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A location in a mobility system where a movement requirement is originated, processed for onward movement, or terminated.
View Other Definitionstactical air control party
A subordinate operational component of a tactical air control system designed to provide air liaison to land forces and for the control of aircraft.
View Other Definitionsweapons of mass destruction
Chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons capable of a high order of destruction or causing mass casualties, and excluding the means of transporting or propelling the weapon where such means is a separable and divisible part from the weapon.
View Other Definitionsadministrative chain of command
One of the two branches of the chain of command described in Joint Publication 1, "Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States", through which command is exercised from the President through the Secretary of Defense to the Secretaries of the Military Departments, and from which forces are assigned to combatant commands to compose the operational command structure baseline.
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