AO - area(s) of operation
A&W - fast food place
AWOL - absent without leave
ARVN - Army of Vietnam
C rations - box lunch
CID - criminal investigation division
Claymore - a mine packed with steel pellets
CO status - conscientious objector status
CS - tear gas
DDT - bug killer
dink(s) - derogatory term for a Vietnamese
DNA - basic building block of the body
dustoff - medical evacuation, or medevac; also any helicopter pickup
E-6 - non-commissioned officer, 6th level; sergeant (army)
EM - enlisted man
GI - Government Issue, another name for a soldier
HE - high explosive rounds
KIA - killed in action
LBJ - Lyndon Baines Johnson, US president from 1963-1969
LP - listening post
LSA(oil) - oil used on rifles and light machinery
Lt - lieutenant
LZ Gator - landing zone named Gator
M&M's - comic slang for medical supplies
MIA - missing in action
MP - military police
MPC - military payment certificates, payment instead of dollars
P 38 - small can opener, can be put on a key chain
PF - popular force; So. Vietnamese militiaman
PFC - private 1st class
PRC 25 - portable radio-telephone
Psy Ops - psychological warfare operations
R&R - rest and recreation
RF - regional force; So Vietnamese regional force
RPG's - rocket propelled grenade
RTO - radiotelephone operator
SEATO - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Sin Loi - Vietnamese for "Sorry about that."
SOP - standard operating procedure
USO - Uniformed Services Organization, entertained the troops
VC - Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese who collaborated with the North
c: vocabttc SHG 6/99
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