Phrase searching is effective for complete text and most fielded searching. This operator is no longer a part of searching DTIC's Collections. Proximity Searching Proximity searching provides a method of locating citations in which the words you enter appear within a defined distance of each other. This allows you to receive more accurate results. Note that the search engine represents one word as 20 individual characters.
Truncation is bi-directional.
Report Date Searching Report date searching may be accomplished in two ways, specific date and date range. If it is known that a title contains punctuation, you MUST enter it with punctuation enclosed in quotation marks. Phrase searching and Boolean operators can be helpful when searching for titles where a limited number of words are known. The AND Boolean operator will retrieve citations where both words are present somewhere in the field. The search engine provides multiple sort options.