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- AAR-54 [r]: Using multiple ultraviolet sensors, this is an missile exhaust detector and alarm [e]
- Air Force One [r]: The air traffic control callsign indicating an aircraft carrying the United States President. [e]
- Air Mobility Command [r]: The organization responsible for readiness of United States Air Force transport and air refueling aircraft, which report, for operations, to United States Transportation Command [e]
- Air mobility [r]: The set of disciplines, resources and techniques required for the rapid air movement of military forces and their equipment. Air assault, in which the air movement takes troops into battle, is a subset. [e]
- Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. [e]
- Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
- Aircraft [r]: A vehicle capable of sustained flight within the Earth's atmosphere. [e]
- Combat loading [r]: A method of loading cargo into ships that will carry it to amphibious landing sites, such that can be unloaded in a manner optimized to meet the operational needs of combat rather than maximizing the utilization of the ship's cargo space [e]
- Combat service support [r]: Those military functions that sustain combat units, including but not limited to supply, maintenance, transportation, finance, general construction, health services, etc. [e]
- Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Eighteenth Air Force [r]: The intermediate United States Air Force command that is responsible for air refueling and transport aircraft for the operations of United States Transportation Command [e]
- Intermodal container [r]: Standard sized containers for shipping cargo on multiple modes of transport [e]
- M1 Abrams (tank) [r]: Heavily armed and armored but expensive and heavy, main battle tank, designed for the United States Army, and used by the United States Marine Corps and several allies; proven from the Gulf War onwards. [e]
- National Command Authority [r]: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
- Prepositioning ship [r]: Military cargo ships, normally in squadrons of several vessels, that are prepositioned at secure forward locations, in order to speed delivery of sustainment supplies to the initial forces landed by air or from combat amphibious warfare ships. [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
- United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [e]
- United States Pacific Command [r]: The U.S. Unified Combatant Command, headquartered in Hawaii, and responsible for the Pacific and East Asia [e]
