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• gabion [boxes of wire mesh, filled with stones and used to build a variety of structures]

• general purpose machine gun; GPMG [ machine gune which can be used for any kind of tasks. ]

• general service officer; GSO [civilian]

• general support soutien (logistique) hors theatre [stocks procured outside the mission area, and which may or may not be centrally warehoused in the mission area] see also: direct support; organizational support; third line stocks

• global positioning system; GPS [ the identification of a position by means of sattelite navigation. ] see also: fleet management system

• good offices [procedure when, for the maintenance of peace, a nation intervenes in a friendly manner between two powers whose differences might well lead to armed conflict, and offers its suggestions as to possible ways and means of settling the differences; when the third power takes an actual part in the subsequent negociations (as the channel of communication, etc.) good offices then become mediation; more generally, the disinterested use of one's official position or office in order to help others settle their differences; the term can also refer to the acts of a diplomatic officer of a third power who takes charge of the interests of a country that has severed diplomatic relations with the state to which he is accredited] see also: mediation; conciliation; arbitration; de marche

• gratis civilian officer; GCO

• gratis military officer; GMO; officer on loan [officer released by his Government at no cost to the UN, as opposed to officer under contract, i.e. paid by the UN; the GMO category includes both officers on loan (short-term) and officers on secondment (longer term)] see also: voluntary contribution-in-kind; military officer under contract

• Greenwich Mean Time; GMT [ Mean solar time at the meridian of Greenwich, England, used as a basisi for standard time throughout the world. Normally expressed in four numerals 0001 to 2400. Also called Zulu time. ] see also: zulu time

• grid (coordinate) system; grid system; GS [ A planerectangular coordinate system usually based on, mathematically adjusted to, a map projection in order that geographic positions (latitudes and longitudes) may be redily transformed into plane coordinates and the computations relating tothem may be made by the ordinary method of plane surveying. ] see also: military grid; military grid reference system

• grid bearing [direction of an object from a point, expressed as a horizontal angle, measured clockwise with reference to grid north]

• ground handling [those services include interior and exterior cleaning of aircraft, de-icing, catering, provision of ground power, of tow tractors, mobile lighting and passenger embarkation and control]

• Guidelines for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations [DPKO publication, 1994, E only]

• gun pit [e.g. overlooking permanent checkpoint]

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