage/ risk to the command, and is noticeably different from other actions being considered.
Industry:Military
1. in national armed forces, the TOE details the authorized levels of personnel and major equipment in formations and their subunits (nominal or "paper" strengths) and defines the order of battle;
2. under the UN standby arrangements system, the tables of organization and equipment list the standard components from which can be constructed peace-keeping operations, provide guidelines on tasks, organization, size and equipment, etc. see also: order of battle; building block
Industry:Military
1. in the recovery system, evacuation is the movement of equipment casualties (in or out of theatre) within a logistics system; it is distinct from recovery. 2. The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/ or medical treatment facilities. see also: recovery
Industry:Military
1. interval between the receipt of a request for supplies at a depot and their delivery to the troops (syn. of "lead time"); 2. the time during which an equipment is not available because of maintenance.
Industry:Military
1. map, chart or graph representing data of any sort; 2. representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a position on a map or a chart; 3. visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant in time.
Industry:Military
1. military operations: daily list of missions which includes take-off and landing times, air refueling tracks, the quantity of fuel to be transferred, altitudes to be flown as well as assigned targets; one is posted in the squadron room while a more detailed one is given to the aircrew; 2. movement control: form detailing a flight itinerary (location, ETD and ETA), cargo information (dimensions, weight, number of pieces) and passenger information (UNID, rank and name, etc.)
Industry:Military
1. of boundary lines, cease-fire lines and zones of separation on the ground; 2. of permanent border.
Industry:Military
1. set of principles to be followed by peace-keeping forces, such as avoidance of force, impartiality, transparency and clarity of purpose, firmness, reliability, anticipation of situations leading to violence, integration of different nationalities; 2. the ICRC and NGO associations have also promulgated one, to regulate the performance of organizations involved in emergency relief.
Industry:Military
1. support given by a member State from its own integral logistic unit directly to its contingent deployed on a UN operation; 2. stocks held or obtained within the mission area, to replenish first line holdings as they are consumed.
Industry:Military
