Acronyms

Here is a fairly comprehensive, alphabetical list of acronyms you're likely to hear your cadet drop or that have pertinence to life in the Active Duty Air Force. I will use acronyms in most, if not all, of my posts. Bad habit. :) Most of these I will not use though. The ones in red are the ones you're most likely to hear most often.

ABS - Air Base Squadron
ACC - Air Combat Command
AEF - Air Expeditionary Force (Airmen playing Army Rangers)
AETC - Air Education and Training Command (ROTC falls under this command)
AFB - Air Force Base
AFI - Air Force Instruction (An Air Force Manual)
AFSC - Air Force Specialty Code (Designated your officer's job in the Air Force)
AGM - Air-to-ground missile
ANG - Air (or Army) National Guard
AO - Area of Operations
AOR - Area of Responsibility
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASBC - Air and Space Basic Course (All 2LT attend this 6 week program)
AU - Air University (ASBC and SOS are conducted here. Located at Maxwell AFB.)
C2 - Command and Control
CAP - Civil Air Patrol (these guys give incentive flights to cadets)
CC - designated a commander, ie SQ/CC is a squadron commander
CJCS - Chairman, Joint Cheifs of Staff
CMT - Combat Mission Training
CONUS - Continental US
CSAF - Chief of Staff of the Air Force
CSAR - Combat Search and Rescue
DOD - Department of Defense
DZ - Drop Zone
EPW - Enemy Prisoner of War
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD - Estimated Time of Departure
ETE - Estimated Time En-Route

more to come....