Collateral (Tier One #6)

18-Delta—Special Forces medical technician and first responder

ACS—Aegis Combat System

AIP—Air-independent propulsion

AQ—Al-Qaeda

BDU—Battle Dress Uniform

BMD—Ballistic Missile Defense

BND—Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service

Bright Falcon—Code name identifier for the Russian Zeta Operation and Training Center in Vyborg, Russia

BUD/S—Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training

CASEVAC—Casualty Evacuation

CHENG—Chief Engineer

CIA—Central Intelligence Agency

CIC—Combat Information Center, known as “Combat”

CMC—Command Master Chief

CO—Commanding Officer

COMSUBLANT—Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic

CONUS—Continental United States

CSO—Chief Staff Officer (special warfare)

CSO—Combat Systems Officer (surface warfare)

DC—Damage Control

DCS—Distributed Command System

DDG—Designation for Guided-Missile Destroyer

DILDO—Direct Input Limited Duty Officer

DNI—Director of National Intelligence

DoD—Department of Defense

DPU—Dive Propulsion Unit

DS&T—Directorate of Science and Technology

EAB—Emergency Air Breather

EBE—Emergency Breathing Equipment

EEOB—Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Ember—America’s premier black-ops counterterrorism task force

EMP—Electromagnetic pulse

Exfil—Exfiltrate

FOB—Forward Operating Base

FSRU—Floating Storage and Regasification Unit

FRSS— Forward Resuscitative Surgery System

GSW—Gunshot wound

HALO—high-altitude, low opening

HUMINT—Human Intelligence

HVT—High-Value Target

IC—Intelligence Community

Infil—Infiltrate

ISR—Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

JO—Junior Officer

JSOC—Joint Special Operations Command

JSOTF—Joint Special Operations Task Force

KIA—Killed in Action

LAN—Local Area Network

LNG—Liquefied Natural Gas

MARSOC—Marine Corps Special Operations Command

MEDEVAC—Medical Evacuation

MEU—Marine Expeditionary Unit

MK—Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania

NCTC—National Counterterrorism Center

NET-15—Preferred tactical command and control communication channel on an Arleigh Burke

NOC—Nonofficial Cover

NSA—National Security Agency

NVGs—Night Vision Goggles

ODNI—Office of the Director of National Intelligence

OGA—Other Government Agency

ONI—Office of Naval Intelligence

OOD—Officer of the Deck

OPSEC—Operational Security

OTC—Officer in Tactical Command

PJ—Parajumper/Air Force Rescue

QRF—Quick Reaction Force

RPG—Rocket-Propelled Grenade

SAD—Special Activities Division

SAPI—Small Arms Protective Insert

SBS—Special Boat Service

SCIF—Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SDV—SEAL Delivery Vehicle

SEAL—Sea, Air, and Land Teams, Naval Special Warfare

SecDef—Secretary of Defense

SIGINT—Signals Intelligence

SITREP—Situation Report

SM—Standard Missile

SOAR—Special Operations Aviation Regiment

SOCOM—Special Operations Command

SOG—Special Operations Group

SOPMOD—Special Operations Modification

SQT—SEAL Qualification Training

SSN—Designation for a fast-attack nuclear submarine

STP—Shock Trauma Platoon

TAD—Temporary Additional Duty

TAO—Tactical Action Officer

TOC—Tactical Operations Center

TOT—Tactical Operations Trailer

TMU—Tactical Mobility Unit

UAV—Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

USN—United States Navy

VEVAK—Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, analogue of the CIA

Zeta—Clandestine Russian covert action and espionage activity