Glossary

Adoo	Enemy (Oman)
ANZAC	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
AO	Area of operations
APC	Armoured personnel carrier
BAe	British Aerospace
BRA	Bougainville Resistance Army
CO	Commanding officer
CSM	Company sergeant major
CT	Counterterrorism
DCM	Distinguished Conduct Medal
doppie	Cartridge case (Afrikaans)
DPM	Disruptive pattern material
DSIR	Department for Scientific and Industrial Research
DSO	Distinguished Service Order
DWP	Department of Work and Pensions
DZ	Drop zone – paratroopers
ECT	Explosive cutting tape
FAPLA	Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola
FSB	Fire support base
GPMG	General Purpose Machine Gun
GR	Grid reference
GSG 9	Grenzschutzgruppe 9
HE	High-explosive
HMC	Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)
HQ	Headquarters
IED	Improvised explosive device
IRA	Irish Republican Army
IVCP	Illegal vehicle checkpoint
jebel	Mountain (Arabic)
JWS	Jungle Warfare School – Kota Tinggi, Johore Bahru, Malaysia
KFB	Loud explosion (Ker… fucking… boom!)
Khareef	Arabian monsoon
kraal	African village
LCT	Land clearing team
LO	Liaison officer
LZ	Landing zone – helicopter
MAG	7.62mm Machine Gun
MC	Military Cross
MiD	Mention in Dispatches
MP	Military police
MPLA	Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NCO	Non-commissioned officer
NI	Northern Ireland
NITAT	Northern Ireland Training and Advisory Team
NSTU	National Service Training Unit
NVA	North Vietnamese Army
OC	Officer commanding
OCS	Officer Cadet School
OP	Observation post
OR	other ranks (i.e. not commissioned)
Parabat	South African Parachute Battalion or paratrooper
PF	Permanent force
PJI	Parachute jump instructor
PMC	Private military company
PoW	Prisoner of war
PT	Physical training
R4	SADF 5.56mm assault rifle
RAAF	Royal Australian Air Force
RAASC	Royal Australian Army Service Corps
RAC	Royal Armoured Corps
RAPC	Royal Army Pay Corps
RAS	Reliance Aviation Security
RIB	Rigid inflatable boat
RMO	Regimental medical officer
RNZAF	Royal New Zealand Air Force
RO	Royal Ordnance
rondavel	Thatched hut (South Africa)
RP	Regimental policeman
RPG	Rocket-propelled grenade
RSM	Regimental sergeant major
RUC	Royal Ulster Constabulary
RV	Rendezvous
SAAF	South African Air Force
SADF	South African Defence Force
SAF	Sultan’s Armed Forces (Oman)
SAS	Special Air Service
SBS	Special Boat Service
SDU	Special Duties Unit (Royal Hong Kong police maritime unit)
shona	Riverbed (South Africa)
SID	Seismic intruder detector
SIS	Secret Intelligence Services
SLR	Self-loading rifle
SNCO	Senior non-commissioned officer
SOAF	Sultan of Oman’s Air Force
SOF	Special operations forces
SOP	Standard Operating Procedures
souk	Market (Sudan)
spoor	Enemy tracks (South Africa)
SSF	Sultan of Oman’s Special Force
SWAPO	South West Africa People’s Organisation
TA	Territorial Army
Toms	Parachute Regiment soldiers
UDR	Ulster Defence Regiment
UE	University entrance examination (New Zealand)
UN	United Nations
UNITA	National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (a pro-Western organisation formed in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi)
USMC	US Marine Corps
VC	Viet Cong
veldt	Open plains of South Africa (Afrikaans)
wadi	Valley/re-entrant (Arabic)