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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
special operations naval mobile environment team — A team of Navy personnel
organized, trained, and equipped to support naval special warfare forces by providing
weather, oceanographic, mapping, charting, and geodesy support. Also called
SONMET. (JP 3-05.1)
special operations-peculiar — Equipment, material, supplies, and services required for
special operations missions for which there is no Service-common requirement. Also
called SO-peculiar. See also Service-common; special operations. (JP 3-05)
special operations weather team — A task organized team of Air Force personnel
organized, trained, and equipped to collect critical environmental information from data
sparse areas. Also called SOWT. (JP 3-05)
special operations wing — An Air Force special operations wing. Also called SOW.
(JP 3-05.1)
special reconnaissance — Reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted as a special
operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify
information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not
normally found in conventional forces. Also called SR. (JP 3-05)
special staff — All staff officers having duties at a headquarters and not included in the
general (coordinating) staff group or in the personal staff group. The special staff
includes certain technical specialists and heads of services, e.g., quartermaster officer,
antiaircraft officer, transportation officer, etc.
special tactics team — An Air Force task-organized element of special tactics that may
include combat control, pararescue, tactical air control party, and special operations
weather personnel. Also called STT. See also combat search and rescue; special
operations; special operations forces; terminal attack control. (JP 3-05)
specified combatant command — See specified command. (JP 1)
specified command — A command that has a broad, continuing mission, normally
functional, and is established and so designated by the President through the Secretary
of Defense with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It normally is composed of forces from a single Military Department. Also called
specified combatant command. (JP 1)
specified task — In the context of joint operation planning, a task that is specifically
assigned to an organization by its higher headquarters. See also essential task;
implied task. (JP 5-0)
split-mission oriented protective posture — The concept of maintaining heightened
protective posture only in those areas (or zones) that are contaminated, allowing
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