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Acronym	Definition
OPC	OLE for Process Control (OLE = Object Linking and Embedding)
OPC	Orthodox Presbyterian Church
OPC	Ordinary Portland Cement
OPC	Oropharyngeal Cancer (squamous cell carcinoma)
OPC	Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. (Japan)
OPC	Open Platform Communications (software)
OPC	Outpatient Psychiatric Care
OPC	Office of the Privacy Commissioner (various locations)
OPC	Optical Proximity Correction
OPC	Omaha Press Club (Omaha, NE)
OPC	Oropharyngeal Candidiasis (infection)
OPC	Office de la Protection du Consommateur
OPC	Opel Performance Center (Germany)
OPC	Official Porsche Centre (vehicles; various locations)
OPC	Online Parish Clerks (UK)
OPC	Originating Point Codes
OPC	Oracle Pre-Compiler
OPC	on Programmable Chip
OPC	Open Process Control
OPC	Output Packet Counter
OPC	Opel Performance Center
OPC	Optimum Power Calibration
OPC	Optical Photo Conductor
OPC	Online Photo Center
OPC	Ole for Process Control
OPC	Optimum Power Control
OPC	Ocean Prediction Center (US NOAA)
OPC	Official Payments Corporation (electronic payment options)
OPC	Origination Point Code
OPC	Oligomeric Proanthocyanidin (antioxidant/antiinflamatory)
OPC	Open Packaging Conventions (container-file technology)
OPC	Optimum Power-Control (CDMA)
OPC	Oodua Peoples Congress
OPC	Oil Palm Company (Nigeria)
OPC	Overseas Press Club of America
OPC	Obesity Prevention Center (various locations)
OPC	Office of Public Counsel
OPC	Optimum Power Calibration (optical writing technology)
OPC	Ojai Playwrights Conference (Ojai, CA)
OPC	Originating Point Code
OPC	Original Poster Company (UK)
OPC	Optical Particle Counter
OPC	Ontario Police College
OPC	Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
OPC	Offshore Patrol Cutter
OPC	Operation Complete
OPC	Organic Photo-Conductor (Hewlett Packard toner technology)
OPC	Oil Pipeline Company
OPC	Other People's Children
OPC	Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell
OPC	Operational Performance Commitment (Delta)
OPC	Odua Peoples Congress
OPC	Open Link Exchange for Process Control
OPC	Operation Provide Comfort
OPC	Operations Controller
OPC	Off Peak Car
OPC	Other Peoples Cash
OPC	Off Premises Contact (timeshares)
OPC	Objective Performance Criteria
OPC	OpenGL Performance Characterization
OPC	Online Public Catalog (various schools)
OPC	Office of the Protective Commissioner (Australia)
OPC	Optical Photoconductor
OPC	One-Point-Cut (glass ampoules, medical packaging)
OPC	Organizational Program Coordinators (various organizations)
OPC	Ovamboland People's Congress
OPC	Oklahoma Pork Council
OPC	Optimum Picture Control (Sony)
OPC	Operations Planning & Control (IBM)
OPC	Outdoor Pursuits Club
OPC	Other Project Costs
OPC	Own Point Code
OPC	Onstar Personal Calling
OPC	Other Peoples' Code
OPC	Oji Paper Canada Ltd. (Japan)
OPC	Output Port Controller
OPC	Opinion of Probable Cost
OPC	Organisme de Placements Collectifs (Finance)
OPC	Outside Processors Council (Rockford, IL)
OPC	Oilfield Production Consultants Ltd
OPC	Operation Committee (IATA)
OPC	Operation Process Chart
OPC	Other People's Cigarettes
OPC	Organizational Performance Consultant (US Coast Guard)
OPC	Office of Public Correspondence (Treasury Department)
OPC	Ontario Provincial Committee (Air Cadet League of Canada)
OPC	Orientation Planning Committee
OPC	Oficiul Pentru Protecþia Consumatorilor (Romanian: Office for Consumer Protection)
OPC	Ontario Poison Centre (Canada)
OPC	Odstock Parish Council
OPC	Oakhurst Petanque Club (Oakhurst, CA)
OPC	Ocean Processing Center
OPC	Office of Primary Concern
OPC	Oligarchy Peep Contingent
OPC	On Phone Call
OPC	Oligoprocyanidin (specific type of antioxidant)
OPC	Optical Physics Corporation
OPC	Optimal Prefix Code
OPC	Office Protestant de la Communication
OPC	Oracle Precompiler
OPC	Oscillator Power Control
OPC	Outlining Process Chart
OPC	Onnuree Presbyterian Church
OPC	Organizational Point of Contact
OPC	Optimum Performance Capable (aircraft is fully mission capable)
OPC	Objat Poker Club (France)
OPC	Open Proxy Connection
OPC	Organisation, Planification, and Control
OPC	Overflow Priority Classification
OPC	Operations Processed per Cycle (microprocessors)

References in periodicals archive

"Knowing his stuff" and having built up a broad range of experiences in managing logistics and logistical-intensive missions gave him the confidence to tackle Operation Provide Comfort calmly and creatively and to understand and get others to understand how these complex problems-- such as airdrops, ground transportation, and building temporary camps and way-stations--could be solved.

How are great leaders made? Lessons from the career of General John Shalikashvili (1936-2011)

The United States will have to manage the competing interests and objectives of potential donor countries if the campaign is to be as effective as Operation Provide Comfort and the NATO campaigns in the Balkans.

Saving Darfur: seductive analogies and the limits of airpower coercion in Sudan

Chad is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and flew 45 missions in support of Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq.

Oklahoma Chapter

Operation Provide Comfort, implemented to provide humanitarian assistance to the Kurds and enforce a "no-fly" zone in Iraq, north of the 36th parallel, began in April 1991.

United States Central Command: a brief history

From participating in repatriation missions to return the remains of POW/MIAs from Vietnam, to her days as a transportation officer inspecting vehicles in northern Iraq and participating in Operation Provide Comfort in Turkey, Major Russ has enjoyed a less than predictable life.

Cultural icon

(10) The historical study written after Operation Provide Comfort for Iraq's Kurdish population appeared on Headquarters US European Command's required reading list for all assigned humanitarian-relief planners.

The commander and the wing historian

1991--As part of Operation Provide Comfort, Army units deploy to Turkey and northern Iraq in April to protect Kurdish refugees from Iraqi attacks.

Army milestones

He served in Guatemala, Panama and Italy, and was assigned to Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Desert Storm, during which he helped train U.S.

SDDC mourns loss of Command Affairs Director

The brigade also coordinated all engineer efforts of a joint and combined engineer force, providing construction and relief support to Kurdish refugees during Operation Provide Comfort. It was last inactivated as part of the reduction of forces in Europe on 15 October 1992.

Brigade returns to USAREUR after 11 years

NGOs swarm to crises like bats returning from a night's feeding or, as one uniformed participant in Operation Provide Comfort described them, "disaster junkies and groupies." (27) During Operation Uphold Democracy, more than 400 NGOs operated in Haiti; (28) in Somalia there were at least 49 different international agencies; (29) for Operation Support Hope in Rwanda, there were 109 in Kigali alone; (30) for Operation Shining Hope in Albania, there were over 100; (31) and in Afghanistan there are an estimated 105 and growing.

Leading air mobility operations in complex humanitarian emergencies

In late 1996, as a precursor to the accepted practices in today's EAF, the 132d, 138th, and 180th combined in one of the first Rainbow deployments in support of Operation Provide Comfort. The Rainbow concept allows units to mobilize, generate, and deploy essentially as one fighter squadron to cover a 90-day commitment, keeping the personnel tempo at the level required in the peacetime Air National Guard (ANG).

LANTIRN Intermediate Maintenance Concepts: Other Thoughts

The seventh chapter examines postwar events, such as mineclearing, redeployment of forces and equipment, Operation PROVIDE COMFORT, the homecoming receptions, maritime interception and sanctions enforcement operations, the establishment and conduct of no-fly zones north of the thirty-sixth parallel and south of the thirty-second, and punitive Tomahawk strikes throug h 1993.

OFFICIAL HISTORY, NOT "INSTANT ANALYSIS"

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