mobile unit

Deployable field group

A mobile unit is equipment or personnel that can be moved to different locations as needed.

News organizations deploy mobile units—vehicles with broadcast equipment—to cover stories in the field: The mobile unit is live at the scene.

The term extends to any self-contained operational team or apparatus designed for transport: mobile medical units, mobile command units.

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dispatch · emergency · rapid deployment · portable · patrol · crime scene · truck · broadcast · live broadcast · radio · field · field hospital · blood drive · response · wheels · satellite · roving · deployment

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mobility/portability

mobile unitbase station

Fixed wireless communication point

headquarters · main office · home base · central station

infrastructure permanence

mobile unitbuilt environment

Human-created physical surroundings

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