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

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
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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 anchorage — (*) An anchorage considered safe from enemy attack to which merchant
ships may be ordered to proceed when the shipping movement policy is implemented.
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. Temporary storage provided
to Department of Energy classified shipment transporters at Department of Defense
facilities in order to assure safety and security of nuclear material and/or nonnuclear
classified material. Also includes parking for commercial vehicles containing Class A
or Class B explosives. (JP 4-01.6) 3. 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
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