Airforce
562 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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PME | Professional Military Education | |
Pocket Rocket | Term for the missile badge on ICBM and cruise missile maintenance uniforms | |
Pop Tart | Airman who's technical career schools are 6 weeks or less | |
PRP | Personnel Reliability Program | |
PSYOP | Psychological Operations | |
PTL | Physical Training Leader | |
QAF | Quality Air Force | |
Qweep | A task or duty that is completely useless and ultimately unrelated to your primary job. It is often assigned by superiors not of your career field as they assume that you have time to constantly work these tasks. Example: "I have a lot of qweep to do before I go home." "I need to finish all of this qweep before I can go fly." | |
RA | Resource Advisor | |
Rainbow Flight | Fresh trainees at BMT who have not yet received uniforms (clothing colors represent the rainbow) | |
RAM | Random Antiterrorism Measure | |
RAS | Regional Affairs Strategist | |
RED HORSE | Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers | |
RFF | Request [F]or Forces (initiated by Army) | |
RIF | Reduction In Force | |
RNLTD | Report No Later Than Date | |
ROAD | Retired On Active-Duty | |
ROTC | Reserve Officers' Training Corps | |
RQS | Rescue Squadron (formerly ARS) | |
RTB | Return To Base | |
RTIC | Real Time In the Cockpit | |
RW | Reconnaissance Wing | |
SAASS | School of Advanced Air and Space Studies | |
SAC | Strategic Air Command | |
SAF/SECAF | Secretary of the Air Force | |
SAM | Surface to Air Missile | |
SARC | Sexual Assault Response Coordinator | |
SATCOM | Satellite Communications | |
SAV | Staff Assisted Visit | |
SBIRS | Space-Based Infrared System | |
SDF | Standard Deployment Folder | |
SEAD | Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses | |
SEADS | Southeast Air Defense Sector | |
Secret squirrel stuff | Material classified above secret or compartmentalzed information. | |
SEPCOR | Separate Correspondence | |
SERE | Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape | |
SF | Security Forces | |
SFS | Security Forces Squadron | |
Shirt | A unit first sergeant | |
SIGINT | Signals Intelligence | |
SIPR | Secret Internet Protocol Router Network | |
SKT | Specialty Knowledge Test | |
Slick Sleeve | Nickname for an Airman Basic (owing to the absence of rank insignia on an individual's sleeve) | |
SME | Subject Matter Expert | |
SMSgt | Senior Master Sergeant | |
Snacko | A highly underestimated, mission critical position held most often by Lieutenants in a new flying squadron. Doing well at the Snacko position will prompt one for a laudable career. Failing at such a job will often entail severe ridicule and, if necessary, replacement and retraining by the flying squadron. | |
SNAFU | Situation Normal All Fucked Up | |
SNCO | Senior Non-commissioned Officer | |
SNCOA | Senior Non-commissioned Officer Academy | |
SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |