- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Unit emplaning officer: in air transport, a representative of a transported unit, responsible for organizing the movement of that unit.
Industry:Military
Unit equipped with complete motor transportation that enables all of its personnel, weapons and equipment to be moved at the same time without assistance from other sources.
Industry:Military
Unit tasked with escorting refugees being repatriated or with protecting civilians on their way to and from work where the route passes dangerously close to a hostile party; the term refers also to the mission entrusted to the unit.
Industry:Military
Unit which includes dormitories, ablution units, laundries, recreation halls, power supply, drainage, waste, venting and water distribution systems; can be soft-walled or hard-walled; for 5, 50 or 150 persons.
Industry:Military
Unofficial armed groups; paramilitary organizations or independent partisan groups which disown any allegiance to host governments and have no legal or officially recognized status, are commonly called de-facto forces; in UNIFIL, the term refers to Christian and associated militias supported and supplied by Israel.
Industry:Military
Upgrading goes beyond repairing and returning an infrastructure to its initial state: for an airstrip, it often involves lengthening the landing strip, adding beacon lights and all-weather landing guidance equipment, changing the tarmac to accommodate heavy cargo planes, etc.
Industry:Military
Used alone, "cantonment area" can be used with respect to troops or to heavy weapons, as in the case of the implementation of the Dayton Agreement.
Industry:Military
Used as warning and protection devices in defensive operations, or around the perimeter of a key point or static installation; it consists of 2 metal spikes or pickets, positioned up to 20 m apart, a reel of trip-wire fitted to each, a tensioning spring and a metal body containing the flare and the percussion cap igniter; once the safety pin has been removed the flare will ignite is the tripwire is pulled or cut.
Industry:Military
