Defense and military terminology · MLC-0115
Defense and military terms: W (20)
- walking blood bankThe process of obtaining warm fresh blood (non-Food and Drug Administration compliant) from screened donors...
- warning intelligenceThose intelligence activities intended to detect and report time-sensitive intelligence information on...
- warning order1. A preliminary notice of an order or action that is to follow.
- wartime reserve modesCharacteristics and operating procedures of sensor, communications, navigation aids, threat recognition...
- Washington Liaison GroupAn organization consisting of Department of State and Department of Defense personnel, chaired by a...
- waterspace managementIn antisubmarine warfare, the allocation of waterspace to permit the engagement of hostile submarines while...
- waveA formation of forces, including landing craft, amphibious vehicles, or aircraft, scheduled to land about the...
- weapon engagement zoneA defined airspace in which a particular weapon system engages air and missile threats.
- weapon systemA combination of one or more weapons with all related equipment, materials, services, personnel, and means of...
- weaponeerAn individual who has completed requisite training to determine the means required to create a desired effect...
- weaponeeringThe process of determining the specific means required to create a desired effect on a given target.
- weapons control statusAn air and missile defense control measure declared for a particular area and time by an area air defense...
- weapons free zoneAn air defense zone established for the protection of key assets or facilities, other than air bases, where...
- weapons of mass destructionChemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons capable of a high order of destruction or causing mass...
- weapons of mass destruction defeatActivities designed to control, defeat, disable, and dispose of extant weapons of mass destruction and the...
- weapons readiness stateThe degree of readiness of weapons that can be launched to carry out an assigned task, normally expressed in...
- wing1. An Air Force unit composed normally of one primary mission group and the necessary supporting...
- working capital fundA revolving fund established to finance inventories of supplies and other stores, or to provide working...
- working groupAn enduring or ad hoc organization within a headquarters consisting of a core functional group and other...
- wounded warrior programsA system of support and advocacy to guide and assist the wounded, ill, and injured Service members and family...
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