Force Readiness Reporting: Joint Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. 20318
Force Readiness Reporting: Joint Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. 20318
Force Readiness Reporting: Joint Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. 20318
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Directive Current as of 17 July 2014
FORCE READINESS
REPORTING
JOINT STAFF
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20318
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CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT
CHIEFS OF STAFF
INSTRUCTION
3. Applicability. This instruction applies to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint
Staff, combatant commands, the Services, and Department of Defense Combat
Support Agencies (CSA's) responsive to the Chairman (DIA, DISA, NGA, DLA,
DCMA, NSA, DTRA, and their subordinate agencies when applicable).
WILLIAM E. GORTNEY
VADM, USN
Enclosure(s): Director, Joint Staff
A -- Responsibilities
B -- Guidelines
C -- Reporting Requirements
D -- References
GL -- Glossary
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART Page
ENCLOSURE A -- RESPONSIBILITIES .......................................................... A-1
Scope .....................................................................................................B-1
Registered and Measured Units ..............................................................B-3
Reporting Criteria...................................................................................B-5
Report Submission .................................................................................B-5
Reporting Instructions............................................................................B-6
Security Classification Guidelines...........................................................B-7
Release of Readiness Data ......................................................................B-7
GLOSSARY ................................................................................................GL-1
LIST OF TABLES
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TABLE 6 -- PCTEF (Assigned Mission) ........................................................C-18
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ENCLOSURE A
RESPONSIBILITIES
2. Director, DISA
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b. In coordination with J-3 Readiness Division and OUSD (P&R), register
and annually validate the UICs of the Department of Defense (except those of
the Services), foreign governments, and international organizations.
3. Directors, CSAs
a. Ensure all units that are required to perform readiness assessments are
registered in readiness reporting system(s) (i.e. GSORTS, until GSORTS is
retired, and DRRS-S assumes this functionality).
4. Service Chiefs
(1) Make timely corrections to UIC Basic Identity Data Elements (BIDE)
in the GSORTS database for newly established/commissioned and
disestablished/decommissioned units/ships.
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(3) Develop and implement an audit plan to ensure that 100 percent of
their UICs are validated, IAW guidelines established in reference b, at least
annually.
b. Monitor readiness data for accuracy, timeliness, and quality within their
respective assigned responsibilities, and initiate corrective action as required.
Services will specifically:
5. Combatant Commanders
(1) Make timely corrections to UIC BIDE in the GSORTS database for
newly established and disestablished joint organizations.
(2) Develop and implement an audit plan to ensure that 100 percent of
CCDR created UICs are validated, IAW guidelines established in reference b, at
least annually.
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c. Upon notification, register foreign nation organizations or forces
committed to, or who coordinated on, an operation involving both U.S. and
foreign forces that are required to be reported by the Chairman.
e. Make timely corrections to UIC BIDE in the GSORTS database for newly
established and disestablished organizations.
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ENCLOSURE B
GUIDELINES
1. Scope. This CJCSI provides the policy for units to register and report
readiness in the two existing, complementary readiness reporting systems:
DRRS-S and the GSORTS. Eventually, these two reporting tools will be
integrated into the DRRS-S, providing standardized resource metrics to
complement and inform MET reporting. Reference a directs the Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, to conduct quarterly readiness assessments and provide
results to the Secretary of Defense. Reference c directs a capabilities-based
readiness system designed to measure and report the readiness of military
forces to meet missions assigned by the Secretary of Defense. The readiness
reports directed in this CJCSI support that guidance (i.e. references a and c)
and constitute a significant component of DOD and CJCS readiness reviews.
DRRS merges previously unrelated stove piped data environments into one
authoritative source providing capabilities-based mission assessments and
associated METs culminating in timely and accurate information for planning,
readiness, and risk assessment purposes in a joint environment. GSORTS
reports provide resource-based assessments in the personnel, equipment, and
training domains as well as a unit’s ability to accomplish their mission in a
chemical and biological environment, and provides an overall status reflecting
a unit's ability to meet the unit's designed mission requirements. DRRS-S
provides mission assessments and associated METs in a joint environment.
Taken together, these assessments provide a comprehensive view of a unit's
capability status. These assessments are utilized at the unit through Service
HQ level as well as at the combatant command, Joint Staff, and OSD levels for
planning, assessment, and operational mission execution purposes.
a. GSORTS
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functions as the authoritative central registry of U.S. Armed Forces units and
organizations as well as certain foreign organizations. Units are identified in
GSORTS by their unique UICs and associated BIDE. The central registry
supports the Global Force Management processes of assignment,
apportionment, and allocation and the identification of measured units for
readiness reporting.
b. DRRS-S.
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Standards are based on performance measures and criteria that can be output,
outcome, or process-oriented. Conditions are based on considerations of the
environment such as terrain and weather, military force characteristics and
political considerations such as access rights and civil conditions.
b. Measured Units
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(b) Navy. Ships (i.e. CVN, LHA, CG, DDG, SSBN, etc), aircraft
squadrons, separate deployed or deployable detachments, platoons, teams,
special boat units and staff; nuclear weapons support facilities, information
operations, cyberspace operations, and major combat support and combat
service support units (including the Military Sealift Command).
(f) Joint Organizations. Joint task force HQs, JTF Capable HQs,
and standing joint force HQs.
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3. Reporting Criteria
a. All measured units will continuously monitor changes in the overall unit
level, resource category levels (C-level), unit location, and capability
assessments.
(1) Measured units will report any unit location changes away from
their home station, installation, or base, to include partial unit deployment, if
applicable.
(2) When the unit commander identifies a change, measured units will
report these changes in the overall unit, C-levels, and/or mission assessments
(Core/Named Operations/Top Priority Plans (Level IV)) within 24 hours of the
event necessitating the change. If no change occurs within 30 days of the last
report submission, measured units will submit a validation or complete
readiness report in the DRRS-E and/or GSORTS (until all functionality is
resident in DRRS-S) in accordance with reference b (Units reporting C-5 are
exempt from this requirement).
d. The Chairman, in coordination with the Service Chiefs and the affected
Combatant Commanders, may require units to report more frequently.
Combatant commanders may require assigned units, or units over whom they
exercise OPCON, to report more frequently. In each case, consideration should
be given to the impact on the unit of increased reporting.
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5. Reporting Instructions
b. The Services, COCOMs, and CSAs will ensure all measured units
comply with the policy and procedures found in this instruction and Enclosure
D, reference b.
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f. The Services, COCOMs, and CSAs may develop supplemental
instructions for meeting the standards for readiness reporting. The Joint Staff
may include these instructions as Service, combatant command, or CSA
chapters within reference b or as separate directives. The Navy and Coast
Guard will coordinate supplemental reporting instructions. Services, COCOMs,
or CSA will coordinate changes to these supplements/directives with the Joint
Staff prior to publication. In the event this instruction conflicts with any
Service, combatant command, or CSA supplemental instruction, this
instruction will take precedence.
b. OSD, the Joint Staff, Services, COCOMs, and CSAs may release
readiness data in accordance with appropriate security guidelines. COCOMs
and CSAs will only release data on assigned units. Services will only release
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information on Service units. The releasing headquarters will provide only that
amount of information required to satisfy the requirement. Releasers will
notify J-3 Joint Staff and OSD (Readiness) of any release of readiness data to
any requester outside the Department of Defense.
(2) All Joint and/or Service mission application systems (e.g., JOPES,
GTN, Common Operational Picture (COP)) that use or provide access to
readiness data will ensure that approved Interface Control Documents are in
place prior to accessing readiness data. All applications using readiness data
will ensure that only appropriately designated personnel are authorized access
to the readiness data according to approved permissions.
(4) Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) will maintain the official
record of historical GSORTS and DRRS data. DMDC will maintain this data
online, available to all GCCS users. The Joint Staff J-3, in coordination with
OSD (Readiness), will approve the release of all DRRS/GSORTS data to all non-
GCCS users.
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ENCLOSURE C
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
a. Each measured unit will report an overall C-level. The C-level reflects
the status of the selected unit resources measured against the resources
required to undertake the wartime missions for which the unit is organized or
designed (core). The C-level also reflects the condition of available equipment,
personnel, and unit training status. C-levels, by themselves, do not project a
unit's combat performance once committed to combat. The five unit C-levels
are:
(1) C-1. The unit possesses the required resources and is trained to
undertake the full wartime missions for which it is organized or designed. The
resource and training area status will neither limit flexibility in methods for
mission accomplishment nor increase vulnerability of unit personnel and
equipment. The unit does not require any compensation for deficiencies.
(2) C-2. The unit possesses the required resources and is trained to
undertake most of the wartime missions for which it is organized or designed.
The resource and training area status may cause isolated decreases in
flexibility in methods for mission accomplishment, but will not increase
vulnerability of the unit under most envisioned operational scenarios. The unit
would require little, if any, compensation for deficiencies.
(3) C-3. The unit possesses the required resources and is trained to
undertake many, but not all, portions of the wartime missions for which it is
organized or designed. The resource or training area status will result in
significant decreases in flexibility for mission accomplishment and will increase
vulnerability of the unit under many, but not all, envisioned operational
scenarios. The unit would require significant compensation for deficiencies.
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(e) Units not staffed or equipped, but required in the wartime force
structure.
b. The unit’s overall C-level will be based only on the resources and
training organic (assigned or allocated) to the measured unit or its parent unit.
Air Force communications organizations may include those resources on loan
that can be re-deployed within organizational-tasked response time, not to
exceed 72 hours. The Army may provide two C-levels for pre-positioned stocks
or stock decrement: one based on organic resources and one based on its pre-
positioned stocks, or stock decrement resources plus its equipment on hand.
Each pre-positioned stock must be properly identified or assigned to only one
unit for deployment and reporting.
c. The unit's overall C-level will be identical to the lowest level recorded in
any of the unit’s individually measured resource areas (personnel, equipment,
and supplies on hand, equipment condition, or training) or naval mission area.
For Navy units the overall C-level will be either: one -- equal to the lowest of
the unit’s resource ratings (personnel, equipment, supplies, training, or
ordnance) or, two -- one rating higher than the lowest Navy Primary Mission
Area (PRMAR) when only one area is the lowest, or three -- equal to the lowest
Navy PRMAR when there are two or more mission areas that equal the lowest
rating. If prudent, the unit commander may subjectively raise or lower the
units overall C-level. In determining the need for subjective upgrade or
downgrade, the unit commander will examine whether the calculated C-level is
in consonance with the C-level definitions listed above. For instance, units
missing personnel or equipment designated as critical should be particularly
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cautious about reporting C-1, even if the arithmetic computations support
such a level.
(2) Delivery schedules for ordered items from outside agencies will not
change from current projections.
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(b) Availability of personnel with certain occupational specialties
that have a larger effect than indicated by total personnel or critical personnel
fill rates.
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(5) Other Factors
2. Unit Resource Measured Areas. Units will measure and report status in
four areas: personnel (P-level), equipment and supplies on hand (S-level),
equipment condition (R-level), and training (T-level). They will also measure
and report the status of their chemical-biological defense readiness training
(CBDRT). They will assign a numeric value in the range from one through six
for each of the four areas and to CBDRT according to the procedures outlined
in Enclosure D, reference b. A resource or training area that is not measured
is given a status level of “6.” A table showing type units authorized to report a
status level of “6” along with supporting rationale will be included in
authoritative organization supplements. A status level of “6” is not used for
overall C-levels. If a status level of “6” is assigned to a measured resource area,
the overall C-level will be the lowest of the remaining resource areas not
assigned a value of “6.” Modification of the computed status of each
individually measured area is not permitted.
a. Personnel (P-level). Units will report the lowest P-level between total
personnel and critical personnel (and optional grade fill), including both
military and DOD civilians, based on the Wartime Table of Organization. Table
1 outlines personnel area calculations and associated status level bands.
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Units will calculate a P-level as of the time of the report or forecast an
estimated level projected to the shorter of the unit's mission alert, alert
response time, or 72 hours. Personnel Status Report reporting should be
consistent with P-level reporting to provide integrity and consistency on the
status of personnel resources.
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1. Count the number of personnel available at the time of the
report or within the forecasted mission or alert response time.
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1. Divide the number of critical grade personnel available by the
number of critical grade positions required, multiply the result by 100 and
round off to a whole number.
(d) Convert the critical grade fill personnel percentage into a critical
grade fill P-level using Table 1.
(a) Select the lowest P-level from the total personnel P-level, critical
specialty P-level and, if calculated, the critical grade fill P-level as the unit P-
level.
(b) For USN and USCG units, determine personnel status for each
PRMAR assigned as well as total officer and total enlisted. The reported P-level
status reflects the worst calculated level if more than one mission area is
degraded. If only one PRMAR is degraded, the unit reports one better than the
worst calculated, degraded PRMAR.
Designated critical
MOS/personnel specialty >=85 >=75 >=65 <65
available strength divided by percent percent percent percent
critical MOS/personnel specialty
structured strength
3. Critical Grade Fill (Optional) >=85 >=75 >=65 <65
percent percent percent percent
Note: P-5 and P-6 are reported per authoritative organization direction
Table 1. Personnel
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and Service-selected support equipment. Table 2 outlines equipment and
supplies on hand calculations.
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(3) Selecting a Unit S-Level. Select the lowest S-level from the combat
essential equipment S-level and the other end-item and support equipment S-
level as the unit S-level. For USN and USCG units, determine equipment and
supplies on hand status for each PRMAR assigned. The reported S-Level
status reflects the lowest calculated level if more than one mission area is
degraded. If only one PRMAR is degraded, the unit reports one better than the
lowest calculated degraded PRMAR.
(c) Items loaned to another unit to augment its resources unless the
authoritative organization directs that the loaned items should be counted.
The authoritative organization must ensure that only one unit counts items as
possessed.
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Note: S-5 and S-6 are reported per authoritative organization direction
Table 2. Equipment and Supplies On-Hand
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(c) Calculate combat-essential equipment condition percentage.
Divide the number of operationally ready and available combat-essential
equipment items by the number of assigned (possessed for USAF) combat
equipment items. Multiply the result by 100 and round off to a whole number.
(3) Selecting a Unit R-Level. Select the lowest R-level from the combat--
essential equipment R-level and the other end-item and support equipment R-
level as the unit R-level.
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Note: R-5 and R-6 are reported per authoritative organization direction
Table 3. Equipment Condition
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intervals, under designated conditions and executed to measurable standards
for the unit to be considered fully trained IAW its Service or joint HQs-
developed mission essential tasks. Joint training assessments documented in
the Joint Training Information Management System should be used to help
determine T-level. Training proficiency evaluations from multiple joint training
events can be compiled and analyzed to develop training proficiency
assessments and mission training assessments to determine overall
organizational capability to perform mission essential tasks.
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4. Convert the Training Percentage. Use Table 4 to convert the
percentage to a T-level.
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one PRMAR is degraded, the unit reports one better than the lowest calculated
degraded PRMAR.
(3) Selecting a Unit CBDRT-level. Select the lowest level from the
CBDRT Training level and the CBDRT Equipment and Supplies On Hand level.
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b. PCTEF will not necessarily correlate with the unit’s overall C-Level. For
example, if the unit is currently assigned a mission, PCTEF will capture the
commander’s assessment against this mission while the overall C-Level will
continue to assess the unit’s ability to execute the wartime mission(s) (core) for
which it is organized or designed. Valid entries for the PCTEF field are “1,” “2,”
“3” or “4” as defined in Table 6.
c. While reporting PCTEF units will continue reporting overall unit C-Level,
IAW Enclosure C, paragraph 1. This will reflect that portion of the unit's full
wartime mission (core) it is able to perform within the next 72 hours, if alerted
or committed.
d. Units may have more than one assigned mission at a particular time.
The PCTEF assessment should reflect the lowest rating of the assigned
missions, with a remark field indicating the assessment level of each mission.
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4. Capability Assessments
b. There are three categories of METL assessments that are used to reflect
the unit’s capabilities: Core Tasks, Named Operations, and Top Priority Plans
(Level 4). The Core category relates to the “designed” mission of the unit, while
the Named Operations and Top Priority Plans categories relate to the “assigned”
mission(s) of the unit. METLA METL assessment in DRRS of Core and
assigned missions informs both joint and Service organizations and provides
commanders readiness information and status.
(1) Core Task. The fundamental capabilities for which a unit was
designed or organized. Geographic COCOMs will report against tasks that
support their Theater Campaign Plan.
(2) Top Priority Plans. Are those designated as “level 4” in the Joint
Strategic Capabilities Plan.
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intent. After a mission analysis, the commander specifies which METs will be
used by their units.
(1) Joint, CSA, and Service units will develop their METLs using the
UJTL or the supporting Service/Agency Task Lists. Reference i governs the use
of the UJTL and explains its relationship to the Service Task Lists.
(5) Service tasks are, by their nature, not joint and are documented in
appropriate, supporting Service task lists. Service tasks, however, may be
identified as linked to UJTL tasks to show that they support joint tasks.
(6) METs. METs will be assessed via the three-tier (Y/Q/N) scale.
(b) Qualified Yes (Yellow). Unit can accomplish all or most tasks to
standard under most conditions. The specific standards and conditions that
cannot be met, as well as the shortfalls or issues impacting the unit’s inability
to accomplish the task, will be clearly detailed in the MET assessment.
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(8) Commanders must review and approve the capability assessment
before submittal. A rating other than “Y” requires remarks. Remarks should
explain the fundamental shortfalls of the unit and what is necessary to mitigate
the shortfalls. The following guidelines will be used to ensure consistent
mission assessments.
(a) If the majority (51 percent) of the METs are assessed as “Yes”
and the remaining METs are assessed as “Qualified Yes,” then the overall
mission assessment should be “Yes.”
(c) If any of the tasks are assessed as “No,” then the commander
must make a judgment as to whether the mission objectives can still be
accomplished. If the commander makes a subjective upgrade for an overall
mission assessment to anything other than “No,” the commander should
clearly explain how the plan will be accomplished despite the inability to
accomplish the MET and any mitigation actions that will be taken.
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the appropriate task, conditions, and standards cannot be identified, the
higher headquarters coordinates with the subordinate unit headquarters to
determine how to identify the required support.
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d. Installation commanders will assess the ability of the installation to
accomplish assigned tasks to standard under specified conditions. These
assessments should be informed by performance measures, resource
availability, and military experience/judgment.
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ENCLOSURE D
REFERENCES
h. CJCSI 5714.01 Series, “Release Procedures for Joint Staff and Joint Papers
and Information”
i. CJCSI 3500.01 Series, “Universal Joint Task List (UJTL) Policy and
Guidance for the Armed Forces”
j. CJCSM 3500.03, 31 August 2007, “Joint Training Manual for the Armed
Forces of the United States”
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
CJCSM 6120.05 Series, “Manual for Tactical Command and Control Planning
Guidance for Joint Operations”
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AR 220-1, 15 APR 2010, “Army Unit Status Reporting and Force Registration -
Consolidated Policies”
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GLOSSARY
GL-1 Glossary
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OPLAN operation plan in complete format
OPCON operational control
OPR office of primary responsibility
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
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PART II--DEFINITIONS
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combat support unit. Those elements that primarily provide combat support to
the combat forces and that are a part, or prepared to become a part, of a
theater, command, or task force formed for combat operations.
combat service support unit. Those elements whose primary missions are to
provide service support to combat forces and which are part, or prepared to
become a part, of a theater, command, or task force formed for combat
operations.
detachment. 1. A part of a unit separated from its main organization for duty
elsewhere. 2. A temporary military or naval unit formed from other units or
parts of units.
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interface control document. A memorandum of agreement/understanding
established between organizations that outlines intersystem-access
authorizations to applications and data base information.
MOS. Military occupational specialty, as used by the U.S. Army and U.S.
Marine Corps; also used herein to encompass requirements for U.S. Navy
enlisted ratings, U.S. Navy officer designator, and Air Force specialty codes.
partial unit deployment. An element that deploys separately from its parent
unit. It is applicable when a unit deploys only a part or portion of its mission
capability to support an operation. It applies to small unit elements that are
not registered in GSORTS separately from their parent unit.
registered unit. All units that are assigned in reference f or have the potential
to support, by deployment or otherwise, a CJCS/combatant command directed
OPLAN, CONPLAN, or contingency operation. These units are created with a
unique UIC and a BIDE set describing the unit.
unit identification code (UIC). A code that uniquely identifies each Active,
Reserve, and National Guard unit of the Armed Forces.
U.S. Armed Forces. The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast
Guard.
GL-6 Glossary
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