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Atlantic Command ACP Allied Communication Publication ACR Armored cavalry regiment ACS Assistant chief of staff ACSB Amplitude Compandored SideBand ACSL altocumulus standing lenticular cloud ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration ACTS Automated Computer Time Service ACW Air Control Wing like AWACS Tinker ADA Americans with Disabilities Official DoD language not acronym named for Babbage the world first programmer ADAS AWOS Data Acquisition System Nice nested ADC Analogto Digital Convertor ADCC Defense Center addr Address ADES Airdrop equipment systems ADF Automatic direction finding Australian Defence Forces ADIZ Identification Zone ADM Admiral ADMD Administration Management Domain ADO ActiveX Objects ADOC operation ADONIS Article Delivery Over Network Information ADP processing ADPCM Adaptive differential pulsecode modulation ADPE ADPSIS Software Inventory ADPSO Security Officer ADPSSO ADR brevity ADS Dependent Surveillance ADSB ADSL Assymetric Subscriber Line Ae Auroral Electrojet magnetic activity index Audio Frequency Hz kHz AFAMPE Message Exchange AFATDS Field Artillery Tactical AFB Base AFC AFCA Communications Agency AFEPS ACARS FrontEnd Processor ground AFETR Eastern Test Range AFFSA Flight Standards AFGWC Global Weather Central Offutt AFI Africa Indian Ocean MWARA Instruction directive Film Institute AFN broadcast military AFNET Integrated Armed Radio AFRES Reserve AFRN AFRTS Television Services AFS Station Aeronautical Fixed AFSATCOM Satellite AFSK frequencyshift keying AFSOC Special Operations AFTCO Certification AFTN Adjutant general AGC gain Aerospace pronounced how old you when replace order New AGL Above level AGU Geophysical Union AHAMSL Antenna height mean sea AHF High AHMSL AHP Army Heliport Artificial intelligence AIC Intercept AICPITS Coordinated Ionosphere Thermosphere Studies AIDA Atmospheric Investigations Dynamics Arecibo AIDC Capture AIM AOL Instant Messenger popular internet talk Intelligent NCS AllIndia Aviation Incident Response Cross AIREP Report observation PIREP AIRK Area interswitch rekey AIRMET Meteorological AIS Universal AJ AntiJam AkDT Alaskan Daylight AkST Approach landing ALC logistics ALCC Airborne Launch ALCE Airlift Element ALCS ALE Link Establishment ALERT Attack Early Reporting Theater ALF Absorption Limiting realtime version LUF AlGaN AluminumGallium Nitride ALOC lines Aloha Widearea protocol developed Hawaii ALP airport location point Alpha Aircraft maintenance status best Hotel also Adam Henry ALQA Quality Assesment squadron Arithmetic Unit ALW Mobile Meridian hours between midnight local AMC Mobility MAC MATS Materiel AMCO company AMD MicroDevices Cyrix competition Display equivalent Alternate Mark Inversion AMMCS Multimedia Multiservices AMSA Maritime Safety AMSAT Amateur . of Health Human Services HI CW brevity code laugh all dits easier to send than Hifi High Fidelity audio HICOM Command net US Navy HIPAS HighPower Auroral Stimulation HIPPI Performance Parallel Interface HISCAT Highlatitude Highaltitude Highfrequency Highperformance Heating ionospheric Scatter facility research HIWAS Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory HM Majesty HMCS Canadian Ship HMMWV mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle hummvee HMS HNGFEC Hungarian diplo teleprinting system HNMP Network Management Protocol HNS Host nation support HOLF Helicopter Outlying Landing Field Horsepower Pass filter circuit Highway Patrol Hpa Hectopascal Hope . ter bps half duplex synchronous used for fax V [...]

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Soldier GID Group Identification GIF Graphics Interchange Format first used CompuServe GIGO Garbage Out rule of computing GIS Geographical Information System GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite Russian GPS GM CW brevity code Good Morning General Motors Manager GMDSS Maritime Distress Safety GMF Ground mobile forces GMRS Gneral Radio GMS Geostationary Meteorological Japanese GMT Greenwich Mean obsolete kept only by BBC GNA Gulf News Agency GNC guidance and computer control gnd GNDCON gnu Not Unix freeware opsystem Officer GOA Gone Arrival police GOES Geosynchronous Oceanic Environmental GOGO governmentowned GOJ GORIZONT Moscow State University Monitor GOSIP Open Systems Interconnection Profile UK site Internet GOWON Offshore Weather Observing. As Larry Van Horn is always noting acronyms and abbreviations don save all that much space written text [...]