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• egress [extricating oneself from untenable situation; e.g. when UNMO come under sniper fire, they should radio for assistance and an armed armoured escort will be dispatched to protect their egress from the area]

• electoral division [one of the division within a PKO mission; headed by a Director (D-2 or D-1)]

• electoral observer [within a PKO's electoral division; visits polling stations, observes the transport of ballot boxes and the counting process and prepares a post-referendum evaluation; can be P-4, P-3, P-2, FS or GS]

• Electoral Assistance Division [Office of Operations, DPKO]

• electronic counter measure; ECM [ Actions taken to prevent or reduce the enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Includes jamming and electronic deception. ]

• embarkation [The loading of troops with their supplies and equipment into ships and/ or in aircrafts]

• Emergency Response Team [HCR; deployed in case of humanitarian emergencies, such as refugee crises, sometimes in conjunction with a peace-keeping operation]

• equipment use charge [a monthly reimbursement rate used with the wet/dry lease system: the generic fair market value divided by the equipment's expected useful life expressed in months plus a factor for attrition for wear and tear; or the replacement value divided by the equipment's expected useful life expressed in months, whichever is less]

• equipment-operating country; equipment-using country [under a dry lease arrangement, equipment operated by one country but provided by another] see also: dry lease arrangements

• equipment-providing country; equipment-owning country [under a dry lease arrangement, equipment provided by one country may be operated by another country] see also: dry lease arrangements

• escort patrol [unit tasked with escorting refugees being repatriated or with protecting civilians on their way to and from work where the route passes dangerously close to a hostile party; the term refers also to the mission entrusted to the unit] see also: reconnaissance patrol; standing patrol

• estimated time of arrival; ETA see also: actual time of arrival

• estimated time of completion; ETC

• estimated time of departure; ETD see also: actual time of departure

• evacuation (of equipment) [1. in the recovery system, evacuation is the movement of equipment casualties (in or out of theatre) within a logistics system; it is distinct from recovery. 2. The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/ or medical treatment facilities. see also: recovery

• evacuation point; EP [logistics; the location at which equipment is collected for evacuation]

• evacuation system; chain of evacuation [a series of medical-treatement stations and facilities and the evacuation routes along which they are positioned; "chain of evacuation" is also used to refer (a) to the series of prisoner-of-war collecting points and cages, and routes by which prisoners of war and civilian internees are collected and evacuated from a combat zone to rear areas and (b) to the series of installations for evacuating disabled or salvaged materiel] see also: aeromedical evacuation system

• exfiltration [the withdrawal of personnel or units from areas under enemy control by stealth, deception, surprise or clandestine means] see also: extraction; infiltration

• explosive ordnance disposal; EOD [ The detection, identification, field evaluation, rendering- safe, recovery and final disposal of of unexploded explosive ordonance. It may also include the rendering- safe and/ or disposal of explosive ordonance which have become hazardous by damage or deterioration when the disposal of such explosive ordinance is beyond the capabilities of personnel normally assigned the responsibility for routine disposal. ] see also: danger zone (UXO/UXB)

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