Frequently, the professional degree is a masterâs level or doctorate degree. There are a few professional degrees that require only bachelorâs degree training, and even a couple that require only an Associate of Arts or Sciences(A.A. or A.S.) degree, essentially two years in college.Typically, most professional degrees will require a fairly extensive education. professional degree is a particularly vacuous designation, one that is designed effectively to impress people in a society that holds official designations of all types to be mandatory for survival.
Missing in action. Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been killed, wounded, captured, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave has been positively identified.
Direct action (DA), in the context of special operations, is defined by the US Department of Defense as follows: Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets.