GLOSSARY
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
**AA assembly area
ADA air defense artillery
APC armored personnel carrier
*APCAT armored personnel carrier anchoring tracks
ATGM antitank guided missile
AVLB armored-vehicle-launched bridge
BMNT beginning morning nautical twilight
*BMP (Threat fighting vehicle)
*BTR (Threat vehicle)
CAS close air support
CEOI communications-electronics operation instructions
COMSEC communications security
CP command post
**CS (a chemical agent)
CSS combat service support
*CVC combat vehicle crew
**CW chemical warfare
*DIVAD division air defense
DLIC detachment left in contact
ECCM electronic counter-countermeasures
**EDS equipment decontamination site
**EENT end evening nautical twilight
EMP electromagnetic pulse
FA field artillery
FAC forward air controller
FD fire direction
FDC fire direction center
FEBA forward edge of the battle area
*FFAR free flight aerial rockets
**FIST fire support team
FO forward observer
*FPF final protective fire
*FPL final protective line
*FRAGO fragmentary order
GSR ground surveillance radar
HE high explosive
HEAT high explosive antitank
*HEDP high explosive dual-purpose
IRP initial rally point
*ITV improved TOW vehicle
kmph kilometers per hour
LAW light antitank weapon
*LCE load-carrying equipment
LD line of departure
LZ landing zone
MANPADS man-portable air defense system
*METT-T mission, enemy, terrain, troops, and time
MI military intelligence
MIJI meaconing, intrusion, jamming, and interference
MOPP mission oriented protection posture
mph miles per hour
NBC nuclear, biological, and chemical
NCO noncommissioned officer
*NDL nuclear defense level
*OCOKA observation and fields of fire, cover and concealment, obstacles, key terrain, and avenues of approach
OP observation post
OPCON operational control
*OPFOR opposing force
OPORD operation order
OPSEC operations security
*ORP objective rally point
**PD point of departure
PDF principal direction of fire
**PDS personnel decontamination site
*PEWS platoon early warning system
PL phase line
PLD probable line of deployment
PLL prescribed load list
POL petroleum, oils and lubricants
PW prisoner of war
RATELO radiotelephone operator
REMS remote sensor system
RP release point
*RPG rocket-propelled grenade
*rpm revolutions per minute
R/S rifleman/sniper
*SAW squad automatic weapon
SIGSEC signal security
*SLUFAE surface-launched fuel air explosive
SOP standing operating procedure
SOSR suppression, obscuration, security and reduction
SP self-propelled
STANAG standardization agreement
STANO surveillance, target acquisition, and night observation
*STB standard tropical bleach
*STRIKWARN strike warning
*SUT small-unit transceiver
T&E traversing and elevating
TL team leader
TOE table(s) of organization and equipment
TOW tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (a missile)
*TP training practice
*TRP target reference point
USAF United States Air Force
*VT variable time (fuze)
WP white phosphorus
XO executive officer
*Not listed in current AR 310-50.
**Listed in current AR 310-50 but does not include this terminology
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