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Terms for subject United States (7770 entries)

homing adaptor	A device, when used with an aircraft radio receiver, that produces aural and/or visual signals indicating the direction of a transmitting radio station with respect to the heading of the aircraft
Homosexual Rights Commission	HRC
Honesty And Integrity	HI
honey pot	A trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. Generally it consists of a computer, data, or a network site that appears to be part of a network, but is actually isolated, (un) and monitored, and which seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers
Honor In Politics	HIP
Honor Intellectual Property	HIP
hood	hoodlum
hood	hoodlum
horizontal stowage	The lateral distribution of unit equipment or categories of supplies so that they can be unloaded simultaneously from two or more holds
Horn Clause Completion	HCC
Hospital Affiliated Lobbyist Organization	HALO
host country	A nation which permits, either by written agreement or official invitation, government representatives and/or agencies of another nation to operate, under specified conditions, within its borders
host nation	A nation which receives the forces and/or supplies of allied nations and/or NATO organizations to be located on, to operate in, or to transit through its territory
host-nation support	Civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, crises or emergencies, or war based on agreements mutually concluded between nations
Hostage Negotiation Team	HNT
hostage rescue	A personnel recovery method used to recover isolated personnel who are specifically designated as hostages
hostile act	An attack or other use of force against the United States, United States forces, or other designated persons or property to preclude or impede the mission and/or duties of United States forces, including the recovery of United States personnel or vital United States Government property
hostile casualty	A person who is the victim of a terrorist activity or who becomes a casualty "in action." "In action" characterizes the casualty as having been the direct result of hostile action, sustained in combat or relating thereto, or sustained going to or returning from a combat mission provided that the occurrence was directly related to hostile action. Included are persons killed or wounded mistakenly or accidentally by friendly fire directed at a hostile force or what is thought to be a hostile force. However, not to be considered as sustained in action and not to be interpreted as hostile casualties are injuries or death due to the elements, self-inflicted wounds, combat fatigue, and except in unusual cases, wounds or death inflicted by a friendly force while the individual is in an absent-without-leave, deserter, or dropped-from-rolls status or is voluntarily absent from a place of duty.
hostile intent	The threat of imminent use of force against the United States, United States forces, or other designated persons or property
House Concurrent Resolution	HCR