JP 1-02, DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - DMRTI ...

As Amended Through 15 March 2012Ssabotage — An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the nationaldefense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure ordestroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include humanand natural resources. (JP 2-01.2)safe anchorage — (*) An anchorage considered safe from enemy attack to which merchantships 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 areasonable chance of avoiding capture and of surviving until he or she can beevacuated. (JP 3-50)safe haven — 1. Designated area(s) to which noncombatants of the United StatesGovernment’s responsibility and commercial vehicles and materiel may be evacuatedduring a domestic or other valid emergency. (JP 3-68) 2. Temporary storage providedto Department of Energy classified shipment transporters at Department of Defensefacilities in order to assure safety and security of nuclear material and/or nonnuclearclassified material. Also includes parking for commercial vehicles containing Class Aor Class B explosives. (JP 4-01.6) 3. A protected body of water or the well deck of anamphibious ship used by small craft operating offshore for refuge from storms or heavyseas. (JP 4-01.6)safe house — An innocent-appearing house or premises established by an organization forthe 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 forinitiation to a safe condition. Also called de-arming.salvage — 1. Property that has some value in excess of its basic material content but is insuch condition that it has no reasonable prospect of use for any purpose as a unit and itsrepair or rehabilitation for use as a unit is clearly impractical. 2. The saving orrescuing of condemned, discarded, or abandoned property, and of materials containedtherein 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 equipmentfor reuse, repair, refabrication, or scrapping. 2. Naval salvage operations includeharbor and channel clearance, diving, hazardous towing and rescue tug services, andthe recovery of materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment sunk offshore orelsewhere stranded.salvo — 1. In naval gunfire support, a method of fire in which a number of weapons arefired at the same target simultaneously. 2. In close air support or air interdictionJP 1-02 287