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• facilitator [in diplomacy, neutral person or country who brings warring parties or States to a meeting and helps them exchange views and maybe come to a preliminary agreement; less formal role than that of a mediator or broker in a treaty negociation] see also: honest broker

• feeding strength [number of soldiers entitled to draw rations in a contingent, used to calculate supplies and plan indents; the daily personnel strength is entered on the monthly "Ration Entitlement Register"] see also: rations; combat rations; bulk rations; pack rations

• Field Administration and Logistics Division; FALD [Department of Peace-keeping Operations]

• field ambulance [ all terrain vehicle, equipped as an ambulance. ]

• field artillery [equipment, supplies, ammunition and personnel involved in the use of cannon, rocket or surface-to-surface missile launchers, and mobile enough to accompany and support infantry, mechanized, armoured, airborne and airmobile units in the field]

• field defence stores; defence stores [includes: concertina wire, barbed wire, fence posts, sandbags, observation towers, gabions, T-walls, corrugated iron, timber, gates and chain link fences and barriers] see also: field defence equipment

• field dressing station; holding station [a medical aid station close to the locus of combat] see also: battalion dressing station

• field hospital [a field hospital includes full accomodation (tented or prefabricated), ambulances, vehicles, operating theatre, sterilizer, x-ray, dentist, equipment workshop, intensive care unit, examination rooms, mortuary etc; as a standby forces standard component, the field hospital provides second and limited third line medical support to military units: 50 beds, clinical, surgical and dental services, sterilization and lab facilities, ambulance and catering services] see also: medical shelter

• Field Supply Unit; FSU [Logistics and Communications Service, Field Administration and Logistics Division, Office of Planning and Support, Department of Peace-keeping Operations]

• fielding [acquisition, delivery and distribution of new equipment to the units who are destined to use it]

• final protective fire; FPF [an immediately available prearranged barrier of fire designed to impede enemy movement across defensive lines or areas]

• Finance Management and Support Service; FMSS [Field Administration and Logistics Division/Department of Peace-Keeping Operations]

• finance officer; chief finance officer; (C)FO [of a PKO's finance section; civilian; usually a P-3]

• fire control system; FCS [fire control system: a system that performs the functions of target acquisition, tracking, data computation and engagement control, primarily using electronic means] see also: fire direction center

• fire direction center; FDC [that element of a command post by means of which a commander exercises fire direction (selection of targets, concentration or distribution of fire, allocation of ammunition) or fire control (applying fire on a target)] see also: fire control system

• fire support [the collective use of mortars, field artillery, close air support and naval gunfire in support of a battle plan or of ground forces]

• first-line maintenance [as applied to PKOs, first line maintenance refers to maintenance done by contingent/unit] see also: second line maintenance; third line maintenance; scale of issue; supply line

• flechette round [anti-personnel ammunition for tube artillery and tank guns]

• fleet dispatch and control (unit) [also seen as 'transport dispatch and control (unit)'; allocates vehicles to the mission's various components, issues pool vehicles; the officer heading the unit is usually a FS] see also: dispatch pool

• fleet management system [hardware and software used in logistics: trucks are equipped with an antenna which transmits via satellite to the fleet management center, data regarding their exact position and thus any delays in the transport and delivery of their cargo]

• flight [the basic tactical unit in the air force, consisting of four or more aircraft in two or more elements] see also: squadron

• flight safety element [standby forces standard component; ensures that UN flight safety regulations and directives are followed by all UN assigned or contracted air services agencies]

• floating base support [fuel, ammunitions, parts, supplied by support ships such as the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries; Max Houghton]

• force commander; FC [is an ASG or D-2; responsible for carrying out the mandate of the mission in respect of all military operations; reports to HQ in NY through the SRSG on military personnel and operations]

• force logistics support group; FLSG [composed of national support element (NSE) provided by each contingent; it coordinates receipt of stocks and movement to forward bases, and the sustainment of the force]

• force medical officer; FMEDO; FMO [military officer; heads all medical support activities in the mission area and is the senior medical adviser to the force commander and to all contingent senior medical officers of the mission; this term is now used for all types of missions, whether these have a force or not (such as observer missions); see: note under "chief medical officer"

• force medical supply officer; FMSO [military officer] see also: medical equipment and supply depot

• force mobile reserve; FMR [may be based on an armoured car squadron or some similar sub-unit of mobile, lightly armoured troops who are called upon to reinforce peacekeepers if needed] see also: ready reaction group

• fuel (holding) farm; tank farm parc … reservoirs (de carburant); parc de stockage (du carburant) [a fuel farm can comprise dozens or hundreds of fuel bladders, with associated pumps, pipelines, tanks, etc.]

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