Acronyms

RUsco · Post by **RUsco** » Thu Mar 08, 2001 9:20 am

USMC: Uncle Sams Misguided Children

U.S.Army: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet

Navy: Never Again Volenteer Yourself

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Thu Mar 08, 2001 11:41 am

Hey, some of this is like OCS all over agin!!
SIR, YES SIR!!
Semper Fi
Randy

Figmo · Post by **Figmo** » Thu Mar 08, 2001 6:29 pm

Originally posted by Randy:
Hey, some of this is like OCS all over agin!!
SIR, YES SIR!!
Semper Fi
Randy

This reminds me - there are few people are using and not defining. Now I'm no expert on all of these so correct me if I'm wrong or if there is more than one defininition.

OCS = Officer Candidate School
NCO = Non Commissioned Officer

Figmo

FWH-Odin · Post by **FWH-Odin** » Thu Mar 08, 2001 8:31 pm

MMFD - Miles and Miles of "Fine" Desert. (Used by the RAF in the mideast, when asked for their position.)

USMCGrunt · Post by **USMCGrunt** » Thu Mar 08, 2001 10:59 pm

Originally posted by Figmo:
This reminds me - there are few people are using and not defining. Now I'm no expert on all of these so correct me if I'm wrong or if there is more than one defininition.

OCS = Officer Candidate School
NCO = Non Commissioned Officer

Figmo

That's correct Figmo, and don't forget

SNCO - Staff Non-Comissioned Officer

otherwise you might be assigned:

EPD - Extra Police Duty (Punishment assigned for small infractions usually in time increments of an hour or more a day. Usually such tasks as cleaning barracks common areas, mowing/raking lawns, painting rocks, etc.)

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-When it absolutely, positively, has to be destroyed overnight.

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Fri Mar 09, 2001 8:21 pm

Here is another test:

What is C3CM & what are its four D's?

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An old soldier but not yet a faded one.
OK, maybe just a bit faded.

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Fri Mar 09, 2001 8:23 pm

Yet another test of your military historial knowledge. Why are sergeants, who are not officers, called Noncommissioned Officers?

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An old soldier but not yet a faded one.
OK, maybe just a bit faded.

Jeff Norton · Post by **Jeff Norton** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 9:03 am

Larry,

Commissioned Officers obtain their athority/power from, in the case of the US, the Commander-in-Chief (President), to carry out the buisness of the Army, support and defend the Constitution, and perform duties/actions that are in the interests of the US until a time that they resign or forfet their commissions.

Non-Commissioned Officers obtain their authority from these Commissioned Officers to better carry out duties, support the Chain of Command, and uphold discipline, training, and the day-to-day buisness of the Army (usually in smaller groups). They act as agents, in a way, but do not hold such powers intitled by Commissioning.

(Gosh, and to think I've been outa the 'tree suit' for almost 3 years... I gotta get a life...)

Good to know that BNCOC (Basic Non-Commissioned Officers Course) did SOME good, becides club-hopping and beer-guzzeling..

(Oh, the money I used 'renting' beer while there...)

-Jeff

Major Ed · Post by **Major Ed** » Sun Mar 11, 2001 6:49 am

How about

SFODA -> Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (the A Team)

and the reason all us grunts feel like mushrooms -> KITDAFLOS

"Always remember, tracers work both ways."

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 6:47 pm

Originally posted by Jeff Norton:
Larry,
Commissioned Officers obtain their athority/power from, in the case of the US, the Commander-in-Chief ...

Non-Commissioned Officers obtain their authority from these Commissioned Officers.. They act as agents, in a way, but do not hold such powers intitled by Commissioning.

(Gosh, and to think I've been outa the 'tree suit' for almost 3 years... I gotta get a life...)

Close but the terms go way back, long before the US Army. Originally rich nobles would buy an officership to lead a unit from their king (or whatever). They would get a commision from the king to be an officer and do this. They in turn would create officers within their units. These officers would not hold a commission.

Figmo · Post by **Figmo** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:18 am

Here's another one that I don't think has been covered. And it has nothing to do with the guy on the forum with this nick!!

REMF - Rear echelon Mother f---er. Usually to do with support troops - but many use it for anybody farther back from the fighting than they are.

Figmo

PerryC · Post by **PerryC** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:39 am

Hey USMCGrunt,

Re: SMEAC( the 5 paragraph order)

We Canadians know it as SMESC

Situation
Mission
Execution
Service/Support
Command/Signals

PerryC
pro patria

murx · Post by **murx** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 8:53 am

CaptainBrian wrote:

For some un***ly reason, what we all know as POWs are called "EPWs", Enemy Prisoners of War. I guess that is to avoid confusing them with friendly prisoners of war.

Uhm, I guess it's a special US thingy, cause they tend to mix and confuse things up.

Like bombing an ammo factory which happens to be a Chinese embassy, air-attack British FOVs cause they arent in their handbooks, bombing the team that marked the targt area instead of the target area.
Seems like US are specially trained for friendly fire. Oops, I hope I didnt offend anyone, just want to be sarcastic.
But we Germans have our own saying for friendly fire:
Artillerie kennt weder Freund noch Feind, nur lohnende Ziele.
(Artillery doesnt know friend nor enemy just worthy targets).
murx

CaptainBrian · Post by **CaptainBrian** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 9:24 am

Originally posted by murx:
CaptainBrian wrote:

For some un***ly reason, what we all know as POWs are called "EPWs", Enemy Prisoners of War. I guess that is to avoid confusing them with friendly prisoners of war.

Uhm, I guess it's a special US thingy, cause they tend to mix and confuse things up.

Like bombing an ammo factory which happens to be a Chinese embassy, air-attack British FOVs cause they arent in their handbooks, bombing the team that marked the targt area instead of the target area.
Seems like US are specially trained for friendly fire. Oops, I hope I didnt offend anyone, just want to be sarcastic.
But we Germans have our own saying for friendly fire:
Artillerie kennt weder Freund noch Feind, nur lohnende Ziele.
(Artillery doesnt know friend nor enemy just worthy targets).
murx

The last German vs USMC confrontation didn't go too well for the boys in gray as I recall. Don't think there was too much friendly fire at Belleau Wood :0)

"Retreat Hell, we just got here !!!"

USMC Captain to panicking French Officer when asked when his company was planning to fall back, France 1917.

murx · Post by **murx** » Wed Mar 14, 2001 11:21 am

Of course the last meeting wasn't too funny

, but hell, I'm lucky cause else I would wear grey now and either watch the Atlantic Ocean or the German/Chinese border ...
murx

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 12:54 am

Originally posted by Larry Holt:
Here is another test:

What is C3CM & what are its four D's?

Any takers on this one before I post the solution?

Figmo · Post by **Figmo** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:44 am

Originally posted by Larry Holt:
Here is another test:

What is C3CM & what are its four D's?

The closest I can come is - I know who C3PO and R2D2 are

- but I haven't got a clue about C3CM.

Figmo

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 10:21 pm

C3CM = Command and Control CounterMeasures, those actions taken to deny your opponent the abilty to C&C his forces. Your options to do so are to deceive, deny, disrupt or destroy his forces.