Defense and military terminology · MLC-0115

Defense and military terms: P (96)

• paramilitary forcesArmed forces or groups distinct from the conventional armed forces of any country, but resembling them in...
• partial mobilizationExpansion of the active Armed Forces of the United States resulting from action by Congress (up to full...
• partner nation1. A nation with which the United States cooperates in a specific situation or operation.
• passage of linesAn operation in which a force moves forward or rearward through another force’s combat positions with the...
• pathway defeatActivities to dissuade, deter, delay, disrupt, destroy, deny, and assure to complicate conceptualization...
• patientA sick, injured, wounded, or other person receiving medical care, dental care, or other medical treatment.
• patient movementThe act or process of moving a sick, injured, wounded, or other person to obtain medical or dental care or...
• patient movement itemsApproved safe-to-fly medical equipment and supplies required to support patients during evacuation.
• patient movement policyCommand decision establishing the maximum number of days that patients may be held within the command for...
• patient movement requirements center1. A joint activity that coordinates patient movement by functionally merging of joint medical regulating...
• peace buildingSteps that strengthen and rebuild a society’s institutions, infrastructure, and civic life to avoid a relapse...
• peace enforcementThe use or threat of military force to enforce compliance with resolutions or sanctions for maintaining or...
• peace operationsMultiagency, unilateral, or multinational actions involving all instruments of national power to restore...
• peacekeepingMilitary operations, conducted with the consent of the parties to a dispute, to monitor and assist in...
• peacemakingThe process of diplomacy, mediation, negotiation, or other forms of peaceful settlements that arranges an end...
• permissive environmentUncontested conditions in which joint forces have freedom of movement.
• persistent agentA chemical agent that is able to cause casualties for hours or longer.
• persistent mineA land mine that remains a hazard indefinitely.
• personal effectsAll privately owned moveable, personal property of an individual.
• personal locator beaconAn emergency device carried by individuals to assist locating during personnel recovery.
• personal propertyProperty of any kind or any interest therein, except real property; military-issued equipment/gear; records...
• personal protective equipmentMission-specific protective equipment provided to shield or isolate personnel from hazards.
• personal staffAides and staff officers handling special matters over which the commander wishes to exercise close personal...
• personnel accountabilityThe process for recording and communicating the location and status of personnel.
• personnel recoveryThe sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to prepare for and execute the recovery and reintegration...
• personnel recovery coordination cellThe primary joint force component organization responsible for coordinating and controlling component...
• personnel recovery eventA situation that meets the criteria of an isolated person and may commit or apply Department of Defense...
• phaseIn planning, a definitive stage of a campaign or operation during which a large portion of the forces and...
• phase lineAn easily identified feature in the operational area utilized for control and coordination of military...
• phony minefieldAn area free of live mines used to simulate a minefield, or section of a minefield, with the object of...
• physical damage assessmentThe estimate of the quantitative extent of physical damage to a target.
• physical securityThat part of security concerned with physical measures designed to safeguard personnel; to prevent...
• planning and directionIn intelligence usage, the determination and prioritization of intelligence requirements, preparation of...
• planning factorA multiplier used in planning to estimate the amount and type of effort involved in a contemplated operation.
• planning orderA planning directive that provides essential planning guidance and directs the development, adaptation, or...
• planning phaseIn amphibious operations, the period from receipt of the initiating directive until the amphibious force...
• planning teamA functional element within a headquarters established to solve problems related to a specific task or...
• point defenseEmployment of defense measures to protect limited areas.
• point of employmentIn distribution operations, a physical location designated by the commander at the tactical level where force...
• point of needIn distribution operations, a physical location within a desired operational area designated by the...
• point of originIn distribution operations, the beginning point of a deployment, redeployment, or movement where forces or...
• pointee-talkeeA language aid containing selected phrases in English opposite a translation in a foreign language used by...
• population at riskThe strength in personnel of a given force structure in terms of which casualty rates are stated.
• port of embarkationThe geographic point in a routing scheme from which cargo or personnel depart.
• port operations groupA task-organized unit, located at the seaport of embarkation and/or debarkation that assists and provides...
• port securityThe safeguarding of vessels, harbors, ports, waterfront facilities, and cargo from internal threats such as...
• port support activityA tailorable support organization composed of mobilization station assets that ensures the equipment of the...
• positive controlA method of airspace control that relies on positive identification, tracking, and communicating with...
• positive identificationAn identification derived from observation and analysis of target characteristics, including visual...
• post-contract award oversightThe non-acquisition function to monitor and report contract execution as it relates to unit-mission readiness.
• post-isolation support activitiesThe debriefing of a non-Department of Defense-recovered person combined with activities to promote or support...
• post-launch abortDeliberate action taken post-separation to cause a precision munition to miss its target.
• precipitation staticCharged precipitation particles that strike antennas and gradually charge the antenna, which ultimately...
• precision-guided munitionA guided weapon intended to destroy a point target and minimize collateral damage.
• preferred forcesSpecific units that are identified to provide assumptions essential for continued planning and assessing the...
• prelanding operationsOperations conducted by the amphibious force upon its arrival in the amphibious objective area or operational...
• prepare to deploy orderAn order to a force provider to have a unit ready and to deploy within a specified response time.
• preplanned air supportAir support in accordance with a program, planned in advance of operations.
• pre-positioned war reserve stockThe assets that are designated to satisfy the pre-positioned war reserve materiel requirement.
• Presidential Reserve Call-upProvision of a public law (Title 10, United States Code, Section 12304) that provides the President a means...
• pressure mine1. In land mine warfare, a mine having a fuze that responds to the direct pressure of a target.
• prevention of mutual interferenceIn submarine operations, procedures to prevent collisions between friendly submarines; submarines and surface...
• preventive medicineThe anticipation, communication, prediction, identification, prevention, education, risk assessment, and...
• primary control officerIn amphibious operations, the officer embarked in a primary control ship assigned to control the movement of...
• primary control shipIn amphibious operations, a ship of the task force designated to support the primary control officer.
• prime contractA contract or contractual action entered into by the United States Government to obtain supplies, materials...
• prime vendorA contracting process that provides commercial products to regionally grouped military and federal customers...
• principal federal officialThe federal official designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security to act as a local representative to...
• principal officerThe officer in charge of a diplomatic mission, consular office, or other foreign service post, such as a...
• priority designatorA two-digit issue and priority code placed in military standard requisitioning and issue procedure...
• priority intelligence requirementThe intelligence component of commander’s critical information requirements used to focus the employment of...
• prisoner of warA detained person (as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of...
• privity of contractThe legal relationship that exists between two contracting parties.
• probability of damageThe likelihood that damage will occur to a target expressed as a percentage or as a decimal.
• procedural controlA method of airspace control which relies on a combination of previously agreed and promulgated orders and...
• procedural identificationAn identification based on observation and analysis of target behaviors, including location and trajectory...
• procedure wordA word or phrase limited to radio telephone procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying...
• process ownerThe head of a Department of Defense component assigned a responsibility by the Secretary of Defense when...
• processingA system of operations designed to convert raw data into useful information.
• processing and exploitationIn intelligence usage, the conversion of collected information into forms suitable to the production of...
• procurement lead timeThe interval in time between the initiation of procurement action and receipt of the products or services...
• procuring contracting officerA contracting officer who initiates and signs the contract.
• production baseThe total national industrial production capacity available for the manufacture of items to meet materiel...
• production requirementA tasking to produce a new analytical product in response to an intelligence requirement.
• production requirements matrixA compilation of prioritized, combatant command, all-source intelligence analysis and production requirements...
• prolonged carePatient care for extended periods of time when evacuation or mission requirements surpass available...
• prompt radiationRadiation emitted from the fireball of a nuclear burst within one minute after burst.
• proofIn mine warfare, to verify that a breached or cleared lane is free of live mines by passing vehicle or vessel...
• protected frequenciesFriendly, generally time-oriented, frequencies used for a particular operation, identified and protected to...
• protected persons/placesPersons (such as enemy prisoners of war) and places (such as hospitals) that enjoy special protections under...
• protectionPreservation of the effectiveness and survivability of mission-related military and nonmilitary personnel...
• protection of shippingThe use of proportionate force, when necessary, for the protection of United States flag vessels and...
• protective minefield1. In land mine warfare, a minefield employed to assist a unit in its local, close-in protection.
• provincial reconstruction teamA civil-military team that supports a host nation in providing security to its citizens and delivering...
• public affairsCommunication activities with external and internal audiences.
• public informationIn public affairs, information of a military nature approved for public release.

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