FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ October 17, 2005

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~ MILITARY SHORT SPEAK ~

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...

R, part 6

Rate Any of the ranks within the Navy or Coast Guard enlisted structure.

RATE remote automatic telemetry equipment

RATEL radio telephone

Rate of Fire The number of rounds fired per weapon per minute

Rat F***ed To be seriously torn apart or rifled through. Originating in Vietnam when cases of C-Rations (Rats) would be gone through in the process of transporting them to the front.

Ratline An organized effort for moving personnel and/or material by clandestine means across a denied area or border.

RATO rocket assisted take off

On Aug. 12, 1941, the first Air Corps rocket-assist takeoff was made by a Wright Field test pilot, Capt. Homer Boushey, using a small civilian-type Ercoupe airplane. Subsequent refinements of this technique were made for assisting heavily-loaded airplanes in taking off from limited space. This technique is still used whenever needed. More here!

RATSCAT radar target scatter

RAVIR radar video recording

RAWARC radar report and warning coordination system

RAWS radar attack and warning system

Razor Wire Similar to barbed wire or concertina with a sharp edge on one side and spikes every inch or so.

RB radar beacon

RB std rubidium standard

RBAAP Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant

RBCS remote bar code system

RBEC realistic battlefield environmental condition

RBN radio beacon

RBOC rapid blooming offboard chaff

RBP radio breakdown point

RBV rapid battlefield visualization

RC Take your pick:

¹Reserve Component, ²radio control, ³ray control electrode [vacuum tube], ⁴remote control, ⁵research center, ⁶resistance-capacitance, ⁷resistor-capacitor circuit (as in filters), ⁸resource center (SPACECMD), ⁹response cell, ¹⁰range commander, ¹¹reimbursable code, ¹²review cycle, ¹³[JP 1-02] river current, ¹⁴[JP 1-02] receive clock, ¹⁵[JP 1-02] regional coordinator. ¹⁶[AR 310-50] Radio Code Aptitude Area

RC-NCOES Reserve Component Noncommissioned Officer Education System

RC³Reserve component course configuration

Today's Field Trip: Holloman AFB, New Mexico

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!

Please remember: the Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops.
As such we attempt to keep it MOSTLY apolitical.
Thanks for playing and have a nice day! LOL!!!

Smack upside the head! I guess so we need to know that we are hearing your story, even tho you don't speak. How many of your stories have I missed? Huh? Huh?

341 posted on 10/17/2005 1:04:11 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Kathy in Alaska

How about instead of telling you I just go stand in the corner right now so you don't ahave to tell me to do it?

342 posted on 10/17/2005 1:06:30 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

You're forgiven. But have there been lots of "your" stories that I didn't know were yours. I always knew "someone" had to do them, but NO ONE said THEY were doing them. Do you get credit for the stories when the credits roll at the end? I can stay for them. LOL!

343 posted on 10/17/2005 1:11:15 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Nope no individual credit for the stories like that at the end of the newscast

344 posted on 10/17/2005 1:12:47 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

Hmmmmm.....I wonder what makes a story worthy of the reporter telling it? Do you have a story of some sort mostly every day, whether you report or the anchor reports?

345 posted on 10/17/2005 1:17:16 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Kathy in Alaska; sxytxredhead73

346 posted on 10/17/2005 1:18:01 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

347 posted on 10/17/2005 1:18:32 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

348 posted on 10/17/2005 1:18:41 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

349 posted on 10/17/2005 1:18:44 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

MINE!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! Red didn't get it this time!!!

350 posted on 10/17/2005 1:19:04 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Depends on whether it's a new thing or whether it's something that happens farily often as to whether I put a voice to it or the anchor just reads some script over my video

351 posted on 10/17/2005 1:20:26 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)

352 posted on 10/17/2005 1:24:48 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

tom.....the hat trick.....#50, #100, #150!!

353 posted on 10/17/2005 1:29:36 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: SevenofNine; bentfeather; EsmeraldaA

ms feather.....#200!!
Es.....#250!!
Seven.....#300!!

354 posted on 10/17/2005 1:33:02 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: HiJinx; mylife; NRA1995; SandRat; SouthernHawk

Good morning fellow cubevillians!

355 posted on 10/17/2005 1:36:40 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Today's "leaves" are really nice. Thanks men in the Military and the Canteen.

356 posted on 10/17/2005 1:38:35 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Good morning everyone.

357 posted on 10/17/2005 1:59:34 AM PDT by Pusterfuss (You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. LBJ)

Good Morning Star!
Beautiful Fall theme :)

Sarge's poem and your table are especially lovely.

Thanks for the thread and ping. :)

358 posted on 10/17/2005 2:34:21 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

I have missed seeing your posts. :) Thanks Radix!

359 posted on 10/17/2005 2:36:48 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi, Kathy! Getting here late again...

360 posted on 10/17/2005 2:36:53 AM PDT by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)

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