List of Acronyms for use by the AME
Last Updated: 19 March 2012
(I) ANDS – (Interim) Afghan National Development Strategy
AACP –
AAF – Afghan Air Force
ABP – Afghan Border Police (Agency within ANP)
ACBAR – Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
ACKU – Afghanistan Center at Kabul University
ACP – Afghan Customs Police (Agency within ANP)
ACSFO – Afghan Civil Society Forum Organization
ACSP – Afghanistan Country Stability Picture
ADA – Afghan Development Association
ADCON - Administrative Control
ADF – Afghanistan Development Forum
AED – Afghan Engineering District
AF(G) – Afghanistan
AFPAK – Afghanistan-Pakistan
AFROC – Air Force Requirements Oversight Council
AFSC – Air Force Specialty Code
AGCHO – Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office
AIA – Afghan Interim Authority
AIHRC – Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
ALP – Afghan Local Police
AME – AFPAK Hands Management Element
AME-F – AFPAK Hands Management Element Forward
AMF – Afghan Military Forces
ANA – Afghan National Army
ANAP – Afghan National Auxiliary Police (Agency within ANP)
ANBP – Afghanistan New Beginnings Program
ANCB – Afghan NGO Coordination Board
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ANCOP – Afghan National Civil Order Police (Agency within ANP)
AND-S – Afghanistan National Development-Strategy
ANP – Afghan National Police
ANSF – Afghan National Security Forces
ANSO – Afghan NGO Safety Office
AO – Area of Operations
AOR – Area of Responsibility
APAP – Afghanistan Parliamentary Assistance Project
APH – AFPAK Hands Program
APRP – Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program
AREDP – Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program
ARTF – Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund
ATA – Afghan Transitional Authority
AUP – Afghan Uniformed Police (Agency within ANP)
AWN – Afghan Women’s Network
BFC – Battle Force Circulation
BPHS – Basic Package of Health Services
BSO – Base Support Officer
BSO – Battle Space Owner
CA – Civil Affairs
CAAT – Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team
CAC – Common Access Card
CAT – (has to do with interpreters)
CCO – NDU Center for Complex Operations
CDC – Community Development Council
CDP – Community Development Plan
CENTCOM – US Central Command
CERP – Commander’s Emergency Response Program
CF – Coalition Forces
CFSOCC – Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command
CG – Consultative Group
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CHA – Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance
CID – Criminal Investigation Division (Agency within ANP)
CIED – Counter Improvised Explosive Device
CIVCAS – Civilian Casualties
CJCS – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJCSI – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
CJSOTF – Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force
CJTF – Combined Joint Task Force
CLJ – Constitutional Loyal Jirga
CM – Council of Ministries
CN – Counter-Narcotics
CNPA – Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (Agency within ANP)
CoC – Chain of Command
COIN – Counterinsurgency
COMISAF – Commander, International Security Assistance Force
CONUS – Continental United States
CPD – Close Protection Detail
CRC –US Army CONUS Replacement Center
CSO – Central Statistics Organization
CST – Combat Skills Training
CTNSP – NDU’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy
CTP – Counter Terrorism Police (Agency within ANP)
DAC – Defense Analysis Community
DAD – Development Assistance Database
DAT –District Augmentation Team
DCO – District Coordination Officer
DCOS OPS – Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
DCOS STAB – Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability Operations
DDR – Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
DG – District Governor
DIA – Defense Intelligence Agency
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DIAG – Disbandment of Illegal Armed Forces
DLAB – Defense Language Aptitude Battery
DLI – Defense Language Institute
DoD – Department of Defense
DoS – Department of State
ECC – Electoral Complaints Commission
ELJ – Emergency Loyal Jirga
ER – Emergency Room
ETT – Embedded Training Team
EUPOL – European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan
EXSUM – Executive Summary
FAO – Foreign Area Officer
FDD – Focused District Development
FOB – Forward Operating Base
FP – Force Protection
FRAGO – Fragmentary Order
GCC – Gulf Cooperative Council
GIRoA – Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
GO – General Officer
GWOT – Global War On Terror
Hand – A member of the AFPAK Hands program
HAP – Humanitarian Action Plan
IARCSC – Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission
IDB – Islamic Development Bank
IDLG – Independent Directorate Local Government
IDLG – Independent Directorate of Local Governance
IDP – Internally Displaced Persons
IEC – Independent Elections Commission
IED – Improvised Explosive Device
IJC – ISAF Joint Command
ILE – Intermediate Level Education
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ILR – Interagency Language Roundtable
IO – Information Operations
IPACS – Initiative to Promote Afghan Civil Society
IPCB – International Police Coordination Board
IRB – Internal Review Board
ISAF – International Security Assistance Force
ISO – In Support Of
ITAG – Infrastructure Training and Advisory Group
JBCC – Joint Border Coordination Center
JCMB – Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board
JMD – Joint Manning Document
JS – Joint Staff
JSR – Justice Sector Reform
KLE – Key Leader Engagement
KMIC – Kandahar Media and Information Center
KPA – Kabul Police Academy
KU – Kabul University
LNO – Liaison Officer
LOFTA – Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan
LOO – Lines of Operation
MAAG – Military Assistance Advisory Group
MCN – Ministry of Counter Narcotics
MEDCOM – Medical Command
MEF – Marine Expeditionary Force
MoD – Afghan Ministry of Defense
MoDA – DoD’s Ministry of Defense Advisors
MOFA – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MoI – Afghan Ministry of Interior
MOS – Military Occupation Specialty
MRAP – Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle
MRRD – Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
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MSOT – Marine Special Operations Team
NABDP – National Area-Based Development Program
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCO – Non-Commissioned Officer
NCR – National Capital Region
NDF – National Development Framework
NDS – Afghan National Directorate of Security
NDU – National Defense University
NED – National Endowment for Democracy
NGO – Non-Governmental Organization
NHDR – National Human Development Report
NIACT – Navy Individual Augmentee Combat Training
NPCC – Afghan National Police Coordination Center
NRVA – National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
NSC – Afghan National Security Council
NSP – National Solidarity Program
NTM-A – NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan
NTM-A/CSTC-A – NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan / Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan
OAA – Afghan Office of Administrative Affairs
OCC – Operational Coordination Center
OCCP – Operational Coordination Center - Provincial
OCC-R – Operational Coordination Center - Regional
ODRP – Office of the Defense Representative - Pakistan
OEF-A – Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan
OER – Officer Evaluation Record
OIC – Officer in Charge
OOT – Out-of-Theater
OPCON – Operational Control
OPI – (has to do with language)
PA – Physician’s Assistant
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PACC – Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell
PAKMIL – Pakistani Military
PAT – Provincial Augmentation Team
PEF – Poppy Eradication Force
PGS – Provincial Government Spokesman
PICC – Presidential Information Coordination Cell
POC – Point of Contact
POC – Project Oversight Committee
POTUS – President of the United States
PRT – Provincial Reconstruction Team
PSD – Personal Security Detail
RC-C – Regional Command Central
RC-E – Regional Command East
RC-N – Regional Command North
RC-S – Regional Command South
RC-SW – Regional Command Southwest
RC-W – Regional Command West
RFF – Request for Forces
RFI – Request For Information
RPG – Rocket Propelled Grenade
RSOI – Reception, Staging, and Onward Integration
SCR – NATO Senior Civilian Representative
SecDef – US Secretary of Defense
SERE – Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape
SF – Special Forces
SG – Surgeon General
SNCO – Senior Non-Commissioned Officer
SOCOM – US Special Operations Command
SOF – Special Operations Forces
SOP – Standard Operating Procedure
TACON – Tactical Control
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TDY – Temporary Duty
TOLO – 24 Hour Afghan News Agency
TRADCOMM – Traditional Communication
USACE – United States Army Corps of Engineers
USACE – US Army Corps of Engineers
USAID – United States Agency for International Development
USFOR-A – United States Forces - Afghanistan
USG – United States Government
VSCC – Village Stability Coordination Cell
VSO – Village Stability Operations
VTC – Video Teleconference
WAKHT – Kabul Based Independent and Private News Agency
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