FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ August 22, 2005

Deep throat | Canteen Crew

[StarCMC]

 

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~ MILITARY SHORT SPEAK ~

           

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...

R, part 3

RADCAL  radar calibration

 

RADCON  radar converter

RADEC  radiation detection capability

RADEM  random access delta modulation

RADEX  rapid deployment exercise

 

RADGUNS  radar directed gun system simulation

Simulation of target detection, tracking, and shooting performance of several specific antiaircraft artillery systems versus a passive aerial target.

 

RADHAZ  radiation hazard

 

RADIAC  radiation, detection, indication and computation

 AN/PDR-75 Radiac Set

 

RADIC  rapidly deployable integrated command and control system

 

RADIL  ROCC/AWACS digital information link

 AN/GSQ-235 RADIL

 

RADINT  radar intelligence

 

RADIST  radar distance indicator

RADLFO  radiological fallout

Hey Valin - is the sky falling?  Are we doomed??  Just wondering!

 

RADLO  radar liaison officer

 

RADLOPS  radiological operations

 

RADM rear admiral

RADOP  radar operator

 

RADOPWEAP  radar optical weapons

 

RAEN  Radio Amateur Emergency Network

 

RAF  Royal Air Force

A Harrier pilot makes a final check that a Paveway laser-guided bomb is correctly fitted.

HUBBA HUBBA!
THANK GOD FOR ALLIES LIKE THESE!!

RAF-T  reconnaissance attack fighter trainer

 

RAFTS  reconnaissance-attack-fighter training systems (USAF)

 

RAG  regimental artillery group (OPFOR)

 

RAGS  river assault groups

 Read about Life in a River Assault Group.

Today's Field Trip:
Military Families Voice of Victory  

 

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!

 

  

 

Please remember: the Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops.
As such we attempt to keep it MOSTLY apolitical. 
Thanks for playing and have a nice day!  LOL!!!
 

 

 

[HiJinx]

If it's too light---let the new owners deal with it!

Amen, Sister!

We had been in the mid- to upper-80s before she left, so it may have been just a touch warmer in DeKalb and Tyler. But humidity is always a gotchya.

I haven't seen any of this yet, just so you know, but she said that she bought three new blouses, a short-sleeve suit (that doesn't sound right, now, but...), a purse, and some shoes. She always goes visiting with a suitcase that is only half full, or an empty spare!

Time to head for home, see y'all later!

[luvie]

Sounds like my kinda gal! I either go with it half empty or pack an extra collapsible bag inside for goodies that I just can't resist! BTW--there is such a thing as a short-sleeved suit for women! :o) We're smarter than men about clothes being comfortable!

See ya when ya get home! (((hugs)))

[Lady Jag]

Don't be a hand-wringer, then. Be creative. Take a couple trumpet lessons, then go stand outside his place and play a fanfare. Get some friends involved.

[Lady Jag]

Who did that cool photoshop? Thanks, Jinx, never saw that one before. She'd make millions on one national TV ad selling Green Giant frozen fresh corn, you know.

[luvie]

Well, I live in Texas and he lives in Florida. By the time I rent the trumpet--guess I could use my French Horn, couldn't I?--round up the friends, buy the airplane ticket, drive from Orlando to Cocoa, and get everyone organized, it would be time for him to go BACK out to sea! LOL! Guess I'm just stuck with waiting him out! Pooh!

[Lady Jag]

[Kathy in Alaska]

I remember when Leeann Tweedin came to Iraq when I was there. When she came onto the stage every guy (including me) in the area went crazy. I got to shake her hand.

Good for you, Multi.

JJ...looks like you had a really good seat.

[AZamericonnie]

Great article Star. I just don't understand how you find the time!

[Lady Jag]

Call Orlando International and hire the skywriter:   David call Mom!

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP Keepers of our freedom

[luvie]

You are so funny! With you giving me ideas, how can he NOT call!

Well, I'm gonna go eat dinner now. Hope I will have good news when I get back! You guys will know when we do! (((hugs)))

[SevenofNine]

Hey Tomkow am I RIGHT

For the record what up with Da Bears they don't have excuses least your city have football my city do have excuse we could cheer on both 49ers or Raiders

49ers going suck while Raiders go 4 or 5 to 10 LOL~

[Kathy in Alaska]

Two silhouettes on the moon: A couple snuggles in a gondola beneath the light of a full moon as they ride the skylift on the Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach, Fla.

[Kathy in Alaska]

If I stick in a finger... Matthew Veal, 2, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, tries to get a better angle on his ice cream cone.

Piper comes immediately to mind! I wonder why? LOL!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

MoJo, LW......lots of chocolate!! And you don't have to share. LOL!

The bad news is, you're going to play a statue. The good news is, you can lick your costume: Chef Fred Schmidtke of the Florida Culinary Institute sprays 80-degree chocolate onto Jai Mi Joseph. Five high school students in culinary training were coated for a display at the Harriet Theater in West Palm Peach.

[Kathy in Alaska]

One drip at a time: An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland, near the Arctic Circle.

[Soaring Feather]

me

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Patrick DeForest, Company D, 1st Battalion. 159th Aviation Regiment, and his wife 1st Lt. Rebecca DeForest, Company B, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, serve as UH-60 Blackhawk pilots at Logistics Support Area Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jerome Bishop

U.S. Army 1st Lts. Patrick and Rebecca DeForest Husband, Wife Pilots Serve Together

By U.S. Army Spc. Jerome Bishop
1st Corps Support Command Public Affairs Office

BALAD, Iraq, Aug. 22, 2005 — The separation during deployments can become a dangerous obstacle very quickly when it comes to marriage, but for two UH-60 Blackhawk pilots on Logistics Support Area Anaconda, deployment to Iraq has kept them together.

“It feels completely wonderful to be deployed together,” said 1st Lt. Rebecca DeForest, a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot from B Company, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, who deployed Jan. 9 with the South Carolina National Guard.

“We can share all of our experiences first hand and we can relate to our jobs and struggles and our accomplishments.”

The couple almost missed the opportunity to stay together overseas, but reacting quickly to their situation allowed the DeForests to deploy almost at the same time.

“Last year I was in the 82nd Aviation Brigade,” said 1st Lt. Patrick DeForest, a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot from D Company, 1st Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment who deployed to LSA Anaconda on Dec. 18, 2004. “Her unit got alerted for deployment in May 2004 and then activated in September. In September, I asked my supervisor if there was a possibility that I could switch over to the 1-159th.

“First they said ‘We'll look into it',” he said. “Then there was a one-for-one switch but the 82nd didn't want to because the other soldier didn't have the experience they needed.”

“He swapped out with a female lieutenant in the 159th because her husband was in the 82nd,” Rebecca said.

“It ended up being that another married couple got assigned with the 82nd and that way two married couples could be assigned in their spouse's command.”

“So she went over to the 82nd and I went over to the 159th,” Patrick added.

The rest of the story

[txradioguy]

Doood!!

You and I were in the same building...possibly mere feet away from each other at some point.

Too freaky.

[Lady Jag]

brilliant