Jack Terral - Battleline (2007)

DDG: Guided-Missile Destroyer

DEA: Drug Enforcement Agency

Det Cord: Detonating cord

DJMS: Defense Joint Military Pay System

DPV: Desert Patrol Vehicle

Draeger Mk V: Underwater air supply equipment

DZ: Drop Zone

E&E: Escape and Evasion

Enfilade Fire: Gunfire that sweeps along an enemy formation

EPW: Enemy Prisoner of War

ER: Emergency Room (hospital)

ERP: En route Rally Point; a rally point that a patrol leader chooses while moving to or from an objective

ESP: Extrasensory Perception

ETS: End of Term of Service

FLIR: Forward-Looking Infrared Radar

Four-Shop: Logistics Section of the staff

French Leave: See AWOL

FRH: Flameless Ration Heater

Front-Leaning Rest: The position assumed to begin push-ups; it is customary to place malfeasants or clumsy personnel in the front-leaning rest for punishment, since it is anything but a "rest"

FTX: Field Training Exercise

G-3: The training and operations staff section of a unit commanded by a general officer

GHQ: General Headquarters

GI: Government Issue

GPS: Global Positioning System

Gunny: Marine Corps for the rank of Gunnery Sergeant E-7

HAHO: High-Altitude High-Opening parachute jump

HALO: High-Altitude Low-Opening parachute jump Hamas: Palestinian terrorist organization that has been voted into office in Palestine; their charter calls for the destruction of Israel.

HE: High Explosive

Head: Navy and Marine Corps term for toilet; called a latrine in the Army

HEAT: High-Explosive Anti-Tank

Heel-and-toe: See watch-and-watch

Hell Week: The fifth week of BUD/S that is more than five days of continuous activity and training with little or no sleep

Hezbollah: A militant Islamic terrorist organization located in Lebanon; it was organized in response to the Israeli occupation and is still active

H&K MP-5: Heckler & Koch MP-5 submachine gun

Hors de combat: Out of the battle (expression in French)

HSB: High-Speed Boat

IFV: Infantry Fighting Vehicle

Immediate Action: A quick, sometimes temporary fix to a mechanical problem

IR: Infrared

IRP: Initial Rally Point; a place within friendly lines where a patrol assembles prior to moving out on the mission

Island: The superstructure of an aircraft carrier or assault ship

JCOS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

JSOC: Joint Special Operation Command

K-Bar: A brand of knives manufactured for military and camping purposes

KD Range: Known-Distance Firing Range

Keffiyeh: Arab headdress (what Yasser Arafat wore)

KGB: Russian organization of security, espionage, and intelligence left over from the old Soviet Union

KIA: Killed In Action

KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid--or more politely, Keep It Simple, Sweetheart

LBE: Load-Bearing Equipment

Light Sticks: Flexible plastic tubes that illuminate

Limpet Mine: An explosive mine attached to the hulls of vessels

Locked Heels: When a serviceman is getting a severe vocal reprimand, it is said he is having his "heels locked"--i. E., standing at attention while someone is bellowing in his face.

LSO: Landing Signal Officer

LSSC: Light SEAL Support Craft

LZ: Landing Zone

M-18 Claymore Mine: A mine fired electrically with a blasting cap

M-60 E3: A compact model of the M-60 machine gun

M-67: An antipersonnel grenade M-203: A single-shot 40-millimeter grenade launcher

MATC: A fast river support craft

MC: Medical Corps

MCPO: Master Chief Petty Officer

Medevac: Medical Evacuation

MI-5: United Kingdom Intelligence and Security Agency

Mk 138 Satchel Charge: Canvas container filled with explosive

MLR: Main line of Resistance

Mossad: Israeli Intelligence Agency (ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim--Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks)

MRE: Meal, Ready to Eat

MSSC: Medium SEAL Support Craft

Murphy's Law: An assumption that if something can go wrong, it most certainly will

N2: Intelligence Staff

N3: Operations Staff

NAS: Naval Air Station

NAVSPECWAR: Naval Special Warfare

NCO: Noncommissioned Officers--i. E., corporals and sergeants

NCP: Navy College Program

NFL: National Football League

NROTC: Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps

NVB: Night-Vision Binoculars

NVG: Night-Vision Goggles

NVS: Night-Vision Sight

OA: Operational Area

OCONUS: Outside the Continental United States

OCS: Officer Candidate School OER: Officer's Efficiency Report OP: Observation Post

OPLAN: Operations Plan; this is the preliminary form of an OPORD

OPORD: Operations Order; this is the directive derived from the OPLAN of how an operation is to be carried out; it's pretty much etched in stone

ORP: Objective Rally Point--a location chosen before or after reaching the objective; here a patrol can send out recon on the objective, make final preparations, reestablish the chain of command, and perform other activities necessary either before or right after action

PBL: Patrol Boat, Light

PC: Patrol Coastal vessel

PDQ: Pretty Damn Quick

PIA: Pakistan International Airlines

PLF: Parachute Landing Fall

PM: Preventive Maintenance

PMC: Private Military Company; these are businesses that supply bodyguards, security personnel, and mercenary civilian fighting men to persons or organizations wanting to hire them

PO: Petty Officer (e. G., PO1C is Petty Officer First Class)

POV: Privately Owned Vehicle

PPPP: Piss-Poor Prior Planning

PT: Physical Training

Puhtee: An Afghan rolled stocking cap that can be worn in many ways

RHIP: Rank Has Its Privileges

RIB: Rigid Inflatable Boat

RIO: Radar Intercept Officer

RON: Remain OverNight; generally refers to patrols

RPG: Rocket-Propelled Grenade RPM: Revolutions Per Minute R and R: Rest and Relaxation, Rest and

Recuperation, and a few other things used by the troops to describe short liberties or furloughs to kick back and enjoy themselves

RRP: Reentry Rally Point; a site outside the range of friendly lines, to pause and prepare for reentry

RTO: Radio Telephone Operator

Run-flat tires: Solid-rubber inserts that allow a vehicle to run even when its tires have been punctured

SAS: Special Air Services--an extremely deadly and super-efficient special operations unit of the British Army

SAW: Squad Automatic Weapon--M249 5.56-millimeter magazine-or clip-fed machine gun

SCPO: Senior Chief Petty Officer

SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SDV: SEAL Delivery Vehicle

SERE: Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion

SF: Special Forces

SFOB: Special Forces Operational Base

Shahid: Arabic word for martyr (plural is shahiden)

Shiites: A branch of Islam; in serious conflict with the Sunnis

SITREP: Situation Report

SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fucked Up

Snap-to: The act of quickly and sharply assuming the position of attention with chin up, shoulders back, thumbs along the seams of the trousers, and heels locked, with toes at a forty-five-degree angle

SOCOM: Special Operations Command

SOF: Special Operations Force

SOI: Signal Operating Instructions

SOLS: Special Operations Liaison Staff

Somoni: Currency of Tajikistan: 2.79=$1.00

SOP: Standard Operating Procedures

SPA: Self-Propelled Artillery

Special Boat Squadrons: Units that participate in SEAL missions

SPECOPS: Special Operations

SPECWARCOM: Special Warfare Command

Stand-to: Being on watch or at a fighting position

Sunnis: A branch of Islam; in serious conflict with the Shiites

Superstructure: The part of a ship above the main deck