ABBREVIATION LIST
AAST
ACE
ACO
ACOS
A/C
AJP
ALO
AOR
AOS
AOL
APC
APOD
APP
ASZ
: All Arms Search Team
: Allied Command Europe
: Allied Command Operations (SHAPE)
: Assistant Chief of Staff
: Air Craft
: Allied Joint Publication
: Air Liaison Officer
: Area of Responsibility
: Area of Separation
: Area of Limitation
: Armed Personnel Carrier
: Airport of Disembarkation
: Allied Procedural Publication
: Air Security Zone
BDE
BMNT
BN
BPT
BZ
: Brigade
: Beginning of Morning Nautical Twilight
: Battalion
: Be prepared to
: Buffer Zone
C2
C3
C3I
CAP
CAS
CASEVAC
CCIR
CET
CFL
CIS
CJTF
CMO
: Command and Control
: Command, Control and Communication
: Command, Control, Communications and Information
: Combat Air Patrol
: Close Air Support
: Casualty Evacuation
: Commanders Critical Information Requirements
: Combat Enhancement Training
: Cease Fire Line
: Communication Information Systems
: Combined Joint Task Force
: Chief Military Observer or
Crisis Management Operation
: Course of Action
: Centre of Gravity
: Chief of Staff
: Check Point
: Commanders Planning Guidance
: Crowd and Riot Control
: Combat Service Support
: Combat Service Support Orders
: Compulsory Time Off
: Common user items/Non common user items
COA
COG
COS
CP
CPG
CRC
CSS
CSSO
CTO
CUI / NCUI
DJTF
DJSE
DMZ
DO
DOS
DP
DZ
: Deployable Joint Task Force
: Deployable Joint Staff Element
: Demilitarized Zone
: Duty Officer
: Days of Supply
: Displaced Personnel or
Decisive Point
: Dropping Zone
1
EAF
EEI
EEFI
EENT
EOD
: Entity Armed Forces (FWF)
: Essential Elements of Information
: Essential Elements of Friendly Information
: End of Evening Nautical Twilight
: Explosive Ordnance Disposal
FIT
FEBA
FFIR
FOC
FOM
FPU
FRAGO
FSA
FSE
FSO
FWF
FTCP
: Force Integration Training
: Forward Edge of the Battle Area
: Friendly Forces Intelligence Requirement
: Full Operational Capable
: Freedom of Movement
: Formed Police Unit (UN Police with an executive mandate)
: Fragmentary Order
: Forward Supply Area
: Fire Support Element
: Fire Support Officer
: Former Warring Factions - Belligerent Forces - Entity Armed Forces Opposing Forces (OF - NATO used)
: Forward Tactical Command Post
GFAP
GO
GOP
: General Framework for the Agreement of Peace
: Governmental Organization
: Guidelines for Operational Planning
HA
HEST
HLO
HNSCC
HVT
: Human Aid
: Hazard Environment Search Team
: Helicopter Liaison Officer
: Host Nation Support Coordination Centre
: High Value Target
IC
ICRC
IDP
IED
IEDD
IMINT
IO
IOT
IPB
IPTF
ISR
IVO
: International Community
: International Committee Red Cross
: Internally Displaced Personnel
: Improvised Explosive Device
: Improvised Explosive Device Disposal
: Imagery Intelligence
: International Organization
: In order to
: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
: International Police Task Force
: Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance
: In the vicinity of
JFC
: Joint Force Command (Brunssum, Naples, Lisboa)
LA
LCC
LFZ
LLE
LLOC
LNO
LOC
LOO
LLOC
LZ
: Legal Advisor or Local authorities
: Land Component Commander
: Light Forces Zone
: Local Law Enforcement (local security forces)
: Land Lines of Communication
: Liaison Officer
: Lines of Communication
: Lines of Operation
: Land Lines of Communications
: Landing Zone
2
MC
MEDEVAC
MILU
MNB
MOU
MRA
MSA
MSR
MSU
: Military Committee
: Medical Evacuation
: Multinational Integrated Logistic Unit
: Multinational Brigade
: Memorandum of Understanding
: Maritime Restricted Area
: Mission Subsistence Allowance
: Main Supply Route
: Military Specialized Unit (i.e. Riot Control)
NAC
NAI
NCS
NFL
NFS
NGO
NLT
NTM
NRF
NSE
: North Atlantic Council
: Named Area of Interest
: NATO Command Structure
: No-Fire Line
: NATO Force Structure
: Non Governmental Organization
: Not later than
: Notice to Move
: NATO Response Force
: National Support Element
OCHA
OF
OMLT
OP
OPCON
OPCOM
OPG
OPSEC
OPT
OPP
ORBAT
OSCE
: Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Aid
: Opposing Forces see also FWF
: Operational Mentor and Liaison Team
: Observation Post
: Operational Control
: Operational Command
: Operation Planning Group
: Operational Security
: Observation Post Temporarily
: Operational Planning Process
: Order of Battle
: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
PIO
PIR
POC
POL
PRT
PSF
PSYOPS
: Press and Information Officer
: Priority Information Requirement
: Point of Contact
: Petrol, Oil, Lubricants
: Provincial Reconstruction Team
: Peace Support Force
: Psychological Operations
QRF
: Quick Reaction Force
RC N
RHOD
R&R
ROE
: Regional Command
: Rail Head of Disembarkation
: Rest and Recuperation
: Rules of Engagement
SAR
SASE
SC
SDO
SIR
SITFOR
SN
: Search and Rescue
: Safe and Secure Environment
: Strategic Command
: Senior Duty Officer
: Specified Intelligence Requirement
: Situation Forces (“Opposing Forces” in exercise context)
: Sending Nation
3
SOFA
SOP
SO
SOR
SPOD
SPS
SRSG
SSGT
SSO
: Status of Forces Agreement
: Standing Operating Procedures
: Staff Officer
: Statement of Requirement
: Seaport of Disembarkation
: Staff & Personnel Support
: Special Representative Security General
: Senior Staff Sergeant
: Senior Staff Officer
TACOM
TACON
TBD
TCP
TOA
TOC
: Tactical Command
: Tactical Control
: To be determined
: Temporarily Check Point
: Transfer of Authority
: Tactical Operational Centre
TO&E
TPT
TSZ
: Table of organization and equipment
: Transportation
: Temporarily Security Zone
UAV
: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UNHCR
UNSCR
: United Nations High Commissionaire for Refugees
: United Nations Security Council Resolution
WngO
ZOS
: Warning Order
: Zone of Separation
4