FReeper Canteen - Military Short Speak - March 14, 2005

Canteen Crew and Minor49er

[StarCMC]

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~ MILITARY SHORT SPEAK ~

           

The military seems to have a language of its own, with many terms, 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...  

P, part 8

PF  patrol frigate

PF-1 Asheville

 

PFC  Private First Class

 

PFCS  primary flight control system

 

PFD  personal flotation device
 

 

PF&D  personal, fatigue and delay

PF/DOS  Production, Fielding/Deployment and Operational Support (Phase III)

PFDRBAD  Pathfinder Badge
 

 

PFM  pulse-frequency modulation

 

PFNS  position fixing navigation system

PFT  Physical Fitness Test

A biannual test to ensure that Marines are within the Marine Corps' physical standards. The test includes a timed three-mile run, pull-ups (for men), bent arm hang (for women) and crunches (up to 100 in a two minute period). The Marine's height to weight ratio is also measured and must fall within established standards.

PFTS  permanent field training site - see today's Field Trip to visit a PFTS

PG  patrol gunboat

PG-87 Ready

PGH  patrol gunboat, hydrofoil

PGH-1 Flagstaff

PGIP  predicted ground impact point

 

PGM  precision guided missile or precision guided munitions

Click here to watch some PGM's in action from OIF!

PGMM  precision guided mortar munitions

PGP  Pretty Good Privacy [algorithm]  - name of encryption program

P_h  human performance [MANPRINT term]

PH  Purple Heart

Coming soon: a Monday thread on the Purple Heart.

Phantom

Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by Marines in Vietnam.  Twin engine, supersonic, multipurpose all-weather fighter/bomber.  It operates from land and aircraft carriers and employs both air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons.  The Phantom is a prime air interdiction/close air support and fleet defense vehicle.  Special missions such as laser bombing, electronic bombing and radar bombing are considered routine capabilities.  It is capable of employing nuclear and non-nuclear weapons.  Designated as F-4.  RF-4 is the photo-reconnaissance version.

PHAROS  phased-array radar operational simulation

Phase line

A line utilized for control and coordination of military operations; usually a terrain feature extending across the zone of action.

Phases of Military Government

1. Assault - that period which commences with first contact with civilians ashore and extends to the establishment of military government control ashore by the landing force
2.  Consolidation - that period which commences with the establishment of military government control ashore by the landing force and extends to the establishment of control by occupation forces.
3.  Occupation - that period which commences when an area has been occupied in fact and the military commander within that area is in a position to enforce public safety and order.

 

PHIBCB  amphibious construction battalion

A permanently commissioned naval unit, subordinate to the Commander, Naval Beach Group, designed to provide an administrative unit from which personnel and equipment are formed in tactical elements and made available to appropriate commanders to operate pontoon causeways, transfer barges, warping tugs, and assault bulk fuel systems, and to meet salvage requirements of the naval beach party. Also called PHIBCB and known as SeaBees.

SEABEE MOTTO:

"WE BUILD, WE FIGHT"

SEABEES CAN DO
WITH WILLING HEARTS AND SKILLFUL HANDS,
THE DIFFICULT WE DO AT ONCE,
THE IMPOSSIBLE TAKES A BIT LONGER
WITH COMPASSION FOR OTHERS WE BUILD
WE FIGHT FOR PEACE WITH FREEDOM

 

 

Today's Field Trip:   Volk Field ANGB
 

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!

 

 

 

 

[StarCMC]

 

 

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Happy Pi Day!

3.14

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Minor49er's Pi Facts:

Pi is a number represented by a letter that expresses the ratio of circumference of a perfect circle to it's diameter.

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th at the Exploratorium in San Francisco at 1:59pm PST because these are the digits (3.14159)

The sequence of pi has passed all known tests of randomness.

The fractions 22/7, 355/113, and 104348/33215 all stand for pi.

Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences, including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from where a raindrop fell into water, superstrings, general relativity, normal distribution, distribution of primes, geometry problems, waves, navigation, etc.

There is no 0 among the first 31 digits of pi.

Pi is irrational.

The Babylonians found the first value for pi, using 25/8.

If a billion decimals of pi we printed in ordinary type, they would stretch from NYC to the middle of Kansas.

The square root of 9.869604401 is approximately pi.

Pi in fractional form is 837393900/266559757.

In Germany, pi is sometimes referred to as 'die Ludolphsche Zahl" after Ludolph van Ceulen, a mathematician who devoted his life to finding 35 decimals of pi.

If you take the first 6 billion digits of pi, this is how the numbers appear: 0-599,963,005; 1-600,033,260; 2-599,999,169; 3-600,000,243; 4-599,957,439; 5-600,017,038; 6-600,016,588; 7-600,009,044; 8-599,987,038; 9-600,017,038 times.

All the digits of pi can never be fully known. 

The earliest known reference to pi is on a Middle Kingdom scroll written around 1650 BC by Ahmes the scribe.

By 1701, the first 100 digits of pi had already been calculated.

The first person to use the Greek letter Pi was was Welshman William Jones in 1706. Euler soon adopted it, and it quickly became standard.

1768- Johann Lambert proved that pi is irrational.

In 1949, it took ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) 70 hours to calculate the first 2,037 digits of pi.

The original record for pi memorization was held by Hideali Tomoyori. He recited pi from memory to 40,000 places in 17hrs and 21 minutes, not counting breaks of 4 hours 15 minutes, in March of 1987. His record was broken by Hiroyoki Goto who recited 42,195 digits from memory.

1991- The Chudnovsky brothers from New York used their computer to calculate pi to the 2,260,321,363 digits, before halting the program.

1995- In September/October, the original record for computation of the most digits of pi was held by Yasumasa Kanada at the University of Tokyo. It took him 116 hrs to compute 6,442,450,000 digits on a computer.

8/9/97- The value of pi was recalculated, twice. The first time required 29 hrs and the second was 37 hrs and both were done on the Hitachi SR2201 computer. Analysis of the first 50 billion digits turned up these results: 8 is the most frequent number (occurring 5,000,117,637 times) and 3 is the least frequent number (only occurs 4,999,914,405 times).

TOKYO Dec 6, 2002- Researchers at a leading national university have set the current world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers calculated the value with a Hitachi super computer for over 400 hours in September.

The first 18 digits of pi are: 

3.14159265358979323

 

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Pi Links

The Miraculous Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm
EMPi.html
The Pi Project
PI
The first 500,000 digits of PI
The Order of Pi(e)
Pi
Pi-Search
Pi links
Am I in Pi?
Pi-Time Foundation
The Pi Painting by Ram Samudrala
Loren's 3.14159265358979323...
Pi and Other Constants
Pi-R-Squared and the Pythagoreans
The Uselessness of Pi and its irrational friends
The Omnipotent number: Pi!!
Approximation of PI
Formulae for Pi
Is Pi normal?
Comments on The Uselessness of Pi
10,000 Digits of Pi
The Uselessness of Pi
digits.pi
My Pi Page
Pi Approximation Day
The Sound of Pi
Otanoshimi Page -Pi-
Binary Pi
Elias' Pi Page
The ``Pi Is Rational'' Page :)
The Friends of Pi
Hermann Schubart's Comment on Pi

Links gathered here!
 

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Have Some Pi

 

 

 

[StarCMC]

 

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[Soaring Feather]

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[StarCMC]

Thanks for your help in today's Canteen!! *HUGS!*

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

Thank you Troops for our safety . . . I hope y'all have a fantastic Easter Week!!!

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Prayers going up.

[The Mayor]

March 14, 2005

Change The World?

Read:
Matthew 25:34-40

I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink. —Matthew 25:35

Bible In One Year: Joshua 10-12

When my son Steve came home from a concert recently, he had with him a free T-shirt and a brochure for an organization that helps needy children in a far-off continent. Apparently, one of the singers had issued a challenge.

"We wanted to change the world with our music," he said, "but often all we do is sing. We decided that we were going to take action to change some lives, so we started supporting some needy kids." Then he set forth the challenge, which Steve accepted. He then talked with his Bible-study group at church about supporting a child each month.

Most of us want to change the world for the better, but the job seems too big. So what if we decided to do at least one thing to change just one person's life? In the name of Jesus, who said that providing physical help would be the same as helping our Savior Himself (Matthew 25:35-36), what if we reached out to one person with food, or clothing, or transportation? And what if that person, wondering about our motive, asks why we helped? We could then help change that person's life for eternity by introducing him or her to the Savior.

Change the world? Let's start with changing one person in Jesus' name. —Dave Branon

Do a deed of simple kindness,
Though its end you may not see;
It may reach, like widening ripples,
Down a long eternity. —Norris

Wherever a human being exists, there is an opportunity to do a kindness. —Seneca

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