Military Acronyms

Posted: August 5th, 2008 |

Being a former infantryman in the Army and government employee, I have seen my fair share of acronyms. This page is reserved for some of my favorites.

If you know any good ones I am missing, please let me know in a comment below or email.

PAST-A!: Pedagogically Adaptive Scenarios for Training - Automated!

DAWG: Defense Acquisition Working Group

CAN-DO: Cognitive Airborne Networks for Defense Operations

IBOM ("I bomb"): Ionizing Brownout Mitigation System

TEMATA ("T'mata"): Total Envelope Modeling Application for Transport Aircraft

BNONA ("B'nana"): Broadband Non-Planar Octave Nested Array

STURDI: Strain Gage Calibration Using Response to Dynamic Input

FEAST: Framework for Enabling Adaptive Scenario Generation for Training

ASWBL- Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory (pron. ASS WOBBLE!)

CEXC (pron. "sexy")  Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell

ASRAAM - Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile

BOING- Basis Of Issue Narrative Guidance

CUSRPG - Canada-US Regional Planning Group - or a cursing pig?

GPALS - Global Protection Against Limited Strikes - or a kids cartoon?

STIG - Security Technical Implementation Guide - or the best driver in the world!

TEWT (Toot) - Training Exercise Without Troops

PENIS – Practical (Pointless) Exercise, Not Involving Soldiers

BACN and EGGS - Battlefield Airborne Communications Node and Expeditionary Ground Gateway System.

DILDO (I'm NOT kidding)-Direct Input Limited Duty Officer

PSTOF - Precision Strike Targeting Software (Pron. Pissed Off)

FARRT-- Floor Action Rapid Response Team

PMS = Professor of Military Science

BOGSAAT – Bunch Of Generals Sitting Around A Table

BOHICA – Bend Over Here It Comes Again

OFO- Off/Out F**king Off

FUBAR -  F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition

SNAFU – Situation Normal, All F**ked Up

FNG – F**king New Guy

DEH – Don’t Expect Help

LOST – Looking Over Strange Terrain

MRE – Meals Rejected by Ethiopians

TWAT – The War Against Terror

NAFOD – No Apparent Fear Of Death

LIP – Local indigenous Personnel

(S)WAG – (Scientific) Wild Ass Guess

TLA – Three Letter Acronyms

SOATT – Significant Other At The Time

AAAAAA - Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms