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WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COM98 AFI10-207 4 APRIL 2008Mission Management—The function of organizing, planning, directing, and controlling AMC airliftand/or tanker mission operating worldwide. Mission management includes mission execution authority,the authority to direct where and when a mission goes and what it does once it arrives there. The TACCand AME controllers are mission managers.Mission Monitoring—The function of organizing, planning, directing (limited), and controlling AMCairlift and/or tanker missions operating through their location. Mission monitoring does not includemission execution authority. CP controllers are mission monitors.Minimize—A procedure for reducing traffic on common-user record and voice circuits duringemergencies.Operations Center—The facility or location on an installation/base used by the commander tocommand, control, and coordinate all crisis activities.Operational Unit—A numbered Air Force organization, which employs assigned combat air and spaceforces, and is listed in USAF War and Mobilization Plan (WMP), Volume 3, Part 1, Combat Forces(WMP-3).Payload—The combined weight of passengers, baggage, mail, and cargo carried on an airlift mission.Prime Nuclear Airlift Force (PNAF)—Designated AMC airlift squadrons and aircrews trained andcertified for peacetime movement of nuclear cargoQuick Turn—Procedures designed to expedite the movement of selected airlift missions by reducingground times at en route or turnaround stations.Readiness—JCS defines Operational Readiness as the capability of a unit, weapon system, or equipmentto perform the mission or function it is organized or designed to undertake. It may also be used in generalsense to express a level or degree of readiness posture. When used in this latter context, JCS has directedall references to readiness posture be classified SECRET.Rescue Coordination Center (RCC)—A primary search and rescue facility suitably staffed bysupervisory personnel and equipped for coordinating and controlling search and rescue and/or combatsearch and rescue operations. Personnel of a single Service or component operate the facility unilaterally.For Navy component operations, this facility may be called a rescue coordination team. Also called RCC(or RCT for Navy component).Scheduled Takeoff Time—That takeoff time as established in the AMC cargo or passenger schedule oroperation orders. For air aborts and diversions, this will be the total of block-in plus authorized groundtime. Early deviation does not apply to aborts and diversions unless the mission is formally rescheduled.Security Control Of Air Traffic And Air Navigation Aids (SCATANA)—Emergency plan that allowsCommander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command’s to implement measures forsecurity and control of both civil and military air traffic and navigational aids.Special Assignment Airlift Mission (SAAM)—Those airlift requirements that require specialconsideration due to the number of passengers involved, weight or size of cargo, urgency of movement,sensitivity, or other valid factors that preclude the use of channel airlift.Special Air Mission (SAM)—Those missions operated by the 89 AW in support of the special airliftrequirements of the Department of Defense.