AAH: Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq
AFCENT: U.S. Air Forces Central Command
AGM: Air-to-Ground Missile
ALO: Air Liaison Officer
AMRAAM: Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
ANF: Al-Nusra Front
ANSF: Afghan National Security Forces
AQI: Al-Qaeda in Iraq
ARCENT/USARCENT: U.S. Army Central Command
ASOS: Air Support Operations Squadron
ATO: Air Tasking Order
BDSC: Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center
BIAP: Baghdad International Airport
BOC: Baghdad Operations Command
BOG: Boots on the Ground
CJFACC: Combined Joint Forces Air Component Command
CAS: Close Air Support
CCT: Combat Control Team
CDE: Collateral Damage Estimation
CDQC: Combat Diver’s Qualification Course
CENTCOM/USCENTCOM: United States Central Command
CF-J: CENTCOM Forward-Jordan
CHU: Containerized Housing Unit
CJOC: Combined Joint Operations Center
CJSOTF-S: Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Syria
CJTF: Combined Joint Task Force
CJTF-OIR: Combined Joint Task Force-OIR
COIN: Counterinsurgency
CQC: Close Quarters Combat
CRF: Crisis Response Force
CTS: Iraq Counterterrorism Service
EBALO: Enlisted Battalion Air Liaison Officer
ETAC: Enlisted Terminal Attack Controller
FAC: Forward Air Controller
FAST: Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team
FID: Foreign Internal Defense
FLOT: Forward Line of Own Troops
FM: Frequency Modulation
FSA: Free Syrian Army
GBU: Guided Bomb Unit
GMLRS: Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System
HD: High Definition
HIMARS: High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
HLZ: Helicopter Landing Zone
HUD: Heads-Up Display
IED: Improvised Explosive Device
IFF: Identification, Friend or Foe
IO: Information Operations
IS: Islamic State
ISF: Iraqi Security Forces
ISIL: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIS-K: ISIS-Khorasan
ISR: Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
ITC: ISR Tactical Controller
JFLCC-I: Joint Forces Land Component Commander-Iraq
JSOTF: Joint Special Operations Task Force
JSOTF-GCC: Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf Cooperation Council
JTAC: Joint Terminal Attack Controller
KH: Kata’ib Hezbollah
KIA: Killed in Action
LNO: Liaison Officer
MARCENT/USMARCENT: U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command
MEDEVAC: Medical Evacuation
MFF: Military Freefall
MIT: (Turkish) National Intelligence Organization
MOAB: Massive Ordnance Air Blast
MoD: Ministry of Defense (Iraq)
MSO: Moderate Syrian Opposition
NCO: Noncommissioned Officer
NCOIC: Noncommissioned Officer in Charge
NEO: Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
NSC: National Security Council
NSF: New Syrian Forces
NSW: Naval Special Warfare
NTC: National Training Center
ODA: Operational Detachment Alpha
OIR: Operation Inherent Resolve
OND: Operation New Dawn
OSC-I: Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq
PJ: Pararescue Jumper (Pararescueman)
PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
QRF: Quick Reaction Force
ROE: Rules of Engagement
ROMAD: Vietnam era: Radio Operator, Maintainer, and Driver | Early 2000s: Recon, Observe, Mark, and Destroy
RPG: Rocket-Propelled Grenade
SATCOM: Satellite Communication
SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SDF: Syrian Democratic Forces
SEAL: Sea, Air, and Land
SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
SFUWO: Special Forces Underwater Operations
SOCCENT: Special Operations Command Central
SOCOM: Special Operations Command
SOF: Special Operations Forces
SOFA: Status of Forces Agreement
SOF TACP: Special Operations Forces Tactical Air Control Party
SoP: Show of Presence
SOTF: Special Operations Task Force
SOTF-A: Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan
SOTF-I: Special Operations Task Force-Iraq
ST: Special Tactics
STO: Special Tactics Officer
TACP: Tactical Air Control Party
TEA: Target Engagement Authority
TOA: Transfer of Authority
TRADOC: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
UHF-AM: Ultra High Frequency-Amplitude Modulation
VBIED: Vehicle-Borne IED
VSO: Vetted Syrian Opposition
YPG: (Kurdish) People’s Protection Units