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The Special Forces community and the military
services in general use a multitude of words, phrases, and acronyms in its
vocabulary, documentation, correspondence, and publications. This
glossary is intended to aid those unfamiliar with specific special
operations terminology.
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OA. Objective Area.
OAKOC. Observation
and fields of fire, Avenues of approach, Key
terrain, Obstacles, and Cover and
concealment.
OB. Order of Battle.
OCI. Office of the Coordinator of
Information. A WWII era U.S. intelligence organization.
OCONUS. Outside the
Continential United States.
ODA. Operational Detachment
Alpha. The basic unit of Special Forces. A twelve man element
consisting of two officers and ten senior enlisted.
OEF. Operation Enduring
Freedom. The current conflict in Afghanistan and a few other places.
OER. Officer Evaluation
Report.
OG. Operational Groups. A WWII era
organization that conducted special operations.
OGA. Other Governmental
Agency.
OFCO. This is the acronym for
"Offensive Counterintelligence Operations (OFCO)". You can learn more from
DoD Instruction S-5240.09, February 2, 2015 posted on classified media.
www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/S524009_placeholder.pdf
OIC. Officer in Charge.
OIF. Operation Iraqi
Freedom. OIF has now ended and the operation in Iraq is now called
Operation New Dawn (OND).
ONC. Operational Navigation
Chart.
Onetime Pad. A form of
message encryption that is highly secure. It relies on a random key.
OP. Observation Post.
OPCEN. Operations Center.
Where the battle is monitored on maps and radios.
OPCON. Operational Control.
Command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or
below the level of combatant command. Operational Control is
inherent in combatant command (command authority) and may be delegated
within the command.
Operational Environment. A
composite of the conditions, cirucumstances, and influences that affect
the employment of military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit
commander. Examples include permissive environment, uncertain
environment, and hostile environment.
OPLAN. Operation Plan.
OPORD. Operation Order.
OPSEC. Operations Security.
OPSUM. Operation Summary.
OPTEMPO. Operating Tempo.
OSD. Office of the Secretary
of Defense.
OSINT. Open-Source
Intelligence.
OSS. Office of Strategic
Services. An intelligence and paramilitary organization during World
War II. One of the earliar units upon which Special Forces draws its
history. See
OSS Society. See the OSS Primer found on the USASOC portal
here
http://www.soc.mil/OSS/primer.html.
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