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

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
Secretary’s incident management responsibilities under Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 5 for incidents of national significance. Also called PFO. (JP 3-41)
principal items — End items and replacement assemblies of such importance that
management techniques require centralized individual item management throughout the
supply system, to include depot level, base level, and items in the hands of using units.
These specifically include the items where, in the judgment of the Services, there is a
need for central inventory control, including centralized computation of requirements,
central procurement, central direction of distribution, and central knowledge and
control of all assets owned by the Services.
principal officer — The officer in charge of a diplomatic mission, consular office, or other
Foreign Service post, such as a United States liaison office. (JP 3-08)
priority designator — A two-digit issue and priority code (01 through 15) placed in
military standard requisitioning and issue procedure requisitions. It is based upon a
combination of factors that relate the mission of the requisitioner and the urgency of
need or the end use and is used to provide a means of assigning relative rankings to
competing demands placed on the Department of Defense supply system.
priority intelligence requirement — An intelligence requirement, stated as a priority for
intelligence support, that the commander and staff need to understand the adversary or
the operational environment. Also called PIR. See also information requirements;
intelligence; intelligence process; intelligence requirement. (JP 2-0)
priority national intelligence objectives — A guide for the coordination of intelligence
collection and production in response to requirements relating to the formulation and
execution of national security policy. They are compiled annually by the Washington
Intelligence Community and flow directly from the intelligence mission as set forth by
the National Security Council. They are specific enough to provide a basis for planning
the allocation of collection and research resources, but not so specific as to constitute in
themselves research and collection requirements.
prisoner of war — A detained person as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva
Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949. In
particular, one who, while engaged in combat under orders of his or her government, is
captured by the armed forces of the enemy. As such, he or she is entitled to the
combatant’s privilege of immunity from the municipal law of the capturing state for
warlike acts which do not amount to breaches of the law of armed conflict. For
example, a prisoner of war may be, but is not limited to, any person belonging to one of
the following categories who has fallen into the power of the enemy: a member of the
armed forces, organized militia or volunteer corps; a person who accompanies the
armed forces without actually being a member thereof; a member of a merchant marine
or civilian aircraft crew not qualifying for more favorable treatment; or individuals
who, on the approach of the enemy, spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading
forces. Also called POW or PW.
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