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reception

Term Source: JP 3-35 (Deployment and Redeployment Operations) ?

1.) Arrangements to welcome and provide secure quarters or transportation for defectors, escapees, evaders, or incoming agents.

2.) The process of receiving, off-loading, marshalling, accounting for, and transporting of personnel, equipment, and materiel from the strategic and/or intratheater deployment phase to a sea, air, or surface transportation point of debarkation to the marshalling area.

3.) All ground arrangements connected with the delivery and disposition of air or sea drops.

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In the United States, military vocabulary is standardized by the Department of Defence. These terms are used by the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

Term Classification: operations

Source:

Department of Defence, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Term sourced from JP 3-35: Deployment and Redeployment Operations, updated January 2013 View source document

This term is marked as active and was last updated in 2015


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