SitRep aka Situation Report
The way I learned it made reference to SMEAC: situation; mission; execution; administration and logistics; communications and signals. (Compare to the list in CompactForm: Context, Problem, Forces, Solution, Resulting Context)
I found "Infantry Leaders' Reference Card" GTA-07-01-038 to be so pithy that I've copied part of it [Boy! Indentation and white space is as unmanageable as with Word ... actually worse than HTML!]:
OPERATION ORDER (FM 7-10)
- Task Organization
- Situation.
- Mission
- Who, what, where, when, and why.
- Task and purpose.
- Execution.
- Concept of operation.
- Maneuver.
- Fire support.
- Engineer.
- Tasks to maneuver units
- Tasks to combat support units.
- Coordinating instructions.
- Service support.
- General.
- Material and services.
- Casualty evacuation.
- Miscellaneous.
- Command and signal.
- ESTIMATE OF SITUATION (FM 7-10)
- Conduct a detailed mission analysis.
- Analyze the situation and develop courses of action.
- Analyze courses of action.
- Compare courses of action.
- Make a decision.
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BenTremblay