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glossary is intended to aid those unfamiliar with specific special
operations terminology.
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MACVSOG. Military Assistance
Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group. A highly classified,
US Special Operations unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare
operations during the Vietnam War. See
MACVSOG at WikipediA.
MAFIA. Maneuver Aviation Fires
Integrated Application is a fire support application that allows Fire
Supporters at the company level, or maneuver small unit leaders to
accurately locate a target and then to engage the target with indirect
fire, close air support, or attack aviation. Read more on the
TRADOC website.
MAGTF. Marine Air-Ground
Task Force.
Maquis. French rural partisans
during World War II.
Maquisards. Members of the French
Maquis during World War II.
MASINT. Measurement and
Signature Intelligence.
MATA Course. See Military
Assistance and Training Advisor Course below.
MAW. Medium Antitank Weapon.
MBITR. Multiband Inter/Intra
Team Radio.
MC. Mobility Corridor.
MCM. Maneuver Control
Measure.
MCOO. Modified Combined
Obstacle Overlay.
MCS. Maneuver Control
System.
MCW/LRP. Meal, Cold Weather / Long
Range Patrol. Read about the nutritional value of the MCW/LRP at
http://hprc-online.org/comrad/
MDMP. Military Decision
Making Process.
MEDEVAC. Medical Evacuation.
Media. Transmitters of
information and psychological products.
MEF. Marine Expeditionary
Force.
METL. Mission-Essential Task
List.
METT-TC. Mission,
Enemy, Terrain and weather, Troops
and support available - Time available, and Civil
considerations.
MEU. Marine Expeditionary
Unit.
MFF. Military Free Fall.
MGRS. Military Grid
Reference System.
MI. Military intelligence;
middle initial.
MI5. UK's Military Intelligence
Department 5, for internal security and counter intelligence.
MI6. UK's External Intelligence -
SIS.
MI9. UK's Military Intelligence
Department Section 9 for Escape and Evasion Networks (E&E).
MIA. Missing in Action.
MID. Military Intelligence
Detachment.
Military Assistance and Training Advisor
Course (MATA Course). This was the Army's advisor course taught
during the Vietnam War by Green Berets at the Institute of Military
Assistance (IMA) located at Fort Bragg, NC. Some advocate that the course
be re-established under the USAJKF Special Warfare Center and School so
professional advisors are providing instruction to advisors and
advisor teams (for example, the
SFAATs that are currently deployed to Afghanistan). The advisors were
issued the
MATA Handbook for Vietnam, ST 31-179, January 1966.
MILORG. Norwegian Resistance Group
during World War II.
MI(R). Military Intelligence
(Research). A UK organizations set up to study irregular warfare during
World War II. Initially it was called GS(R).
MLCOA. Most Likely Course of
Action.
MLRS. Multiple Launch Rocket
System.
MMC. Mission Management
Center.
MOA. Memorandum of
Agreement.
MOE. Measure of
Effectiveness.
MOOTW. Military Operations
Other Than War. "Operations that encompass the use of military
capabilities across the range of military operations short of war.
These military actions can be applied to complement any combination of the
other instruments of national power and occur before, during, and after
war". (JP 1-02).
MOPP. Mission-Oriented
Protective Posture.
MOS. Military Occupational
Specialty.
Motorbikes. U.S. Special Forces
will used specially designed motorbikes to traverse difficult terrain in
remote areas. In addition, the bikes are adapted to provide a means of
infiltration and exfiltration to hit targets or enter denied areas. One
example is the BRD's Redshift MX called the Special Forces Stealth
Bike.
MOUT. Military Operations in
Urban Terrain. This U.S. Army term is no longer in use and has been
replaced by the term Urban
Operations (UO). Read more about
Military Operations in Urban
Terrain (MOUT). See also Wikipedia's page on
Urban
Warfare.
MPA. Mission Planning Agent.
MRE. Meals Ready to Eat.
Want to know the nutritional facts about the Meal, Ready-To-Eat (MRE),
First Strike Ration (FSR), or the Meal, Cold Weather / Long Range Patrol
(MCW/LRP)? Find out at this site - Combat Rations Database (ComRaD).
http://hprc-online.org/comrad/
MRR. Motorized Rifle
Regiment. Found in the former Soviet Bloc nations.
MSC. Major Subordinate
Command.
MSP. Mission Support Plan.
MSR. Mission Support
Request.
MSS. Mission Support Site.
MTOE. Modified Table of
Organization and Equipment.
MTP. Mission Training Plan.
MTT. Mobile Training Team.
"A team consisting of one or more US military or civilian personnel sent
on temporary duty, often to a foreign nation, to give instruction.
The mission of the team is to train indigenous personnel to operate,
maintain, and employ weapons and support systems, or to develop a
self-training capability in a particular skill. The National Command
Authority may direct a team to train either military or civilian
indigenous personnel, depending on host nation requests". (JP 1-02).
MTW. Major Theater War.
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