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The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army , United States Army , United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.
A standardized five paragraph order format is used by the United States Department of Defense and most other military forces. An OPORD is formatted to organize an operation into five easily understood paragraphs: Situation, Mission, Execution, Sustainment (formerly Service and Support, currently referred to as Admin & Logistics by the US Marine ...
C1, FM 100–5: FM 100–5, Operations of Army Forces in The Field (with included Change No. 1) 17 December 1971 [22] This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 19 February 1962, including all changes. W. C. Westmoreland: INACTIVE: FM 100–5: FM 100–5, Operations of Army Forces in The Field: 6 September 1968 [23] This manual supersedes FM 100–5 ...
The Army Regulation (AR) 25-50 Preparing and Managing Correspondence is the United States Army's administrative regulation that "establishes three forms of correspondence authorized for use within the Army: a letter, a memorandum, and a message." [1]
An officer of the Presidential Guard of Zimbabwe giving military commands during a parade. A military command or order is a binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context. Not all senior ranks in all military forces have the right to give an order to all lower ranks. [1]
Austin wrote: "As it always has, the U.S. military will stand ready to carry out the policy choices of its next Commander in Chief, and to obey all lawful orders from its civilian chain of command.
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As far as I can tell from reading the articles, a five paragraph order is a common kind of operations order; and the distinction (if any) can be covered in a couple of paragraphs in a merged article. --DavidCary 15:05, 18 February 2015 (UTC) Merge. An OPORD is a subset of the Five Paragraph Field Order, which also includes FRAGOs, etc.