larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator) (02/15/91)
From: larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator)
A short lesson of current military slang.
AAA: Anti Aircraft Artilliary
Aardvark: F-111 fighter
ALCM: Air Launched Cruise Missle
Atrite: to loose troops by attrition
Apache: AH64 helicopter
AWACS: Airborne Warning and Control System
Beaches: fighting terrain, arabian deserts
Buff: nickname for the B-52 bomber (Big Ugly Fat Fu@*er)
Collateral damage: Civ deaths, injuries and unexpected damage
Decapitating attack: behind the lines attack on enemy commanders
Eagle: F-15 Fighter
Electronic jammers: Computer controlled pulses that disarm or disorient radar
EPW's: Enemy prisoners of war
Fighting Falcon: F-16 Fighter
Fur Balls: fliers slang for the hectic tange of Air to Air dogfights
Hornet F-18 Fighter
Intruder: A-6 attack aircraft
Juke: move quickly to evade enemy fire
Killsack: Minefeilds or oil filled trenches
MIA: Mising In Action
NBC: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons
Patriot: a type of Anti ballistic missle missle
Pave Tack: Ifrared laser system for pinpointing targets
POW: Prisoner Of War
Prowler: EA-6B Electronic warfare fighter (NAVY)
Raven: EF-111A Electronic warefare fighter (USAF)
Slam: Standoff Land Attack Missle
Smart Bombs: self piloted microchip controlled weapon
Sortie: a single mission flown by a single military aircraft
Thunderbolt II: A-10A Attack Aircraft (Tank Killer)(SCUD Hunter)
Tomcat: F-14 Fighter
Tomahawk: Navy's cruise missle
Warthog: Nickname for the USAF A-10A
Wild Weasel: F-4G Fighter (SAM site Killer)
Zulu: Greenwhich Mean time (0000 Zulu = 7 P.M EST = 3 A.M. Bagdad)
Do not forget the U.S. Servicemember.
ANY U.S. SERVICEMEMBER
APO NY
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"Please keep writing. Your letters mean a lot"gjw@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Garry J. Wardrope) (02/21/91)
From: "Mr Garry J. Wardrope" <gjw@cs.glasgow.ac.uk> larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator) writes: >Zulu: Greenwhich Mean time (0000 Zulu = 7 P.M EST = 3 A.M. Bagdad) I thought I would elaborate on this one. Strictly Greenwich Mean Time is a local name although it is widlely used. The modern term is Universal Coordinated Time (This dosn't upset people not in the UK ). The world is split into 24 time zones or 15 degree ( of longitude) sectors. These are labled A-Z ( missing I and O ) UCT is zulu time. Times are expressed as date time groups eg. 202356Z FEB 91 ie date time zone month year. As you progress round the world you change time zone eg 202356A FEB 91 is one hour ahead of the previous time. The actual use of the zones doesn't strictly follow the segments over land but usually does at sea. The time 0000 is never used so as not to have confusion over what date it applies to eg. 200000Z FEB 91 is this the start of the 20th or the end ? as a result a multitude of military happenings are at 0001 or 2359. All this saves people having to learn local abbreviations eg I didn't know what EST actually was until now ie Uniform time. Garry -- Mail: Garry Wardrope, Computing Science Dept., Tel: (041) 339 8855 x5322 Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. ARPA: gjw%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: gjw@cs.glasgow.uucp JANET:gjw@uk.ac.glasgow.cs useBANGnet: ...mcsun!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!gjw