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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
sabotage — An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national
defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or
destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human
and natural resources. (JP 2-01.2)
safe area — A designated area in hostile territory that offers the evader or escapee a
reasonable chance of avoiding capture and of surviving until he or she can be
evacuated. (JP 3-50)
safe haven — 1. Designated area(s) to which noncombatants of the United States
Government’s responsibility and commercial vehicles and materiel may be evacuated
during a domestic or other valid emergency. (JP 3-68) 2. A protected body of water or
the well deck of an amphibious ship used by small craft operating offshore for refuge
from storms or heavy seas. (JP 4-01.6)
safe house — An innocent-appearing house or premises established by an organization for
the purpose of conducting clandestine or covert activity in relative security. (JP 3-07.2)
safing — As applied to weapons and ammunition, the changing from a state of readiness for
initiation to a safe condition. Also called de-arming.
salvage — 1. Property that has some value in excess of its basic material content but is in
such condition that it has no reasonable prospect of use for any purpose as a unit and its
repair or rehabilitation for use as a unit is clearly impractical. 2. The saving or rescuing
of condemned, discarded, or abandoned property, and of materials contained therein for
reuse, refabrication, or scrapping.
salvage operation — 1. The recovery, evacuation, and reclamation of damaged, discarded,
condemned, or abandoned allied or enemy materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment
for reuse, repair, refabrication, or scrapping. 2. Naval salvage operations include
harbor and channel clearance, diving, hazardous towing and rescue tug services, and
the recovery of materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment sunk offshore or
elsewhere stranded.
salvo — 1. In naval gunfire support, a method of fire in which a number of weapons are
fired at the same target simultaneously. 2. In close air support or air interdiction
operations, a method of delivery in which the release mechanisms are operated to
release or fire all ordnance of a specific type simultaneously.
sanction enforcement — Operations that employ coercive measures to control the
movement of certain types of designated items into or out of a nation or specified area.
(JP 3-0)
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