My OperaAUSTRALIA INVOLVE IN VIETNAM
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:39:17 AM
GROSSARY
AATTV: Australian Army Traning Team, Vietnam
1 ALSG: 1st Australian Logistic Support Group
AO: Area operation
Apc: armoured personnel carrier
Arv: armoured recovery vihicle
Arvn: army of the republic of (South) Vietnam; tropps thereof
1 ATF: 1st Australian Task Force
B-52: US Long-range strategic bomber
Bushrange: RAAF callsign for helicopter gunships armed with mini-guns and rockers.
Canister:large, shotgun-type shell firing hundreds of short steel rods
Caribou: twin-engined dhort-haul transport aircraft.
Casevac: casualty evacuation (to hospital)
CDT: clearance diver team
Chieâu hoài: enemy soldiers who have surrendered.
Claymore (mine): hundreds of steel pellets.
Cmf: citizen military forces, forerunner of the army reserve
Co: commanding officer, usually of lieutenant colonel rank.
Cp: command post
D445: Viet Cong local force battalion that operated in phuoc Tuy province.
Dcm: distinguished Conduct medal, for gallant action
Digger: army soldier, rank indeterminate
Dmz: demillitarised zone
Drv: democratic republic of vietnam
Dustoff: dedicated helicopters for casevac (casualty evacuation)
Fac: forward air controller; controls flighters/bombers during an air strike.
Fo: forward observers directs attillery on to targets.
Fsb: fire support base
Gps: global positioning system
Grid square: a map measuring 1000 metters by 1000 metters
He: high explosive
Huey: slang term for Iroquois helicopter
Kia: kill in action
lz: landing zone
m-16: 5.56mm american automatic and semi automatic rifle
m-60 7.62mm general purpose machine gun
madevac: madical evacuation, normally by RAAF C-130 hercules, out of Vietnam to Australia.
Mia: missing In Action
Mini gun: A 7.62mm calibre side-mounted, resolving multi-barrelled, electronically-fired machine gun capableof procuducing 2000 rounds per minute.
Mm: military medal, an Imperial award to Other Rank of bravery
NCO: non commisioned officer
NLF: national liberation Front
NVA: North Vietnamese Army
OC: officer commanding; a sub-unit commander, uaually ofmajor rank.
Possum: radio callsign for a Sioux Army helicopter
POW/PW: prisoner of War
RAAC: Royal Australian armounred Corps.
RAAF: Royal Australian Air Force
RAE: Royal Australian Engineers
RAEME: Royal Australian Eletrical and Mechanical Engineers
RAF: Royal AustralianForce (UK)
RAN: Royal Australian Navy
RAR: Royal Australian Regiment (infantry corps)
1 RAR: 1st battalion Royal Australian Regiment
R&C: rest and convalescence leave, a short break from duties taken in Vietnam
R&R: Rest and recuperation (but usually recreation) leave, taken for five to seveb days outside Vietnam
RCL: recoilless Rifle
AATTV: Australian Army Traning Team, Vietnam
1 ALSG: 1st Australian Logistic Support Group
AO: Area operation
Apc: armoured personnel carrier
Arv: armoured recovery vihicle
Arvn: army of the republic of (South) Vietnam; tropps thereof
1 ATF: 1st Australian Task Force
B-52: US Long-range strategic bomber
Bushrange: RAAF callsign for helicopter gunships armed with mini-guns and rockers.
Canister:large, shotgun-type shell firing hundreds of short steel rods
Caribou: twin-engined dhort-haul transport aircraft.
Casevac: casualty evacuation (to hospital)
CDT: clearance diver team
Chieâu hoài: enemy soldiers who have surrendered.
Claymore (mine): hundreds of steel pellets.
Cmf: citizen military forces, forerunner of the army reserve
Co: commanding officer, usually of lieutenant colonel rank.
Cp: command post
D445: Viet Cong local force battalion that operated in phuoc Tuy province.
Dcm: distinguished Conduct medal, for gallant action
Digger: army soldier, rank indeterminate
Dmz: demillitarised zone
Drv: democratic republic of vietnam
Dustoff: dedicated helicopters for casevac (casualty evacuation)
Fac: forward air controller; controls flighters/bombers during an air strike.
Fo: forward observers directs attillery on to targets.
Fsb: fire support base
Gps: global positioning system
Grid square: a map measuring 1000 metters by 1000 metters
He: high explosive
Huey: slang term for Iroquois helicopter
Kia: kill in action
lz: landing zone
m-16: 5.56mm american automatic and semi automatic rifle
m-60 7.62mm general purpose machine gun
madevac: madical evacuation, normally by RAAF C-130 hercules, out of Vietnam to Australia.
Mia: missing In Action
Mini gun: A 7.62mm calibre side-mounted, resolving multi-barrelled, electronically-fired machine gun capableof procuducing 2000 rounds per minute.
Mm: military medal, an Imperial award to Other Rank of bravery
NCO: non commisioned officer
NLF: national liberation Front
NVA: North Vietnamese Army
OC: officer commanding; a sub-unit commander, uaually ofmajor rank.
Possum: radio callsign for a Sioux Army helicopter
POW/PW: prisoner of War
RAAC: Royal Australian armounred Corps.
RAAF: Royal Australian Air Force
RAE: Royal Australian Engineers
RAEME: Royal Australian Eletrical and Mechanical Engineers
RAF: Royal AustralianForce (UK)
RAN: Royal Australian Navy
RAR: Royal Australian Regiment (infantry corps)
1 RAR: 1st battalion Royal Australian Regiment
R&C: rest and convalescence leave, a short break from duties taken in Vietnam
R&R: Rest and recuperation (but usually recreation) leave, taken for five to seveb days outside Vietnam
RCL: recoilless Rifle
