Important Acronyms

2IC Second in Charge (Primarily British and Aussie)

AAR After Action Review/Report
ACE Memory aid: Ammo, Casualties, Equipment
ACF Anti Coalition Forces (replaced by AIF)
ACOG Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
ADCON Administrative Control
AI Area of Interest
AIF Anti Iraqi Forces
AMEMB American Embassy
ANFO Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil
AOC Air Operational Center
APOD Aerial Port of Debarkation
APOE Aerial Port of Embarkation
AQ Al Qaeda
ARSOF Army Special Operations Forces
ASP Ammunition Supply Point
ASR Alternate Supply Route
BBIED Boat Borne Improvised Explosive Device
BCOC Base Cluster Operations Center
BCT Brigade Combat Team
BDA Battle Damage Assessment
BDOC Base Defense Operations Center
BSZ Base Security Zone
C2 Command and Control
C3 Command, Control and Communication
C4 Command, Control, Communication and Computers
CA Civil Affairs
CAOC Combined/Coalition Air Operations Center
CAS Close Air Support
CASEVAC Casualty Evacuation
CBT Combating Terrorism
CCD Camouflage, cover and deception
CCO Close Combat Optics
CEA Capture Enemy Ammunition
CFACC Coalition Force Air Component Commander
CFLCC Coalition Force Land Component Commander
CICA Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority
CICA-K Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority Kuwait
CID Criminal Investigations Division/Department
CISO Counterintelligence Staff Officer
CITF Criminal Investigations Task Force
CLS Combat Life Saver
CMO Civil-Military Operations
COA Course of Action
COB Civilians on the Battlefield
COIN Counterinsurgency Operations
COLT Crisis Operations Liaison Team
COTS Commercial Off the Shelf
CP Command Post
CP Counter-Proliferation
CPA Coalition Provisional Authority
CQB Close Quarters Battle
CQM Close Quarters Marksmanship
CSAR Combat Search and Rescue
CT Counterterrorism
CTO Counterthreat Operations (AFOSI's piece of IBD)
DA Direct Action, Department of the Army
DAO Defense Attache Office
DAT(T) Defense Attache (office)
DCFACC Deputy CFACC
DCFLCC Deputy CFLCC
DF Direct Fire
DFC Defense Force Commander
DT Defensive Tactics
DZ Drop Zone
E&E Escape and Evasion
E&R Evasion and Recovery
EIJ Egyptian Islamic Jihad
ERP Enroute Rally Point
FARP Forward Area Resupply Point
FEBA Forward Edge of the Battle Area
FFL Forward Friendly Lines
FID Foreign Internal Defense
FLIR Forward Looking Infra Red
FOB Forward Operating Base
FPASS Force Protection Aerial Surveillance System (used by USAF SF)
FPF Final Protective Fire
FPL Final Protective Line
FRAGO Fragmentary Order
FTCP Flash Traffic Control Point
HA Humanitarian Assistance, Handling Agent
HET Humint/Human Exploitation Team (USMC Tactical Humint)
HMMWV Highly-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle
HQ Head Quarters
HVI High Value Individual
HVT High Value Target
IBD Integrated Base Defense
IC In Charge (Primarily British and Aussie)
IED Improvised Explosive Device
IPB Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace
IR Infrared
IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (Iran)
IRGC-QF(KF) Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp Quds Force (IRGC SF)
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
ISRD Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Directorate
JCISE Joint Counterintelligence Support Element (USCENTCOM Fwrd)
JFC Joint Forces Commander
JOC Joint Operations Center
JRAC JISE Joint Rear Area Coordinator Joint Intelligence Support Element
(replaced by JCISE)
JSOTF Joint Special Operations Task Force
JSRC Joint Search and Rescue Center
JTCB Joint Targeting Selection Board
JTSG Joint Targeting Coordination Board
LACE Memory aid: Liquid, Ammo, Causalities, Equipment
LBE Load Bearing Equipment
LBV Load Bearing Vest
LEGAT Legal Attache
LOC Lines of Communication
LOG Logistics
LP Listening Post
LSA Logistical Support Area
LZ Landing Zone
M1116 UP Armored HMMWV
MANPADS Man Portable Air Defense System
MEDEVAC Medical Evacuation
METT-TC Memory aid: Mission, Enemy, Terrain and Weather, Troops and
Support Available, Time Available, Civil Considerations
MI Military Intelligence
MLE Military Liaison Element (USA SF)
MOB Main Operating Base
MOD Ministry of Defense
MOI Ministry of Interior
MOIS Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Iran)
MOOTW Military Operations Other Than War
MOUT Military Operations on Urban Terrain
MSO Military Source Operations
MSR Main Supply Route
NA Northern Alliance
NAI Named Area of Interest
NAVSOC Naval Special Warfare Special Operations Component
NGO Non Governmental Organization
NVD Night Vision Device(s)
NVG Night Vision Goggle(s)
OA Objective Area
OCOKA Memory aid: Observation, Cover and Concealment, Obstacles
Key Terrain, Avenues of Approach
ODA Operational Detachment Alpha (USA SF)
ODB Operational Detachment Bravo (USA SF)
OGA Other Government Agency
OP Observation Post
OPCON Operational Control
OPORD Operations Order
ORP Objective Rally Point
OUSA Other United States Agency
OVM Operators Vehicle Maintenance
PATORD Patrol Order
PB Patrol Base
PCC Pre Combat Checks
PCI Pre Combat Inspection
PCM Pre Combat Maintenance
PIR Priority Intelligence Requirement
PLGR Precision Lightweight Global positioning System Receiver
PM Periodic Maintenance
PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks and Service
PMI Periodic Maintenance and Inspection
PO Psychological Operations
POI Point of Impact
POL/MIL Political Military Affairs (office in AMEMB)
POO Point of Origin
PSC Private Security Company
PSYOP Psychological Operations
QR-1 Predator UAV
QR-4 Global Hawk UAV
RAOC Rear Area Operations Center
RFI Request for Information
RIP Relief in Place
ROE Rules of Engagement
RP Rally Point
RSO Regional Security Officer
S-2 Intelligence Staff Officer
S-3 Operations Staff Officer
S-4 Logistics Staff Officer
SALUTE Memory aid: Size, Activity, Location, Unit/Uniform, Time,
Equipment
SAM Surface to Air Missile
SAR Search and Rescue
SAS Special Air Service (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand SF)
SBS Special Boat Squadron (United Kingdom and US)
SCID Strategic Counterintelligence Detachment/Directorate
SCID-A Strategic Counterintelligence Detachment/Directorate Afghanistan
SEAL Sea Air and Land (USN)
SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
SF Special Forces (USA), Security Forces (USAF), Screening Force
SFG Special Forces Group (USA)
SIR Suspicious Incident Report
SITREP Situation Report
SOA Special Operations Aviation
SOAR Special Operations Aviation Regiment
SOCC Special Operations Component Commander
SOCCE Special Operations Command and Control Element (replaced
with MLE)
SOF Special Operations Forces
SOLE Special Operations Liaison Element
SOP Standard/Standing Operating Procedure
SPAD Special Advisor
SPOT USCENTCOM term for Imminent Threat TIR
SR Strategic Reconnaissance
TACON Tactical Control
TACSOP Tactical Standard/Standing Operating Procedure
TAOR Tactical Area of Responsibility
TASS Tactical Alarm Sensor System
TCCC Tactical Combat Casualty Care
TCICA Theater Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority
TCP Traffic Control Point
TFCICA Task Force Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority
THT Tactical Humint Team (USA Tactical Humint, usually MI)
TIC Troops in Contact
TIP Target Intelligence Package
TIR Tactical Intelligence Report
TOC Tactical Operations Center
TPT Tactical Psychological Operations Team
TRP Target Reference Point
TTP Tactics Techniques and Procedures
USA United States Army
USDR United States Defense Representative
UW Unconventional Warfare
VBIED Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device