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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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PID

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Positive identification

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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
Point or person of interest is blocked from view
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Correction
Used to fix inaccurate information
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Posit
Short for position, "say posit" is a shorthand request for position
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Meld
Bring both sensors to the same location when separated (meld sensor 2 to sensor 1)
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ADM
Adult male
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Feather
Female
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Charger
Child
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Slant
Used to describe number and gender of pax in a given area (Slant 3/2/2 = 3 men, 2 women, 2 children)
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Bongo
Flat faced truck common in the middle east
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Hollow
Not seeing another platform's video feed
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Handshake
Can see another platform's video feed
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Hook
Cue sensor to a specified Link 16 track
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Lowdown
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.
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SITREP
Situation report, description of activity in a given area for the assault force
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Stare
Directive to look for specific laser code with laser spot tracker (fighters/bombers/helos)
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Track(ing)
Follow(ing) moving pax or vehicle with sensor
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Atmospherics
Description of activity and physical environment that cannot be seen on imagery
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Clean/Foul
Condition of a helicopter landing zone regarding terrain and obstacles
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BENT
System indicated is inop. Canx'd by SWEET
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SICK
System indicated is degraded or partially inop. Canx'd by SWEET
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SOUR
wrt links: Potential problems with net entry, initiates pre-mission link troubleshooting (ex. TIMBER SOUR indicates Link 16 issues)
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TIMBER
Link 16 network
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SWEET
wrt links: confirms receipt of data link information, or that an indicated system is functioning correctly
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SPARKLE
Mark or marking target by IR pointer
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GOALIE
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
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SPOT
Acquisition of laser designation
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CEASE LASER
Discontinue lasing
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DEADEYE
Laser target marker inop
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NEGATIVE LASER
Laser energy has not been acquired
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LASING
The speaker is firing the laser
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PUC (pronounced "puck")
Person Under Custody
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ORP
Objective Rally Point The last point where a HAF/GAF team will rally before acting on the target
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SPARKLE ON
Response to a request to sparkle indicating you're sparkling the/a target
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GFC
Ground Forces Commander
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LCC
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
Like contact, but for PAX/VICs
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PADLOCKED
Aircrew cannot take eyes off an aircraft, ground target, or surface position without risk of losing TALLY or VISUAL
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GRG
Ground Reference Grid, the reference system in micro/macro charts
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BPT
Be Prepared To (often in the context of COF contracts)
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COF (pronounced "cough")
Concept of Fires
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CEASE SPARKLE
Command to stop sparkling a target. Expect this from rotary wing crews approaching an LZ
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ROZ
Restricted Operating Zone (I think... I need to double check on this one)

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