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The first paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order.
What is orientation?
The second paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order.
What is situation?
The third paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order, only ever one statement in length.
What is mission?
The fourth paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order.
What is execution?
The fifth paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order.
What is admin and logistics?
The sixth paragraph of the USMC OSMEAC model for the five-paragraph order.
What is command and signal?
This format of locating areas and points on a map is commonly used in the first paragraph of the five-paragraph order to locate key terrain, areas of interest (AOI), and the area of operations (AO).
What is the military grid reference system (MGRS)?
A mission analysis that is done while beginning planning, that is usually included in the second paragraph in order to provide recipients with improved situational awareness.
What is METT-TSLC?
The essential elements of a mission statement that must be stated in order for a unit to execute a mission.
What are the 5 W's?
A statement within the fourth paragraph of the five-paragraph order which gives the recipients tasking from the commander to achieve his desired endstate in the event he is killed, incapacitated, or they are without direction.
What is commander's intent?
An acronym which describes all elements of the fifth paragraph, commonly referred to as the 5 B's.
What is Beans, Bullets, Bad Guys, Band Aids, and Batteries?
This portion of the sixth paragraph of the five-paragraph order provides recipients with situational awareness in regards to key personnel.
What is the location of key leaders?
An acronym commonly used to form the terrain analysis portion of the first paragraph in the five-paragraph order.
What is KOCOA-W?
An acronym used to describe the situation of friendly forces within the recipient's AO.
What is HASA?
The order from which a platoon's mission statement is derived from.
This is a brief summary of the tactical plan to accomplish the unit's mission.
What is the CONOP?
A plan that is briefed in the fifth paragraph, usually by the Co XO or 1stSgt, Plt Sgt, or the Corpsman which pinpoints casualty collection points (CCPs), routes, and procedures to treat casualties, e.g. SABACA (Self-Aid, Buddy-Aid, Corpsman-Aid).
What is the CASEVAC plan?
This section of the sixth paragraph of the five-paragraph order provides recipients with information regarding who to report to in the event a key leader is killed, wounded, or incapacitated in any way.
What is succession of command?
Measures used for controlling the flow and execution of the mission that are dictated and pinpointed on the map in the first paragraph in order to provide recipients with improved situational awareness.
What are tactical control measures (TCMs)?
An acronym used to describe the enemy's composition, disposition, and strength, that is very commonly known as the enemy's situation.
What is SALUTE?
A singular word given a specific definition to dictate what exactly the unit will accomplish when executing its mission.
What is a tactical task?
A multiple phase/part, event-driven section of the fourth paragraph, closely tied in with the fire support plan and subordinate tasks which describes exactly how the mission will be executed, and the tasks of each component of the unit.
What is the SOM?
A required task that, based on the gear and equipment loadouts dictated in the fifth paragraph of the five-paragraph order, must be conducted at all levels prior to mission execution and upon mission completion.
What are PCCs?
Standardized short names given to key personnel, subordinate and adjacent units, and anyone who requires them to mitigate confusion when communicating over the radio.
What are callsigns?
Essential elements of weather analysis that provide recipients with important information about daylight hours, nighttime visibility, among other weather considerations.
What is begin morning nautical twilight (BMNT), end evening nautical twilight (EENT), sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, and visibility percentage?
An analysis of the enemy's capabilities and limitations, that is used to determine both the enemy's most likely course of action (EMLCOA) and the enemy's most dangerous course of action (EMDCOA).
What is DRAW-D?
An assignment and control measure that is placed as a mission footer that dictates to the unit with what kind of timeliness the commander wishes the mission to be completed.
What is MHP/THP (mission has priority/time has priority)?
An enemy analysis completed based on the enemy's composition, disposition, and strength, which incorporates a desired enemy endstate and a plan to achieve the desired endstate.
What are the CV and COG analysis and the exploitation plan?
An acronym that describes basic enemy prisoner of war (EPW) and detainee procedures.
What is STRESS?
Fratricide preventative control measures dictated in the sixth paragraph of the five-paragraph order used to identify friendly and enemy units under any circumstance.
What is challenge/pass?