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S.E.A.L WORDS

A2 : Aforementioned Asshole.
A3 : Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere.
ADAM : Alpha Detachment, American Militia. Underground tango group.
Admiral's Gestapo : What the Secretary of Defense's office calls the Naval Investigative Services Command.
AK-47 : 7.63 x 39 Kalashnikov automatic rifle. The most common assault weapon in the world.
ASAP : As Soon AS Possible. ATF : Anti-terrorist Task Force, or Ambiguous (Amphibious) Task Force.
Atropine : Antidote for biological warfare nerve agents such as Sarin or Tabun.
Balaclava: Knitted hood commonly used by CT operatives to conceal facial features.
BAW : Big Asshole Windbag.
BDUs : Battle Dress Uniforms. Now that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Ben zona : Son of a bitch (Hebrew).
BFG : Big Fucking Gun.
BFH : Big Fucking Help.
BOHICA : Bend Over Here It Comes Again!
Boomer : Nuclear-powered missile submarine.
Briccone : Rogue (Italian).
BTDT: Been There, Done That.
BUPERS : Naval BUreau of PERSonnel.
byKi Bodyguards (Russian).
C2CO Can't Cunt Commanding Officer. Too many of these in Navy SpecWar today. They won't support their men or take chances because they're afraid it'll ruin their chances for promotion.
C4 Plastic explosive. You can mold it like clay. You can even use it to light your fires. Just don't stomp on it.
C4IFTW Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence For The Warrior.
CALOW Coastal And Limited-Objective Warfare. Very fashionable acronym at the Pentagon in these days of increased low-intensity conflict.
Cannon Fodder See FNG.
Christians In SpecWar slang for the Action Central Intelligence Agency.
CINC Commander-IN-Chief.
CINCLANT Commander-IN-Chief, AtLANTic.
CINCUSNAVEUR Commander-IN-Chief, U.S. NAval forces, EURope.
clusterfuck see FUBAR.
CONUS CONtinental United States.
CNO Chief of Naval Operations.
Cockbreath SEAL term of endearment used for those who only pay lip service.
CRACKERS CRiminal hACKERS -- cyberpunk tangos.
CQC6 Ernest Emerson's titanium-framed Close Quarters Combat folding knife.
CQB Close Quarters Battle -- e.g. killing that's up close and personal.
CT CounterTerrorism.
DADT Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
DEA Drug Enforcement Agency.
DEFCON DEFense CONdition.
Detasheet Olive-drab, 10-by-25 inch flexible PETN-based plastic explosive used as a cutting or breaching charge.
DEVGRP Naval Special Warfare DEVelopment GRouP. Current U.S. Navy designation for SEAL Team Six.
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency. Spook heaven based in Arlington, Virginia.
Dickhead Stevie Wonder's name for Marcinko.
DIPSEC DIPlomatic SECurity.
Dweeb No-load shit-for-brains geeky asshole, usually shackled to a computer.
Do-ma-nhieu Go fuck yourself (Vietnamese).
EEI Essential Element of Information. The info-nuggets on which a mission is planned and executed.
EEO Equal Employment Opportunity (Marcinko always treats 'em all alike -- just like shit).
ELINT ELectronic INTelligence.
EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
F3 Full Fucking Faulkner -- lots of sound and fury.
FASAP : Fuck As Soon As Possible.
FIS : Flight Information Service.
Flashbang : Disorientation device used by hostage rescue teams.
FLIR : Forward Looking InfraRed.
FNG : Fucking New Guy. See Cannon Fodder.
FUBAR : Fucked Up Beyond All Repair.
Glock : Reliable 9mm pistols made by Glock in Austria. They're great for SEALs because they don't require as much care as Sig Sauers.
GNBN : Good News/Bad News.
Goatfuck : What the Navy likes to do to Marcinko (See FUBAR above).
HAHO : High-Altitutde, High-Opening parachute jump.
HALO : High-Altitude, Low-Opening parachute jump.
HICs : Head-In-Cement syndrome. Condition common to high-ranking officers. Symptoms include pigheadedness and inability to change opinions when presented with new information.
HK : Ultra-reliable pistol, assault rifle, or submachine gun made by Heckler & Koch, a German firm. SEALs use H&K MP5-Ks submachine guns in various configurations, as well as H&K 93 assault rifles, and P7M8 9mm, and USP 9mm .40 or .45-caliber pistols.
HUMINT : HUMan INTelligence.
humongous : Marcinko dick.
IBS : Inflatable Boat, Small. The basic unit of SEAL transportation.
IED : Improvised Explosive Device.
IMPOTUS : William Jefferson Clinton (See POTUS).
Jarheads : Marines. The Corps. Formally, USMC, or, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.
JSOC : Joint Special Operations Commmand.
KATN : Kick Ass and Take Names. Marcinko avocation.
KISS : Keep It Simple, Stupid.
LANTFLT : AtLANTic FLeeT.
M3 : Massively Motivated Motherfuckers.
M-16 : Basic U.S. .233-caliber weapon, used by the armed forces.
MagSafe : Lethal frangible ammunition that does not penetrate the human body. Favored by some SWAT units for CQB.
MILCRAFT : Pentagonese for MILitary airCRAFT.
MOI : Ministry of the Interior.
NAVAIR : NAVy AIR Command.
NAVSEA : NAVy SEA Command.
NAVSPECWARGRU : NAVal SPECial WARfare GRoUp.
Navyspeak : Redundant, bureaucratic naval nomenclature, either in written nonoral or nonwritten oral modes. Indecipherable by nonmilitary (conventional) or military (unconventional) individuals during normal interfacing configuration conformations.
NIS : Naval Investigative Service Command, also known as the Admirals' Gestapo.
NSA : National Security Agency, known within the SpecWar community as No Such Agency.
NSCT : Naval Security Coordination Team (Navyspeak name for Red Cell).
NSD : National Security Directive.
NYL : Nubile Young Lovely.
OBE : Overtaken By Events -- usually because of bureaucracy.
OOD : Officer of the Deck.
OP 06D : Cover organization for Red Cell/NSCT.
OPSEC : OPerational SECurity.
PDFL : Pretty Dangerous Fucking Location.
PDMP : Pretty Dangerous Motherfucking People.
POTUS : President Of The United States (see IMPOTUS).
R2D2 : Ritualistic, Rehearsed, Disciplined Drills.
S2 : Sit the fuck down and Shut the fuck up.
SAC : Special Agent In Charge, FBI's local office top-gun (all too often a pussy-ass paper-cruncher).
SATCOM : SATellite COMmunications.
SCIF : Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. A bug-proof room.
SEAL : Sea-Air-Land Navy SpecWarrior. A hop-and-popping shoot-and-looter hairy-assed frogman who gives a shit. The acronym stands for Sleep, Eat And Live it up.
SERE : Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape school.
Shit-for-Brains : Any no-load, pus-nutted, pencil-dicked asshole.
SIGINT : SIGnals INTelligence.
SMG : SubMachine Gun.
SNAFU : Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.
SNAILS : Slow, Nerdy Assholes In Ludicrous Shoes.
SpecWarrior : One who gives a fuck.
SOF : Special Operations Force.
STR : Smack the Rogue
SWAT : Special Weapons and Tactics police teams. All too often they do not train enough, and become SQUAT teams.
Syrette : Self-injection dose, usually of morphine.
Szeb : Dick (Arabic)
TAD : Temporary Additional Duty. SEALs refer to it as Traveling Around Drunk.
tango : SpecWarrior name for the bad guys.
TARFU : Things Are Really Fucked Up.
TECHINT : TEChnical INTelligence.
THREATCON : THREAT CONdition.
Tiger stripes : The only stripes that SEALs will wear.
TIQ : Tango-In-Question.
TTS : Marcinko slang for Tap 'em, Tie 'em and Stash 'em.
U2 : Ugly and Unfamiliar.
VDL : Versatile, Dangerous and Lethal.
UNODIR : UNless Otherwise DIRected.
Wanna-bes : The sort of folks you meet at Soldier of Fortune conventions.
weenies : pussy-ass can't cunts and no-loads
WTF : What The Fuck.
Yaytsa Russian, for balls.
Zulu : Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) designator used in formal military communications.

 

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