A CINCPAC Glossary of Commonly Used Abbreviations and Short Titles

Compiled by LTC J. R. Johnson, USA, CINCPAC Command Historian

Senior Chief Yeoman D. E. Bentley, USN.

Staff Sergeant William J. Stanish, USAF.

Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii

1968

A
AA		Air America; Antiaircraft
AAA		Antiaircraft Artillery; Army Audit Agency
AABFS		Amphibious Assault Bulk Fuel System
AADCP		Army Air Defense Command Post
AAF		Army Airfield
AAFES		Army and Air Force Exchange Service
AAFV		Australian Armed Forces, Vietnam
AAFWB		Army-Air Force Wage Board
AAM		Air-to-air Missile
AAOC		Antiaircraft Operations Center
AARMA		Assistant US Army Military Attache
AATTV		Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam
AAW		Antiaircraft Warfare
AAWEX		Antiaircraft Warfare Exercise
AB		Air Base
ABA		Airborne Assault
ABAD		Air Battle Analysis Division
ABAT		Air Base Advisory Team
ABC		American-British-Canadian
ABM		Anti-Ballistic Missile
ABMA		Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Abn		Airborne
ABNCP		Airborne Command Post
ABR		Airborne Resupply
ABWG		Air Base Wing
AC		Approach Chart
A/C		Aircraft
ACA		Airlift Clearance Authority
ACAAD		Authorized Commanders Atomic Air Defense
ACC		Army Component Command; Alternate Command Center; Air Control Center
ACCS		Airborne Command and Control Squadron
ACCSEATO		Air Component Commander(s) SEATO
ACDA		Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACE		Army Combat Engineers; Alternate Command Elements
ACEP		Airborne Emergency Communications Post
ACM		Air Chief Marshall; Additional Crew Member
ACNB		Australian Commonwealth Naval Board
ACofS		Assistant Chief of Staff
ACP		Allied Communications Publication
Acq		Acquisition
ACR		Aerial Combat Reconnaissance; Air Crew Rescue
ACS		Air Commando Squadron
ACTIV		Army Concept Team in Vietnam
AC&W		Aircraft Control and Warning
AD		Air Defense; Air Division
ADA		Air Defense Artillery
ADAR		Air Defense Area
ADC		Air Defense Command
ADCC		Air Defense Command Center
ADCSP		Advanced Defense Communications Satellite Project
ADDC		Air Defense Direction Center
Adee		Addressee
ADIZ		Air Defense Identification Zone
ADM		Admiral
ADMINO		Administrative Office
ADMSC		Automatic Data Message Switching Center
ADO		Auto Defense Ordinance
ADP		Automatic Data Processing
ADPS		Automatic Data Processing System
ADRI		Indonesian Army
ADT		Actual Departure Time
ADTAKE		Advise Action Taken
Adv		Advisor
ADV		Advanced Development Unit
ADVON		Advance Squadron
AE		Aeromedical Evacuation
A&E		Architectural and Engineering
AEAC		Alternate Emergency Action Center
AEACP		Airborne Emergency Alternate Command Post
AEW		Airborne Early Warning
AEWC(ADC)		Airborne Early Warning and Control (Aerospace Defense Command)
AF		Air Force
AFADGRU		Air Force Advisory Group
AFAG		Air Force Advisory Group
AFAK		Armed Forces Assistance to Korea
AFB		Air Force Base
AFCC		Air Force Component Commander
AFCENT		Allied Forces Central Europe
AFCRC		Air Force Cambridge Research Center
AFCS		Air Force Communications System
Aff		Affairs
AFIC		Air Force Intelligence Center
AFK		Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea
AFLC		Air Force Logistics Command
Afld		Airfield
AFM		Air Force Manual
AFMDC		Air Force Missile Development Center
AFP		Armed Forces of the Philippines
AFPSC		Armed Forces Philippines Supply Center
AFR		Air Force Regulation
AFRS		Armed Forces Radio Service
AFRTS		Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
AFSC		Armed Forces Staff College; Air Force Systems Command
AF-SEMP		Armed Forces Socio-Economic Program
AFSS		Air Force Security Services
AFSWC		Air Force Special Weapons Center
AFSWP		Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
AFTAC		Air Force Technical Application Center
AFWTR		Air Force Western Test Range
AGC		Amphibious Force Flagship
AGE		Associated Ground Equipment
AGIL		Airborne General Illumination Light System
AGS		Surveying Ship
AGSC		Coastal Surveying Ship
AGSS		Auxiliary Target Submarine
AH		Attack Helicopter; Hospital Ship
AID		Agency for International Development
AIF		Aerospace Intelligence File
AIG		Address Indicator Group
AIK		Aid in Kind; Assistance in Kind
AIR		Aircraft Recovery
AIRA		Air Attache
AIRRES		Air Rescue
AJCC		Alternate Joint Command Center
AJWR		Alternate Joint War Room (now ANMCC)
AK		Cargo Ship
AKL		Light Cargo Ship
AKP		Agence Khmer Press (Cambodian Newspaper)
ALA		Airland Assault
ALCJ		Army Logistics Command Japan
ALCON		All Concerned
Alft		Airlift
ALN		Accounting Line Number
ALR		Airland Resupply
ALRI		Indonesian Navy
ALUSLO		US Naval Liaison Officer
ALUSNA		US Naval Attache for Air
AM		Alert Message; Amplitude Modulation
AMA		Air Material Area
AMB		Ambassador
AMC		Army Materiel Command
AMCONGEN		American Consulate General
AMCONSUL		American Consul
AMD		Air Movement Designator
AMEMB		American Embassy
AMF		Australian Military Forces
AMFPA		Air Material Force Pacific Area
Amphib		Amphibious
AMS		Army Map Service
Amt		Amount
ANFE		Aircraft Non-Flying-Electronics
ANGLICO		Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
ANMCC		Alternate National Military Command Center
AN/TSQ-51J		Air Defense Fire Distribution System
ANZAM		Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia
ANZUS		Australia, New Zealand, United States
AO		Oiler
AOB		Air Order of Battle
AOC		Air Operation Center
AOCP		Aircraft out of Commission for Parts
AOD		Aviation Operating Detachment
AOG		Auxiliary Oil and Gasoline Tanker
AP		Transport Ship
APA		Attack Transport
APACL		Asian Peoples Anti-Communist League
APC		Armored Personnel Carrier
APD		High speed transport
APL		Barracks Craft (non-self-propelled)
APRFE		Air Procurement Region Far East
APSF		Armed Public Security Force
AR		Armed Recce; Army Regulation
ARADCOM		Army Air Defense Command
ARDF		Airborne Radio Direction Finding; Air Reconnaissance Detection Force
AREFS		Air Refueling Squadron
ARFCOS		Armed Forces Courier Service
ARG		Amphibious Ready Group
ARGMA		Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency
ARK		Royal Cambodian Army
ARL		Landing Craft Repair Ship
Arm		Armored
ARMA		Army Attache
Armd		Armed
ARPA		Advance Research Projects Agency
ARPAC		Army Pacific
ARS		Air Rescue Service
ARRS		Aerospace and Recovery Service; Air Rescue Squadron
Art		Article
Arty		Artillery
ARVN		Army of the Republic of Vietnam
ASA		Army Security Agency; Association for Southeast Asia
ASAP		As soon as possible
ASAPAC		Army Security Agency Pacific
ASCAC		Antisubmarine Classification and Analysis Center
ASCAT		Air Service Command Advisory Team
ASDF		Air Staff Defense Force; Air Self Defense Force (Japan)
ASD(I&L)		Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics)
ASD/ISA		Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
ASD(M)		Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower
ASDO		Assistant Staff Duty Officer
ASESB		Armed Services Explosive Safety Board
ASH		Assault Support Helicopter
ASIF		Airlift Service Industrial Fund
ASL		Authorized Stock Level; Authorized Stockage List
ASMMCC		Armed Services Medical Material Coordination Committee
ASP		Annual Service Practice; Ammunition Supply Point
ASPAC		Asian and Pacific Council
ASPB		Assault Support Patrol Boat
ASPR		Armed Services Procurement Regulation
ASOC		Air Support Operation Center
ASR		Available Supply Rate
ASROC		Antisubmarine Rocket
ASRT		Air Support Radar Team
Asst		Assistant
ASTA		Aerial Surveillance and Target Acquisition
ASTIA		Armed Services Technical Information Agency
ASW		Antisubmarine Warfare
ASWBPL		Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory
AT		Artillery
ATA		Actual time of arrival
ATAC		Army Tank and Automotive Command
ATBAN		Atomic Bargain Analysis Report
ATC		Air Target Chart
Atchd		Attached
ATCO		Air Transportation Coordination Office
ATCU		Air Transportable Communication Unit
ATDS		Airborne Tactical Data System
ATF		Amphibious Task Force; Fleet Ocean Tug
ATMP		Air Target Materials Program
ATR		Soviet Rescue Ocean Tug
ATRAN		Automatic Terrain Recognition and Navigation (Guidance System)
ATSF		Automatic Target Selection File
Aug		Augment(ed); August
AURI		Indonesian Air Force
AUS		Australia
AUTHGRA		Authority Granted
AUTODIN		Automatic Digital Network
AUTOSEVOCOM		Automatic Secure Voice Communications System
AUTOVON		Automatic Voice Network
AUW		Antiunderwater Warfare
AVGAS		Aviation Gasoline
Avn		Aviation
AVRK		Cambodian Air Force
AW		Automatic Weapons; All Weather (acft)
AWCS		Automatic Weapon Control System; Air Weapons Control System
AWR		Ammunition War Reserve
AWRL		Ammo War Reserve Level
AWX		All Weather Interceptor

B
BA		Burmese Army
BAC		Base Area Command
BADGE		Base Air Defense Ground Environment (Japan)
BAF		Burmese Air Force
BAHT		Thailand Currency
BAIS		Battlefield Airborne Illumination System
BAR		Browning Automatic Rifle
BARC		Barge - Amphibious Resupply Cargo
BAS		Bomb Alarm System
BASIC		Battlefield Area Surveillance & Integrated Communication
BBP		Border Boundary Police (Thailand)
BC		Body Count
BCT		Battalion Combat Team
BDA		Bomb damage assessment
Bde		Brigade
BDL		Beach Discharge Lighter
BDP		Base development planning
BDST		ARVN Military Intelligence Collection Company
BDSW		British Defense Staff, Washington
BE		Bombing Encyclopedia
BEF		Battalion Expeditionary Force
BEG		Brigade Engineer Group (USMC)
BG		Brigadier General; Battle Group
BI		Battalion Infantry
BIOS		Biological Investigation of Space
BIRDIE		Battery Integration and Radar Display
BLSG		Brigade Logistic Support Group (USMC)
BLT		Battalion Landing Team
BMEWS		Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
Bmr		Bomber
BMT		Beginning Morning Nautical Twilight (24 min before sunrise)
BMU		Beachmaster Unit
Bn		Battalion
BN		Burmese Navy
BOA		Broad Ocean Area (PMR Use)
BOB		Bureau of the Budget
BOD		Beneficial Occupancy Date
Bomb		Bomber
BOMREP		Bombing Report
BOPD		Bataan Ocean Petroleum Depot
BOQ		Bachelor Officer Quarters
BOS		Base Operating Support
BP		Baghdad Pact
BPD		Basic Planning Document (MAP)
BPP		Border Patrol Police
BR		BARREL ROLL
Br		Branch
Brig Gen		Brigadier General
BRL		Bomb Release Line
BRO		Base Requirements Overseas
BRMC		British Royal Marine Corps
BSA		Beach Support Area
BSD		Ballistic Systems Division
BSP		Barisan Socialist Party (Leftist-Malaysia)
BSTS		Battle Staff Teams
BSU		Boat Support Unit
BTW		Boat Wave
BUDOCKS		Bureau of Yards and Docks
BUPERS		Bureau of Naval Personnel
BUSANDA		Bureau of Supply and Accounts
BUSHIPS		Bureau of Ships
BUWEPS		Bureau of Naval Weapons
BW		Biological Warfare; Bango Whiplash
BWCC		Bomb to Warhead Conversion Components
BWI		Battle Wound Injury

C
CA		Civil Affairs; Chinese Army; Civic Action; Heavy Cruiser
CAB		Civil Affairs Branch
CAC		Civic Action Centers
CACP		Casualty Assistance Calls Program
CAF		Chinese Air Force
CAFOB		Combined Air Force Operating Base
CAG		Civic Action Group; Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser
CALSU		Combat Air Lift Support Unit
CAMRA		Consolidated Air Mission Results Analysis
CAMTT		Civil Affairs Mobile Training Team
CANCOMARPAC		Canadian Commander Army Pacific
CANT		Cantonment
CAO		Coordinated Atomic Operations; Communications Allocation Order
CAOC		Combat Air Operations Center
CAP		Combat Air Patrol; Country Assistance
CAPT		Captain
Car		Carrier
CAR		Commanders Availability Report
CAS		Controlled American Source; Close Air Support
CASF		Composite Air Strike Force(s)
CASS		Country Assistance Strategy Statement
CAT		Civil Air Transport
CATF		Commander Amphibious Task Force
Cav		Cavalry
CB		Construction Battalion (Sea Bees)
CBMU		Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit
CBR		Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare
CBU		Cluster Bomb Unit
CC		Commercial Consumables
CCA		Chinese Communist Army
CCACN		CINCPAC Command and Control Alert/Conferencing Net
CCAF		Chinese Communist Air Force
CCEWT		Central Control Evaluation and Warning Team
CCF		Corps Contingency Force; Chinese Communist Forces
CCG		Combat Cargo Group
CCI		Catalog of Completed Items "Target Materials"
C&CI		Contingency & Confidential Intelligence
CCK		Ching Chuan Kang
CCN		Chinese Communist Navy
CCRDES		Concept for a Radiological Detection System
CCRSFF		Commander, Central Region SEATO Field Forces
CCTS		Combat Crew Training School
CD		Combat Developments
C&D		Cover and Deception
CDC		Control Data Corporation
CDI		Control Director Intercept
CDNI		Committee for the Defense National Interest
CDR		Commander
CDTC		Combat Development Test Center
C-E		Communications-Electronics
CEC		Civil Engineer Corps - Navy
CEI		Communications Electronics Instruction
CEIP		Communications -Electronics Implementation Plan
CENTO		Central Treaty Organization
CEOI		Communications Electronics Operating Instruction
CFS		Contract Field Service
CG		Commanding General; Civil Guard
CGUSARF TAIWAN		Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Taiwan
CGUSARMAC		Commanding General, US Army Material Command
CGUSARYIS /IXCORPS		Commanding General, US Army Ryukyu Islands: IX Corps
CH		Chief
CHAFSEC		Chief Air Force Section
CHDLG INDONESIA		Chief, Defense Liaison Group, Indonesia
CHICOM		Chinese Communist
CHJUSMAG		Chief, Joint United States Military Advisory Group - Country
CHMAAG		Chief Military Assistance Advisory Group - Country
CHMEDT BURMA		Chief, Military Equipment Delivery Team, Burma
CHMILTAG		Chief Military Technical Advisory Group, Indonesia
CHMPO		Chief Military Planning Office
CHNAVADGRU		Chief Naval Advisory Group - Country
CHNAVSEC		Chief Navy Section
CHOP		Change Operational Control
CHPROVMAAGK		Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Korea (Provisional)
CHUSAOSASF		Chief United States Army Overseas Supply Agency, San Francisco
CHUSMSI		Chief US Military Supply Mission India
CHWTO		Chief, Western Pacific Transportation Office
CI		Counterinsurgency; Counterintelligence
CIA		Central Intelligence Agency
CIB		Command Information Bureau
CIC		Combat Information Center
CIDG		Civilian Irregular Defense Group; Current Intelligence Digest
CIGCOREP		Counter Infiltration - Counter Guerrilla Concept and Requirement Plan
CIIC		Current Intelligence Indication Center
CIM		Communication Improvement Memo
CINC		Commander in Chief
CINCAL		Commander in Chief Alaska
CINCEUR		Commander in Chief Europe
CINCFES		Commander in Chief Far East Station (British)
CINCLANT		Commander in Chief Atlantic
CINCLANTFLT		Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet
CINCMEAFSA		Commander in Chief Middle East, Southern Asia, Africa South of the Sahara
CINCNELM		Commander in Chief US Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
CINCNORAD		Commander in Chief North American Air Defense Command
CINCPAC		Commander in Chief Pacific
CINCPACAF		Commander in Chief Pacific Air Force
CINCPACFLT		Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet
CINCPACREP		Commander in Chief Pacific Representative
CINCPACSTAFFINSTR		Commander in Chief Pacific Staff Instruction
CINCSAC		Commander in Chief Strategic Air Command
CINCSTRIKE		Commander in Chief of the Strike Command
CINCUNC		Commander in Chief United Nations Command
CINCUSARPAC		Commander in Chief, United States Army, Pacific
CIP		Counterinsurgency Plan
CIRADS		Counterinsurgency Research and Development Symposium
CIRVIS		Communication Involving Restricted Visual Information Sightings
CIVACTGP		Civic Action Group
CIVAD		Civil Administrator
CIVC		Combined Intelligence Center, Vietnam
CJCS		Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJOEP		Coordinated Joint Outline Emergency Plan
CJTF		Commander Joint Task Force
CL		Combat and Liaison; Light Cruiser
CLF		Commander Landing Force
CLIP		Country Logistics Improvements Plan
Cmbt		Combat
CMC		Commandant Marine Corps
Cmd		Command
Cmdo		Commando
CMF		Citizens Military Force (Australia)
CMPO		Chief, SEATO Military Planning Office
CMSO		Chief Japanese Maritime Staff Office
CN		Chinese Navy
CNO		Chief of Naval Operations
CO		Commanding Officer
COACT		Combat Air Activity Reports
COAMS		Computerization of Army Movement Schedules
COB		Close of Business
COC		CINCPAC Operation Center; Combat Operations Center
CODEL		Congressional Delegate/Delegation
COD		Flight Carrier on Board Delivery Flight
COFRAM		Control Fragmentation Munitions
CofS		Chief of Staff
COGARD		Coast Guard
COGL		Symbol for Medical Material
COI		Communications Operating Instruction
COIN		Counterinsurgency
COL		Colonel
COM		Commander
COMASWFORPAC		Commander Antisubmarine Warfare Force U. S. Pacific Fleet
COMBARPAC		Commander Barrier Pacific
Combt		Combat
Comd		Command
COMINT		Communications Intelligence
Comm/Elect		Communications /Electronics
COMNAVFOR		Commander Naval Forces
COMNAVFORJAP		Commander, US Naval Forces, Japan
COMNAVMARIANAS		Commander, US Naval Forces, Marianas
Comp		Composite
COMPHIBGRU		Commander Amphibious Group
COMPRADCO		Composite Radio Company
Compt		Comptroller
COMSAT		Communications Satellite
COMSEC		Communications Security
COMSTS		Commander Military Sea Transportation Service
COMSTSFE		Commander, Military Sea Transportation Service, Far East
COMSTSSEA		Commander, Military Sea Transportation Service Southeast Asia
COMTAIWANPATFOR		Commander, Taiwan Patrol Force
COMUS		Commander, United States Forces
COMUSARJAPAN		Commander, United States Army, Japan
COMUSJAPAN		Commander, United States Forces, Japan
COMUSKOREA		Commander, United States Forces, Korea
COMUSMACTHAI		Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Thailand
COMUSMACV		Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
COMUSNAVSO		Commander, US Naval Forces, South
COMUSSEASIA		Commander, United States Forces, Southeast Asia
COMUSTDC		Commander, United States Forces, Taiwan Defense Command
COMWESTAF		Commander Western Transport Air Force (Travis AFB)
CONARC		Continental Army Command
CONEFO		Conference of New Emergency Forces
CONELRAD		Control of Electro-Magnetic Radiations
Const		Construction
CONUS		Continental United States
COPRL		Command Operational Priority List "Target Materials"
COS		Chief of Staff
COSAL		Consolidated Ship's Allowance List
COSTAR		Combat Service to the Army
COUSSF (P)		Commanding Officer US Special Forces (Provisional)
CP		Command Post
CPA		Closest Point of Approach
CPFF		Cost-plus-fixed-fee
CPFL		Contingency Planning Facilities Lists
CPR		Chinese Peoples Republic (Communist China)
CPRC		Combined Personnel Recovery Center
CPRS		CINCPAC Route Slip
CPSVN		Comprehensive Plan South Vietnam
CPX		Command Post Exercise
CR		Command Representative; Communication Representative
CRA		Continuing Resolution Authority
CRAE		Combat Readiness Assessment Exercise
CRB		Cam Ranh Bay
CRC		Control and Reporting Center
CRCC		Central Rural Construction Command; Communist Rebel Combat Captives
CRITIC		Critical Intelligence Report
CROWN		Death Report
CRP		Chinese Peoples Republic; Control and Reporting Post; Coordinated Reconnaissance Plan
CRSFF		Central Region SEATO Field Forces
CS		Control Slip used on the CINCPAC Staff to control correspondence; A riot control agent
C/S		Chief of Staff
CSA		Chief of Staff, Army
CSAF		Chief of Staff, Air Force
CSBPD		CINCPAC Supplement to DOD Basic Planning Document
CSC		Coastal Surveillance Center
CSE		Committee of Security Experts
CSFF		Commander SEATO Field Forces
CSFOD		Combined Special Forces Operational Detachment
CSL		Combat Support Liaison
CSMAM		CINCPAC Supplement to the Military Assistance Manual
CSMP		Current Ship's Maintenance Project
CSP		Committed to Scheduled Programs; Concurrent Spare Parts
CT		Country Team
CTF		Commander Task Force
CTF 77		Commander, Attack Carrier Striking Force, Seventh Fleet
CTFC		Communications Technical Control Facility
CTG		Commander Task Group
CTG 31.7		Commander Panama Section, Western Sea Frontier
Ctrl		Control
CTSP		Contract Technical Service Personnel
CTZ		Corps Tactical Zone
CULT		Common User Land Transportation
CURTS		Common User Radio Transmission Sounding
CUS		Course (Ships)
CUWTF		Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force
CVA		Attack Aircraft Carrier
CVA(N)		Attack Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear propulsion)
CVS		Antisubmarine Support Aircraft Carrier
CVW		Carrier Air Wing
CW		Cold War; Chemical Warfare; Continuous Wave
CWAG		Cold War Activities Group
CWF		Current Working Estimate
CWO		Communications Watch Officer
Cx		Canceled
CY		Calendar Year

D
DA		Department of the Army
Da		Damaged
DAAR		Daily Air Activity Report
DAC		Department of the Army Civilian; Development Assistance Committee
DACCC		Defense Area Communication Control Center
DACE		DA Alternate Command/Control Element
DAFD		Department of Army Forward Depot
DAIS		Defense Automatic Integrated Switch
DAN		Deployment Adjustment Notification
DAO		Defense Attache Office
DAR		Deployment Adjustment Request
DASA		Defense Atomic Support Agency
DASC		Direct Air Support Center
DASE		Defense Against Sound Equipment
DASH		Drone Antisubmarine Helicopter
DASO		Demonstration and Shakedown Operation
DAST		Direct Air Support Team
DATAFAX		Secure Data Facsimile System
DATOS		Detection and Tracking of Satellites
DATT		Defense Attache
DBL		Database List; Damage Before Launch
DCA		Defense Communications Agency
DC/GCI		Direction Center-Ground Controlled Intercept
DCI		Department of Central Intelligence. (Thai)
DCM		Deputy Chief of Mission
DC of S		Deputy Chief of Staff
DCPG		Defense Communications Planning Group
DCS		Defense Communication System
DCSLOG		Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics
DD		Destroyer
DDCA		Director Defense Communications Agency
DDD		Direct Distance Dialing
DDEP		Defense Development Exchange Program
DDR&E		Director, Defense Research and Engineering
DE		Escort Ship
DEA		Data Exchange Agreement
DECEM		Defense Communications-Electronics
Def		Defense
DEFCON		Defense Condition
DEFENSE		Department of Defense
Defol		Defoliation
DEMS		Defense Equipment of Merchant Ships
Dep		Deputy
DEPCH		Deputy Chief
DEPEX		NIKE-X Deployment Study
DEPTAR		Department of the Army
DEPUTY CHJUSMAG		Deputy Chief, Joint United States Military Advisory Group
DER		Radar Picket Escort Ship
Det		Detachment
DEW		Distant Early Warning
DF		Diverted Force; Diesel Fuel
DFA(Phil)		Department of Foreign Affairs
DFE		Division Force Equivalent
DFSC		Defense Fuel Supply Center
DGZ		Desired Ground Zero
DIA		Defense Intelligence Agency
DIANE		Digital Integrated Attack Navigation System
DICS		Taiwan Down-Island Communication System
DINS		Directorate for Inspection Services (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration)
Dir		Director
DIRLAUTH		Direct Liaison Authorized
DIRM		Defense Intelligence Requirement Manual
DIRNSA		Director, National Security Agency
DIRWSEG		Director Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
Disc		Discontinue
DISTAD		District Administrator
DISUM		Daily Intelligence Summary
Div		Division
DIW		Dead in Water
DLF		Development Loan Fund
DLG		Defense Liaison Group
DMSC		Defense Medical Supply Center
DMZ		Demilitarized Zone
DNBI		Disease and Non-Battle Injury
DNC		Directorate of National Coordination; Director of Naval Communications
DNI		Director, Naval Intelligence
DOB		Status Dispersed Operating Base Status
DOCA		Defense Orientation Conference Association
DOD		Department of Defense
DODDAC		Department of Defense Damage Assessment
DODEP		Department of Defense Exercise Planning
DODPRO		Department of Defense, Pacific Research Office
DOS		Days of Supply
DPRK		Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (Communist)
DPSC		Defense Petroleum Supply Center
DRC		Democratic Republic of China
DRCCC-FE		Defense Regional Communications Control Center, Far East
DRCCC-SEA		Defense Regional Communications Control Center, Southeast Asia
DRV		Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North)
DS		Defense Support; Direct Support
DSA		Defense Supply Agency
DSP		Democrat Socialist Party Japan
DSSC		Defense Subsistence Supply Center
DSTP		Director of Strategic Target Planning
DSTPS		Director of Strategic Target Planning Staff (Offutt AFB)
DTA		Division Tactical Areas
DTC		Desert Test Center
DTG		Date Time Group
DTS		Diplomatic Telecommunications System
DV		Distinguished Visitor

E
EA		Escort Aircraft
EAC		Emergency Action Console
EACC		Emergency Alternate Command Center
EAF		Emergency Actions File
EAM		Electronic Accounting Machine
EASTAF		Eastern Transport Air Force (McGuire AFB, NJ)
EBR		Emergency Bomb Release
EC		Escort Convoy
ECAD		Engineer Construction Advisor Detachment
ECB		Engineer Construction Battalion
ECBS		Engineer Combat Battalions
ECC		Emergency Control Center
ECCM		Electronic Counter Countermeasures
ECCOIL		Eastern Construction Company in Laos
ECM		Electronic Countermeasures
ECP		Engineering Change Proposal
EDCS		Extended Defense Communication System
EDFE		Engineer District Far East
EDP		Electronic Data Processing; Equipment Deadline Parts
EDPAC		Estimated Departure from Pacific
EDPS		Electronic Data Processing System
EDR		Experimental Development Requirements
E&E		Escape and Evasion or Evasion and Escape
EEI		Essential Elements of Information
EFTO		Encrypted for Transmission Only
EGA		East German Army
EG		PACOM Environmental Group, Pacific Command
EH		Escort Helicopter
EIC		Exercise Intelligence Center
EIP		Economic Inventory Procedure
EIR		Equipment Improvement Recommendation
ELE		Engine Lifetime Expectancy
Elec		Electronics
Elem		Element
ELG		European Liaison Group
ELINT		Electronics Intelligence
EM		Emergency Message
EM/AM		Emergency Message; Alert Message
EMATS		Emergency Message Automatic Transmissions System
EMCON		Emission Control
Emerg		Emergency
EMI		Electro-Magnetic Interference
Encl		Enclosure
Eng		Engineer
Engr		Engineer
EOB		Electronic Order of Battle
EOD		Estimated Operational Date
EOQ		Economic Order Quantity
E&P		Exercise & Plans
EPG		Eniwetok Proving Ground
Eqp		Equipment
ERBM		Extended Range Ballistic Missile
EROP		Executive Review, Overseas Program
ERSFF		Eastern Region SEATO Field Forces
ES		Escort Ships
ESI		Extremely Sensitive Information
ESSA		Environmental Science Services Administration
Est		Estimate
ESWL		Estimated Surface Wheel Load
ET		Escort Trains
ETA		Estimated Time of Arrival
ETAT		Education and Training Advisory Team
ETD		Estimated Time of Departure
EUSA		Eighth United States Army
Evac		Evacuation
Eval		Evaluate
EW		Electronic Warfare; Early Warning
EWOTS		Early Warning Observation Teams
EWT		Evaluation and Warning Team
EXA		Executing Agency Identifier
EXDIR		Exercise Director
Exec		Executive

F
FA		Field Artillery; Forces Armees; Flag Allowance; Special Forces Opns Team (2 Officers 10 EM)
FAA		Federal Aviation Agency
FAC		Forward Air Control; Facility(s)
FAD		Force Activity Designator; Force Activity Director
FAE		Field Advisory Element
FAFWC		Fuchu Air Force Weather Central
FAIAU		Fleet Air Intelligence Augmenting Unit
F/AIF		Field Automated Intelligence File
FAL		Forces Armees Laotiannes (Federated Army of Laos) (Friendly Force of Gen PHOUMA)
FALCON		An air-to-air Guided Missile
FALLEX		Fall Exercises
FAMF		Floating Aircraft Maintenance Facility
FAN		Forces Armees Neutralist
FAPS		Foreign Affairs Programming System
FAPUSMCEB		Joint Frequency Allocation Panel Military Communications Electronics Board
FAR		Forces Armees du Royaume (Royal Armed Forces of Laos)
FARELF		Far East Land Forces
FARK		Forces Armee Royal Khmere (Cambodian Army)
FAST		Forward Air Strike Task
FAU		Frequency, Allocation and Uses
FB		Special Forces Control Team (6 Officers and 17 EM) (Controls two or more FA's)
FBIS		Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FBM		Fleet Ballistic Missile
FCC		Federal Communications Commission
Fcst		Forecast
FEAREA		Far East Area
FEBA		Forward Edge of the Battle Area
FEC		Far East Command
FELG		Far East Liaison Group
FEN		Far East Network
FEPI		Filipino Employment Policy Instruction
FFAR		Folding Fin Aircraft Rockets
FFD		Forward Floating Depot
FFORCEV		Field Force(s) Vietnam
FFV		Field Force Vietnam
FIAB		Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
FICPAC		Fleet Intelligence Center Pacific
FIINS		Federal Item Identification Numbers
FIS		Fighter Interceptor Squadron
FLF		Friendly Laotian Forces
FLT		Fleet; Flight
FMAW		First Marine Air Wing
FMD		Frequency Management
FMFPAC		Fleet Marine Force Pacific
FMM		French Military Mission
FMS		Foreign Military Sales
FMSO		Fleet Materiel Support Office
FMT		Foreign Military Training
F/O		Force Objective
FOB		Forward Operating Base
FOCAF		Flag Officer, Commander Her Majesty's Australian Fleet
FOCCPAC		Fleet Operation Control Center, Pacific
FOEU		Foreign Organizational Employee Union
FOG		Flow of Gold
FOIC		Flag Officer in Charge
FOMIN		Foreign Minister
FONECON		Telephone Conversation
FOOT		Follow-on Operational Tests
FORSTAT		Force Status Report
FOS		Follow on Spares
FOUO		For Official Use Only
FPG		Force Planning Guide
FPSO		Forms and Publications Supply Office
FRAM		Fleet Repair and Modernization
FRG		Federal Republic of Germany
FRN		Force Requirements Number
FROG		Free Rocket Over Ground
FROKA		First Republic of Korea Army
FSCC		Fire Support Coordination Center
FSL		Foreign Service Local
FSN		Federal Stock Number
FSR		Force Service Regiment
FTB		Field Team Bulletin
FTD		Foreign Technology Division (USAF)
FTM		French Training Mission
Ftr		Fighter
FTS		Field Training Service
FTT		Field Training Team
FULRO		Front Unifie de la Lutte de la Race Opprime (United Front for the Struggle of Oppressed Races) [Montagnard tribal organization in South Vietnam]
Fwd		Forward
FWMA		Free World Military Assistance
FWMAF		Free World Military Assistance Forces
FY		Fiscal Year
FYI		For Your Information

G
GAO		General Accounting Office
GAM		Guided Air Missile
GAR		Guided Air Rocket
GCA		Ground Controlled Approach
GCI		Ground Controlled Intercept
GDF		Ground Diverted Force
GDR		German Democratic Republic
GEEIA		Ground Environment Electronic Installation Agency; Ground Electric Engineering Instruction Agency
Gen		General
GEOP		General Emergency Operations Plan
GEOREF		Geographic Reference
GHQ		General Headquarters
GM		Group Mobile
GMT		Greenwich Mean Time
GNP		Gross National Product
GOA		Government of Australia
GOB		Government of Burma
GOI		Government of Indonesia
GOJ		Government of Japan
GOM		Government of Malaysia
GOP		Government of the Philippines
GOPL		General Outpost Line
GOS		Government of Singapore
Gp		Group
GPV		General Purpose Vehicle
GPWD		General Political Warfare Department
GRC		Government of the Republic of China
GSA		General Services Administration
GSDF		Ground Self Defense Force (Japan)
GSSF		General Supplies Stock Fund
GUB		Government, Union of Burma
GVN		Government of the Republic of Vietnam
GW		Guerrilla Warfare

H
HAJC		Hawaiian Area Joint Committee
HA(L)		Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light)
HANG		Hawaii Air National Guard
HARNG		Hawaii Army National Guard
HAWTEL		Hawaiian Telephone Company
HC		Helicopter Combat Support Squadron
Hcptr		Helicopter
HDC		Helicopter Direction Center
HE		High Explosive
HED		Headquarters
HEDSUPPACT		Headquarters Support Activity
HEI		High Explosive Incendiary
Helo		Helicopter
HES		Hamlet Evaluation System
HF		High Frequency
HFP		Hostile Fire Pay
HHG		Household Goods
HICOM		High Commissioner
HICOMTERPACIS		High Commissioner Trust Territory Pacific Islands
HIGH HEELS VI		Worldwide Command Post Exercise
HIP		Habitability Improvement Program
HIPAR		High Powered Acquisition Radar
HIRAN		High Range Navigation
HIS		Heliborne Illumination System
Hist		History
Hist Br		History Branch
Hist Off		History Officer
HJ		Honest John (Surface-to-Surface Missile)
HMCS		Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
HMH		Marine Helicopter Squadron (Heavy)
HMM		Marine Helicopter Squadron (Medium)
HMO		Honolulu Magnetic Observatory
HMS		Her Majesty's Ship
H&MS		Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron
HNG		Hawaii National Guard
HOB		Height of Burst
Hon		Honorable
HONO		Honolulu
How		Howitzer
Hq		Headquarters
HQUSAF		Headquarters United States Air Force
HS		Helicopter Squadron
HSAS		Headquarters Support Activity - Saigon
HST		Helicopter Support Team
HUK		Hunter Killer Group
HUKS		Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan, (People’s Liberation Army, Philippines)
HUMINT		Human Resources Intelligence
HWPB		Heavy Weather Patrol Boats
Hwy		Highway

I
IADB		Inter-American Defense Board
IADPG		Intelligence Automatic Data Processing Group
IANCA		Inter-American Naval Coordinating Authority
IAW		In Accordance With
IBDA		Intermediate Bomb Damage Assessment
IBM		International Business Machine Company
IBOP		International Balance of Payment
ICA		International Cooperation Administration
ICAF		Industrial College of the Armed Forces
ICAO		International Civil Aviation Organization
ICBM		Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICC		International Control Commission
ICE		Index of Combat Effectiveness
ICF		Intelligence Contingency Funds
ICNND		Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense
ICP		Inventory Control Point
ICRC		International Committee Red Cross
IDA		Intrusion Detection Alarm
IDCSP		Initial Defense Communications Satellite Project; Interim Defense Communications Satellite Plan
IDCSS		Initial Defense Communications Satellite System
IDF		Inflight Diverted Force
IDHS		Intelligence Data Handling System
IDP		Internal Defense Plans
IECS		Intelligence Evaluation Center (Saigon)
IEG		Imperial Ethiopian Government
IF		Irregular Force
IFF		Identification, friend or foe
IFS		Inshore Fire Support
IJBS		Integrated Joint Broadband System
ILN		International Logistics and Negotiations
IMA		Initial Military Assistance
IMF		International Monetary Fund
IMHQ		International Military Headquarters
IMR		Initial Missile Report
INCREP		Incident Report
Ind		Indorsement
INDMAN		Industrial Manager
Inf		Infantry
Info		Information
INFOREP		Information Report
INSC		Internal Shape Components
INSURV		Inspection and Survey
Int		Interceptor
INTBUL		Intelligence Bulletin
Intcp		Interceptor
Intel		Intelligence
INTELSAT II		Intelligence Satellite
INTSUM		Intelligence Summary
Intv		Interview
IOC		Initial Operational Capability
IOL		Initial Outfitting List
IP		Initial Point
IPIR		Immediate Photo Interpretation Reports
IR		Infra-Red
I&R		Intelligence and Reconnaissance
IRAN		Inspect and Repair as Necessary
IRBM		Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRC		Indications Review Committee
IROL		Imagery Reconnaissance Objectives List
ISA		International Security Agency
ISC		Infiltration Surveillance Center
ISP		Internal Security Plan
ISSA		Interservice Support Agreement
ISSC		Interservice Supply Support Committee
ISSL		Initial Spares Support List
ISSSC		Interservice Supply Support Sub-Committee
ITACS		Integrated Tactical Air Control System
ITO		Invitational/Individual Travel Order
ITT		Interrogation-Translation Team
IUW		Inshore Undersea Warfare
IWCS		Integrated Wideband Communications System
IWG		Intelligence Working Group

J
JAAF		Joint Action Armed Forces
JACC		Joint Alternate Command Center
JACE		Joint Alternate Command Element
JAEIC		Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Center
JANAFPAC		Joint Army, Navy, Air Force, Pacific General Message (Serially Numbered)
JANAP		Joint Army, Navy, Air Force Publication
JAOC		Joint Air Operations Center
JAS		Joint Administrative Services
JASDF		Japanese Air Self Defense Force
JATF		Joint Amphibious Task Force
JCA		Joint Communications Agency
JCCDG		Joint Chiefs of Staff Command and Control Development Group
JCCRG		Joint Command and Control Requirements Group
JCEAG		Joint Civilian Employee Advisory Group
JCECPAC		Joint Communications -Electronics Committee, Pacific
JCEG		Joint Concepts and Evaluation Group
JCGRO		Joint Central Graves Registration Office
JCI		Joint Communications Instruction
JCP		Japanese Communist Party
JCS		Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCSAN		Joint Chiefs of Staff Alert Network
JCSM		Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
JCSPF		Joint Cubi Point Photographic Facilities
JDA		Japan Defense Agency
JECFE		Joint Coordination Center, Far East
JEIT		Joint Equipment Identification Team
JEPAP		Joint Emergency Personnel Augmentation Plan
JFY		Japanese Fiscal Year
JGS		Joint General Staff (Vietnam)
JGSDF		Japanese Ground Self Defense Force
JGWTC		Jungle & Guerrilla Warfare Training Center
JHWC		Joint Hurricane Warning Center
JIB		Joint Intelligence Bureau
JMAAD		Joint Military Assistance Affairs Division
JMG		Joint Meteorological Group
JMP		Joint Manpower Program
JMPAB		Joint Materiel Priorities Allocations Board
JMSDF		Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force
JMTB		Joint Military Transportation Board
JNP		Joint Nuclear Plot
JNR		Japanese National Railroad
Jnt		Joint
JOC		Joint Operations Center
JOCARG		Joint Wideband Circuit Allocation and Requirement Group, Thailand
JOEG-V		Joint Operational Evaluation Group - Vietnam
JOREP		Joint Operational Reporting
JP		Joint Pacific
JP4		Jet Fuel
JP5		Jet Fuel
JPO		Joint Petroleum Office
JPV		Joint Pacific Voice
JRATA		Joint Research and Test Activity
JRC		Joint Reconnaissance Center
JS		Joint Staff
JSARC		Joint Search and Rescue Center
JSC		Joint Staff Council (Japanese)
JSCM		Joint Service Commendation Medal
JSCP		Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
JSDF		Japan Self Defense Force
JSOP		Joint Strategic Objectives Plan
JSP		Japan Socialist Party
JSRK		Jeunesse Socialiste Royale Khmer (Cambodia)
JSTPS		Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff
JTB		PACOM Joint Transportation Board
JTD		Joint Table of Distribution
JTF		Joint Task Force
JTG		Joint Task Group
JTIG		Joint Target Intelligence Group
JTMB		Joint Transportation Movements Board
JUSMAG		Joint United States Military Advisory Group
JUSMAGPHIL		Joint United States Military Advisory Group, Philippines
JUSPAO		Joint United States Public Affairs Office
JUWTF		Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force
JWGA		Joint War Games Agency
JWGCG		Joint War Games Control Group
JWR		Joint War Room (JCS)
JWRA		Joint War Room Annex

K
KADS		Korea Air Defense System
KANZUS		Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the United States
KBA		Killed by Air
KCAC		Korean Civil Action Corps
KIA		Killed in Action
KIP		Laotian Currency
KKK		Khmer Kampuchea Krom
KKO		Indonesia Marine Corps
KL		Kong Le
KLP		Korean Labor Party (Communist)
KLSC		Korean Logistic Service Corps
KMC		South Korean Marine Corps
KOCCCG		Kunia Operations Control Center Coordination Group
KOCO		Korea Oil Corporation
KOSCO		Korea Oil Storage Company
KSC		Korean Service Corps
Kw		Kilowatt
KY-9		Secure Voice Communication

L
LAAM		Light Antiaircraft Missile (Bn)
LABS		Low Altitude Bombing System
LAMP		Laos Ammunition Procedures
LANSHIPRON		Landing Ship Squadron
LANTFLT		US Atlantic Fleet
LAPES		Low Altitude Parachute Ejection System
LARA		Light Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft
LARC		Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (Amphibious Craft)
LAS		Long Range Assistance Strategy
LAW		Light anti-tank weapon
LBR		Local Base Rescue
LBS		Liberation Broadcasting Station
LCM		Landing Craft Medium
LCPL		Landing Craft Personnel, Large
LCU		Landing Craft Utility
LCVP		Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel
LDP		Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
LF		Low Frequency
LFS		Landing Force Support
LFT		Light Fire Team
LLVMA		Light Light Support Counterinsurgency Aircraft
LNF		Local National Forces (SEATO Term)
LOC		Lines of Communication
LOFAR		Low Frequency Analysis and Recording Equipment
LOG		Logistics
LOGAIR		Logistical Air
LOGREQ		Logistic Requirements
LOH		Light Observation Helicopter
LORAN		Long Range Navigation
LOTS		Logistics Over the Shore
LOYAL		Wounded Report
LPD		Landing Platform, Deck
LPH		Landing Platform Helicopter
LPK		Lao Pen Kang (Laotian Neutralist Party)
LPLA		Lao Peoples Liberation Army
LP&P		Logistics Policy and Procedures
LRA		Long Range Aviation
LRC		Logistics Readiness Center
LSA		Logistic Support Area
LSD		Dock Landing Ship
LSIL		Landing Ship
LSM		Medium Landing Ship
LSMR		Landing Ship Medium Rocket
LSSL		Support Landing Ship (Large)
LST		Tank Landing Ship
Lt		Light
LTC		Lieutenant Colonel
Lt Col		Lieutenant Colonel
LTG		Lieutenant General
Lt Gen		Lieutenant General
Ltr		Letter
LVT		Landing Vehicle Track
LWR		Local Wage Rate

M
MA		Military Assistance
MAAG		Military Assistance Advisory Group
MAAMA		Middletown Air Material Area
MAB		Marine Amphibious Brigade
MABPD		Military Assistance Basic Planning Document
MABS		Marine Air Base Squadron
MAC		Military Airlift Command; Military Assistance Command
MACSOG		Military Assistance Command Studies and Observation Group
MACV		Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
MAE		Mean Area of Effectiveness
MAF		Marine Amphibious Force
MAG		Marine Air Group
MAGARLM		Military Assistance Advisory Group, Army Branch, Logistics-Medical
MAI		Military Assistance Institute
MAJCOM		Major Commands
Maj Gen		Major General
MAM		Military Assistance Manual
MAP		Military Assistance Program (Plan)
MAPETT		Military Assistance Program Evaluation Team, Thailand
MAPLA		Military Assistance Program Liaison Agency
MAPOM		Military Assistance Program Owned Material
MAPT		Military Assistance Program Training; Military Assistance Program Transfer
MAR		US Marine Corps
MARBO		Mariana-Bonin Islands
MARBRIG		Marine Brigade
MARCOMNAVADGRU		Marine Corps Component Navy Advisory Group
Mar Corps		Marine Corps
MARS		Marine Aircraft Repair Squadron
MAS		Military Airlift Squadron; Military Assistance Sales
MASF		Military Assistance Service Funded
MASH		Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MASL		Military Assistance Program Articles and Services List
MASO		Military Assistance Sales Order
MATA		Military Assistance Training Advisor
MATP		Military Assistance Training Program
MAW		Marine Air Wing; Military Airlift Wing
MBA		Military Base Agreement
MBPA		Military Blood Program Agency
Mbr		Member
MCB		Mobile Construction Battalion
MCC		Movement Control Center
MCEB		Military Communication-Electronics Board
MC&G		Mapping, Charting and Geodesy
MCM		Manual for Courts-Martial
MCN		MAP Control Number
MCON (MILCON)		Military Construction
MCP		Malayan Communist Party
MCU		Mountain Commando Units
MDAA		Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement
MDB		Mutual Defense Board (US-Philippines)
MDC		MAP Data Center
MDCS		Mission Data Collection Sheets
MDL		Military Demarcation Line
MDRAF		Mekong Delta Riverine Assault Force
MDU		Mobile Development Units (Thailand)
MEA		Minister External Affairs
MEB		Marine Expeditionary Brigade
MEBLEX		Marine Expeditionary Brigade Landing Exercise
Mech		Mechanized
Med		Medium
MEDCAP		Medical Civic Action Program
MEDT		Military Equipment Delivery Team (Burma)
MEE		Military Essential Equipment
MEECN		Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Net
MEF		Minimum Essential Force; Marine Expeditionary Force
MELG		Mid-East Liaison Group
Memo		Memorandum
MEO		Tribal Group in Laos
MER		Multiple Ejection Racks
METASCOPE		Instrument to Detect Infra-red Rays
METU		Mobile Electronics Technical Unit
MEU		Marine Expeditionary Unit
MFP		Master Force Plan (Thailand)
MG		Major General
MGD		Military Geographic Documentation
MGRS		Military Grid Reference System
MHE		Materiel Handling Equipment
Mi		Missile
MICC		Military Information Control Committee
MICS		Military Integrated Communications System
MIDAS		Missile Detection Alert System
MIDEFO		Mission Debrief Forms
MIEC		Military Intelligence Exchange Center
Mil		Military
MILA		Medical Information & Intelligence Agency
MILAD		Military Advisor (SEATO or ANZUS Council)
MILADREP		Military Advisors Representative
MILBA		Military Base Agreement
MILCON		Military Construction
MILSTAG		Military Standardization Agreement
MILSTAMP		Military Standard Transportation & Movement Procedures
MILSTRIP		Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures
MILTAG		Military Technical Advisory Group (Indonesia)
MINIMIZE		A Term Used to Control Message Communications when a State of Emergency Exists
MIP		Materiel Improvement Program
MIUWSU		Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Surveillance Unit
MLI		Minimum Line of Interception
MLS		Mobile Logistic Support
MMC		Minelayer, Coastal
MMPC		Mobilization Materiel Procurement Capability
MMRBM		Mobile Medium Range Ballistic Missile
MMR&S		Military Medical Research & Services Program
MMSA		Military Medical Supply Agency
MND		Ministry of National Defense
MOB		Main Operating Base
MOBCON		Mobilization Construction
MOBEX		Mobility Exercise
MOC		Ministry of Communications
MOD		Ministry of Defense
MOGAS		Gasoline, Automotive
MOL		Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MOMAC		Monkey Mountain Advisory Center
MOREST		Mobile Arresting Gear (acft landing strip gear)
MOT		Ministry of Transportation
MOTBA		Military Ocean Terminal, Bay Area
MOTU		Mobile Ordnance Technical Unit
MOU		Memorandum of Understanding
MOVECAP		Movement Capabilities
MP		Military Police
MPC		Military Payment Certificate
MPI		Ministry of Public Information
MPO		Military Planning Office (SEATO)
MPR		Mongolian Peoples Republic
MPS		Military Planning Staff
M/R		Memorandum for the Record; Military Reserve
MRBM		Medium Range Ballistic Missile
MRC		Military Revolutionary Council; Movement Report Center
MRI		MILSTRIP Routing Indicator
MRK		Royal Cambodian Navy
MRO		Movement Report Office
MSB		Maritime Safety Board (Japan); Mine Sweeping Boat
MSC		Minesweeper, Coastal (non-magnetic)
MSDF		Maritime Staff Defense Force
MSEG		Missile Systems Evaluation Group
MSF		Minesweeper, Fleet (steel hull)
MSG		Mobile Support Group; Message
MSI		Minesweeper
Msl		Missile
MSMS		Mutual Security Military Sales
MSO		Maritime Self-Defense Office (Japanese Naval Staff)
MSOP		Mutual Security Objectives Plan
MSP		Mutual Security Program
MSR		Main Supply Route
MST		Mobile Support Team
MSTS		Military Sea Transportation Service
MSTSO		Military Sea Transport Service Officer
Mt		Mountain
MTA		Mobile Training Assistance
MTB		Motor Torpedo Boat
MTDS		Marine Tactical Data System
MTMTS		Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service
MTT		Mobile Training Team
MTU		Mobile Training Unit
MUST		Manpower Utilization Survey Team
MUX		Multiplex Equipment
MWDP		Military Weapons Development Plans
MWHG		Marine Wing Headquarters Group
MWSG		Marine Wing Service Group

N
NAD		Naval Ammunition Depot
NADAC		Pacific Command North Vietnam Air Defense Analysis and Coordinating Group
NADAR		No After Duty Action Required
NAF		Naval Air Facility
NAFA		Non-Appropriated Fund Activity
NAFEC		National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (Atlantic City)
NAG		Naval Advisory Group
NAMRU		Naval Medical Research Unit
NAMTC		Naval Air Missile Test Center (Pt Mugu, Calif)
NAN		No Action Necessary
NANAC		National Aircraft Noise Abatement Council
NARC		National Army Revolutionary Committee/Council (Laos)
NAS		Naval Air Station
NASA		National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASAR		North American Search and Ranging Radar
Nat		National
Natl		National
NATO		North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATOPS		Naval Air Training & Operating Procedures
NATTU		Naval Air Technical Training Unit
NAVADGRU		Naval Advisory Group
NAVAIR		Naval Air
NAVBEACHGRU		Naval Beach Group
NAVCON		Naval Countermeasures
NAVCOSSACT		Naval Command Systems Support Activity
NAVFOR		Naval Forces
NAVFORV		Naval Forces, Vietnam
NAVIC		Naval Information Center
NAVOCEANO		Naval Oceanographic Office
NAVOPNET		Naval Operations Net
NAVSECGRU		Naval Security Group
NAW		Non All Weather
NBC		Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
NBL		Nuclear Bomb Line
NCC		Naval Component Command
NCI		Nuclear Capability Inspection
NCO		Non Commissioned Officer; Non Combatant Evacuation Order
NCR		National Constabulary Study
NCS		National Communication System; Net Control Station
NCSORG		Naval Control Shipping Organization
NDTA		National Defense Transportation Association
NEA		Northeast Asia
NEACP		National Emergency Airborne Command Post
NEC		Navy Enlisted Classification/Naval Exercise Coordinator
NECPA		National Emergency Command Post Afloat
NEFA		Northeast Frontier Agency (India)
NEFOS		New Emerging Forces
NEGDF		Naval Emergency Ground Defense Forces
NESEP		Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program
NEWZAD		New Zealand Army Detachment
NFSO		Navy Fuel Supply Officer
NGF		Naval Gunfire
NHM		Non Hostile Missing
NICP		National Inventory Control Point (CONUS)
NIE		National Intelligence Estimate
NIKE		Surface-to-air Missile
NIPS		National Military Command System Information Processing System
NIS		National Intelligence Survey
NK		North Korea
NKA		North Korean Army
NKAF		North Korean Air Force
NKN		North Korean Navy
NLF		National Liberation Front (Communist in SVN)
NLH		New Lao Hak (Lao Patriotic Front). Variants: NLHS, HLHZ for Sat and Zat respectively.
NLT		Not Later Than
NM		Nautical Mile
NMCB		Navy Mobile Construction Battalion
NMCC		National Military Command Center
NMCS		National Military Command System
NMCSSC		National Military Control System Support Center
NMFRL		Naval Medical Field Research Lab
NNC		Neutral Nations Committee
NNSC		Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
NOA		New Obligation Authority
NOBC		Naval Officer Billet Classification
NOFORN		Special Handling Required, Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
NOP		Naval Objectives Plan
NOR		Number of Rounds
NORAD		North American Air Defense Command
NORM		Nuclear Ordinance Readiness Maneuver
NORS		Non-Operational Ready Supplies
NOTAL		Not to all
NOTS		Naval Ordnance Test Station
NP		National Police
NPA		National Police Agency (Japan)
NPIC		National Photographic Interpretation Center
NPP		National Policy Paper
NPSS		National Police and Security Service (RVN)
NRL		Naval Research Laboratory
NSA		National Security Agency
NSAM		National Security Action Memorandum
NSAPAC		National Security Agency Pacific
NSC		National Security Council; Naval Supply Center
NSDL		National Strategic DGZ List
NSFO		Navy Special Fuel Oil
NSO		National Security Organization (RTG)
NSTAP		National Strategic Targeting and Attack Policy
NSTDB		National Strategic Target Data Base
NSTL		National Strategic Target List
NSWG		Nuclear Safety Working Group
NTAP		National Targeting and Attack Policy
NTDS		Navy Tactical Data System
NTPL		Navy Technical Proficiency Inspection
NUCAP		Nuclear Capability Report
NUCREP		Nuclear Report
NUDET		Nuclear Detonation
NVA		North Vietnamese Army
NVN		North Vietnam
NWC		Navy War College
NWIP		Naval Warfare Information Publication
NWP		Naval Warfare Publication
NWRS		Nuclear Weapons Requirements Study
NWSB		Nuclear Warfare Status Branch
NZ		New Zealand

O
OA		Operational Analysis
OAO		Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OAR		Office of Aerospace Research
OAS		Organization of American States
OASD		Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
OASD/ISA		Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense International Security Affairs
OASD(SA)		Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis)
OB		Order of Battle
OBE		Overtaken by Events
Obsr		Observe
OCB		Operational Coordination Board
OCC		Operations Control Center (Kunia)
OCE		Officer Conducting the Exercise
OCMM		Office of Civilian Manpower Management
OCS		Officer Candidate School
ODMA		Office of the Director of Military Assistance
OEG		Operations Evaluation Group
OEM		On equipment materiel
Off		Officer
OHRI		Overhaul (Recurrent/Removal) Item
OIC		Officer in Charge
OICC		Officer in Charge of Construction
OIP		Operational Improvement Program
OIR		Office of Industrial Relations
OISP		Overseas Internal Security Program
OJT		On the job training
OLDFOS		Old Established Forces
O&M		Operations and Maintenance
OMPF		Official Military Personnel File
ONI		Office of Naval Intelligence
ONR		Office of Naval Research
Op		Operational
OPlans		Operation Plans
Opns		Operations
OPREP		Operational Reporting
OPSUM		Commander's Operational Summary
OPTEVFOR		Operational (Training/Test) and Evaluation Force
O&R		Overhaul and Repair
ORDALT		Ordnance Alteration
ORI		Operational Readiness Inspection
OSA		Office of Special Activities; Overseas Supply Agency
OSAP		Ocean Surveillance Air Patrol
OSASF		Overseas Supply Agency, San Francisco
OSD		Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSE		Officer Scheduling the Exercise
OSI		Offshore Islands; Office of Special Investigation
OSIR		Out of Service in Reserve
OSO		Ordnance Supply Office
OSP		Off-shore Procurement
OSPJ		Off-shore Procurement (Japan)
OST		Operational Suitability Test
OTA		Other than Air
OTAD		Overseas Terminal Arrival Date
OTC		Officer in Tactical Command
OTSR		Optimum Track Ship Routing
OUSA		Office of U.S. Army
OUSAIRA		Office of the United States Air Attache
OUSARMA		Office of the U. S. Army Attache
OVM		On vehicle material

P
PA		Philippine Army; Public Affairs
PAC		Peoples Army Congress
PACAF		Pacific Air Forces
PACAM		Punched Card Accounting Machine
PACE		Pacific Alternate Command Element
PACEX		Pacific Exchange System
PACFLT		Pacific Fleet
PACGEEIA		Pacific Area Ground Environment Electronic Installation Agency
PACOM		Pacific Command
PACOM ELINT		Center Pacific Command Electronics Intelligence Center
PACOMEP		Pacific Command Emergency Procedures
PACOMEW		Pacific Command Electronic Warfare
PACOMINTS		Pacific Command Intelligence School
PACSCAT		Pacific Ionospheric Scatter
PACV		Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle
PAD		Program Actions Directive
PADAF		Pacific Command Air Defense Analysis Facility
PADGERC		PACOM Air Defense Ground Environment Requirements Committee
PAF		Philippine Air Force
PAJG		Procurement Agency of the Japanese Government
PAKS		Pakistanis
PAL		Permissive Action Link; Price and Availability List
PAMPA		PACOM Movements Priority Agency
PAP		Peoples Action Party (Singapore)
PAO		Public Affairs Officer (USIS)
PARC		Pacific Air Rescue Center/Command
PARRC		Pacific Air Rescue Center
PARU		Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit (Thailand)
PASEP		Passed Separately (Message Transmission)
PAT		Peoples Action Teams
PATMRG		PACOM Air Target Materials Review Group
PAU		Pacific Command Frequency Allocation and Uses
PAVN		People's Army Vietnam (North)
PAX		Passenger
PBR		River Patrol Boat
PC		Philippine Constabulary; Submarine Chaser Ship
PCA		Permanent Change of Assignment
PCC		Political Consultative Council
PCE		Patrol Craft Escort
PCF		Patrol Craft Coastal (fast)
PCH&T		Packing, Crating, Handling and Transportation
PCP		Program Change Proposals
PCS		Permanent Change of Station
PDC		Pacific Defense College
PDJ		Plaine de Jarres
PDO		Property Disposal Office
PEC		PACOM ELINT Center
PECM		Passive ECM
PEDMAN		PACFLT Enlisted Personnel Distribution Manual
PEG		Performance Evaluation Group
PEO		Programs Evaluation Office (Defunct)
PERGRA		Permission Granted
PESTAT		Personnel Status Report
PF		Popular Force; Patrol Escort Ship
PFD		Preliminary Functional Description
PFF		Police Field Force
PFIAB		President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
PFNS		Position Firing Navigational System
PG		Province Guard (Cambodia)
PGM		Motor Gunboat
PHIBLEX		Amphibious Landing Exercise
PHIL		Philippines
PHILCAGV		Philippine Civic Action Group Vietnam
PHS		Public Health Service
PIASTER		Vietnamese Currency
PIC		Photographic Interpretation Center (Navy)
PIM		Position Intended Movement
PKI		Party Communist Indonesia/Partai Komunis Indonesia
PKP		Party Communist Philippines
PL		Public Law; Pathet Lao
PLA		People's Liberation Army (CHICOM)
PLADS		Parachute Low Altitude Delivery System
PLD-PACOM		Petroleum Logistical Data Pacific Command
PLL		Prescribed Load List
PLOYREP		Unit Deployment Report
PLSP		Pre-Launch Survival Probability
PL-VM		Pathet Lao - Viet Minh
PMARP		Peacetime Manpower Allocation Requirements Plan
PMDAMT		Pacific Mobile Depot Activity Maintenance Team
PMDC		Pacific Command, Military Assistance Program Data Center
PMDL		Provisional Military Demarcation Line
PMEL		Precision Measuring Equipment Laboratory
PMR		Pacific Missile Range
PN		Philippine Navy
PNI		Democratic Party in Indonesia
PO		Psychological Operation
POA		Petroleum Operating Agreement
PODE		Pacific Ocean Division Engineers
POI		Program of Instruction
POL		Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants
POLAD		Political Advisor
POLO		Pacific Operations Liaison Office
POS		Peacetime Operating Stock
POW		Prisoner of War
PPC		Photo Processing Center
PPF		Peoples Police Force
PPP		Province Pacification Plan
PPRI		PACOM Priority Number
PR		Party Raayat (Leftist Organization in Singapore)
PRC		Planning Research Corporation
PREL		Priority Reconnaissance Exploitation List
PRERECPAC		Preplanned Reconnaissance Pacific
PRI		People's Revolutionary Party (RVN)
PRO		Pacific Research Office
Prod		Product
Prog		Progam(s)
PROP		Priority Production List
PROVMAAG		Provisional Military Assistance Advisory Group
PROVMAAG-K		Military Assistance Advisory Group, Korea (Provisional)
PRPL		PACOM Reconnaissance Priority List
PRSF		Peoples Revolutionary Struggle Force
PS		Patrol Ship
PSAC		President's Scientific Advisory Committee
PSFC		Provisional Special Forces Company
PSI		Socialist Party of Indonesia
PSIA		Public Security Investigation Agency (Japan)
PSO		Presidential Security Office (RVN)
PSP		Pierced Steel Planking
PSRL		Post Strike Reconnaissance List
Psy		Psychological
PSYOPS		Psychological Operations
PSYWAR/PW		Psychological Warfare
PT		Fast Patrol Boat
PTFMR		Peacetime Force Materiel Requirements
PTTMC		PACOM Tactical Target Materials Catalog
PUNCH		Illness Report
PVO		Soviet Air Defense System
Pvmt		Pavement
PW		Prisoner of War
PWG		Permanent Working Group (SEATO)
PX		Post Exchange

Q
QRA		Quick Reaction Alert
QRC		Quick Reaction Capability
QRF		Quick Reaction Force

R
RAAF		Royal Australian Air Force
RAC		Research Analysis Corporation
RADFO		Radioactive Fallout
RADM		Rear Admiral
RADS		Ryukyu Air Defense System
RAG		Replacement Air Group; River Assault Group
RALLY		Coalition of Conservative Parties in Laos (Also known as LHL)
RAMAB		Ready Afloat Marine Amphibious Brigade
RAS		Replenish at Sea
RATT		Radio Teletype
RAV		Restricted Availability (Ship in for Repairs)
RB		Reconnaissance Bomber
RCATS		Radio Controlled Aerial Targets
RCC		Rescue Control Center
RCN		Listing Record Control Number Listing
RCS		Reports Control Symbol
RCT		Regimental Combat Team
RD		Revolutionary Development
RDD		Required Delivery Date
RDT&E		Research, Development, Test and Engineering
Recce		Reconnaissance
RECOMP		Recommended Completion Date
Recon		Reconnaissance
REDLOG		Logistic Readiness Report
REDNON		Operational Readiness Report (Non -atomic)
REDOPS		Operational Status Reports
Ref		Reference
REFNO		Reference Number
Regt		Regiment
Reinf		Reinforced
Res		Reserve
Ret		Retired
RF/PF		Regional and Popular Forces
RFS		Ready or Readiness for Sea
RHP		Rural Health Program
RIEL		Cambodian Currency
RISOP		Red Integrated Strategic Offensive Plan
RITOP		Red Integrated Tactical Operational Plan
RKAF		Royal Khmere Air Force-Cambodia
RKG		Royal Cambodian Government
RLAF		Royal Laotian Air Force
RLG		Royal Laotian Government; Regional Liaison Group
RLT		Regimental Landing Team; Rolling Liquid Transporter
RNMC		Royal Netherlands Marine Corps
R/O		Requisitions/Objectives
ROAD		Reorganization of Army Division
ROC		Republic of China
ROCAF		Republic of China Air Force
ROCMC		Republic of China Marine Corps
ROCN		Republic of China Navy
ROE		Rules of Engagement
ROK		Republic of Korea
ROKA		Republic of Korea Army
ROKAF		Republic of Korea Air Force
ROKAP		Republic of Korea Civic Action Program
ROKFV		Republic of Korea Forces in Vietnam
ROKG		Government of the Republic of Korea
ROKMC		Republic of Korea Marine Corps
ROKN		Republic of Korea Navy
RON		Squadron; Remain Over Night
ROP		Republic of the Philippines
RO/RI		Redistribution Out/Redistribution In
RO/RO		Roll On/Roll Off
ROT ABCCC		Rotational Airborne Command and Control Center
ROT AWS		Rotational Air Weather Squadron
ROT BS		Rotational Bomb Squadron
ROT AREFS		Rotating Air Refueling Squadron
ROT FIS		Rotating Fighter Interceptor Squadron
ROT FIS DET		Rotating Fighter Interceptor Squadron Detachment
ROT RCS		Rotational Radar Calibration Squadron
ROT TAS		Rotational Tactical Assault Squadron
ROT TBS		Rotational Tactical Bomber Squadron
ROT TCS		Rotational Troop Carrier Squadron
RP		Route Package; Reporting Point; Release Point
RPC		River Patrol Craft
RPI		Federated Republic of Indonesia
RPS		Registered Publication System
RR		Radio Relay; Railroad
R&R		Rest and Recuperation
RSC		Regional Service Center
RSR		Required Supply Rate
RSSZ		Rung Sat Special Zone
RST		Rolling Stock
RT		ROLLING THUNDER
RTA		Royal Thailand Army
RTAF		Royal Thailand Air Force
RTAFB		Royal Thailand Air Force Base
RTARF		Royal Thailand Armed Forces
RTAV		Royal Thailand Army in Vietnam
RTEG		River Transport Escort Group
RTF		Reconnaissance Task Force
RTG		Royal Thai Government
RTMC		Royal Thailand Marine Corps
RTN		Royal Thailand Navy
RTS		Reconnaissance Technical Squadron
RTSD		Royal Thai Survey Dept
RTTL		Rolling Thunder Target List
RTVAR		Royal Thailand Army Volunteer Regiment
RVN		Republic of Vietnam
RVNAF		Republic of Vietnam Air Force
RVNMC		Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps
RVNN		Republic of Vietnam Navy
RW		Radiological Warfare

S
SAC		Strategic Air Command
SACC		Supporting Arms Coordination Center
SACSA		Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities
SAC XRAY		A Detachment of the Strategic Air Command
SAF		Secretary of the Air Force; Special Action Force
SAG		Scientific Advisory Group
SAGE		Semi-automatic Ground Environment
SALG		South American Liaison Group
SAM		Surface to Air Missile; Space Available Mail
SAM		Flight Special Air Mission Flights
SAO		Single Airlift Organization
SAPO		Sub Area Petroleum Office
SAR		Search and Rescue
SARC		Search and Rescue Center
SARDS		Special Air Route Designators
SARPF		Strategic Air Relocatable Photographic Facility
SAS		Sealed Authenticator System
SATCOM		Satellite Communications
SATM		Supply and Training Mission, Laos
SAW		Special Air Warfare
SAWS		Small Arms Weapons System
SC		Submarine Chaser
SCC		SC Security Consultative Committee Sub-Committee
SCDA		SEATO Central Distribution Authority
Sch		School
SCIP		Sea Counter-Infiltration Patrol
SCORE		Selective Conversion and Retention Program
S&D		Search and Destroy
SDC		Self Defense Corps (RVN)
SDO		Staff Duty Officer
SEA		Southeast Asia
SEABU		Southeast Asia Buildup
SEACOORD		Coordinating Committee for U.S. Missions Southeast Asia
SEA-EX		SEALIFT EXPRESS
SEAITACS		Southeast Asia Integrated Tactical Air Control System
SEAL		Sea, Air and Land (Team)
SEAMARF		Southeast Asia Military Air Reservation Facility
SEAMIL		Separate Military Committee (under SEACOORD)
SEAP		SEATO Military Publication
SEASIA		Southeast Asia
SEASTAG		SEATO Standardization Agreement
SEATELCOM		Southeast Asia Telecommunications
SEATO		Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Sec		Section(s)
SECDEF		Secretary of Defense
SECNAV		Secretary of the Navy
SECO		Second Stage Engine Cutoff
Secy		Secretary
SEDSCAF		Standard ELINT Data System Code and Format
S&E		Funds Supplies and Equipage Funds
SELF		Short Expeditious Landing Field
SEMP		Socio-Economic Military Program
SERE		Survival, evasion, resistance and escape
SF		Special Forces
SFARG		SIOP Force Application Review Group
SFCO		Special Forces Company
SFF		SEATO Field Forces
SFOB		SEATO Forces Operating Base
SFOD		Special Forces Operational Detachment
SHAD		Shipboard Hazards Appraisal and Defense
SHAPE		Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHEDS		Ship Helicopter Extended Delivery System
SHOB		Shore Based
SIC		Survey Information Center
SICR		Specific Intelligence Collection Requirements
SID		Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances; Special Intelligence Detachment
SIF		Selective Identification Feature
SIGINT		Signal Intelligence
SIOP		Single Integrated Operational Plan
SITREP		Situation Report
SJA		Staff Judge Advocate
SJS		Secretary Joint Staff
SL		STEEL TIGER
S&L		Systems and Logistics
SLAR		Side Looking Airborne Radar
SLAT		Special Logistics Actions Thailand
SLAV		Special Logistic Actions for South Vietnam
SLBM		Submarine Launch Ballistic Missile
SLF		Special Landing Force
SMIAT		Special Military Intelligence Activities Team
SMPO		SEATO Military Planning Office
SMRIS		Soviet Missile Range Instrumented Ship
SNDL		Standard Navy Distribution List
SNO		Senior National Officer (SEATO)
SO		Sail Only Junk; Special Order
SOA		Speed of Advance
SOAP		Supply Operations Assistance Program
SOC		Squadron Operations Center
SOCPAC		Special Operations Center Pacific Command
SOCS		Special Operations Center
SOD		Special Operations Detachment
SOFA		Status of Forces Agreement
SOFAR		Sound Fixing and Ranging (Aircraft and Sub)
SOFT		Special Operational Forces Taiwan
SOG		Studies and Observation Group
SOKA GAKKI		Value Creation Society (Japan)
SOLOG		Standardization Agreements on Operations and Logistics (US, British and Canadian)
SOP		Standing Operating Procedure
SOPA		Senior Officer Present Afloat
SOR		Specific Operational Requirements
SOTS		Special Operations Team
SOSUS		Sound Surveillance System
SP		Starting Point
SPADATS		Space Detection and Tracking System
SPCC		Ship's Parts Control Center
SPDHF		Special Pay for Duty Subject to Hostile Fire
Spec		Special
SPIREP		Spot Intelligence Report
SPM		Single Point Manager
SPMD		Saigon Municipal Police Directorate
SPOS		Strong Point Obstacle System
SPR		Supply Performance Report
Spt		Support
SPWAR		Special Warfare
Sq		Squadron
Sqdn		Squadron
Sq. Mi.		Square Mile
Sqn(s)		Squadron(s)
Sr		Senior
SRG		Systems Research Group
SROKA		Second Republic of Korea Army
SRY		Ship Repair Yard
SS		US Navy Submarine
SSB		Single Side Band
SSBN		Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine (nuclear powered)
SSD		Space Systems Division
SSESS		Soviet Space Event Support Ships
SSG		Special Support Group
SSO		Special Security Office
SSODIA		Special Security Office, Defense Intelligence Agency
SST		Safe Separate/Timing
STAG		Strategy and Tactics Analysis Group
STANAG		NATO Standardization Agreement
STAR		Selective Training and Retention Program
STARCOM		Strategic Army Communications System
STAT		Sea Bee Technical Assistance Team
STATE		Department of State
STOL		Short Take-off and Landing
STP		Standard Temperature and Pressure
Str		Strength
STRA		Supply & Training Mission
STRAC		Strategic Army Corps
STRICOM		Strike Command
STRIP		Standard Requisition and Issue Procedures
STS		Strategic Technical Service
SUA		Small Unit Action
Subj		Subject
SUBS		Submarines
Sup		Supply
Supp		Support
Supt		Support
SVN		South Vietnam
SWAD		Special Warfare Aviation Detachment
SWIM		Sea Warfare Interim Model
SWOG		Special Weapons Overflight Guide
SYNCOM		Synchronous Communication Satellite System

T
TA		Table of Allowances
TAAM		Transportation Army Aviation Maintenance
Tac		Tactical
TAC		Tactical Air Control, Tactical Air Command
TACAMO		Nickname for Airborne Very Low Frequency Radio Broadcasting
TACAN		Tactical Air Navigation
TACC		Tactical Air Control Center
TACP		Tactical Air Control Party
TACRON		Tactical Air Control Squadron
TACS		Tactical Air Control System
TADC		Tactical Air Directional Center
TAE		Tactical Aeromed Evacuation
TAF		Stores Ship (MSTS)
TAFDS		Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispersing System
TAK		Cargo Ship (MSTS)
TAKV		Cargo Ship and Aircraft Ferry (MSTS)
TAMIRAD		The Army's Tactical Missile Range Air Defense Program
TAMP		Thailand Ammunition Manufacturing Plant
TANGO		A Message Released by the Commander in Chief Pacific, while away from the Headquarters.
TANWERE		Tactical Nuclear Weapons Requirements
TAO		Tactical Air Observer
TAOG		Gasoline Tanker (MSTS)
TAOR		Tactical Area of Responsibility
TAP		Transport Ship (MSTS)
TAPS		Technical Aerial Positioning System
TAR		Tactical Aircraft Recovery
TAS		Troop Airlift Squadron
TASC		Tactical Air Support Center
TASS		Tactical Air Support Squadron
TAW		Troop Airlift Wing
TAX		Tactical Air Exercise
TBC		Taiwan Base Command
TBDL		To be Designated Later
TCMD		Transportation Control & Movement Document
TCS		Troop Carrier Squadron
TCTO		Time Compliance Technical Order
TCW		Troop Carrier Wing
TD		Table of Distribution
TDC		Taiwan Defense Command
TDI		Target Data Inventory
TDY		Temporary Duty
TE		Table of Equipment
TEA		Thai Exiles Association
TED		Troop Exercise Director
TELECON		Telecommunication Conference
TEMADD		Temporary Additional Duty
TERM		Temporary Equipment Recovery Mission
TEWS		Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
TFS		Tactical Fighter Squadron
TFW		Tactical Fighter Wing
TG		Task Group
Tgt		Target
TH		TIGER HOUND
THAI		Thailand
TI		Technical Information
TIF		Target Intelligence File
TIPI		Tactical Interpretation and Processing of Information
TIS		Target Information Sheet
TLRG		Target List Review Group
TMA		Traffic Management Agency
TMC		Transportation Materiel Command (US Army)
TMG		Tactical Missile Group
Tng		Training
Tnk		Tank
TNP		Thailand National Police
Tnsp		Transportation
TO		Technical Order; Table of Organization
TOA		Total Obligation Authority
TOC		Technical Order Compliance; Tactical Operations Center
TO& E		Table of Organization and Equipment
TOT		Telephone Organization of Thailand; Time on Target
TOW		Tube-Launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided Missile
TPI		Technical Proficiency Inspection
TPP		Thermal Power Plant
TQMG		The Quartermaster General
TR		Transportation Request
TRAC		Target Research Analysis Center
Trans		Transport
TRANS-PAC		A Commercial Trans-Pacific Cable
TRPCAR		Troop Carrier
TRPCAR(M)		Troop Carrier (Medium)
TRS		Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
TRTF		Tactical Reconnaissance Task Force
TRW		Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
TTI		Tactical Target Illustrations
TTMP		Tactical Target Materials Program
TTY		Teletype
TUC		Type Unit Code
TUCRs		Troop Unit Change Requests
Tv		Television
TW		Trail Watcher
TYCOM		Type Commander

U
UAL		Unit Allowance List
UDT		Underwater Demolition Team
UDU		Underwater Demolition Unit
UE		Unit Equipment Allowance
UFN		Until further notice
UHF		Ultra High Frequency
UIR		Urban Intelligence Reports
UK		United Kingdom
UMIPS		Uniform Material Issue Priority System
UN		United Nations
UNAAF		Unified Action Armed Forces
UNC		United Nations Command
UNCMAC		United Nations Command, Military Armistice Commission
UNESCO		United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNODIR		Unless Otherwise Directed
UNREP		Underway Replenishment
UNTEA		United Nations Temporary Executive Authority
UPIR		Unifile Photo Interpretation Report
UPS		Universal Polar Stereographic
UQC		Underwater Telephone
URG		Underway Replenishment Group
US		United States
USA		United States Army
USAB & VAPAC		US Army Broadcasting and Visual Activity Pacific
USADCJ		US Army Depot Command, Japan
USAEIGHT		Eighth United States Army
USAERDL		US Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratories
USAF		United States Air Force
USAFI		United States Armed Forces Institute
USAIRA		United States Air Attache
USAIRLO		United States Air Liaison Officer
USALCJ		US Army Logistics Center Japan
USAMC		United States Army Material Command
USAMICOM		US Army Missile Command
USAOSA		United States Army Overseas Supply Agency
USARHAW		United States Army Hawaii
USARJ		United States Army, Japan
USARMA		United States Army Attache
USARPAC		United States Army Pacific
USARV		United States Army, Vietnam
USARYIS		United States Army, Ryukyus Islands
USASA		United States Army Security Agency
USASCC		United States Army Strategic Communication Command
USASCV		US Army Support Command Vietnam
USASF		United States Army Special Forces
USASGV		United States Army Support Group Vietnam
USCINCSO		Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command
USCONARC		United States Continental Army Command
USDAO		United States Defense Attache Officer
USF		United States Forces
USFJ		United States Forces Japan
USFK		United States Forces Korea
USG		United States Government
USIA		United States Information Agency
USIB		US Intelligence Board
USIS		United States Information Service
USM		Underwater-Surface Missile
USMC		United States Marine Corps
USMCP		United States Military Construction Program
USMILADREP		United States Military Advisor's Representative
USMILADREPSMPO		United States Military Advisor's Representative, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Military Planning Office
USMSMI		United States Military Supply Mission, India
USN		United States Navy
USNAVSUPACT		United States Naval Supply Activity
USNS		US Naval Ship
USOM		United States Operations Mission
USS		United States Ship
USSF(P)		United States Special Forces (Provisional)
USSOUTHCOM		United States Southern Command
USSR		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USTDC		United States Forces, Taiwan Defense Command
USUN		United States United Nations Delegation
USW		Underseas Warfare
UTM		Universal Transverse Mercator
UTT		Utility Tactical Transport
UTWING		Utility Wing
UW		Unconventional Warfare

V
VACRS		Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen
VADM		Vice Admiral
VAMP		Vietnam Ammunition Procedures
VAP		Heavy Photographic Squadron
VAW		Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (USN)
VC		US Navy Composite Squadron; Viet Cong
VCC		Viet Cong Captured
VCS		Viet Cong Suspect
VCSS		Value Creation Study Society
VDC		Volunteer Defense Corps (Thailand)
VDS		Variable Depth Sonar
VFP		Light Photographic Squadron
VFR		Visual Flight Rule
VLF		Very Low Frequency
VM		Viet Minh
VMA(AW)		Marine Corps Attack Squadron (All Weather)
VMCJ		Marine Corps Composite Reconnaissance Squadron
VMFA		Marine Fighter/Attack Squadron
VMF(AW)		Marine Corps Fighter Squadron (All Weather)
VMGR		Marine Transport Refueling Squadron
VMO		Marine Corps Observation Squadron
VN		Vietnam
VNN		Republic of Vietnam Navy
VNQDD		Vietnamese Nationalist Party
VNRS		Vietnamese National Railway System
VNSF		Vietnamese Special Forces
VOA		Voice of America
VOCOM		Voice Communications
VP		US Navy Patrol Squadron
VP(L)		US Navy Patrol Squadron (Land)
VPRON		US Navy Patrol Squadron
VP(S)		US Navy Patrol Squadron (Sea based)
VQ		Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron
VR		Visual Recce
VRC		Fleet Tactical Support Squadron
V/STOL		Vertical/Short Take-off and Land
VUNC		Voice of the United Nations Command
VW		US Navy Airborne Early Warning Squadron

W
WAAPM		Wide Area Anti-Personnel Mine
WALLEYE		Television Guided Air to Surface Bomb
WAPG		High Endurance Coast Guard Cutter (Now Known as WHEC)
WAR		Warfare
WAVP		High Endurance Coast Guard Cutter (Now Known as WHEC)
WBLC		Waterborne Logistic Craft
WEA RCN		Weather Reconnaissance
WESTAF		Western Transport Air Force (Travis AFB)
WESTPAC		Western Pacific
WESTPACNORTH		Western Pacific North
WETWASH A		A Military Cable from the Philippines to Vietnam
Wg		Wing
WHO		World Health Organization
WIA		Wounded in Action
WID		Weekly Intelligence Digest
WIR		Weekly Intelligence Review
WO		Warrant Officer
WOC		Wing Operations Center
WPL		War Plan, Long Range
WPM		War Plan, Mid-Range
WPS		War Plan, Short Range; War Planning Slate
WRA		War Reserve Allowance
WRM		War Reserve Mobilization
WRS		Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
WSEG		Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
WSMTT		White Star Mobile Training Teams
WSRT		Weapons System Reliability Test
WTO		WESTPAC Transportation Office
WWMCCS		World Wide Military Command and Control System
Wx		Weather

Y
YAG		Miscellaneous Auxiliary (Service Craft)
YF		Covered Lighter (self-propelled)
YFD		Yard Floating Dry Dock
YP		Patrol Craft (Service Craft)
YRB		Submarine Repair and Berthing Barge
YTB		Large Harbor Tug
YTL		Small Harbor Tug
YW		Water Barge (self-propelled)

Z
ZI		Zone of Interior