task unit


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task unit

A component of a naval task group organized by the commander of a task group or higher authority.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The culminating events consisted of the simultaneous infiltration of all task units (heliborne, airborne, or by land on Lince wheeled vehicles and BV-206S armored tracked vehicles) in a target area where hostile forces were reported.
The administrator defines the data processing program, whether it be tallying, filtering, or averaging, for example, as the flow of the data processing task units, and also defines the network topology that indicates the communications route from each sensor or machine to the gateway and then to the cloud.
A maritime NSW task unit in Manda Bay, Kenya, composed primarily of SWCC operators, has led a 6-year FID/SFA campaign focused on maritime security.
The logistics department supports the Special Operations Task Unit in conducting operations and reports the departmental status to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF).
Recently, a special logoed version of the knife was presented to SEAL Team 3, Lee's Task Unit, with every member of the SEALs deployed with Lee in Iraq receiving one.
The battle described here is the engagement between Task Unit 77.4.3 "Taffy 3" under the command of Rear Adm.
K-Dog, a bottle-nosed dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit, leaps out of the water in front of Sergeant Andrew Garrett while training near the USS Gunston Hall which is operating in the Arabian Gulf.
Sgt Andrew Garrett watches K- Dog, a bottle nose dolphin attached to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3,leap out of the water while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Persian Gulf
This task unit exhibits repetitive, functionally similar patterns of action in response to defined stimuli, which are classic features of organizational routines, yet has high task variety, low task analyzability, and a highly deliberative search process filled with interruptions, which are classic features of nonroutine work.
Wasp into commission (November) and led her in raids against Wake and Marcus (Minami Tori Shima) (May 1944), in the Saipan operation (June), and at the battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-21); promoted to rear admiral, he was made commander of Carrier Division 25 (August); next commanded Task Unit 77.4.3 ("Taffy 3"), consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and three destroyer escorts during the invasion of Leyte (October); when Adm.
I recently returned from Kandahar, Afghanistan after supporting SEAL Team Seven's Task Unit Trident.