GLOSSARY
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| Term | Definition |
| Cable Act | Legislation that deprived citizenship to female citizens who married aliens. The legislation, which repealed Section 47 of the Immigration Act of 1917, was sponsered by Congressman John L. Cable of Ohio and passed Congress on September 22, 1922. Had a severe effect on Nisei women who married Issei men. While the act allowed women who had lost their citizenship through marriage to an alien to regain it through naturalization upon the ending of that marriage through death or divorce, Nisei women who had lost their citizenshp were ineligible for naturalization on account of their race. |
| Campaign | A connected series of military operations forming a distinct phase of war. |
| Captain | A commissioned officer commanding a company. Ranking above a First Lieutenant and below a Major. Primary task to command units, provide tactical plans, and make decisions. |
| Casualty | A military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, capture, or missing in action. |
| Cave flushing | Term that refers to the evacuation of people from caves. The MIS flushed out enemy soldiers and civilians in such places as Okinawa and Iwo Jima during World War II. |
| Civilian | One not on active duty in a military, police, or fire-fighting force. |
| Colonel | A commissioned officer commanding a regiment. Ranking above a Lieutenant Colonel. Primary task to command units, provide tactical plans and make decisions. |
| Combat Engineer Company | Those engineering tasks that assist the tactical and/or operational commander to "shape" the battle space by enhancing mobility to create the space and time necessary to generate mass and speed while protecting the force and denying mobility and key terrain to the enemy. These tasks include breaching, bridging and emplacement of obstacles to deny mobility to the enemy. |
| Combatant | One that is engaged in or ready to engage in combat. |
| Commander | One in an official position of command or control. |
| Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) | A Congressional commission charged with studying the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and recommending an appropriate remedy. |
| Commissioned Officer | A military officer who holds rank by appointment at or above the rank of Second Lieutenant or Ensign. |
| Company | Composed of three or more platoons, commanded by Captain. Contains a Headquarters (administrative) detachment. Generally three rifle platoons and one heavy weapons platoon. Identified by letters, A Co, B Co, etc. |
| Concentration Camps | Known also as “relocation centers” or “internment camps,” they were facilities for housing Americans of Japanese Ancestry that were forcibly removed from their homes and businesses during World War II. |
| Convoy | A group of vehicles organized for the purpose of control or orderly movement with or without escort protection. |
| Corporal | A noncommissioned officer ranking in the army above Private First Class and below Sergeant. |
