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reconnaissance, reconnoissance a preliminary inspection of an area of land before an engineering survey is made reconnaissance [ri′kän·ə·səns] (engineering) A mission to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area. (ordnance) A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sullivan told this story in his appendix, "Memorandum on a Psychiatric Reconaissance," to Johnson, Growing Up in the Black Belt, 332. Land vehicles have been used for reconnaissance for nearly a century, indeed light armoured 'cars' preceded the tank, and now the range of reconaissance vehicles is an astonishing wide one in terms not only of platform but also of sophistication. The COLT platoon was task organized to the brigade reconaissance team ( |
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