Military Glossary

Medical treatment facility
(DOD) A facility established for the purpose of furnishing medical and/or dental care to eligible individuals.

Medium-angle loft bombing
(DOD) Type of loft bombing wherein weapon release occurs at an angle between 35 and 75 degrees above the horizontal.

Medium-range bomber aircraft
(DOD) A bomber designed for a tactical operating radius of under 1,000 nautical miles at design gross weight and design bomb load.

Merchant ship casualty report
(DOD) A report by message, or other means, of a casualty to a merchant ship at sea or in port. Merchant ship casualty reports are sent by the escort force commander or other appropriate authority to the operational control authority in whose area the casualty occurred.

Message (telecommunications)
(DOD) Record information expressed in plain or encrypted language and prepared in a format specified for intended transmission by a telecommunications system.

Meteorological data
(DOD) Meteorological facts pertaining to the atmosphere, such as wind, temperature, air density, and other phenomena which affect military operations.

MEU(SOC)
See Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable).

Midcourse guidance
(DOD) The guidance applied to a missile between termination of the boost phase and the start of the terminal phase of flight.

Military Assistance Articles and Services List
(DOD) A Department of Defense publication listing source, availability, and price of items and services for use by the unified commands and Military Departments in preparing military assistance plans and programs.

Military damage assessment
(DOD) An appraisal of the effects of an attack on a nation's military forces to determine residual military capability and to support planning for recovery and reconstitution.

Military government ordinance
(DOD) An enactment on the authority of a military governor promulgating laws or rules regulating the occupied territory under such control.

Military land transportation resources
(DOD) All military-owned transportation resources, designated for common-user, over the ground, point-to-point use.

Military operations other than war
(DOD) Operations that encompass the use of military capabilities across the range of military operations short of war. These military actions can be applied to complement any combination of the other instruments of national power and occur before, during, and after war.

Military performance specification containers
(DOD) Containers that meet specific written standards. Aviation and Troop Command, US Army, procures military performance specification containers for the Army and will perform like services for other Department of Defense components on request.

Military standard transportation and movement procedures
(DOD) Uniform and standard transportation data, documentation, and control procedures applicable to all cargo movements in the Department of Defense transportation system.

Mine countermeasures
(DOD) All methods for preventing or reducing damage or danger from mines.

Minimum essential equipment
(DOD) That part of authorized allowances of Army equipment, clothing, and supplies needed to preserve the integrity of a unit during movement without regard to the performance of its combat or service mission. Items common within this category will normally be carried by or accompany troops to the port and will be placed aboard the same ships with the troops. As used in movement directives, minimum essential equipment refers to specific items of both organizational and individual clothing and equipment.

Minimum obstruction clearance altitude
(DOD) The specified altitude in effect between radio fixes on very high frequency omnirange airways, off-airway routes, or route segments, which meets obstruction clearance requirements for the entire route segment, and that assures acceptable navigational signal coverage only within 22 miles of a very high frequency omnirange.

MISREP
See Joint Tactical Air Reconnaissance/Surveillance Mission Report.

Missile assembly-checkout facility
(DOD) A building, van, or other type structure located near the operational missile launching location and designed for the final assembly and checkout of the missile system.

MOB
See main operations base.

Mobility system support resources
(DOD) Those resources that are required to: a. complement the airlift and sealift forces, and/or b. perform those work functions directly related to the origination, processing, or termination of a movement requirement.

Moderate risk (nuclear)
(DOD) A degree of risk where anticipated effects are tolerable, or at worst a minor nuisance.

Moving surface ship haven
(DOD) Established by surface ship notices, and will normally be a circle with a specified radius centered on the estimated position of the ship or the guide of a group of ships.

Muzzle velocity
(DOD) The velocity of a projectile with respect to the muzzle at the instant the projectile leaves the weapon.

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