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

As Amended Through 15 March 2012information network; and the communications network. See also distribution;distribution plan; distribution system; theater; theater distribution. (JP 4-01)theater event system — Architecture for reporting theater ballistic missile events,composed of three independent processing and reporting elements: the joint tacticalground stations, tactical detection and reporting, and the space-based infrared systemmission control station. Also called TES. (JP 3-14)theater hospitalization capability — Essential care and health service support capabilitiesto either return the patient to duty and/or stabilization to ensure the patient can tolerateevacuation to a definitive care facility outside the theater. It includes modular hospitalconfigurations required to support the theater (emergency medical services, surgicalservices, primary care, veterinary services, dental services, preventive medicine, andcombat and operational stress control, blood banking services, hospitalization,laboratory and pharmacy services, radiology, medical logistics and other medicalspecialty capabilities as required). (JP 4-02)theater missile — A missile, which may be a ballistic missile, a cruise missile, or an air-tosurfacemissile (not including short-range, non-nuclear, direct fire missiles, bombs, orrockets such as Maverick or wire-guided missiles), whose target is within a giventheater of operation. Also called TM. (JP 3-01)theater of operations — An operational area defined by the geographic combatantcommander for the conduct or support of specific military operations. Also called TO.See also theater of war. (JP 3-0)theater of war — Defined by the President, Secretary of Defense, or the geographiccombatant commander as the area of air, land, and water that is, or may become,directly involved in the conduct of major operations and campaigns involving combat.See also area of responsibility; theater of operations. (JP 3-0)theater patient movement requirements center — The activity responsible forintratheater patient movement management (medical regulating and aeromedicalevacuation scheduling), the development of theater-level patient movement plans andschedules, the monitoring and execution in concert with the Global Patient MovementRequirements Center. Also called TPMRC. (JP 4-02)theater special operations command — A subordinate unified command established by acombatant commander to plan, coordinate, conduct, and support joint specialoperations. Also called TSOC. See also special operations. (JP 3-05)theater strategy — An overarching construct outlining a combatant commander’s visionfor integrating and synchronizing military activities and operations with the otherinstruments of national power in order to achieve national strategic objectives. See alsoNational Military Strategy; National Security Strategy; strategy. (JP 3-0)JP 1-02 333