- Aeromedical Evacuation -Transporting a patient to the nearest appropriate facility by air.
- Command and Control - The exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of a mission.
- Contingency - An emergency involving military forces caused by natural disasters, terrorists, subversives, or by required military operations. Due to the uncertainty of the situation, contingencies require plans, rapid response, and special procedures to ensure safety and readiness of personnel, installations and equipment.
- Collective Training - Training involving soldiers and force units exercising within a large group, rather than individually, usually at Company or higher level.
- Deployment - The relocation of forces and materiel to desired operational areas. Deployment encompasses all activities from origin through to destination.
- Directed Level of Capability [DLOC] - A level of capability lower than that required to be deployed and commence operations. When directed by government, force elements have a specified amount of time to increase their level of preparedness from DLOC to OLOC [see below]. Force elements are maintained at DLOC because it is too expensive to constantly maintain a broad range of force elements at a fully operational level.
- Employment Contexts - Descriptions of representative and illustrative security events for which there is a likelihood that a government would expect to make a military response, should the events occur.
- Force Element - Units which directly contribute to the delivery of the NZDF outputs, and which may form part of an operational force, e.g., a frigate, an Orion detachment, an infantry battalion. Force elements will be capable of undertaking limited independent tasks, or contributing to a Service, Joint or Combined Force.
- Mission-Essential Tasks - Tasks which are fundamental for the performance or accomplishment of the force element’s mission within the given employment context.
- Operational Level of Capability [OLOC] - The state of preparedness where a force element is ready, combat viable, deployable and sustainable. When a force element is at OLOC, it is able to be deployed and commence operations.
- Operational Viability Period (OVP) - The OVP is that period of time for which designated forces must be able to operate independently from the start of operations until guaranteed lines of supply are established. It normally includes the period after initial deployment to establish in-theatre lines of communication and supply.
- Preparedness - A measure of the ability of force elements to be employed on military tasks. Force elements must be held at a level of capability from which they can be raised to an operational status within a specified time, then deployed for the conduct of a particular type of military task and be sustained for a specified period while engaged on that task. The state of preparedness for a particular military task is specified in terms of readiness, combat viability, deployability and sustainability.
- Response Time - The time available, once committed by government, to prepare a force for deployment to a particular area of operations.
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