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Terms for subject United States (7706 entries)

AGRICOLA	Agricultural OnLine Access
AGricultural Land Division	AGLD
Agricultural Land Reserve	ALR
Agricultural Market Transition Act	AMTA
Agricultural Resource Center	ARC
Agriculture Fish And Water	AFW
Aid To Dependent Children	ADC
Aid to SouthEast Asia and Vietnam	ASAVN
aimpoint	A point associated with a target and assigned for a specific weapon impact.
aimpoint	A prominent radar-significant feature used to assist an aircrew in navigating and delivering their weapons
air and missile defense	Direct [active and passive] defensive actions taken to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air and ballistic missile threats against friendly forces and assets
air apportionment	The determination and assignment of the total expected effort by percentage and/or by priority that should be devoted to the various air operations for a given period of time
air assault	The movement of friendly assault forces by rotary-wing aircraft to engage and destroy enemy forces or to seize and hold key terrain
air assault force	A force composed primarily of ground and rotary-wing air units organized, equipped, and trained for air assault operations
air assault operation	An operation in which assault forces, using the mobility of rotary-wing assets and the total integration of available firepower, maneuver under the control of a ground or air maneuver commander to engage enemy forces or to seize and hold key terrain
Air Combat Command	ACC
air corridor	A restricted air route of travel specified for use by friendly aircraft and established for the purpose of preventing friendly aircraft from being fired on by friendly forces
air defense	Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles in the atmosphere, or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack
air defense area	overseas - A specifically defined airspace for which air defense must be planned and provided
air defense area	United States - Airspace of defined dimensions designated by the appropriate agency within which the ready control of airborne vehicles is required in the interest of national security during an air defense emergency