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The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel use which codes, as codes may have multiple meanings depending on the service.
The original DoD Modeling and Simulation glossary: DoD 5000.59 was created in 1998, in hopes to promote a uniform set of terms across the Department of Defense. The glossary consisted of three sections: sources, acronyms and terms. The first section was a set of sources from where the information for the glossary was accessed from.
Peace Crown – air defense automation study for Imperial Iranian Air Force (Foreign Military Sales), effective 3 August 1972, LGFX. [214] Peace Echo –Training of Israeli Air Force aircrew and maintenance personnel on the McDonnell F-4E Phantom II. [215] Peace Edge, Peace Eternal (plus Peace Eternal II and III) delivery of F-5s.
Situation room: a room in a government headquarters etc where senior high-ranking military officials in authority find out the latest information about something serious that is happening, and proceed to make decisions about what to do. [2] Staff; Staging area; Stratocracy; War cabinet
The dangers of treating military simulation as gospel are illustrated in an anecdote circulated at the end of the Vietnam War, which was intensively gamed between 1964 and 1969 (with even President Lyndon Johnson being photographed standing over a wargaming sand table at the time of Khe Sanh) in a series of simulations codenamed Sigma. [44]
Pay grades [1] are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States [2] (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps), as well as the Maritime Service, to determine wages and benefits based on the corresponding military rank of a member of the services.
A United States military occupation code, or a military occupational specialty code (MOS code), is a nine-character code used in the United States Army and United States Marine Corps to identify a specific job. In the United States Air Force, a system of Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) is used.
AFR 82-1/AR 70-50/NAVMATINST 8800.4A: Joint Regulation Designating and Naming Military Aerospace Vehicles (concerning United States military aircraft designation systems) MIL-STD-1661 Mark and Mod Nomenclature System (used by US Navy)