AIF |
Australian Imperial Forces |
AMP |
Australian Mutual Provident Society |
ANZAC |
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
APC |
armoured personnel carrier |
1 ATF |
First Australian Task Force |
ARVN |
Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
casevac |
casualty evacuation |
chopper |
helicopter |
Dustoff |
acronym: Dedicated untiring service to our fighting forces—a helicopter for casualty evacuation |
field ambulance |
a cross between an aid post and a field hospital |
free fire zone |
an area where civilians were prohibited and there were few restrictions on firing |
hootchie |
nylon cover carried on patrol |
Jade |
radio callsign used by forward air controllers |
Kiwi |
nickname for New Zealanders |
maintdem |
maintenance demand for stores or equipment |
MBE |
Member of the Order of the British Empire (honour) |
medevac |
medical evacuation, the Hercules aircraft flight returning wounded to Australia |
mm |
millimetre (calibre) |
nasho |
national serviceman; conscript |
NCO |
non-commissioned officer |
NVA |
North Vietnamese Army |
picquet |
sentry |
pink team |
US Army helicopter teams, who at a certain amount of risk, drew fire in order to locate enemy for the jet bombers |
pogo |
personnel on garrison operations—anyone serving in a base installation |
RAAF |
Royal Australian Air Force |
RAR |
Royal Australian Regiment |
recce |
reconnaissance |
shellscrapes |
shallow dugouts for protection against shrapnel |
sign |
evidence of enemy presence—usually footprints |
silk |
a lightweight sleeping bag liner |
stand to |
be on alert |
US |
United States of America |
VC |
Viet Cong |
VHF |
very high frequency (radio band) |
white mice |
South Vietnamese police—socalled because of their uniforms |
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Weapons |
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AK-47 |
Russian 7.62 mm assault rifle (commonly known as a Kalashnikoff) |
claymore |
anti-personnel directional above ground mine |
GPMG |
general purpose machine gun, 7.62 mm |
M16 |
5.56 mm Armalite assault rifle (US) |
M26 |
high explosive grenade |
M79 |
40 mm grenade launcher |
RPG |
rocket propelled grenade, the weapon called B-40 or RPG-2 (and larger RPG-7) |
SLR |
7.62 mm self-loading rifle |
XM203 |
the experimental forerunner to the 5.56 mm M16 rifle with the M79 grenade launcher fitted below, also known as the ‘under and over’ |
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Aircraft |
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A37 |
Super Sky Master, fighter ground attack aircraft |
Bell Jet Ranger |
light observation helicopter |
Bronco |
aircraft used by forward air controllers (US) |
B52 |
strategic jet bomber (US) |
Cessna |
fixed wing light aircraft |
Cobra |
assault helicopter |
F4 Phantom |
jet bomber |
Pilatus Porters |
fixed wing aircraft |