text: Voice Message Format Templates
  METEOROLOGICAL-TARGET ACQUISITION MESSAGE [MET.TA]
  REPORT NUMBER: M70 {USMTF # F255}
  GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Use to disseminate meteorological data for use by target acquisition systems.
  References: ATP 3-09.12 and TC 3-09.81.
  LINE 1 – DATE AND TIME ________________________________________________ (DTG)
  LINE 2 – UNIT _____________________________________________________________ ((uunit making report)
  LINE 3 – ALFA _________________________________________________________________ ((wweather data)
  GLOBAL OCTANT_____
  MET STA POSITION OR NAME_____
  MET VALIDITY_____
  MET STA HEIGHT and PRESSURE________
  LINE 4 – BRAVO ___________________________________________________ (weather data)
  CLOUD BASE HEIGHT_____
  MEAN REFRACTIVE INDEX_____
  ALTITUDE ZONE _____ WIND DIR TENS OF MILS ____ WIND SPEED IN KNOTS
  SUB-LINE 00 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 01 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 02 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 03 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 04 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 05 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 06 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 07 –________________________________________
  ALTITUDE ZONE _____ WIND DIR TENS OF MILS ____ WIND SPEED IN KNOTS
  SUB-LINE 08 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 09 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 10 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 11 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 12 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 13 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 14 –________________________________________
  SUB-LINE 15 –________________________________________
  LINE 5 – NARRATIVE ________________________________________ (free text for additional information
  required for report clarification)
  LINE 6 – AUTHENTICATION __________________________________ (report authentication)
  **Advise your SWO to use the Air Force’s “Field Artillery Target Acquisition Meteorological Message” from
  their meteorological data center.
  Table A-92. Meteorological-target acquisition message acronym and abbreviation key
  DIR direction
  DTG date-time group
  MET meteorological
  MET.TA meteorological-target acquisition message
  mils milliradians
  STA station
  SWO staff weather officer
  USMTF United States message text format