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Military
Terms
.5 - 12.7mm (.5 inch)
Heavy Machine Gun
2 E BDE - 2 Eastern Brigade
2/Lt - Second Lieutenant
2ic - Second in Command
60 - 60mm Mortar
81 - 81mm Mortar
84 - 84mm Anti Tank Recoilless Rifle
APIHC Armour
Piercing Incendiary Hard Core)
ATCP - Aid to the civil power
AUG -Armee Universal Gewehr (Steyr: translated as Universal Army Gun)
BAP - Browning
Automatic Pistol
Brig. Gen. - Brigadier General
Capt - Captain
CEFO - Combat Equipment Fighting Order
CEMO: Combat Equipment Marching Order
CIS - Communications and Information Services Corps
CO - Commanding Officer
Col. - Colonel
Comdt - Commandant
Coy - Company
CPL - Corporal
CQB - Close Quarters Battle
CQMS - Company Quartermaster Sergeant
CRDT: Compulsory Random Drug Testing
CS - Company Sergeant
DC - Detachment
Commander
DF - Defence Forces
DFHQ - Defence Forces Headquarters
DFTC - Defence Forces Training Centre
DIBUA - Defence in Built Up Areas
DOD - Department of
Defence
DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material
EO - Executive
Officer
ERRF - European Rapid Reaction Force
FAL (FN FAL)
- Fusil Automatique Léger (Light Automatic Rifle)
FCÁ - Foras Cosanta Áitiúil
FFR - Fitted For Radio
FIBUA - Fighting in Built Up Areas
FN - Fabrique Nationale
FUP - Form Up Point
G1 - Recruit
(Private Grade 1)
Gnr - Gunner
GPMG - General Purpose Machine Gun
GPMG SF - General Purpose Machine Gun Sustained Fire Role
HE - High Explosive
HEAP - High Explosive Anti Personnel
HEAT - High Explosive Anti Tank
HGV - Heavy Goods Vehicle
HK - Heckler & Koch
HMG - Heavy Machine Gun
HQ - Headquarters
HQ COY - Headquaters Company
IAC - Irish
Aer COrps
ic - In Command
Illum - Illumination
In.f Bn. - Infantry Battalion
LDF - Local
Defence Force
LMG: Light Machine Gun
LMLB - Light Mortar, Long Barrel
Lt - Lieutenant
Lt. Col - Lieutenant Colonel
Lt. Gen - Lieutenant General
MAG - Mitrailleuse
d'Appui General (GPMG)
Maj. Gen. - Major General
MFC - Mortar Fire Controller
Mk - Mark
MMG - Medium Machine Gun
MOI: Method of Instruction
NATO: North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NCO - Non Commissioned Officer
NS - Naval Service
NSR - Naval Service Reserve
OC: Officer
Commanding
OiC - Officer in Charge
OS - Ordnance Survey
PDF - Permanent
Defence Force
PLCE: Personal Load Carrying Equipment
PNCO - Potential Non Commissioned Officer
PTE - Private
QCB - Quick
Changeable Barrel
RDF - Reserve
Defence Force
RDFRA: Reserve Defence Force Representative Association
RDFTA - Reserve Defence Forces Training Authority
Res. Inf. Bn. - Reserve Infantry Battalion
Rfmn - Rifleman
SDA: Security
Duty Allowance
SGT - Sergeant
SINCGAR - Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
T & E -
Traversing and Elevation
TOET: Test of Elementary Training
TPTP - Target Practice Tracer Projectile
USP - Universal
Self-loading Pistol / Universelle Selbstladepistole (HK 9mm Automatic
Pistol)
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