[Bonkers]

Panzerkampfwagen III (abbreviated PzKpfw III) "armoured fighting vehicle
 
Panzer III {Nazi Germany 1939-45}


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[prinz]

NAVY..... I will never forget when our 6 month Med cruise turned into a 9 month extended NATO cruise...The Capt. announced it and one of my shipmates sighed and said "NAVY...Never Again Volunteer Yourself"

[homevintner]

BKA - Below Knee Amputation

[Bonkers]

BGM-71 TOW is a U.S. anti-tank guided missile. TOW stands for Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided.

 Fired from M151 MUTT
Military Utility Tactical Truck (hence MUTT)



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[solvegas]

The MUTT was a 60's replacement for the Jeep and it was replaced in the 80's with the Humvee ( Hummer ). The TOW was fired from the M-113, Bradley M-3 infantry vehicle and many other platforms. The TOW is presently used in Iraq and Afganistan to kill/destroy bunkers and machinegun nests. It's not considered powerful enough to kill the latest generation of tanks such as the American M-1A1/A2 Abrahms or British Challenger, a job taken over by the Hellfire, but since we still have 300,000 in the inventory, well, why not use some on the jihadists.

[homevintner]

PACU - Post Anesthesia Care Unit

[Bonkers]

North Atlantic Treaty Organization {NATO} to confront the Iron Curtain of Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact
And the
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) to confront the Bamboo Curtain of Red China



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[TheZookie007]

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization {NATO} to confront the Iron Curtain of Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact

Off-topic, but interesting to note, especially in the light of recent events:

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Yahoo! Games: "Georgia-Russia conflict predicted in 2001 video game": Life imitates Tom Clancy

Recent news coverage of the worrying ground war between Russia and Georgia could well leave gamers with a sense of deja vu.

The South Ossetia war, which began on August 7, bears a close resemblance to events portrayed in the 2001 Xbox and Playstation 2 game "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon," the first level of which takes place against the backdrop of a struggle between Georgian rebel forces and the legitimate Georgian government in the South Ossetian region.

Ghost Recon's plot follows these skirmishes with a full-scale Russian invasion of the region, a subsequent evacuation of US forces, and ultimately the fall of the Georgian government. Ghost Recon almost got the timescale right, too: the game's imaginary events begin in April 2008, just a few months before the real war kicked off.

If Ghost Recon's uncanny trend continues, we can expect the South Ossetia conflict to culminate in a dramatic assault on Red Square and the Kremlin by NATO troops -- spearheaded by an elite US special forces team under the control of a pimply fourteen-year-old with a joypad. Considering that the most recent game in the Ghost Recon series climaxes with an oh-so-narrowly-averted terrorist nuclear strike on the US, we hope the predictive power of the game runs out. Soon.

Creepy!

[homevintner]

REMF - Rear Echelon Mother F@#$%&

[Bonkers]

What is the right term for the Military for AWOL?

AWOL- Absent Without Leave

AWOL- Absence Without Official Leave

AWOL- Absent Without Official Leave

AWOL- Away Without Leave

AWOL- Away Without Official Leave



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[Hiram]

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What is the right term for the Military for AWOL?

AWOL- Absent Without Leave
 

I reckon its this one.

[Bonkers]

Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by the Independent/UK  
The Deserters: AWOL Crisis Hits the US Forces
As the death toll of troops mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's military recruiting figures have plummeted to an all-time low. Thousands of US servicemen and women are now refusing to serve their country.
 
by Andrew Buncombe  
 
Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head. There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all, there is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no more than eight or nine, one arm severely burnt and blistered, and the sound of her screams.

Last January, these memories became too much for this veteran of the war in Iraq. Informed his unit was about to return, he told his commanders he wanted out and applied to be considered a conscientious objector. The Army refused and charged him with desertion. Last week, his case - which carries a penalty of up to seven years' imprisonment - started before a military judge at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

"If I am sincere in what I say and there's consequences because of my actions, I am prepared to stand up and take it," Sgt Benderman said. "If I have to go to prison because I don't want to kill anybody, so be it."

The case of Sgt Benderman and those of others like him has focused attention on the thousands of US troops who have gone AWOL (Absent Without Leave) since the start of President George Bush's so-called war on terror. The most recent Pentagon figures suggest there are 5,133 troops missing from duty. Of these 2,376 are sought by the Army, 1,410 by the Navy, 1,297 by the Marines and 50 by the Air Force. Some have been missing for decades.

 
I think you're is right Hiram
I found in this srticle it's "Absent without Leave"


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[TheZookie007]

Yes, AWOL = Absent Without Leave

[AZWolf]

I really apologize if this was offered earlier, but today while briefly watfching a news show it seemed that **02** was considering and might have a chance at purchasing a Sea World park.  They, of course, said they'd set the animals free at once.

So...  **02** -- People Eating Tasty Animals.  

[Bonkers]

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers {IEEE}
The IEEE is incorporated in the State of  New York, United States. It was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded 1912) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, founded 1884).


Institution of Electrical Engineers {IEE}

Institute of Engineering and Technology (I.E.T.) - Pakistan



 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
And
The Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE)
merger together to become
 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)





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