enemy contact
Meeting the adversary
Enemy contact is a military term for an encounter with hostile forces.
It ranges from visual sighting to active engagement: The patrol reported enemy contact at 0800.
In combat reports and communications, the phrase signals that friendly troops have located or are engaging the enemy: We've made enemy contact—requesting support.
- firefightExchange of gunfire
- engagementCommitment to wed or attend
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- hostileAggressively unfriendly
- incomingMoving toward arrival
under fire · skirmish · combat · bullets · return fire · radio · adrenaline · patrol · gunfire · suppression · flank · cover · close quarters · troops · alert · danger · danger close · clash
- jungle warfareguerrilla tactics, dense foliage, jungle boots, machete, infiltration
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- military commandsattention, halt, fall back, advance, attack
- Reconnaissancerecon, scouting, recce, observation, recon team
presence of engagement
enemy contactno contact
Absence of communication
all clear · cold zone · disengagement · safe zone · radio silence
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