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Military Terms And Symbology Flashcards

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What does secure mean?

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A tactical mission task that involves PREVENTING a unit, facility, or geographical location FROM BEING DAMAGED OR DESTROYED as a result of enemy action

  • physical occupation not required
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What does seize mean?

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To employ combat forces to OCCUPY PHYSICALLY and to CONTROL a designated area

  • Must physically occupy the ground
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What does clear mean?

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A tactical mission task that requires the CDR to REMOVE ALL ENEMY FORCES AND ELIMINATE ORGANIZED RESISTANCE within an assigned area

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What does delay mean?

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To SLOW the time of arrival of enemy forces or capabilities or alter the ability of the enemy or adversary to project forces or capabilities

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What does disrupt mean?

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A tactical mission in which a commander INTEGRATES DIRECT AND INDIRECT FIRES, TERRAIN, AND OBSTACLES to upset an enemy’s formation or tempo, interrupt his timetable or cause enemy forces to commit prematurely or attack in piecemeal fashion

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What does on order mean?

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A mission which the force WILL ACCOMPLISH at a later time; 2nd in priority to any primary mission for planning; include in para 2 of OPORD

  • will accomplish (later)
  • in para 2 of OPORD
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What does be prepared mean?

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A mission in which the force MAY ACCOMPLISH at a later time; next in priority to any on order mission for planning; not included in para 2 of OPORD

  • may accomplish
  • not included in para 2
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What does destroy mean?

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To render the opposing force combat ineffective unless reconstituted

PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION over psychological destruction

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What does defeat mean?

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Occurs when an enemy force has TEMPORARY or permanently lost the physical means or the will to fight

May or may not entail the destruction of any part of the enemy force

PSYCHOLOGICAL over physical destruction

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What does screen mean?

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To provide early warning for the main body by maintaining contact w the opposing force

Does not become decisively engaged (loses the ability to maneuver)

Uses R and S OPs w the ability to execute indirect fires on opposing force

Normally w/in indirect fire support range of the main body force

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What does guard mean?

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To prevent ground observation, direct fire, or surprise attack on the main body force

Can accept decisive engagement

Normally w/in indirect fire support range of the main body

Guard forces may req augmentation to provide sufficient combat power for mission task success

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Symbols:

  • Circle or rectangle
  • diamond
  • square
  • quatrefoil (clover)
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Symbols:
- Circle or rectangle: friendly

  • diamond: hostile
  • square: neutral
  • quatrefoil (clover): ukn
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What is the physical domain?

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Primary mission area for the obj being represented (air, land, sea)

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Status

  • solid line
  • dashed line
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  • solid line: present status

- dashed line: anticipated, planned, or suspected

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What is the standard identity?

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The relationship of the symbol being represented to friendly forces

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Color fill:

  • blue
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
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  • blue: friendly
  • red: enemy
  • green: neutral
  • yellow: UKN
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What are modifiers?

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  • pictorial or alphanumeric representation
  • provide additional info about symbol
  • further define function/role of mil symbol being displayed
  • Inside the frame
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What are amplifiers?

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  • provide additional info about the symbol
  • further define the function/role of mil symbol being displayed
  • Outside the frame
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What are the sectors of framed symbols?

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They are split into 3 sections: bottom, middle, top

Top (sector 1)
Middle (main icon)
Bottom (sector 2)

Done on friendly, enemy, neutral and ukn frames

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What are vertical bounding octagon

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They are split into 3 sections: bottom, middle, top

Left (sector 1)
Middle (main icon)
Right (sector 2)

Done on friendly, enemy, neutral and ukn frames

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What does a unit icon provide?

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An abstract pictorial or alphanumeric representation of the function or role of the military symbol

22
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What does infantry symbol look like?

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Has an x in the middle

  • ABN has bird wings in bottom
  • AA has V in bottom
  • Mec/armor has oval in x
  • mec/aromr w gun system has oval in x with vertical line on left side
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What does armor symbol look like

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Just has the oval in the middle

- wheeled armor: oval with 3 wheels under

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What does aviation symbol look like?

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Rotary wing: bow tie in the middle

- medevac: bow tie w cross above

25
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What does recon, calv and scout symbols look like?

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Back slash across

- armored: oval with back slash

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What does FA symbol look like?

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Black dot in center

27
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What does engineer symbol look like?

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E facing down in the middle

28
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What does CBRN look like?

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Crossed clubs

29
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What does medical symbol look like?

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Medical: cross in middle

  • MTF: cross with small hash marks on L and R
  • vet: V in LLQ
  • Dental: D in LLQ
  • Psych: P in LLQ
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What does Air defense look like?

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Frowny face

31
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What do MI and MP look like?

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MI in the middle

MP in the middle

32
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What does signal look like?

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Lightning across symbol

33
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What does med supply look like?

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Cross with a rectangle at bottom

34
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What does transportation look like?

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Wagon wheel

35
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What does ranger look like?

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X in middle with abn wings in bottom and R in top

36
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Sector 1 Modifiers:

  • sensor
  • med evac
  • video
  • armor
  • sniper
  • attack
  • chem
  • Smoke
A

all in top middle

  • sensor: diamond
  • med evac: cross
  • video: camera
  • armored: oval
  • sniper: cross hairs
  • attack: A
  • Chem: C
  • Smoke: S
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Sector 2 modifiers

  • ABN
  • AA
  • Mountain
  • Tracked
  • Wheeled
  • Light
  • Medium
  • Heavy
A

All modifiers are in middle bottom

  • ABN: wings
  • AA: V
  • Mountain: Triangle
  • Tracked: oval
  • Wheeled: wheeled ooo
  • Light: L
  • Medium: M
  • Heavy: H
38
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Where are graphic amplifiers?

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Top of symbol outside

39
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What are the echelon indicator amplifiers?

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top outside symbol

I: company
II: BTN
X: Brigade 
XX: division/command
XXX: corps
XXXX: army
O (w line through it) team/crew
O (filled in) squad
OO (filled in) section
OOO (filled in) platoon/detachment
40
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Where does the unit name amplifier go?

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Left side middle (outside)

Above: Company/unique unit/higher unit
below: higher unit formation (corps)

41
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What are control measure symbols?

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Graphics used on maps and displays to regulate forces and warfighting functions. Used to:

  • assigned responsibilities
  • coordinated fire and maneuver
  • control combat operations
42
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Control measure symbols include?

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  • Boundaries
  • Lines
  • Areas
  • Points
43
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How are control measures organized?

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By the 6 warfighting functions

  • targets
  • CBRN attacks/events
  • Mission command
  • Movement and maneuver
  • Fires
  • Protection
  • sustainment
  • intelligence
44
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What is the process for building control measure symbols?

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  1. Choose appropriate symbol
  2. Choose appropriate template w all poss amplifiers
  3. Choose appropriate amplifier information by field
  4. Choose the next appropriate amplifier information by field
  5. Choose the appropriate framed icon
45
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What are the offensive control measures symbols?

  • airborne
  • aviation
  • supporting attack
  • main attack

Enemy
- axis of advance

A
  • airborne: arrow that curves and twists
  • aviation (main attack) single line arrow w bowtie that has heavy >
  • supporting attack: blue curved arrow
  • main attack: blue curved arrow with heave >
  • enemy axis of attack: red curved arrow or black arrow with ENV in it
46
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What are the mission command control measures?

  • coordination point
  • decision point
  • general or unspecified point
  • checkpoint
  • Start point
  • release point
  • linkup point
  • rally point
A
  • coordination point: blue Circle X
  • decision point: Blue star
  • general or unspecified point: point marker
  • checkpoint: point marker w CKP
  • Start point: point marker w SP
  • release point: point marker w RP
  • linkup point: point marker w LU
  • rally point: point marker w RLY
47
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What are the obstacle control measures?

  • mined area
  • completed antitank ditch
  • high wire fence
  • single strand concertina
  • double strand concertina
  • triple strand concertina
A

All are green

  • mined area: circle w M in the line
  • completed antitank ditch: downpointed triangle
  • high wire fence: underline and overline X
  • single strand concertina: underline o
  • double strand concertina: underline o with line through it
  • triple strand concertina: underline and overline o
48
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What are obstacle control measures

  • booby trap
  • antipersonal (AP) mines
  • completed minefield
  • planned minefield
  • antipersonnel minefield
  • antitank minefield
A

All are green

  • booby trap: circle triangle
  • antipersonal (AP) mines: alien head
  • completed minefield: solid line with empty circle in it
  • planned minefield: dotted line square w empty circle
  • antipersonnel minefield: solid line with alien heads
  • antitank minefield: solid line with filled in circles
49
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What are the sustainment control measures?

  • ambulance exchange point
  • cannibalization point
  • casualty collection point
  • civilian collection point
  • detainee collection point
  • enemy POW collection
  • logistical release point
  • maintenence collection point
A

Standard point marker

  • ambulance exchange point: AXP
  • cannibalization point: CAN
  • casualty collection point: CCP
  • civilian collection point: CIV
  • detainee collection point: DET
  • enemy POW collection: EPW
  • logistical release point: LRP
  • maintenence collection point: MCP

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