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mobile security force

A highly mobile and dedicated security force with the capability to defeat Level I and II threats in a joint security area.

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clearance capacity

An estimate expressed in agreed upon units of cargo measurement per day of the cargo or people that may be transported inland from a beach or port over the available means of inland communication, including roads, railroads, airlift, and inland waterways.

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passive mine

A mine whose anticountermining device has been operated preventing the firing mechanism from being actuated.

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evasion aid

In personnel recovery, any piece of information or equipment designed to assist an individual in avoiding capture.

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hung ordnance

Those weapons or stores on an aircraft that the pilot has attempted to drop or fire but could not because of a malfunction of the weapon, rack or launcher, or aircraft release and control system.

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