reception

{
  "id": "MLC-T-DEF-001368",
  "term": "reception",
  "field": "Defense and military",
  "definition": "1. All ground arrangements connected with the delivery and disposition of air or sea drops.\n\n2. Arrangements to welcome and provide secure quarters or transportation for defectors, escapees, evaders, or incoming agents.\n\n3. 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.",
  "references": [
    "JP 3-35"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/defense/reception/"
}