ACP 121(H), COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTIONS GENERAL Flashcards
Communications requiring rapid delivery are normally prepared for transmission as brief and concise
what?
Messages
What is the command, formation, unit or headquarters on whose authority a message is sent?
Originator
Who is the person who actually composes the message for release by the Releasing Officer?
Drafter
Who is the person who authorizes the transmission for, and in the name of, the originator?
Releasing Officer
There are essentially how many types of military messages exchanged today?
Two
A message addressed to one organization was formerly referred to as a Single Address message if it was
addressed to a single Signal Message Address (SMA) in what Format Line?
7
Messages addressed to a collective address include what that have a wide standard distribution and are
controlled through the use of sequential serial numbers?
General Messages
Abbreviations and what else are used in messages in order to shorten the text, thereby saving
transmission time?
Short titles
Punctuation is not authorized to be in the SMA with the exception of the hyphen and the what?
Full stop
Date and time together are expressed as how many figures followed by the zone letter on a message?
Six
Messages containing cryptographic information, the knowledge of which needs to be restricted to
individuals authorized to receive it, are to be marked what?
CRYPTOSECURITY
The NATO military messaging system cannot/will not send or receive messages bearing what caveat?
ATOMAL
Messages intended for training communications personnel are what messages?
Drill
What shows the relative order in which the message is to be processed?
Precedence
The DTG is expressed as how many digits followed by a zone suffix?
Six