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Brevity & Acronyms Flashcards

1
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BDL

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Bed down location

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Nadir

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Sensor line of sight is approaching 90°, sensor can vibrate and spin uncontrollably

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Cherry/Ice

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Condition of a helo LZ regarding enemy threats to helos and friendly forces
ICE is good, CHERRY is bad
Specific definitions are set by intel - ask during your brief

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Visual

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Can see friendly forces or position, visually or with a sensor

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Blind

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Opposite of visual

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Tally

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Can see target/enemy forces or position visually or with a sensor

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No joy

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Opposite of tally

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Contact

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Can see specific ground reference point, visually or with a sensor

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Looking

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Attempting to acquire specific ground reference point, visually or with a sensor

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Idle

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Not moving - vehicle

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Static

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Not moving - not vehicle

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Dynamic

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Moving

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Moto

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Motorcycle

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Status

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Request for info about an entity

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Pax

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Person/people

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Technical

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A truck with weaponry mounted in the bed

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Observed

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Not the definitive truth, it’s what I saw (like observed slant)

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Unknown

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Use instead of “I don’t know”

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Unable

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Cannot give you the requested info or perform the requested task

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20
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PID

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Positive identification

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21
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IVO

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In the vicinity of

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Internal

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Inside a building or vehicle

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External

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Outside a building or vehicle

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Interacting

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Used when you can’t tell the specific interactions between pax

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Obscured

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Point or person of interest is blocked from view

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Correction

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Used to fix inaccurate information

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Posit

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Short for position, “say posit” is a shorthand request for position

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Meld

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Bring both sensors to the same location when separated (meld sensor 2 to sensor 1)

29
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ADM

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Adult male

30
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Feather

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Female

31
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Charger

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Child

32
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Slant

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Used to describe number and gender of pax in a given area (Slant 3/2/2 = 3 men, 2 women, 2 children)

33
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Bongo

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Flat faced truck common in the middle east

34
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Hollow

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Not seeing another platform’s video feed

35
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Handshake

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Can see another platform’s video feed

36
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Hook

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Cue sensor to a specified Link 16 track

36
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Lowdown

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Similar to SITREP in that it describes information that the ground team would want, but without a defined format like TTFACOR. Emphasis placed on (potential) threats to ground players.

37
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SITREP

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Situation report, description of activity in a given area for the assault force

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Stare

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Directive to look for specific laser code with laser spot tracker (fighters/bombers/helos)

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Track(ing)

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Follow(ing) moving pax or vehicle with sensor

40
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Atmospherics

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Description of activity and physical environment that cannot be seen on imagery

41
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Clean/Foul

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Condition of a helicopter landing zone regarding terrain and obstacles

42
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BENT

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System indicated is inop. Canx’d by SWEET

43
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SICK

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System indicated is degraded or partially inop. Canx’d by SWEET

44
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SOUR

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wrt links: Potential problems with net entry, initiates pre-mission link troubleshooting
(ex. TIMBER SOUR indicates Link 16 issues)

45
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TIMBER

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Link 16 network

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SWEET

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wrt links: confirms receipt of data link information, or that an indicated system is functioning correctly

47
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SPARKLE

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Mark or marking target by IR pointer

48
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GOALIE

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A back-up guidance capable platform appointed to guide a weapon to the target if the primary platform’s guidance system fails after weapons release

49
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SPOT

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Acquisition of laser designation

50
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CEASE LASER

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Discontinue lasing

51
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DEADEYE

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Laser target marker inop

52
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NEGATIVE LASER

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Laser energy has not been acquired

53
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LASING

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The speaker is firing the laser

54
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PUC (pronounced “puck”)

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Person Under Custody

55
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ORP

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Objective Rally Point
The last point where a HAF/GAF team will rally before acting on the target

56
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SPARKLE ON

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Response to a request to sparkle indicating you’re sparkling the/a target

57
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GFC

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Ground Forces Commander

58
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LCC

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Last Cover/Concealment
The last spot at which the HAF/GAF team doesn’t have line of sight to the target, often coincident with the ORP
(Cover and concealment are technically different, but that’s not the point here)

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CAPTURED

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Like contact, but for PAX/VICs

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61
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PADLOCKED

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Aircrew cannot take eyes off an aircraft, ground target, or surface position without risk of losing TALLY or VISUAL

62
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GRG

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Ground Reference Grid, the reference system in micro/macro charts

63
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BPT

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Be Prepared To
(often in the context of COF contracts)

64
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COF (pronounced “cough”)

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Concept of Fires

65
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CEASE SPARKLE

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Command to stop sparkling a target. Expect this from rotary wing crews approaching an LZ

66
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ROZ

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Restricted Operating Zone
(I think… I need to double check on this one)

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