Military

GLOSSARY

AC- - Active Component

ANCOC- - advanced noncommissioned officer course

AN/PVS- - Army Navy passive vision sight

ARTEP- - Army Training and Evaluation Program

backblast- - The backward blast created by igniting the propellant in a weapon designed to be as recoilless as possible.

blast- - An explosive or violent detonation that produces a direct effect on its target in addition to radiant heat and overpressure at its point of origin.

BMP- - a type of non-US fighting vehicle built by the former Soviet Union

BNCOC- - basic noncommissioned officer course

BRDM - - a type of non-US scout car built by the former Soviet Union

BTR- - a type of non-US personnel carrier built by the former Soviet Union

C- - Centigrade

CS- - combat support

CSS- - combat service support

DA- - Department of the Army

DKIE- - decontamination kit individual equipment

DOD- - Department of Defense

DS- - direct support

F- - Fahrenheit

FHT- - field handling trainer

fps- - feet per second

FTX- - field training exercise

HE- - high-explosive

HEAT- - high-explosive antitank

HELLFIRE- - heliborne laser fire and forget (a missile system)

IAW- - in accordance with

IET- - initial entry training

kmph- - kilometers per hour P> LAW- - light antitank weapon

METL- - mission-essential task list

MILES- - Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System

mm- - millimeter(s)

MMTT- - manned moving target tank

MOPP- - mission-oriented protective posture

MOUT- - military operations on urbanized terrain

mph- - miles per hour

mps- - meters per second

MTP- - mission training plan

NA- - not applicable

NATO- - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NBC- - nuclear, biological, chemical

NCO- - noncommissioned officer

NSN- - national stock number

NVD- - night vision device

OIC- - officer in charge

overpressure- - increased atmospheric pressure (positive overpressure), followed by a wave of decreased atmospheric pressure (negative overpressure), produced around the origin of an explosive or violent detonation

PLDC- - primary leadership development course

POI- - program of instruction

promethium- - a radioactive metallic element of the rare- -earth group used to illuminate range markings on the front sight of the M72-series LAW

RC- - Reserve Component

RPG- - A non-US rocket-propelled grenade

STX- - situational training exercise

SMCT- - soldier's manual of common tasks

SOP- - standing operating procedure

spall- - small fragment or chip

STP- - soldier training publication

STRAC- - standards in training commission

TOC- - tactical operations center

TP- - training-practice

TRADOC- - (US Army) Training and Doctrine Command

trc- - track (as used in STRAC manual)

TRP- - target reference point

TSC- - training support center