Where it comes from
It’s military shorthand: situation report, squeezed into one word the way radio and message traffic squeezes everything. Dictionaries date “sitrep” to the Second World War. The US Department of Defense dictionary defines a situation report as “a report giving the situation in the area of a reporting unit or formation,” and marks it as a term NATO uses the same way.
Who uses it now
Emergency services adopted it too. FEMA’s incident-command glossary defines a SitRep as “confirmed or verified information regarding the specific details relating to an incident.” And in everyday speech it just means a status update: “give me a sitrep.”
SITREP in Bogey
In Bogey, SITREP is the live board of what’s happening in the sky right now: military exercises, emergency squawks, airshows, famous aircraft and special paint in the air. Each one is a situation worth a look, and you can drop onto the map right where it’s happening. See how many planes are in the sky right now.
