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Language |
Abbreviations |
Military |
ANZAC | Australia & New Zealand Army Corps | |
APC | Armoured Personnel Carrier | |
AWACS | Airborne Warning And Control System (surveillance planes) | |
BFPO | British Forces Postings Overseas | |
ECM | Electronic Counter Measures (aircraft combat) | |
ENSA | Entertainments National Service Association | |
FANY | ||
GI | Government Issue (see also Science) | |
ICBM | Inter–Continental Ballistic Missile | |
IED | Improvised Explosive Device | |
IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile | |
KOSB | King's Own Scottish Borderers | |
MASH | Mobile Army Surgical Hospital | |
MI(5/6) | Military Intelligence | |
MIDAS | Missile Defence Alarm System | |
NAAFI | Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes | |
QARANC | Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps | |
QARNNS | Queen Alexandra's Royal Navy Nursing Service | |
RAOC | Royal Army Ordnance Corps | |
RAPC | Royal Army Pay Corps | |
REME | Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers | |
RFA | Royal Fleet Auxiliary | |
ROC | Royal Ordnance Corps | |
RPC | Royal Pioneer Corps | |
RSM | Regimental Sergeant–Major | |
SAM | Surface–to–Air Missile | |
SAS | Special Air Service | |
SBS | Special Boat Squadron | |
SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe | |
SLR | Self–Loading Rifle | |
SOE (WWII) | Special Operations Executive | |
START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1991) | |
SWAT | Special Weapons And Tactics | |
TAVR | Territorial Army Voluntary Reserve | |
UDR | Ulster Defence Regiment | |
WAAF | Women's Auxiliary Air Force | |
WRAC | Women's Royal Army Corps |
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