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glossary is intended to aid those unfamiliar with specific special
operations terminology.
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E & E. See Evasion and
Escape definition below.
E & R. Evasion and Recovery.
EAC. Emergency Action
Committee; usually used in the context of a NEO plan.
EALT. Earliest Anticipated
Launch Time.
EAM. National Liberation Front,
Greek communist resistance during World War II.
EAP. Emergency Action Plan.
Associated with NEO situations.
ECAS. Emergency Close Air
Support.
ECC. Evacuation Control
Center; used in NEO situations.
ECCM. Electronic
Counter-Countermeasures.
ECM. Electronic
Countermeasures.
ECOA. Enemy course of
action.
EDES. National Democratic Greek
League, Republican resistance during WWII.
EEFI. Essential elements of
friendly information.
EEI. Essential elements of
information.
EH. Electra House, UK Foreign
Office affiliated propaganda section set up in early stages of WWII.
EHF. Extremely High
Frequency.
ELINT. Electronic
Intelligence.
EMDCOA. Enemy most dangerous
course of action.
Emergency Locator Beacon. A
generic term for all radio beacons used for emergency locating purposes.
See CSEL.
EMI. Electromagnetic
Interference.
EMPCOA. Enemy most probable
course of action.
EMT. Effects Management
Tool.
EOB. Electronic order of
battle.
EOD. Explosive ordnance
disposal.
EPA. See Evasion Plan of Action.
EPW/CI. Enemy prisoner of
war / civilian internee.
EPB. Electronic preparation
of the battlespace.
EPW. Enemy Prisoner of War.
ESAT. USEUCOM Survey and
Assessment Team. Sent to European or African nations to do an early
assessment of NEO or disaster situations.
ESM. Electronic support
measures.
ETA. Estimated Time of
Arrival.
ETAC. Enlisted Tactical Air
Controller.
ETD. Estimated Time of
Departure.
EUCOM. U.S. European
Command.
Evasion Chart. Or EVC.
A large map of a certain part of the world designed to assist an evader.
Used by air crews, special operations forces, and the occasional CIA
agent.
Evasion and Escape. The
procedures and operations whereby military personnel and other selected
individuals are enabled to emerge from enemy-held or hostile areas to
areas under friendly control.
Evasion Plan of Action. Also
EPA. "A course of action, developed prior to executing a mission,
which is intended to improve a potential evader's chances of successful
evasion and recovery by providing recovery forces with an additional
source of information that can increase the predictability of the evader's
actions and movement". (JP 3-50.2).
EVC. See Evasion Chart
above.
EVENTEMP. Event template.
EW. Electronic warfare.
Any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed
energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or attack the enemy.
(JP 1020).
EXCHECK. Execution
Checklist. Used to sychronize and track ongoing operations. A
chronological sequence of events for a specific operation.
Exfiltration. "The removal of
personnel or units from areas under enemy control by stealth, deception,
surprise, or clandestine means". (JP 1-02). Sometimes referred
to as "exfil".
Exotic Dancer. 1) A young woman
dancing in one of the "gentlemen's clubs" in downtown Fayetteville. In the
1960s and 1970s Hay Street was the place to be on a Friday and Saturday
night (if you were single and did not have a date. 2) Name of a
field training exercise run by 7th Special Forces Group in southeastern
United States.
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