FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ October 17, 2005

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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

RC³Reserve 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!!!

Just beautiful LUV! God Bless our Troops!

21 posted on 10/16/2005 7:15:25 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

To: laurenmarlowe

(((((Lauren!))))))

Thanks--and thank you for your beautiful flags and Ray singing his heart out!

How are ya this evening?

22 posted on 10/16/2005 7:16:53 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

23 posted on 10/16/2005 7:16:57 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: Colonel_Flagg

HEY!!! Thanks for that HUG! :o) Backatcha! How are you tonight??

24 posted on 10/16/2005 7:17:35 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: StarCMC; Old Sarge

I'm great Star! Thanks for the great thread and for posting *sniff* Sarge's poem! Goodness, I am missing that guy!....as everyone is!

25 posted on 10/16/2005 7:18:03 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

What a beautiful little fall globe! Thanks Tonkin--for everything you do here and for America!

26 posted on 10/16/2005 7:19:37 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

The Captain's distant cousins Moon Unit and Dweezil were unable to make the reception.

LMBO - I KNEW there was a Frank Zappa joke in there somewhere!

27 posted on 10/16/2005 7:19:42 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

I hate to quibble, but in the Navy rate and rank are two different things. Rank is paygrade -- E4, O3, etc., while rate is one's occupational specialty -- Fire Control Technician, Boatswain's Mate, Hull Technician, Boiler Technician, etc.

Thus, an HT2 is a hull technician second class, a second-class petty officer (E5) who is a hull technician, and an HT1 is a hull technician first class, a first-class petty officer (E6) who is a hull technician.

HTFR
HTFA
HTFN
HT3
HT2
HT1
HTC
HTCS
HTCM

28 posted on 10/16/2005 7:20:41 PM PDT by dsc

To: LUV W; Texas Songwriter

29 posted on 10/16/2005 7:20:46 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

Doing well, thanks! Had a fun weekend, and got alot of stuff done around here. WOO HOO!

I hope you have a great week!

30 posted on 10/16/2005 7:20:58 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

Great pictures....where was the hanky alert on those homecoming ones!

And of course, love your comments!

31 posted on 10/16/2005 7:22:16 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

Thanks for the thread tonight.

Old Sarge did well..

32 posted on 10/16/2005 7:22:58 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)

Not bad, thanks .. having a nice evening. How was your weekend?

33 posted on 10/16/2005 7:24:05 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("One might even go so far as to say ... he's mediocre." - Daffy Duck)

To: StarCMC; Texas Songwriter

Thanks Star! His words always give me the inspiration to do something with them! That is one of my favorite songs that he has written and sung.

34 posted on 10/16/2005 7:24:07 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

To: laurenmarlowe

Great that you got a lot of stuff done. I think the holly project was the best one yet! LOL!

35 posted on 10/16/2005 7:24:59 PM PDT by luvie (The love of freedom is the mightiest force of history...GWBush 10-06-05 (Water Bucket Brigade))

An excellent quibble. (LOL!) Actually, I got that from a website that has an unofficial Marine dictionary. Rate/Rank is pretty confusing to me. (I don't know if you saw, but we recently did a thread each for Commissioned and Enlisted ranks.) Thanks for your input!!

36 posted on 10/16/2005 7:25:07 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

I am headed to bed ~ ~ TheGirl has to be a school at 5:freakin45 in the a.m. ~ ~ Just wanted to stop in to say Thank You to our military folk and, the true heroes, their families.

God Bless Everyone of You!!

37 posted on 10/16/2005 7:25:24 PM PDT by TheMom (My husband and children rock! I am like a rock . . . round and thick.)

Thanks for the great pics.

The alternate captions are riotously funny.

38 posted on 10/16/2005 7:26:00 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)

Oh, I've got painting going on this week, LOL! That ought to be very interesting!

39 posted on 10/16/2005 7:27:02 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

Love the pictures and captions, especially the "Got Democracy" one.

40 posted on 10/16/2005 7:28:07 PM PDT by GummyIII (If you have the ability, it's your responsibility." Marine Sgt. John Place, Silver Star recipient)

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