FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ October 17, 2005

Deputy Dawg

[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 6

Rate  Any of the ranks within the Navy or Coast Guard enlisted structure.

RATE  remote automatic telemetry equipment

RATEL  radio telephone

Rate of Fire  The number of rounds fired per weapon per minute

Rat F***ed  To be seriously torn apart or rifled through.  Originating in Vietnam when cases of C-Rations (Rats) would be gone through in the process of transporting them to the front.

 

Ratline  An organized effort for moving personnel and/or material by clandestine means across a denied area or border.

 

RATO  rocket assisted take off

On Aug. 12, 1941, the first Air Corps rocket-assist takeoff was made by a Wright Field test pilot, Capt. Homer Boushey, using a small civilian-type Ercoupe airplane. Subsequent refinements of this technique were made for assisting heavily-loaded airplanes in taking off from limited space. This technique is still used whenever needed.  More here!

 

RATSCAT  radar target scatter

RAVIR  radar video recording

 

RAWARC  radar report and warning coordination system

 

RAWS  radar attack and warning system

 

Razor Wire  Similar to barbed wire or concertina with a sharp edge on one side and spikes every inch or so.

RB  radar beacon

 

RB std  rubidium standard

 

RBAAP  Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant

 

RBCS  remote bar code system

RBEC  realistic battlefield environmental condition

 

RBN  radio beacon

 

RBOC  rapid blooming offboard chaff

 

RBP  radio breakdown point

RBV  rapid battlefield visualization

 

RC   Take your pick:

 

¹Reserve Component, ²radio control, ³ray control electrode [vacuum tube], ⁴remote control, ⁵research center, ⁶resistance-capacitance, ⁷resistor-capacitor circuit (as in filters), ⁸resource center (SPACECMD), ⁹response cell, ¹⁰range commander, ¹¹reimbursable code, ¹²review cycle, ¹³[JP 1-02] river current, ¹⁴[JP 1-02] receive clock, ¹⁵[JP 1-02] regional coordinator. ¹⁶[AR 310-50] Radio Code Aptitude Area

 

RC-NCOES  Reserve Component Noncommissioned Officer Education System

 

RC³  Reserve component course configuration

Today's Field Trip: Holloman AFB, New Mexico 

 

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!!!
 

 

 

[StarCMC]

Yes it is!! YUCK!

[Soaring Feather]

Hi tx!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Excellent.

The disruption will soon be a distant memory.

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks Tom.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I'll find one! :)

[StarCMC]

LOL!!!!

[TheMom]

That is so wrong & soooo funny!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

So, Sa......ya rootin for USC? Thanks for the great pictures of our troops and conditions they've made so the Iraqis can vote, and be proud of that vote.

[TASMANIANRED]

Yes they are happy.

[GoldStarBrother]

Hello ,Ma Yes I dad Ma got to ride my Mtb 4 times,watched football & baseball & Hiked..Butbest of all I can Freep from the Woods.. WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO It's a little slow but doable.. Hope your weekend was good also *HUGS* The Platters ~Smoke Gets In Your EyesThe Platters~The Great PretenderRebekah Del Rio~Llorando

[Colonel_Flagg]

Little River Band - Reminiscing

How's this? I think I've spun this for us before, but it's one of my favorites!

[TASMANIANRED]

Wonderful selections.

[TheMom]

Innocent, maybe - - but you keep pinging me . . .

5:freakin45 comes really early in the scheme on the timeline.

[laurenmarlowe]

That is a really nice tune Colonel, thank you!

[StarCMC]

Whoa!! Good tunes Bro!

[Eaker]

I told her that if the girl started walking now she would be on time.

She hit me with a big spoon!!!

[laurenmarlowe]

{{{BRO}}} You're back! Did ya have a good time? Nice weekend for a camping trip!

Love the Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, so dreamy!

[SevenofNine]

Hey Tomkow I keep laughing every time you post that picture LOLOLOL!! rack itt

Yeah but Tomkow Preztel is bread so that would pass I more of hearing of beer comment because they did run out of wine
Yeah it is true winery went on strike so this Cathoic church serving Beer call that very right in Germany

Tomkow don't laugh

There is report off Sunday UK Papers this weekend that World Youth Day two of the US Cities who may be chosen is my City Los Angeles AND CHICAGO

[SandRat]

Mar 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

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Act 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

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1Cr 14:21 In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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1Cr 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

[StarCMC]

Blue Oyster Cult ~ Take Me Away

Edwin McCain ~ I'll Be

Pink Floyd ~ Wishing You Were Here