Oscar Mike to the glossary. Copy that.
Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency communication plan ensuring multiple redundant methods to maintain contact. Because Murphy's Law applies especially to radios when you desperately need them.
Information campaigns designed to influence enemy decision-making and demoralize forces—basically mind control with pamphlets and propaganda.
Personnel Status Report—an accounting of all personnel showing who's present, absent, on leave, injured, or otherwise unavailable. The daily census proving accountability is eternal.
Medical limitations or restrictions on physical activity due to injury or condition. The golden ticket to avoiding PT that everyone claims is fake.
Periodic Health Assessment—a mandatory annual health screening for service members. A bureaucratic checkbox that occasionally catches real medical issues but mostly confirms you're still breathing.
A defensive wall made of sharpened wooden stakes driven into the ground—medieval flex meets practical perimeter security. It's what you build when you can't afford stone walls but absolutely need to keep invaders out.
Prisoner of War—a combatant captured by the enemy. Theoretically protected under international law (Geneva Conventions), though historical compliance varies considerably.
Stationing international armed forces between hostile parties to maintain a cease-fire through military presence rather than combat. It's conflict management based on the theory that nobody wants to be responsible for shooting at a blue helmet.
Defense of the outer boundary of a military installation or operational area. The line between 'we control this' and 'everything beyond is their problem.'
A heavy grille of metal or wood with sharp points at the bottom, designed to be lowered vertically to block a castle gateway or drawbridge entrance as a defensive barrier.
A long strip of cloth wound spirally around the lower leg from ankle to knee, traditionally worn as part of military uniforms or in South Asian dress. Also spelled 'putty' or 'puttie.'
The outer line of a defensive position, which is why every guard post is technically assigned to it. The boundary of a defended area requiring constant surveillance.
An arrangement of soldiers in close formation with overlapping shields, or more modernly, a ship-based defensive system that's basically automated paranoia. Originally ancient Greek military formation.
Military term for propaganda and mind games designed to demoralize the enemy. Basically, lying on a government budget.
A security exercise where red team (attackers) and blue team (defenders) work together to improve defenses. It's the military equivalent of a married couple arguing about what's broken in the house.
Bombs and missiles with guidance systems that steer toward targets, as opposed to dumb bombs that just fall where gravity takes them. It's the difference between throwing and aiming.