Jack Terral - Battlecraft (2006)

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

NVG:Night-Vision Goggles

OA:Operational Area

OCONUS:Outside the Continental United States

OCS:Officers' 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.

PBL:Patrol Boat, Light PC:Patrol Coastal vessel

PDQ:Pretty Damn Quick

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., POIC is Petty Officer First Class)

POV:Privately Owned Vehicle

P. P. P. P.:Piss Poor Prior Planning

PT:Physical Training

RHIP:Rank Has Its Privileges

RIB:Rigid Inflatable Boat

RIO:Radar-Intercept Officer

RPG:Rocket-Propelled Grenade

RPM:Revolutions Per Minute

RTO:Radio Telephone Operator

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

SCPO:Senior Chief Petty Officer

SDV:Seal Delivery Vehicle

SERE:Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion

SITREP:Situation Report

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 45deg angle.

SOCOM:Special Operations Command

SOF:Special Operations Force

SOI:Signal Operating Instructions

SOLS:Special Operations Liaison Staff

SOP:Standard Operating Procedures

SPECOPS:Special Operations

Special Boat Squadrons:Units that participate in SEALmissions

SPECWARCOM:Special Warfare Command

T-10 Parachute:Basic static-line-activated personnel parachute of the United States Armed Forces. Primarily designed for mass tactical parachute jumps.

TDy:Temporary Duty

UN:United Nations

Unass:To jump out of or off of something

U . K.:The United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, and

Northern Ireland)

VTOL:Vertical Take Off and Landing

Watch Bill:A list of personnel and stations for the watch

Waypoint:A location programmed into navigational instrumentation that directs aircraft, vehicles, and/or vessels to a specific spot on the planet.

Whaler Boat:Small craft loosely based on the types of boats used in whaling. They are generally carried aboard naval and merchant vessels and are diesel-powered.

WIA:Wounded in Action