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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
resuscitative care — Advanced emergency medical treatment required to prevent
immediate loss of life or limb and to attain stabilization to ensure the patient could
tolerate evacuation. (JP 4-02)
retained personnel — Enemy medical personnel and medical staff administrators who are
engaged in either the search for, collection, transport, or treatment of the wounded or
sick, or the prevention of disease; chaplains attached to enemy armed forces; and, staff
of National Red Cross Societies and that of other volunteer aid societies, duly
recognized and authorized by their governments to assist medical service personnel of
their own armed forces, provided they are exclusively engaged in the search for, or the
collection, transport or treatment of wounded or sick, or in the prevention of disease,
and provided that the staff of such societies are subject to military laws and regulations.
Also called RP. See also personnel. (JP 3-63)
Retired Reserve — All Reserve members who receive retirement pay on the basis of their
active duty and/or Reserve service; those members who are otherwise eligible for
retirement pay but have not reached age 60 and who have not elected discharge and are
not voluntary members of the Ready or Standby Reserve. See also active duty; Ready
Reserve; Standby Reserve. (JP 4-05)
retrograde — The process for the movement of non-unit equipment and materiel from a
forward location to a reset (replenishment, repair, or recapitalization) program or to
another directed area of operations to replenish unit stocks, or to satisfy stock
requirements. (JP 4-09)
returned to military control — The status of a person whose casualty status of “duty status
- whereabouts unknown” or “missing” has been changed due to the person’s return or
recovery by US military authority. Also called RMC.
returnee — A displaced person who has returned voluntarily to his or her former place of
residence. (JP 3-29)
return to base — An order to proceed to the point indicated by the displayed information or
by verbal communication. Also called RTB. (JP 3-01)
revolving fund account — An account authorized by specific provisions of law to finance a
continuing cycle of business-type operations, and which are authorized to incur
obligations and expenditures that generate receipts. (JP 1-06)
riot control agent — Any chemical, not listed in a schedule of the Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on their Destruction which can produce rapidly in humans sensory
irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following
termination of exposure. Also called RCA. See also chemical warfare. (JP 3-11)
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