Field Manual / Acronyms / OPORD
OPORD
ACRONYMOperation Order
A full, written or spoken order in five paragraphs that tells units how to carry out an operation.
On air
“Bravo Two-One, OPORD brief at my location in one hour. Over.”
In conversation
The company OPORD will be issued at the CP at sixteen hundred.
An OPORD always follows the five-paragraph SMEAC format.
Squad leaders, bring your maps and notebooks to the OPORD.
The Operation Order gives the full plan; the WARNO only starts preparation.