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!!!
 

 

 

[blackie]

Hi Beachy ~ your FC just returned from the doc's and his semi-yearly physical.

Ho-ho-ho. ;)

[StarCMC]

Hey acad -- I heard a song on a jazz station the other night called "My aphrodesiac is you" and it was awesome -- I was trying to figure out if it was Candy Kane. Have you ever heard it??

[tomkow6]

 Hi, Jackv !

Welcome to the Canteen!

 

Wanna buy a burka?

 

 

[SandRat]

Now lunch time. Hello!

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Owen Williams, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, carries two artillery shells out of a weapons cache site northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 4, 2005. Williams is from West Plains, Mo. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Wester

Mortars are stacked and organized at a weapons cache northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 4, 2005. The cache was discovered by troops of 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in a remote rural area on Sept. 28, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Wester

Days-Long Dig Yields Thousands of Munitions

During a traffic stop, two men were questioned about the fuses in their truck;
the information they provided led U.S. soldiers to thousands of buried munitions.

By U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Wester
3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division

TAJI, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2005 — A U.S. Army combat engineer sifts through the sun-bleached sand and uncovers a shiny rocket tube as other soldiers scramble into the pit to pry the tube from the ground.

They've been at this for hours and found hundreds of pounds of explosives, but the site isn't empty yet.

The soldiers of 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, found the weapons cache in a remote area northwest of Baghdad and worked to uncover the munitions for several days.

Since the battalion, nicknamed "Kodiaks," started digging in the arid, desert-like terrain, they have unearthed more than 700 mortar rounds (ranging from 60-millimeter to 120-millimeter), more than 700 rocket-propelled grenades, hundreds of rockets and 51,000 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition.

The Kodiak soldiers, assisted by troops from 977th Military Police Company, also found several mortar tubes, various explosives, small-arms weapons, homemade rocket launchers, wires and timing devices.

The rest of the story

[acad1228]

Katie Melua. Heard it but don't have it. Excellent tune!

Click here to buy music from Katie Melua

[StarCMC]

I KNEW you were the one to ask! LOL

Also heard another by a chick with a great voice called "Rio de Janiero Blues."

[acad1228]

Don't know that one but would love to hear it. Freddy Cole has and album by that name...

[StarCMC]

This gals voice was rich and sultry -- GREAT music!! Our local conservative talk station plays jazz on the weekends at night.

[GodBlessUSA]

It's a lot of fun on this thread. Tomkow tries to sell everyone a Burka. LOL! When I first came on this thread, Tomkow asked me if I wanted to buy a Burka, I didn't know how to respond. LOL!! He is very funny. :)

[acad1228]

Yeah, We get blues from our local long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM station. (the same station, BTW, which gave us Roy D. Mercer)

[beachn4fun]

LOL

[AZamericonnie]

I wanna meet Ollie North! Whaaaaaa! Already did the Sean Hannity thing. He was on a book tour for Let Freedom Ring.

Our local talk station KFYI held a "smackdown" at West World. Afterwards Hannity spoke as did Congressman J.D. Hayworth.

My son stood in line to get his book autographed. Hannity was kind & spent extra time with him as he was the youngest one there. This was I'm thinking four years ago? We had fun & I bet you & BahBah have a blast!

[beachn4fun]

HEY............jackv....................

[beachn4fun]

I hope everything turned out A-ok?

[beachn4fun]

JUST SAY NO

[beachn4fun]

I'M OUTTA HERE

[beachn4fun]

I'M OUTTA HERE

[beachn4fun]

I'M OUTTA HERE

[beachn4fun]

BYE