WordNet
n. a mission requiring one force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly the supported force's request for assistance
Usage examples of "direct support".
Inshore, they have helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in direct support, and it was a most unpleasant experience.
Yet in the end, all of the Centrist efforts, and even the direct support of the Queen herself, had proved insufficient.
It was the direct support link between its parent battalion, and the Brigade Support Area.
While it may not be in direct support of the Constitution, we feel that the Compact is in everyone's long-term interest.
So the classic model of direct support and control of terrorism no longer applied.
This comprised several aspects, ranging from direct support of an injured comrade to research for obscure medicinal herbs.
Diamond and the Mother Company, which controlled the careers of most major governmental figures, not only through direct support, but also by the technique of using their public media subsidiaries to blacken and demoralize potential candidates, and to shape what the American masses took to be the Truth.