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Level B: For those operating or expected to operate forward of the division rear boundary and up to the forward line of own troops (FLOT). Normally limited to aircrew of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. Level B focuses on survival and evasion, with resistance in terms of initial capture.
During its operation, the Army and Navy Staff College's commandant, Lieutenant General John Dewitt was invited to lead a panel to develop recommendations for the future of joint military education, and the panel recommended the establishment of a national university that would incorporate a joint industrial college, joint war college and State ...
In 2004, Defense Department and military service branches began publishing directives, messages, and orders, specifying that the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal would be awarded not only for direct participation in specific operations, but also to any personnel who performed support duty of an anti-terrorism operation but did not directly ...
Candidates are required to successfully complete the U.S. Army Level 1 Combatives Course. [4] [6] Tactics Security Course. This course teaches candidates the fundamentals of small unit tactics, tactical combat casualty care, and land navigation. It also serves as a prerequisite for the subsequent courses. [4] [6] Tactical Vehicle Operations ...
McConnell AFB entrance displaying THREATCON DELTA on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In United States military security parlance, the force protection condition (FPCON for short) is a counter-terrorist (otherwise known as antiterrorism (AT for short)) [1]:1 threat system employed by the United States Department of Defense.
The United States Army Reserve Counter Terrorism Unit (ARCU or AR-CTU) is a unit under the combined authority of the Army and the U.S. Department of State which prevents and responds to terrorist attacks while all under forward control of the National Command Authority in coordination with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The MTAC is an outgrowth of the Navy Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC). The ATAC was established in December 1983 to address the terrorist threat after the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and the murders of Navy officers in Greece by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November and in El Salvador by the FMLN. [2]
[2] The number of attacks using suicide tactics has grown from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 180 per year between 2000 and 2005, [3] and from 81 suicide attacks in 2001 to 460 in 2005. [4]