Joint Publication 1-02 DoD Dictionary of Military ... - AcqNotes.com

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
transport airlift within operating schedules. It includes “remain overnight” facilities,
intransit facilities at aerial ports of embarkation and debarkation, and casualty staging
facilities in an overseas combat area. See also aeromedical evacuation unit. (JP 4-02)
in-transit visibility — The ability to track the identity, status, and location of Department of
Defense units, and non-unit cargo (excluding bulk petroleum, oils, and lubricants) and
passengers; patients; and personal property from origin to consignee or destination
across the range of military operations. Also called ITV. See also Global
Transportation Network. (JP 4-01.2)
intratheater — Within a theater. (JP 3-17)
intratheater airlift — Airlift conducted within a theater. Assets assigned to a geographic
combatant commander or attached to a subordinate joint force commander normally
conduct intratheater airlift operations. Intratheater airlift provides air movement and
delivery of personnel and equipment directly into objective areas through air landing,
airdrop, extraction, or other delivery techniques as well as the air logistic support of all
theater forces, including those engaged in combat operations, to meet specific theater
objectives and requirements. During large-scale operations, US Transportation
Command assets may be tasked to augment intratheater airlift operations, and may be
temporarily attached to a joint force commander. Formerly referred to as theater airlift.
See also intertheater airlift. (JP 3-17)
intratheater patient movement — Moving patients within the theater of a combatant
command or in the continental United States. See also en route care; evacuation;
intertheater patient movement; patient. (JP 4-02)
intrusion — Movement of a unit or force within another nation’s specified operational area
outside of territorial seas and territorial airspace for surveillance or intelligence
gathering in time of peace or tension.
inventory control — That phase of military logistics that includes managing, cataloging,
requirements determinations, procurement, distribution, overhaul, and disposal of
materiel. Also called inventory management; materiel control; materiel
management; supply management. (JP 4-09)
inventory control point — An organizational unit or activity within a Department of
Defense supply system that is assigned the primary responsibility for the materiel
management of a group of items either for a particular Service or for the Defense
Department as a whole. Materiel inventory management includes cataloging direction,
requirements computation, procurement direction, distribution management, disposal
direction and, generally, rebuild direction. Also called ICP. (JP 4-09)
inventory management — See inventory control.
inventory managers — See inventory control point.
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