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Abbreviations and Acronyms

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

A

A/C/Y/W-135: the tetravalent vaccine

A2LA: American Association for Laboratory Accreditation

AAFMS: Army Aviation Fighter Management System

ABCA’s QSTAG: American, British, Canadian, and

Australian’s Quadripartite Standardization Agreement

AC: active component of the US Armed Forces

AC: alternating current

AC: hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid)

ACGIH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial

Hygienists

ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support

AFEB: Armed Forces Epidemiological Board

AFMIC: Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center

AGE: arterial gas embolism

AMAL: Authorized Medical Allowance List

AMS: acute mountain sickness

ANG: Air National Guard

AOR: area of responsibility

AR: Army regulation

ARCENT: US Army component, US Central Command

ARD: acute respiratory disease

ARNG: Army National Guard

ARS: acute radiation syndrome

ASD(HA): Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)

ASHRAE: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and

Air-Conditioning Engineers

ASMB: area support medical battalion

ASVAB: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

ata: atmosphere-absolute

ATC: Air Transportable Clinic

ATH: Air Transportable Hospital

B

BAL: British anti-Lewisite

BCG: bacille Calmette-Guerin

BI: battle injury

BMI: body mass index

BOD: biochemical oxygen demand

BOD5: biochemical oxygen demand measured after 5 days

BPG: benzathine penicillin G

BUMED: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

BW: biological warfare

BW: biological weapon

C

C and R: Construction and Repair

CA: civil affairs

CAM: Chemical Agent Monitor

CBI: China–Burma–India theater, World War II

CCP: critical control point

CDC: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CENTAF: US Air Force component, US Central Command

CENTCOM: US Central Command

CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CFR: case fatality rate

CFR: Code of Federal Regulations

CFU: colony-forming unit

CG: phosgene (carbonyl chloride)

CHCS II: Composite Health Care System II

CHO: carbohydrate

CHO-E: carbohydrate-electrolyte

CHPPM: Center for Health Promotion and Preventive

Medicine

CINC: Commander-in-Chief

CINCCENT: Commander in Chief, US Central Command

CIVD: cold-induced vasodilation

CK: cyanogen chloride

CN: Mace

CNS: central nervous system

CO: carbon monoxide

COA: course of action

COD: chemical oxygen demand

CONPLAN: concept plan

C-P: chloroquine plus primaquine

CPAP: continuous positive airway pressure

CPE: chemical protective ensemble

CS: Clinical Services

CSC: combat stress casualty

CSC: Combat Stress Control

CSR: Combat Stress Reaction

CW: chemical warfare

D

DACOWITS: Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the

Services

DALY: disability adjusted life years

DAN: Diver Alert Network

dapsone: 4,4’diaminodiphenylsulfone

DASD: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

dBP: decibel peak

DC: direct current

DCI: decompression illness

DCS: decompression sickness

DDT: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

DEET: N,N-diethyl-1,3-methylbenzamide

DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency

DMO: Diving Medical Officer

DMT: Diving Medical Technicians

DNBI: disease and nonbattle injury

DoD: Department of Defense

DODMERB: Department of Defense Medical Evaluation

Review Board

DOEHRS-HC: Defense Occupational and Environmental

Health Readiness System in Hearing Conservation

DP: displaced person

DPMIAC: Defense Pest Management Information Analysis

Center

DPRK: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea

E

EEE: eastern equine encephalitis

EFMP: Exceptional Family Member Program

EOD: explosive ordnance disposal

EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency

EPW: enemy prisoner of war

ER: emergency room

F

FAD: foreign animal disease

FDA: Federal Drug Administration

FDA: Food and Drug Administration

FDL: Forward Deployed Laboratory

FDME: Flying Duty Medical Examination

FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency

FID: Foreign Internal Defense
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FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

FORSCOM: US Forces Command

FRAGORD: fragmentary order

FRP: Federal Response Plan

FST: Field Sanitation Team

FST: Field Sanitation Team

fsw: feet of seawater

FTX: field training exercise

G

G1: Personnel

G3: Operations

G4: Logistics

GA: tabun

GB: sarin

G-CSF: granulocyte colony-stimulating factor

GD: soman

GF: no expansion, no common name

GI: gastrointestinal

GLOC: G force–induced loss of consciousness

GTMO: US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

H

HACCP: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point

HACE: high altitude cerebral edema

HAPE: high altitude pulmonary edema

HARH: high altitude retinal hemorrhage

HAZMIN: hazard minimization

HCA: humanitarian civic assistance

heliox: helium-oxygen mixture

HIV: human immunodeficiency virus

HMMWV: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle

HSO&R: Health Services Operations and Readiness

I

ICU/CCU: intensive care unit/cardiac care unit

IDA: Individual Dynamic Absorption

IDC: Independent Duty Corpsman

IMA: Individual Mobilization Augmentee

IND: investigational new drug

IRR: Individual Ready Reserve

IUD: intrauterine device

IV: intravenous

J

JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

JE: Japanese encephalitis

JTF: Joint Task Force

L

LD50: the dose that is lethal to 50% of those exposed

LIC: low-intensity conflict

LITE: low-intensity training and exercise

LRP II: Food Packet, Long Range Patrol II

M

MACV: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

MAST: military anti-shock trousers

MCA: Medical Civic Action

MCLG: maximum contaminant level goal

MCRD: Marine Corps Recruit Depot

MEDCAP: Medical Civic Action Program

MEDIC: Medical Environmental Disease Intelligence and

Countermeasures

MEDRETE: Medical Readiness Training Exercise

MEF: Marine Expeditionary Force

MEPCOM: US Military Entrance Processing Command

MEPS: Military Entrance Processing Stations

MEPSCAT: Military Enlistment Physical Strength Capacity

Test

MHS: Military Health System

MOPP: mission-oriented protective posture

MOS: Military Occupational Specialty

MOUT: military operations in urbanized terrain

MRC: major regional conflict

MRDA: Military Recommended Daily Requirement

MRE: Meal, Ready-to-Eat

MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet

MWD: military working dog

N

NAMRU: Naval Medical Research Unit

NAVCENT: US Navy component, US Central Command

NBC: nuclear, biological, and chemical

NCA: National Command Authority

NCO: noncommissioned officer

NDMS: National Disaster Medical System

NEISS: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System

NEPMU: US Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine

Unit

NER: Near East Relief

NFCI: nonfreezing cold injury

nitrox: nitrogen-oxygen mixture

NOE: nap-of-the-earth

NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NSC: Naval Safety Center

NSN: National Stock Number

NTU: nephalometric turbidity unit

O

OCONUS: outside the continental United States

OCP: oral contraceptive pill

OCS: Officer Candidate School

OOTW: operations other than war

OPLAN: operational plan

OPORD: operation order

OPSEC: operational security

OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

otempo: operational tempo

P

P: peak

PAG: protective action guide

2-PAM Cl: pralidoxime chloride

Pap: Papanicolaou

PEEP: positive end-expiratory pressure

PEL: permissible exposure limit

PFIB: perfluoroisobutylene

PH DART: Public Health Disaster Assistance Response Team

PHF: potentially hazardous food

PM: preventive medicine

PMO: Preventive Medicine Officer

PMT: Preventive Medicine Technician

PO2: partial pressure of oxygen

POIS: pulmonary over-inflation syndrome

PPM: personal protection measure

ProMED: Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases

PSRC: Presidential Selected Reserve call-up

PT: physical training

PTSD: posttraumatic stress disorder
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PULHES: physical capacity, upper extremities, lower

extremities, hearing, eyes, overall psychiatric impression

R

RC: reserve component of the US Armed Forces

RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RCW: Ration, Cold Weather

RDIC: Resuscitation Device, Individual, Chemical

ROWPU: Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit

RR: relative risk

RTC: Navy Recruit Training Command

RVF: Rift Valley fever

S

SARA Title III: Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization

Act Title III

sarin: GB; O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate

SASO: Security and Support Operations

SCAP: Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

scuba: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

SEAL: US Navy Sea, Air, and Land

SEB: staphylococcal enterotoxin B

SF: US Special Forces

SFG: Special Forces Group

SMS: Sleep Management System

SOF: Special Operations Forces

soman: GD

SPF: sun protection factor

SPRINT: Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention team

STANAG: standardization agreement

STD: sexually transmitted disease

T

tabun: GA

TAIHOD: Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database

TAML: Theater Area Medical Lab

TB: tuberculosis

TOC: total organic carbon

TSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act

U

USACHPPM: US Army Center for Health Promotion and

Preventive Medicine

USAFR: Air Force Reserve

USAFR: US Air Force Reserve

USAID: US Agency for International Development

USAMRICD: US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

USAMRIID: US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious

Diseases

USAR: US Army Reserve

USARV: US Army, Vietnam

USASOC: US Army Special Operations Command

USCGR: US Coast Guard Reserve

USDA: US Department of Agriculture

USEPA: US Environmental Protection Agency

USMCR: US Marine Corps Reserve

USNR: US Naval Reserve

USSOCOM: US Special Operations Command

UTI: urinary tract infection

V

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Vo2max: maximum oxygen consumption

VA: Department of Veterans Affairs

VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System

VECTOR: Soviet Institute of Microbiology and Virology, now

named Russian State Research Center of Virology and

Biotechnology

VEE: Venezuelan equine encephalitis

VX: no expansion, no common name

W

WBGT: Wet Bulb Globe Temperature

WEE: western equine encephalitis

WHO: World Health Organization

WNF: west Nile fever

WRAIR: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research