Active Duty. Full-time duty in the active service of a uniformed service, including duty on the active list, full-time training duty, annual training duty, and attendance while in the active service at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned.

Actual Strength. The number of personnel in, or projected to be in, an organization or account at a specified point in time.

Armed Forces of the United States. Includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and all components thereof.

Assigned Strength. Actual strength of an entire Service, not necessarily equal to combined unit actual strengths since individuals may be assigned but not joined.

Authorized Strength. The total strength authorized by Congress (for internal Service applications only).

Captured or Interned. Active duty military personnel who have been detained as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country.

Casualty. Any person who is lost to the organization by reasons of having been declared dead, missing, captured, interned, wounded, injured, or seriously ill.

Civil Functions. Functions primarily associated with the Civil Works program of the Army Corps of Engineers. This program encompasses planning, programming, designing, constructing, and operating Federal water resource projects for navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power, water supply, recreation, and related activities. Civil Functions also includes cemeterial workers (Army) and conservation management employees (Air Force).

Continental United States. Unless otherwise qualified, means the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia.

Died. Active duty military personnel lost to their organization by reason of having been declared dead.

Direct Hire Civilians. Employees hired directly by an agency of DoD. Includes Foreign Nationals hired by DoD to support DoD activities in their home countries.

Enlisted Member. A person enlisted, enrolled, or conscripted into the military service. Also includes enlisted personnel currently enrolled in an officer training program.

Enlistment:

Frocked. Incumbent authorized to pin on the next higher insignia of rank before being officially promoted to that rank.

Former OMB Ceiling Employment. Employees formerly subject to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) employment controls used to administer Presidential employment ceiling limitations. Refer to the Office of Personnel Management Operating Manual, The SF113 Summary Data Reporting System, for a delineation of employment formerly exempt from ceiling controls.

Hostile, Hostile Conditions, or Hostile Actions. Meets the requirements of a battle casualty. A battle casualty is any casualty incurred in action. "In action" characterizes the casualty status as having been the direct result of hostile action; sustained in combat or relating thereto; or sustained going to or returning from a combat mission, provided that the occurrence was directly related to hostile action. Included are persons killed or wounded mistakenly or accidentally by friendly fire directed at a hostile force or what is thought to be a hostile force. However, injuries due to the elements or self-inflicted wounds and, except in unusual cases, wounds or deaths inflicted by a friendly force while the individual is in an absent-without-leave or dropped from the rolls status, or who is voluntarily absent from a place of duty, are not to be considered as sustained in action and are, thereby, not to be interpreted as battle casualties.

Indirect Hire Civilians. Foreign Nationals assigned to support U.S. forces through contracts or agreements with foreign governments (or agencies thereof). These personnel are employees of the foreign governments involved.

Military Afloat. Navy and Marine Corps military personnel aboard ship. Also includes Navy and Marine Corps military personnel who are assigned to afloat and mobile units, such as aircraft squadrons, construction battalions, and fleet and air command staffs, and who are aboard ship.

Military Functions. Activities normally associated with the Uniformed Services.

Military Temporarily Shore-Based. Navy and Marine Corps military personnel assigned to afloat and mobile units, such as aircraft squadrons, construction battalions, and fleet and air command staffs, and who are temporarily based ashore for a period that will exceed 30 days.

Missing. Active duty military personnel who are not present at their duty station due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is not known. Excluded are personnel who are in an absent-without-leave or deserter status, or those who have been dropped from the rolls of their Military Service.

Officer. A commissioned or warrant officer.

Operating Location. Operating location is defined as the geographic location where military or civilian employees of the Department of Defense are physically located for the performance of duties.

Other Department of Defense Organizations (as of October 1998):

Pending or Undetermined. Both terms apply to nonhostile casualties. The term "Pending" or "Determination Pending" is used whenever an initial or interim report is issued while awaiting the results of an investigation, toxicological examination, or autopsy, such as, in an apparent self-inflicted death. "Pending" represents a transitory classification. The term "Undetermined" is used whenever the cause and circumstance surrounding a deceased, nonhostile casualty can not be determined. "Undetermined" is considered a final classification describing the manner of death.

Recorded Duty Station. Actual physical location where active duty military personnel perform duty on a permanent basis.

Reserve Components. The Army National Guard of the United States, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard of the United States, Air Force Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve.

Returned to Military Control (RMC). Active duty military personnel previously missing, captured, or interned who have been returned to U.S. military authority.

Service Academy Cadet or Midshipman. A person in training at one of the Service academies to become a commissioned officer.

Total Paid Civilian Employment. Total direct and indirect hire civilian employment. For direct hires, includes, with some exceptions, all direct hire employees who had not officially separated as of the reporting period or were on paid leave.

Transients. All military members who are available for duty while executing permanent change of station (PCS) orders. Transients shall comprise all military personnel in a travel, proceed, leave enroute, or temporary duty enroute status on PCS orders to execute an accession, separation, training, operational, or rotational move.

Warrant Officer. A person who holds a commission or warrant in a warrant officer grade.