prepped prepared for a mission
PRM personal radio mike
psyops psychological operations
PT physical training
QRF Quick Reaction Force
RPG rocket-propelled grenade
RPK Soviet-era light calibre 7.62mm machine gun
SAM surface-to-air missile
SAS Special Air Service, the UK’s foremost special forces unit
SBS Special Boat Service, the UK’s smaller, sister special forces unit to the SAS
Sea King Naval anti-submarine helicopter, capable of carrying 20 men
SEAL Sea Air Land Team, US special forces recruited from within the Navy and Marine Corps
SF special forces
shaheed Arabic for a martyr
shihada Arabic word for martyrdom
shouhada’a Arabic word for the martyrs
Shakyboats slang for the men of the Special Boat Service
sigint signals intelligence
sitrep short for situation report
SOF Special Operations Forces, US Tier 2 special forces
SOP standard operating procedure, the normal way of doing things in any given military situation
SOCOM Special Operations Command, the US special forces headquarters
STASS short-term air-supply system, an emergency air bottle for underwater operations
TACBE tactical beacon, used by troops for emergency surface-to-air communications
TOW tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided antitank missiles
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UKSF United Kingdom Special Forces (the SAS and the SBS)
UXO unexploded ordnance
warned off British military phrase meaning to be given first warning of an impending deployment
WMD weapon of mass destruction
WP white phosphorous, an incendiary shell
X-ray code name for an enemy combatant
Yankee code name for friendly forces
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