TO&E: Table showing Organization and Equipment of a military unit.
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Trailing Array: A group of antennas for sonar pickup trailed out of a submarine.
Train: For contact in smoke, no light, fog, etc. Men directly behind each other. Right hand on weapon, left hand on shoulder of man ahead. Squeeze shoulder to signal.
Trident: SEALs’ emblem. An eagle with talons clutching a Revolutionary War pistol, and Neptune’s trident both superimposed on the Navy’s traditional anchor.
TRW: A camera’s digital record that is sent by SATCOM.
TT33: Tokarev, a Russian pistol.
UAZ: A Soviet 1-ton truck.
UBA Mark XV: Underwater life support with computer to regulate the rebreather’s gas mixture.
UGS: Unmanned Ground Sensors. Can be used to explode booby traps and claymore mines.
UNODIR: Unless otherwise directed. The unit will start the operation unless they are told not to.
VBSS: Orders to “visit, board, search, and seize.”
Wadi: A gully or ravine, usually in a desert.
White Shirt: Man responsible for safety on carrier deck as he leads around civilians and personnel unfamiliar with the flight deck.
WIA: Wounded In Action.
Zodiac: Also called an IBS, Inflatable Boat Small. 15×6 feet, weighs 265 pounds. The “rubber duck” can carry 8 fully equipped SEALs. Can do 18 knots with a range of 65 nautical miles.
Zulu: Means Greenwich Mean Time, GMT. Used in all formal military communications.