| ABCS |
Army Battle Command System |
| AC-RC |
Active Component-Reserve Component |
| ACCA |
Army Court of Criminal Appeals |
| ACO |
Area Claims Office |
| ACOM |
Atlantic Command (ACOM will be redesignated USJFCOM on or about 1 Oct 99) |
| ACSA |
Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement |
| ACU |
Area Common User |
| ADCON |
Administrative Control |
| ADDS |
Army Data Distribution System |
| AGCCS |
Army Global Command and Control System |
| ADC-M |
Assistant Division Commander-Maneuver |
| ADC-S |
Assistant Division Commander-Support |
| AJAG |
Assistant Judge Advocate General |
| AJAG/CLL |
Assistant Judge Advocate General for Civil Law and Litigation |
| AJAG/MLO |
Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law and Operations |
| AJAG/OPNS |
Assistant Judge Advocate General for Operations, a United States Army Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee |
| ALCOM |
Alaskan Command |
| ALOC |
Administrative/Logistics Operations Center |
| ALLS |
Army Law Library Service |
| AMOPES |
Army Mobilization Planning and Execution System |
| AMOPS |
Army Mobilization and Operations Planning System |
| ANGLICO |
Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company |
| AO |
Area of Operations |
| AOA |
Areas of Assistance |
| AOC |
Areas of Conflict |
| AOE |
Army of Excellence |
| AR |
Army Regulation |
| ARFOR |
Army Forces |
| ARNG |
Army National Guard |
| ARNG Spec Asst |
The Army National Guard Special Assistant to The Judge Advocate General |
| ASCC |
Army Service Component Commander |
| ASG |
Area Support Group |
| ASI |
Additional Skill Identifier |
| Assault CP |
Assault Command Post, a TAC CP in a rapidly deployed division |
| ATCCS |
Army Tactical Command and Control System |
| BCT |
Brigade Combat Team |
| BCTP |
Battle Command Training Program |
| BDCSTS |
Broadcast System |
| BDE |
Brigade |
| BN |
Battalion |
| BOLT |
Brigade Operational Law Team |
| BUB |
Battle Update Brief |
| C2 |
Command and Control |
| C2I |
Command, Control, and Information |
| CA |
Civil Affairs |
| CAAF |
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces |
| CENTCOM |
Central Command |
| CCIR |
Commanders' Critical Information Requirements |
| CD |
Compact Disc; Counter Drug |
| CDD |
Combat Developments Division, TJAGSA |
| CDP |
Combat Decision-Making Process |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc, Read-Only Memory |
| CIMIC |
Civil-Military Information Center |
| CINC |
Commander in Chief |
| CJA |
Command Judge Advocate |
| CJCS |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| CJCSI |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction |
| CJCS SROE |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Standing Rules of Engagement |
| CLAMO |
Center for Law and Military Operations |
| CLE |
Continuing Legal Education |
| CLEA |
Civilian Law Enforcement Agency |
| CLNCO |
Chief Legal Noncommissioned Officer |
| CMO |
Civil-Military Operations |
| CMOC |
Civil-Military Operations Center |
| CNR |
Combat Net Radios |
| COA |
Course of Action |
| COCOM |
Combatant Command |
| COL |
Colonel |
| COMMZ |
Communications Zone |
| CONUS |
Continental United States |
| CONUSA |
Continental United States Army |
| COSCOM |
Corps Support Command |
| COTS |
Commercial-off-the-shelf |
| CP |
Command Post |
| CPO |
Claims Processing Office; Civilian Personnel Office |
| CPT |
Captain |
| CTC |
Combat Training Center |
| CTT |
Common Task Training |
| CZ |
Combat Zone |
| DAD |
Defense Appellate Division |
| D-D-D-A |
Decide-Detect-Deliver-Assess |
| DEP'T |
Department |
| DFSCORD |
Deputy Fire Support Coordinator |
| DIRLAUTH |
Direct Liaison Authorized |
| DISCOM |
Division Support Command |
| DIVARTY |
Division Artillery |
| DOCC |
Deep Operations Coordination Cell |
| DoD |
Department of Defense |
| DoD Dir. |
Department of Defense Directive |
| DoJ |
Department of Justice |
| DOMS |
Director of Military Support |
| DOS |
Department of State |
| DSJA |
Deputy Staff Judge Advocate |
| DTAC |
Division TAC CP |
| DTLOMS |
Doctrine, training, leadership, organization, materiel, and soldiers |
| EEM |
Early Entry Modules |
| ESF |
Emergency Support Functions |
| EPW |
Enemy Prisoner of War |
| EUCOM |
European Command |
| FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| FBCB2 |
Force XXI Battle Command-Brigade and Below System |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigations |
| FCA |
Foreign Claims Act |
| FCC |
Foreign Claims Commission |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FM |
Field Manual |
| FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
| FORSCOM |
Forces Command |
| Force XXI |
Force Twenty-One, the digitized Army |
| FRAGO |
Fragmentary Order |
| FSB |
Forward Support Battalion |
| FSCL |
Fire Support Coordination Cell |
| FSCORD |
Fire Support Coordinator |
| FSOP |
Field Standard Operating Procedures |
| G-1 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel |
| G-2 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence |
| G-3 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans |
| G-4 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics |
| G-5 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Civil Affairs |
| G-6 |
Corps and Division Assistant Chief of Staff, Information Management |
| GAD |
Government Appellate Division |
| GCM |
General Court-Martial |
| GCMCA |
General Court-Martial Convening Authority |
| GCSS-A |
Global Combat Support System-Army |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| HA |
Humanitarian Assistance |
| HCA |
Humanitarian and Civil Assistance |
| HMMWV |
High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle |
| IAW |
In Accordance With |
| ICRC |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IO |
International Organization; Information Operations; Investigating Officer |
| I-D-D-T |
Interpret-Draft-Disseminate-Train |
| IMA |
Individual Mobilization Augmentee |
| IMO |
Information Management Officer |
| IPB |
Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield |
| J-1 |
Manpower & Personnel Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| J-2 |
Intelligence Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| J-3 |
Operations Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| J-4 |
Logistics Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| J-5 |
Plans Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| J-6 |
Command, Control, Communications, Computer Systems Directorate of a Joint Staff |
| JA |
Judge Advocate |
| JAGC |
Judge Advocate General's Corps |
| JAGCNet |
Judge Advocate General's Corps Network (www.jagcnet.army.mil) |
| JAGSO |
Judge Advocate General Service Organization |
| JAWE |
Judge Advocate Warfighting Experiment |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JFACC |
Joint Forces Air Component Command |
| JFC |
Joint Force Commander |
| JFCOM |
Joint Forces Command (the successor organization to ACOM) |
| JFLCC |
Joint Forces Land Component Command |
| JFMCC |
Joint Forces Maritime Component Command |
| JFSOCC |
Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command |
| JIATF |
Joint Inter-Agency Task Force |
| JMC |
Joint Military Commission; Joint Movement Center |
| JOA |
Joint Operations Area |
| JOPES |
Joint Operations Planning and Execution System |
| JP |
Joint Publication |
| JRA |
Joint Rear Areas |
| JSCP |
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan |
| JSOTF |
Joint Special Operations Task Force |
| JTCB |
Joint Targeting Coordination Board |
| JTF |
Joint Task Force |
| JTTP |
Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures |
| JZ |
Joint Zones |
| LAAWS |
Legal Automated Army-Wide System |
| LDP |
Leadership Development Program |
| LOGCAP |
Logistics Civil Augmentation Program |
| LOW |
Law of War |
| LSO |
Legal Support Organization |
| LST |
Legal Support Team |
| LTC |
Lieutenant Colonel |
| MACDIS |
Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances |
| Main CP |
Main Command Post |
| MAJ |
Major |
| MCS |
Maneuver Control System |
| MCS-P |
Maneuver Control System - Phoenix |
| MDMP |
Military Decision Making Process |
| METL |
Mission Essential Task List |
| METT-TC |
Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain, Time Available, and Civilian Considerations |
| MNF |
Multinational Forces |
| MOB |
Mobilization |
| MOBTDA |
Mobilization Table of Distribution and Allowance |
| MOOTW |
Military Operations Other Than War |
| MOS |
Military Occupational Specialty |
| MPCA |
Military Personnel Claims Act |
| MRE |
Mission Rehearsal Exercise; Meals Ready to Eat |
| MSG |
Master Sergeant |
| MSO |
Mobilization Support Organization |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NBC |
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical |
| NCA |
National Command Authorities |
| NCO |
Noncommissioned Officer |
| NCOIC |
Noncommissioned Officer in Charge |
| NG |
National Guard |
| NGO |
Non-governmental Organization |
| NGR |
National Guard Regulation |
| NMS |
National Military Strategy |
| NSS |
National Security Strategy |
| OC |
Observer-Controller |
| OCONUS |
Outside the Continental United States |
| OIC |
Officer in Charge |
| OOTW |
Operations Other Than War |
| OPCON |
Operational Control |
| OPLAN |
Operations Plan |
| OPLAW |
Operational Law |
| OPLAW JA |
Operational Law Judge Advocate |
| OPORD |
Operations Order |
| OSJA |
Office of the Staff Judge Advocate |
| OT |
Observer-Trainer |
| OTJAG |
Office of the Judge Advocate General |
| PACOM |
Pacific Command |
| PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (modem and network cards for notebook computers) |
| PDD |
Presidential Decision Document |
| PEO |
Peace Enforcement Operations |
| PFC |
Private First Class |
| PKO |
Peace Keeping Operations |
| PLEX |
Plans/Exercises Cell |
| PLP |
Premobilization Legal Preparation |
| PPTO |
Personnel, Plans, and Training Office |
| PROE |
Peacetime Rules of Engagement (superseded by the JCS SROE) |
| PSYOP |
Psychological Operations |
| PVO |
Private Voluntary Organization |
| R-A-M-P |
Learning device for ROE training. Return Fire with Aimed Fire-Anticipate Attack-Measure the Amount of Force-Protect with Deadly Force only Human Life and Property Designated by the Commander |
| RCM |
Rules for Courts-Martial |
| RDC |
Regional Defense Counsel |
| RDL |
Rucksack Deployable Law Office and Library |
| Rear CP |
Rear Command Post |
| ROE |
Rules of Engagement |
| RSC |
Regional Support Command |
| RSG |
Regional Support Group |
| RTDT |
Regional Trial Defense Team |
| S-1 |
Adjutant |
| S-2 |
Intelligence Officer |
| S-3 |
Training and Operations Officer |
| S-4 |
Supply Officer |
| S-5 |
Civil Affairs Officer |
| SA |
Secretary of the Army; Security Assistance |
| SECDEF |
Secretary of Defense |
| SFC |
Sergeant First Class |
| SGLI |
Soldiers' Group Life Insurance |
| SGT |
Sergeant |
| SIPRNET |
Secret Internet Protocol Router Network |
| SJA |
Staff Judge Advocate |
| SOCO |
Standards of Conduct Office |
| SOCOM |
Special Operations Command |
| SOI |
Signal Operation Instructions |
| SOF |
Special Operations Forces |
| SOFA |
Status of Forces Agreement |
| SOP |
Standard Operating Procedures |
| SOUTHCOM |
Southern Command |
| SPACECOM |
Space Command |
| SPC |
Specialist |
| SROE |
Standing Rules of Engagement |
| SRP |
Soldier Readiness Program Processing |
| SSCR |
Single-service Claims Responsibility |
| SSCRA |
Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act |
| SSG |
Staff Sergeant |
| SSORD |
Service Support Order |
| STANAG |
Standardization Agreement |
| STARC |
State Area Commands |
| STRATCOM |
Strategic Command |
| STX |
Situational Training Exercises |
| TAACOM |
Theater Army Area Command |
| TAC CP |
Tactical Command Post |
| TACC1 |
Tactical Command Post in a Digitized Division |
| TACON |
Tactical Control |
| TACSOP |
Tactical Standard Operating Procedures |
| TADSS |
Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations |
| TAJAG |
The Assistant Judge Advocate General |
| TDA |
Trial Defense Service |
| TDT |
Trial Defense Team |
| TOA |
Transfer of Authority |
| TOC |
Tactical Operations Center |
| TOE |
Table of Organization and Equipment |
| TOR |
Terms of Reference |
| TJAG |
The Judge Advocate General |
| TJAGSA |
The Judge Advocate General's School, Army |
| TRANSCOM |
Transportation Command |
| TSC |
Troop Support Command |
| TTP |
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures |
| UCMJ |
Uniform Code of Military Justice |
| UCO |
Unit Claims Officers |
| UCP |
Unified Command Plan |
| UN |
United Nations |
| USACAPOC |
United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command |
| USACCA |
United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals |
| USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
| USALSA |
United States Army Legal Services Agency |
| USAR |
United States Army Reserve |
| USARCS |
United States Army Claims Service |
| USASOC |
United States Army Special Operations Command |
| USATDS |
United States Army Trial Defense Service |
| USC |
United States Code |
| USCA |
United States Code, Annotated |
| USJFCOM |
United States Joint Forces Command (the successor organization to ACOM) |
| USFJ |
United States Force, Japan |
| USFK |
United States Forces, Korea |
| WARNO |
Warning Order |
| WMD |
Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| XO |
Executive Officer |
