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List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations

used by the government and the military of the United States :

Contents:

Top 09 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also

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1LT First Lieutenant (U.S. Army) (USAF uses "1st Lt")

2LT Second Lieutenant (U.S. Army) (USAF uses "2d Lt")

2IC Second In Command

A

A analog

A1C Airman 1st Class (USAF E-3)

A2C2 Army airspace command and control

A-3 (Operations Directorate (COMAFFOR))

A-5 (Plans Directorate (COMAFFOR))

AA Anti-aircraft

AA assembly area

AA assessment agent

AA avenue of approach

AAA antiaircraft artillery

AAA arrival and assembly area

AAA assign alternate area

AAASamphibious aviation assault ship

AABB American Association of Blood Banks

AABWS amphibious assault bulk water system

AAC activity address code

AAC Army Air Corps (British)

AAC Australian Army Cadets (Australia)AACG arrival airfield control group

AADC area air defense commander

AADP area air defense plan

AA&E arms, ammunition, and explosives

AAEC aeromedical evacuation control team

AAFC Australian Air Force Cadets (Australia)

AAFES Army and Air Force Exchange Service

AAFIF automated air facility information file

AAFS amphibious assault fuel system
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AAFSF amphibious assault fuel supply facility

AAGS Army air-ground system

AAI air-to-air interface

AAM air-to-air missile

AAMDC US Army Air and Missile Defense Command

AAOE arrival and assembly operations element

AAOG arrival and assembly operations group

AAP Allied administrative publicationAAP assign alternate parent

AAR after action report

AAR after action review

AAS Army Apprentice School (Australia)

AAST aeromedical evacuation administrative support team

AAT automatic analog test

AAT aviation advisory team

AAU analog applique unit

AAV amphibious assault vehicle

AAW antiair warfareAB airbase

AB Airman Basic (USAF E-1)

ABCA American, British, Canadian, Australian Armies Program

ABCS army battle command system

ABD airbase defense

ABFC advanced base functional component

ACF army cadet force (UK Military)

ADF Australian Defence Force (Australia)

ADFA Australian Defence Force Academy (Australia)

ADFC Australian Defence Force Cadets (Australia)

ADOS active duty, operational support

ADSW active duty, special work

AEW&C - Airborne early warning and control

AFI awaiting further instruction/Air Force Instruction (requirement guide)

AFMC armed forces medical college

AFOQT air force officer qualifying test

AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigations

AFSC - Air Force Specialty Code

AHA ammunition holding areaAIM airborne intercept missile (U.S. military)

AIPD Army Institute For Professional Development

AIRTC Air Training Corps (former name for the Australian Air Force Cadets)

AIT advanced individual training (U.S. Army)

Amn airman (USAF E-2)

ALCON All concerned (U.S. military)

AMU aircraft maintenance unit

AMXG aircraft maintenance group

AMXS aircraft maintenance squadron
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BDU Battle Dress Uniform (U.S. Military)

Be Beriev (Russian)

BEA Budget Execution Authority (U.S. Navy)

BFT Blue Force Tracker (U.S. Military)

BG Bodyguard

BGHR By God He's Right (U.S Military)

BLUF Bottom Line Up Front (US Military)

BMNT Begin Morning Nautical Twilightight (U.S Army)BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again (US Military)

BRAC Base Realignment And Closure Commission

BRAT (American) Born RaisedAndTransferred (American usage, refers to dependent children of military

personnel) Usually Pronounced "Military Brat" (Or "Air Force BRAT", or Army "Brat", Navy "Brat" etc.).[

BRAT (British) British RegimentAttachedTraveler (British military usage, may have been the original usage

which was later adapted to the American military: Means "child that travels with a soldier") Usually

pronounced "Military Brat" or "Base Brat".[2][3]

BUB Battle Update Brief

BVR Beyond Visual Range (USAF)

BX Base Exchange (USAF)

C

C1 Command

C2 Command And Control

C3 Command Control And Communication

C4IR Command Control Communication Computers Intelligence And Recognition

CAC Common Access Card (U.S. DoD, pron. "cac")

CAG Commander, Air Group (U.S. Navy, pron. "cag")CAGE Commercial and Government Entity

CAPT Captain (US Navy, USCG O-6)

Capt Captain (USMC, USAF O-3)

CAS Close Air Support

CASEX Coordinated Antil-Submarine EXercise

CAT Combat Application Tourniquets

CBRN Chemical Biological Nuclear Radiological

CBU Cluster Bomb Unit

CCIR Commanders Critical Information Requirements

CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

CDRUSPACOM Commander United States Pacific Command

CENTCOM Central Command (U.S. Military)

CF Cluster Fuck (always pronounced phonetically "Charlie Foxtrot")

CH Cunt Hair (a unit of measurement)

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIC Command Intelligence Center (U.S. Navy)

CINCLANT Commander-in-chief, Atlantic Forces (U.S. Navy before 2002)

CINCLANTFLT Commander-in-chief, Atlantic Fleet (U.S. Navy before 2002)
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CINCPAC Commander-in-chief, Pacific Forces (U.S. Navy before 2002)

CIWS Close-In Weapon System

CMSgt Chief Master Sergeant (USAF E-9; highest AF enlisted rank)

CMSAF Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (USAF E-9 Senior Enlisted Member)

CO Commanding Officer

COA Course of Action

COCOM Combatant Commander

CODELS Congressional Delegations"' Col. Colonel

COMINT Communications Intelligence

COMPACFLT Commander, Pacific Fleet (U.S. Navy)

COMSEC' Communication Security

CONUS Continental United States (U.S. military, pron. "cone-us")

CONUSA Continental United States Army (numbered Armies of U.S. military)

CORDS (U.S. military, Vietnam era)

CoS Chief of Staff

COT Commissioned Officer Training

CPL Corporal (U.S. Army and Marine Corps E-4)CPO Chief Petty Officer (USCG/USN E-7)

CPT Captain (US Army O-3)

CPX Command Post Exercise

CQB Close Quarters Battle

CRC CONUS Replacement Center (a military processing center at Fort Benning, Georgia, US)

CSM Command Sergeant Major (U.S. Army E9 highest Army enlisted rank))

CT Counter-terrorism Team

CTR Close Target Reconnaissance

CUB Commander Update Brief

CVN Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier (NOTE: the V comes from the expression "heavier than air flying

machine")

CZN Nuclear-powered Airship Carrier (NOTE: the Z comes from the use of the word Zeppelin although

non-Zeppelin airships would also be transported on a CZN)

DA Defence Attach

DAC Department of the Army Civilian

DAGR Defense Advanced GPS Receiver

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S. Military)

DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency

DCMA Defense Contract Management Agency

DFAC Dining Facility (U.S. Military)

DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service (U.S. Military) * D.I.A Defensive Intelligence Agency

DINFAC Dining Facility (U.S. Military)

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

DLB Dead Letter Box
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DMEA - Defense Microelectronics Activity

DMS Defense Message System (U.S. Military)

DMZ Demilitarized Zone

DoDAAC Department of Defense Activity Address Code (U.S. Military)

DoDAF Department of Defense Architectural Framework (U.S. Military)

DoDIC Department of Defense Identification Code (U.S. Military)

DOP Drop-Off Point

DPMs Disruptive Pattern MaterialDRT Dead Right There; wounded in such a way as to indicate immediate and/or unavoidable death; often

used as a sarcastic form of the civilian acronym DOA (Dead On Arrival)

DTO Daily Tasking Order

DZ Drop Zone

E

E&E Escape and Evade

EA - Electronic Attack

ECP Entry Control Point

EI Engineering and Installation

EIS Engineering and Installation Squadron

EI SIT Engineering and Installation Site Implementaion Team

ELINT Electronic Intelligence

EMI - Extra Military Instruction

ENS Ensign (US Navy junior officer rank, O-1)

EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal

EOS - End of Service

EP - Electronic ProtectionEPW Enemy Prisoner of War

ERV Emergency Rendezvous

ETA Estimated time of arrival

ETS Estimated Termination of Service

EUCOM European Command (U.S. Military)

EW - Electronic Warfare (comprises EA, EP)

Exfil Exfiltration (Opposite of infiltration; exiting undetected)

FFA Field Artillery

FABS Fetus Aborted By Squad

FAK First Aid Kit

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FBCB2 Force XXI Battlefield Command Brigade and Below

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FEBA Forward Edge of the Battle Area

FIDO FIre Direction Officer
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FISINT Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence

FISHDO Fuck It, Shit Happens, Drive On

FitRep Fitness Report

FLOT Forward Line of Troops

FLOTUS First Lady of the United States (U.S. see POTUS)

FM Field Marshal

FMC Fully Mission Capable

FO Foxtrot Oscar (i.e. F**k Off) (US/UK Forces)FOB Forward Operating Base

FOD Foreign Object Damage (U.S.)

FOD Foreign Object Debris (U.S.)

FPO Fleet Post Office; See also APO

FSA Force Structure Allowance

FSTE Foreign Service Tour Extension

FTUS Full Time Unit Specialist

FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

G

G1 General Staff Level office for Personnel and Manpower (Division and Above)

G2 General Staff Level office for Military Intelligence (Division and Above)

G3 General Staff Level office for Operations and Plans (Division and Above)

G4 General Staff Level office for Logistics (Division and Above)

G5 General Staff Level office for Military/Civil Affairs (Division and Above)

G6 General Staff Level office for Signal and Communication (Division and Above)

G7 General Staff Level office for Training and Exercises (Division and Above)

G8 General Staff Level office for Force Development and Analysis (Division and Above)G9 General Staff Level office for Civil Operations (Division and Above)

GBU Guided Bomb Unit

GEN General

GI Government Issue

GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out

GM Gone Mersault

GO General Officer

GOCO Government owned, contractor operated

GPMG General Purpose Machine Gun

GPS Global Positioning System

GROM Polish Special Operations Team (Polish Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego)

Gulag The Chief Administration of Collective Labor Camps (Russian

"Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey")

H

HALO High Altitude Low Opening (Airborne)

HE High Explosive
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HEAT High Explosive Anti-Tank warhead

HMAS Her Majesty's Australian Ship (Australia)

HMCS Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (Canada)

HMFIC Head Motherf*cker In Charge colloquialism for the highest-ranking person present; more

commonly used by NCO's than by officers (U.S. Military)

HMMWV High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (U.S. Military)

HMNZS Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship (New Zealand)

HMS Hans Majestts Skepp (His Majesty's ship, Sweden)HMS Her Majesty's Ship (Royal Navies such as Royal British Navy) (His Majesty's Ship if King)

HOMSEC Homeland Security

HQ Headquarters

HUMINT Human Intelligence

HYT High Year Tenure (USAF)

I

IAF Indian Air Force

IAF Israeli Air Force

ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ICE Individual Carrying Equipment

ID IDentification

IED Improvised Explosive Device

IFAK Individual First Aid Kit

IFF Identification Friend or Foe

IFF Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (USAF)

IG Inspector General (US Military)

IFV Infantry Fighting VehicleINSCOM United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

Il Ilyushin

Interpol International Criminal Police Organization

ISO Inter School Course

ISR Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

IYAAYAS If You Aint AMMO, You Ain't Shit

J

JA Judge Advocate [General]

JAG Judge Advocate General

J.S.F Joint Strike Fighter

JATO Jet-fuel Assisted Take Off

JETDS Joint Electronics Type Designation System

JSAM Joint Service Achievement Medal

JSTAR Joint Surveillance Target Acquisition Radar

JSOC Joint Special Operations Command

JDAM Joint Direct Attack Munition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Electronics_Type_Designation_Systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMMO_(U.S._Air_Force)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSCOMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_Fighting_Vehiclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_devicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missilehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Year_Tenurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUMINThttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquartershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_securityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Shiphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_United_Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMWVhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_United_Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commissioned_officerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Canadian_Shiphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_explosive_anti-tank_warhead


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JEEP - Just Enough Essential Parts

K

KATUSA Korean Augmentation Troops to the United States Army

KIA Killed In Action

KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid USAF

KP Kitchen Police or Kitchen PatrolKBO Keep Buggering On

L

LAAD Low Altitude Air Defense

LCDR Lieutenant Commander (US Navy)

LCPL Lance Corporal (US Marines)

LES Leave and Earnings Statement

LP Listening PostLP/OP Listening Post Observation Post

LGOP Little Group Of Paratroopers

LT Lieutenant

LTC orLt Col Lieutenant Colonel

LTG orLt Gen Lieutenant General

LTJG Lieutenant, Junior Grade (US Navy)

LUP Lying-Up Point

LZ Landing Zone

M

Maj.- major

MARCORSYSCOM MARine CORps SYStems COMmand (U.S. Military)

MARINE My Ass Really Is Navy Equipment (U.S. Navy)

MARINE My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment (U.S. Navy)

MARINE Muscles Are Required; Intelligence, Not Essential

MARFORRES MARine FORces REServe (U.S. Marine Corps)

MAW Maximum Allowable WeightMBT Main Battle Tank

MCCS Marine Corps Community Services (also known by the humorous backronym Marine Corps

Crime Syndicate)

MCEN Marine Corps Enterprise Network (U.S. Military)

MCEITS Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Service (U.S. Military)

MCPO Master Chief Petty Officer (USCG/USN E-9)

MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MG Machine Gun

MG Major General
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MI Military Intelligence

Mi Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (Russian)

MIA Missing In Action

MedEvac Medical Evacuation

MICV Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle

MiG Mikoyan-Gurevich (Russian)

MK Mark

MK Machinery Technician (U.S. Coast Guard)MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System

MMFD Miles and Miles of F...ing Desert (unofficial report in Gulf War)

MOA Military Operating Area (USAF Airspace)

MOAB Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, also known as "Mother Of All Bombs". (U.S. military)

MOB Main Operating Base

MOBCOM MOBile COMmand

MOPP Mission Oriented Protective Posture

MPDS Military Planning Data Allowance

MRAP Mine Resistant Ambush Protected

MRE Meal Ready to Eat (U.S. Military)MRX Mission Rehearsal Exercise

MSgt Master Sergeant (USAF E-7)

MTOE Modified Table Of Organizational Equipment

MTS+ Movement Tracking System Plus

MSDC+ Marine Science Diving Club (Diving Club Of Hasanudin University)

N

NAFTA North American Free Trade AgreementNAS Naval Air Station

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy)

NAVAIR Naval Air Systems Command

NCO Non-Commissioned Officer

NCOES - Non-Commissioned Officer Education System

ND Negligent Discharge

NMC Not Mission Capable

NMCI Naval Marine Corps Internet (U.S. Navy)

NNMSA Non-Nuclear Munitions Storage Area

NS Network Services

NSA National Security Agency

O

OBE Overcome by Events (DoD)

OCONUS Outside Continental United States

OCS Officer Candidate School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_United_Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defensehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Servicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission_Rehearsal_Exercise&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MREhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_minehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast_bombhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_Systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_actionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Moscow_Helicopter_Planthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence


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OM On the Move (Normally just spelled out Oscar Mike)

O&M, MC Operations & Maintenance, Marine Corps (U.S. Navy)

O&M, N Operations & Maintenance, Navy (U.S. Navy)

OODA Observe, Orient, Decide, And Act

OP Observation Post

ORM Operational Risk Management

OSM Oh Shit Moment (U.S. Marine Corps)

OSP On Site ProcurementOPORD Operations Order

OPSEC Operations Security

OTF Out There Flapping (Airborne)

OTS Officer Training School

OTV Outer Tactical Vest

P

PACOM Pacific Command

PCS Permanent Change of Station

PDS Permanent Duty Station (U.S. Military)

PDT Pre-Deployment Training

PE Plastic Explosive

PFC Private First Class (U.S. Military)

PFM Pure Fuckin Magic (U.S. Military)

PFT Physical Fitness Test

PLT Platoon (U.S. Army)

PMC Partially Mission Capable

PME Professional Military EducationPMS Planned Maintenance Schedule (U.S. Navy)

PNG Passive Night Goggles

PO Post Office

PO1 Petty Officer 1st Class (USCG/USN E-6)

PO2 Petty Officer 2nd Class (USCG/USN E-5)

PO3 Petty Officer 3rd Class (USCG/USN E-4)

POBCAK Problem Occurs Between Chair And Keyboard

POL Petrolium Oil & Lubricants (U.S. Air Force)

POC Point Of Contact

POTUS President of the United States

POG Person Other than Grunt (All non-combat arms job fields i.e. any MOS or CMF other than infantry

cavalry, armor, and artillery; among infantrymen, refers to anyone other than infantry or Special Forces)

POW Prisoner Of War

POV Privately Owned Vehicle

PPG PT Parade Games

PRP Personnel ReliabilityProgram

PRP Pretty Retarted Program

PRT Provincial Reconstruction Team
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PRT Physical Readiness Training (U.S. Army)

PT Physical Training

PTB - Powers That Be

PV2 Private 2nd class (U.S. Army E-2)

PVT Private (U.S. Army and Marine Corps E-1)

PX Post Exchange (U.S. Army)

R

RAAF Royal Australian Air Force (Australia)

RAF Royal Air Force (UK)

RAN Royal Australian Navy (Australia)

RATO Rocket Assisted Take Off

RCSC Royal Canadian Sea Cadets (Canada)

REMF Rear Echelon Mother Fucker

RFL Response Force Leader

RMC Royal Military College of Canada (Canada) in Kingston, Ontario

RN Royal Navy (UK)

ROE Rules Of Engagement

ROMA Data, Right Out of My Ass Data. Unverifiable created data (different from SWAG)

ROWPU Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit

RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force (New Zealand)

RPG Rocket-Propelled Grenade

RPM Rounds per minute

RS RatShit (Australia related to US Unserviceable)

RSS Regional Security System (Caribbean)

RTB Return To BaseRV Rendez-Vous

RTO - Radio Telephone Operator

S

SA Seaman Apprentice (USCG/USN E-2)

SMA- Sergeant Major of the Army (E-10, the senior most non-commissioned officer in the United States

Army)

SAS Special Air Service (British special forces)SBS Special Boat Service (British special forces)

SAAS Standard Army Ammunition System (U.S. Army)

SAM Surface-to-air Missile

SARSS Standard Army Retail Supply System (U.S. Army)

SCPO Senior Chief Petty Officer (USCG/USN E-8)

SEAL Sea, Air and Land (US Navy SEALs)

SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

SFC Sergeant First Class (U.S. Army E7)

SGM Sergeant Major (U.S. Army E9 Sometimes referred to as Staff Sergeant Major)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_major#United_Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_First_Classhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escapehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-air_missilehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Servicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Servicehttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rendezvoushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Security_Systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._government_and_military_acronyms#Uhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_firehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenadehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Ontariohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_College_of_Canadahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_College_of_Canadahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poguehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poguehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Sea_Cadetshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Navyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_education_class


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SGT Sergeant (U.S. Army E5)(U.S. Marines uses Sgt)

SITREP Situation Report

SJA Staff Judge Advocate

SLAM Standoff Land Attack Missile

SMA Sergeant Major of the Army (U.S. Army E9 Senior Enlisted Member)

SMEAC - Situation Mission Execution Admin/logistics Command/signal (US Marine Corps basic

knowledge)

SMSgt Senior Master Sergeant (USAF E-8)SN Seaman (USCG/USN E-3)

SNAFU Situation Normal: All Fucked Up

SOCOM United States Special Operations Command

SOFA Status of Forces Agreement

SOP Standard Operating Procedures

SOS Shit On a Shingle, or creamed chipped beef on toast.

SPC Specialist (U.S. Army E-4)

SR Seaman Recruit (USCG/USN E-1)

SrA Senior Airman (USAF E-4)

SRR Special Reconnaissance Regiment (British special Forces)SSDD Same Shit Different Day

SSDDBS Same Shit Different Day Bigger Shovel

SSG Staff Sergeant (US Army E-6)

SSgt Staff Sergeant (US Air Force E-5)(U.S. Marines E-6)

SOL Shit Out of Luck (US Army)

SOLJWF Shit Out of Luck and Jolly Well Fucked (U.S. Marines)

STOVL Short Takeoff, Vertical Landing

SUSFU Situation Unchanged, Still Fucked Up

SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess

T

TACP Tactical Air Control Party (USAF)

TAD Temporary Additional Duty (U.S. Military)

TBD To Be Determined

TDY Temporary Duty (U.S. Military)

TFOA Things Falling Off Aircraft

TG6 Task Group 6 (group designation for NZ SAS NZ Army)

TIC Troops In Contact

TSgt Technical Sergeant (USAF E-6)

TU Tits Up (Dead, Inoperable), a.k.a. "tango uniform"

TARFU Things Are Really Fucked Up, or Totally And Royally Fucked Up

U

UA Unauthorized Absence

UAS Unmanned Aerial System
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UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UCAV Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle

ULLS Unit Level Logisitics System (U.S. Army)

UMA Unit Mobilization Assistor

UN United Nations

US Unserviceable

USSS United States Secret Service

USAF United States Air ForceUSAFE United States Air Forces in Europe

USA PATRIOT Act Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to

Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act

USAREC US Army REcruiting Command

USAREUR US Army European Command

USMC United States Marine Corps

USN United States Navy

USO United Service Organizations (U.S. Military)

USR Unit Status Report

UUV Unmanned Underwater VehicleUXB Unexploded Bomb (bomb disposal; British)

UXO Unexploded Ordnance

V

VBIED Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device

VDM Visual Distinguishing Mark

VFD Volunteer Fire Department

VFR Volunteer Fire and Rescue

W

WIA Wounded In Action

WO1 Warrant Officer 1

WSA Weapons Storage Area

WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction

WILCO WILl COmply

X

XO Executive Officer

See also

List of acronyms

List of U.S. Air Force acronyms and expressions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Air_Force_acronyms_and_expressionshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acronymshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_officerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_Officer_(United_States)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_in_actionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_bombhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_underwater_vehiclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Service_Organizationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corpshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_United_States_Armyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Acthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_in_Europehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Forcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Servicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_combat_air_vehiclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle


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List of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

List of U.S. Navy acronyms

References

1. ^ Wertsch, Mary E. (January 2006). Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress

(http://books.google.com/books?id=QxaITfanaUcC&pg=PA310#v=onepage&q=&f=false). ISBN 0-9776033-0-X.

2. ^ Clifton, Grace, "Making the Case for the BRAT (British Regiment Attached Traveler)", British EducationalResearch Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3 2004

3. ^ Adams, Leah; Kirova, Anna (2006), Global Migration and education, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Associates, Inc., p. 2634, ISBN 0-8058-5838-5

External links

AcronymFinder Military and Government (http://milgov.acronymfinder.com/)

Abbreviation.com Military Abbreviations (http://www.abbreviations.com/acronyms/MILITARY)

All Acronyms Military Acronyms (http://www.all-acronyms.com/?g=2)

Acronyms List US Military Acronyms (http://www.acronymslist.com/cat/us-military-acronyms.html)

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