Army Terms

==A==
Abort: To terminate a mission for any reason other than enemy action. It may occur at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
AMF (L): Allied Mobile Force (Land Element)
AOR: Area of Responsibility, the assigned area to any given unit
APO: Army Post Office
APS: Auto Pointing System
ARC Light: Code name for B-52 Bomber strikes on the Cambodian/Vietnamese border. These operations shook the earth for 10 miles around the target area.
AWOL: Absent Without Leave
==B==
BCG: Birth Control Goggles (Heavy, black, plastic-framed glasses). Nearly indestructible and just as unflattering. 
Belay: To cease doing something, cancel what you were told to do.
BFT: Blue Force Tracker. A cool little gizmo that allows a BFT equipped vehicle to link up with a satellite and give the locations of friendly and enemy units, maps, and routes.
BMH: British Military Hospital
BOLO: pronounced ‚”bolo” 1. Be On the Look Out. Usually a list with descriptions of vehicles or personnel to be on the lookout for. 2. Slang for no good. Can be used as a noun when something goes wrong‚”That’s a bolo,” or a verb‚ “I bolo’d that task.”
Boo-Coo: Slang term derived from the French word beaucoup meaning "many or much". ("He made boo-coo bucks on that deployment.")
Bouncing Betty: Explosive that propels upward about four feet and then detonates
BK Amputee: Amputation below the knee
Boonies/bush: Infantry term for the field. Also, jungles or swampy areas far from the comforts of civilization
==C==
C3I: Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
Charlie Foxtrot: The alphanumeric of the letters C and F. A more polite way of saying Cluster Fuck.
Chopper: Helicopter (also "helo")
CIB: Combat Infantry Badge. Army award for being under fire in an enemy combat zone
Civvies: Civilian clothing
CIS: Communication Information Systems
Click: used when sighting-in a weapon, such as a rifle. On most weapons, one "click" equals one second of arc, or -- in other words, one inch of distance at one hundred yards. So, moving the site adjustments of the rifle "one click" will change the point of impact one inch for a target 100 yards away, two inches for a target 200 yards away, and so forth. The term comes from the clicking-sound made by the sight adjustment knobs as they are turned. Not to be confused with "klick". 
CO: Commanding Officer
Conex Box: Corrugated metal packing crate approximately six feet in length. Intended for shipping materials and equipment but often also used for living quarters or offices in deployed locations. 
CP: 1. Command Post 2. Check Point 
Crypto: encryption keys for the radio. Computer code that scrambles the signal to prevent unauthorized listening.
CV: Combat Vehicle
==D==
DAP: Deltoid axillary protection. Shoulder armor primarily issued to gunners following increased numbers of gunner shrapnel injuries to shoulders. DAP kits also included side armor made of Kevlar, with no plates.
Detail: A group of service members sent to do a job. 
Diddy Bopper: Walking carelessly
D.I.E.: Draft Induced Enlistment: slang term for guys who volunteered because they were about to be drafted
DMZ: Demilitarized Zone, dividing line between North and South Vietnam and also between North and South Korea
Dust-Off: Medical Evacuation by helicopter
==E==
ECM: Electronic Counter Measure
EDP: Emergency Defense Plan
EME: Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 
EMP: Electromagnetic Pulse OR Electrio-magic pulse (for after part 13) 
EOS: End of Obligated Service
ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival
ETS: End of Term of Service
Evac: Evacuate
==F==
FAC: Forward Air Controller
Fast Mover: slang term for fighter aircraft
Fire Base: Temporary artillery encampment used for fire support of forward ground operations
Firefight: exchange of small arms fire with the enemy
FOB: Forward Operating Base. Usually just known as fob. Most times followed by a name, i.e. FOB Warrior. Where troops primarily stay. Also populated by fobbers, fobbits, and fobgoblins (derogatory terms for personnel deployed to a FOB who work on the FOB and never leave the wire, unlike combat troops).
FOV: Field of view
Frag: Fragmentation grenade
FWMAF: Free World Military Assistance Forces
==G==
GI: Government Issue items or equipment. Slang term for American soldier. 
Green: new to the military or the unit, naïve, gullible, not very knowledgeable (also "greenie")
Grunt: Infantry Soldier
Gung ho: Enthusiastic
==H==
Helo: slang for helicopter (also "chopper"). 
HQ: Headquarters
==I==
IO: Intelligence Officer
IED: Improvised Explosive Device. According to wikipedia , "[a]n improvised explosive device (IED) is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism. Roadside bombs are a common use of IEDs."
==J==
just yet, there's nothing.
==K==
K-bar: Combat knife (brand name "Ka-Bar")
KAF: Kandahar Airfield. It is the main base of operations for the southern part of Afghanistan. The main transportation hub for both helos and fixed-wing aircraft; also for convoys of ground vehicles going in and out.
KIA: Killed in Action
Klick: a distance of 1000 meters (one kilometer, or .62 miles). So, if a soldier radios, "We're 10 klicks south of your position," that means they are 10 kilometers away, or 6.2 miles away.
KP: Kitchen Police, mess hall duty
==L==
Lay Chilly: to freeze and stop all motion, lie motionless
Lifer: Career soldier
Lock and Load: to chamber a round in your weapon
==M==
Mad Minute: Concentrated fire of all weapons for a brief period of time at maximum rate
Mags: Magazines, where ammunition is stored until placed in a weapon
MASH: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
Mech: mechanized
Medevac: Medical evacuation by helicopter
Met Message: Weather condition report sent from a meteorological unit
MIA: Missing in Action
Mike: Minute, as in, "move out in two-zero mikes" (20 minutes)
MOS: Military Occupational Specialty, the job designator or job title
MRE: Meal Ready to Eat. Alternately known as meal refused by everyone, meal refusing to exit, meal mysteries, and the 3 lies; they aren’t meals, they aren’t ready, and they certainly aren’t edible.
==N==
NCO: Non-Commissioned Officer
Newbie: Any person in the unit with the least amount of time in war
No Sweat: Can do easily done or accomplished
NMZ: No Man's Zone (features heavily in Avalon)
NTR: Nothing To Report (also "NSTR", Nothing Significant To Report)
==O==
OSS: Office of Strategic Services, created in 1942, the OSS was an intelligence-gathering operation and a forerunner to the CIA
PFC: Private First Class
==P==
POV: Point of view
POW: Prisoner of War
PSD: Personal Security Detail. Often private security contractors, but sometimes active duty military members in civilian clothes. Assigned to protect specific high-ranking personnel like base commanders. 
PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress disorder
PX: Post Exchange, place where soldiers shop on base. Also "BX" for Base Exchange. 
==Q==
quite certainly empty
==R==
RAF: Royal Air Force
R&D: Research and Development
R&R: Rest and Recuperation; vacation leave specifically for taking a break from a combat zone
RTM: Ready to Move
Rucksack: backpack issued to infantry. Often shortened to "ruck". 
==S==
Same-same: same as
Sky pilot: another name for the chaplain
Search and Destroy: Offensive operations designed to find and destroy enemy forces: also called "zippo missions"
Shake n' Bake: Officer straight out of OCS (Officer Candidate School) without any combat experience
Short-timer: Individual with little time remaining in active duty
Starlight: Night vision telescope 
Stay on my six: 
Stop-loss: the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of obligated service (EOS).
Swag: Scientific Wild-Ass Guess (cf. Gwaine in Pendragon Red). Slightly more logical than a standard WAG. 
==T==
terribly empty as of yet
==U==
UAV: unmanned aerial vehicle (cf. mechadragon)
==V==
VRK: Very Restricted Knowledge
==W==
WMD: Weapon of Mass Destruction
==X==
can't think of a word, that starts with an X -.-
x-tremely empty?
==Y==
yay, it's empty.
==Z==
Zulu Time: Greenwich Mean Time