priority of immediate mission requests

See emergency priority; urgent priority. priority system for mission requests for tactical reconnaissance — A system that assigns each tactical reconnaissance request the appropriate priority as follows. Priority I — Takes precedence over all other requests except those previously assigned priority I. The results of these requests are of paramount importance to the immediate battle situation or objective. Priority II — The results of these requirements are in support of the general battle situation and will be accomplished as soon as possible after priority I requests. These are requests to gain current battle information. Priority III — The results of these requests update the intelligence database but do not affect the immediate battle situation. Priority IV — The results of these requests are of a routine nature. These results will be fulfilled when the reconnaissance effort permits. See also precedence.