AAA: Anti-Aircraft Artillery. Commonly known as (Triple A)
AAM: Air-to-air-missile.
ACT: Air Combat Tactics
Aileron Roll: A rolling manuever along the longitudinal axis of an aircraft induced by the aileron controls on the trailing edge of
the wing. Also known as Victory Roll.
AIM: The designation for U.S air-to-air missile. ex. AIM-9
AMRAAM: Advance Medium Range Air-to-air-missile.
ATA: Actual Time of Arrival.
ATC: Air Traffic Control.
Baader-Meinhof: also known as Red Army Faction (RAF); operations are primarily in the Federal Republic of Germany.
BDA: Bomb Damage Assessment.
Balaclava: a knitted hood commonly used by CT operators to conceal facial features.
BANDIT: A hostile aircraft.
Black: synonym for any covert or cladestine activity.
BOGIE: An unidentified aircraft.
CAP: Combat Air Patrol. A protective umbrella of fighters.
C-4: white plastic explosive. It is so stable you can ignite itand nothing bad will happen. Just don't stamp on it to put
the fire out.
CINC: Commander-IN-Chief.
DEFCON: Defense Condition.
di-di-mau: (Vietnamese) get outta here.
DOD: Department of Defense.
Draeger: German-manufactured oxygen rebreather unit (it produces neither bubbles nor sound and is therefore perfect for
clandestine SEAL insertions).
E-4: the military designation for 747.
Ekernforde: home of the german Frogman.
EOD: Explosive Ordinance Disposal.
ERA: Equal Rights Amendment.
FEBA: Forward Edge of the Battle Area, i.e., the front, the battle field.
Feet Wet: Flying over water.
Flogger: NATO code name for the soviet-built Mikoyan MiG-23 fighter.
Fox One: Brevity code for a radar-guided air-to-air missile.
Fox Two: Brevity code for an infared-guided air-to-air missile.
Fox Three: Brevity code for an aircraft's cannon.
frags: Fragmentation Grenades.
Frag Order: The operations order that sends aircraft into combat.
FUBAR: ****ed Up Beyond All Repair.
GCI: Ground Control Intercept.
GIGN: Gendarmerie Nationale (Groupement d' Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale). french counterterror unit.
GIS: Italian carabinieri CT unit (Groupe Intervention Speciale). Known as grappa drinkers.
GSG-9: Grenzchutzgruppe-9, West Germany CT unit.
HAHO: High Altitude, High Opening (parachute dive).
HALO: High Altitude, Low Opening (parachute dive).
HUMINT: Human Intelligence, gathered by an agent or agents.
hush-puppy: silencer (suppresor) for a weapon.
IED: Improvised Explosive Device.
IFF: Identification, Friend or Foe: a radar transponder used for aircraft identification by ground-based radars.
IP: Initial Point.
Jink: Continuous random changes in altitude and heading to defeat tracking by an enemy.
JSOC: Joint Special Operations Command.
KIA: Killed in Action.
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Langley: CIA Headquarters.
LOX: Liquid Oxygen.
LSD: Landing Ship/Dock (amphibious ship).
LRRP: Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol
LZ: Landing Zone.
MAC: Military Air Command.
Maverick: An electro-optical guided anti-tank rocket.
MC: Mission Capable.
Nose Gunner: Nickname for the pilot in two-place fighter aircraft.
Pitter: Nickname for a Weapon System Officer.
plink: discriminating single shot, usually a kill shot to the head.
Puzzle Palace: The Pentagon.
Quantico: home of FBI Academy amd base of their Hostage Rescue Team (HRT).
recon: reconnaissance.
Red Flag: A recurring exercise at Nellis AFB, outside Las Vegas, Nevada, that tries to create a battlefield environment, Simulating combat. Used for training aircrews in the disorientation and sensory overload of combat. TOP GUN for US Navy Pilots. RED FLAG for US Air Force.
RHAW: Radar Homing And Warning: Equipment that warns aircrews about radar threats.
RPG: Rocket-Propelled grenade.
RTB: Return To Base.
SAM: Surface-to-air-missile.
SAS: British Special Air Service.
SATCOM: SAtellite COMmunications.
SITREP: SITuation REPort.
SFOD-D: Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force).
SNAFU: Situation Normal All ****ed Up.
SOSUS: Underwater listening-device network deployed to detect hostile submarines.
TARFU: Things Are Really ****ed UP.
TOT: Time Over Target.
USS: United States Ship.
Weapons Tight: A term, ordering weapons to only engage targets positively identified as hostile.
WIA: Wounded In Action.
Wizzo: Slang fro WSO (Weapons Systems Officer).
WP's: (Willy-peters) White Phosphorous grenad4es.
Zulu: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) designator, used in all formal military communications.