FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ February 14, 2005

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

~ MILITARY SHORT SPEAK ~

The military seems to have a language of its own, with many terms, Acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations that aren't generally used in the "civilian world."

What is an acronym? It is a word created from the first letter of a series of other words. It is spoken as one word.

What is an initialism? It is a word created from the first letter of a series of other words, but each letter is spoken separately.

What is an abbreviation? It is a shortened version of a word.

What is Short Speak? It is any and all of the above.

Want to know what they are talking about? Read on...

P, part 5

PBV post-boost vehicle

Peacekeeper PBV

PBW particle beam weapons aka Neutral Particle Beam weapons (NPB)

PBX private branch exchange

pC picocoulomb

PC politically correct - Don't even get me started on this one!

PCFSMFSOB NOT PC - A Vietnam War era expletive said quickly while angry or in pain - piss, cunt, fuck, shit, mother fucker, son of a bitch

PCA permanent change of assignment

PCESP Program Communication Electronic Support Program (AFCC)

PCF Patrol Craft - Fast

Take a Tour on board a Swift Boat, Vietnam, 1967

PCITF Positive Combat Identification Task Force

PCMC President's Commission on Military Compensation

OMG - Jimmuh did something good!? What am I missing here?

PCME pulse-code modulated event

PCOE port of entry

PCP

A special unit in Marine boot camp to which recruits who are unable to maintain minimal physical conditioning are sent. Their entire day is spent in physical conditioning and once they meet the standard they are placed back into training with a platoon which is at the point where they were taken out of regular training.

PCR peer code review

PCRTS primary casualty receiving and treatment ship

PCS Permanent change of station - leaving one unit to be assigned to another, it generally involves travel pay and household goods shipments and a total disruption of life

PCT photon-coupled transistor

PCTA plastic-cased telescoped ammunition

PCTIP Panama Canal Treaty Implementation Plan

PCV passenger carrying vehicle

PD Another confusing acronym - take your pick!

¹program directive, ²procurement directive, ³priority designator, ⁴public domain, ⁵partial discharges, ⁶peripheral device, ⁷pitch diameter, ⁸preliminary design, ⁹planned derating, ¹⁰positive displacement, ¹¹power distribution, ¹²priority directive, ¹³Presidential Directive, ¹⁴project documentation, ¹⁵projected decision date, ¹⁶planning directive, ¹⁷probability of damage, ¹⁸probability of destruction, ¹⁹probability of detection, ²⁰procedures description, ²¹program director [USAF], ²²pulse doppler (radar), ²³program document, ²⁴phase-change dual, ²⁵passive defense, ²⁶pictorial display, ²⁷potential difference, ²⁸product definition, ²⁹pre-digital, ³⁰probability of damage, ³¹project definition, ³²policy directive, ³³presidential determination, ³⁴product directorate, ³⁵production and deployment phase, ³⁶[FM 101-5-1] point of departure

PDF President's daily brief

Today's Field Trip: Whiteman AFB

If you have a suggestion for a Field Trip - maybe a place where YOU have been stationed and would like to re-visit -
PLEASE Freepmail it to starcmc!! Thanks!

To: mylife; Kathy in Alaska; stand watie; duckie; Colonel_Flagg; StarCMC; All

561 posted on 02/14/2005 5:59:36 PM PST by Soaring Feather

Hi! Will you be my Valentine? :)

562 posted on 02/14/2005 6:01:04 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)

To: Colonel_Flagg

Oh my Colonel, how nice of you to ask. Yes, I am honored to be so.

563 posted on 02/14/2005 6:03:10 PM PST by Soaring Feather

WooHoo...he remembered!
{{{Hugs}}}

564 posted on 02/14/2005 6:09:28 PM PST by AZamericonnie

To: Colonel_Flagg

565 posted on 02/14/2005 6:12:36 PM PST by Soaring Feather

To: AZamericonnie; StarCMC

Happy Valentine's Day, ladies!

566 posted on 02/14/2005 6:13:02 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)

Very nice! And wonderfully apropos! How are you tonight?

567 posted on 02/14/2005 6:14:40 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)

How can you possibly Humbug this one?

568 posted on 02/14/2005 6:15:13 PM PST by AZamericonnie

To: Colonel_Flagg

Thank You, Colonel.

I am well thank you and you? How are the children, well now I hope.

569 posted on 02/14/2005 6:17:05 PM PST by Soaring Feather

To: Colonel_Flagg

Happy Valentines to you Colonel & the Flagletts!

570 posted on 02/14/2005 6:20:48 PM PST by AZamericonnie

The Flagglets are doing better - Dad's a wreck, but the kids are good!

571 posted on 02/14/2005 6:22:44 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)

To: AZamericonnie

Awww ... thank you, Connie! Happy day to you too! The kids love valentines too!

572 posted on 02/14/2005 6:23:39 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)

Ok here's one you will like.

573 posted on 02/14/2005 6:30:12 PM PST by AZamericonnie

Water break: A lumberjack breaks the frozen surface of a small creek to water his horses near Sarajevo, Bosnia. Temperatures reached 13 below across the Balkans.

574 posted on 02/14/2005 6:31:26 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~In progress)

To: MoJo2001; StarCMC; All

575 posted on 02/14/2005 6:35:37 PM PST by GummyIII (Time for a tag line change....and I don't know if I have any clean!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Good evening Kathy! Time is going by fast!

576 posted on 02/14/2005 6:46:16 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)

The doggy in the window is not for sale in snowy Des Moines, Iowa. But he would like to go for a walk.

577 posted on 02/14/2005 7:05:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~In progress)

How's the job hunt going? You and mrs darkwing gonna take a vacation so you can practice not getting up so early? LOL! You have a lot of years of "early". Is it beach weather yet?

578 posted on 02/14/2005 7:07:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~In progress)

Southern comfort: A couch left by Mardi Gras revelers in Mobile, Ala., provides a cozy bed for Jackson Lee Hall. A city cleanup crew soon woke the homeless man.

579 posted on 02/14/2005 7:09:16 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~In progress)

To: Kathy in Alaska

You and mrs darkwing gonna take a vacation so you can practice not getting up so early?

You betcha!

Is it beach weather yet?

Not yet but it is getting there

580 posted on 02/14/2005 7:10:16 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)

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