Cold Pack Rations: Food carried by SEALs to use if needed.
Combat Harness: American Body Armor nylon mesh special operations vest. Six 2-magazine pouches for drum-fed belts, other pouches for other weapons, waterproof pouch for Motorola.
CONUS: The continental United States.
Corfams: Dress shoes for SEALs.
Covert Action Staff: A CIA group that handles all covert action by the SEALs.
CQB: Close Quarters Battle. A fight that’s up close, hand-to-hand, whites of his eyes, blood all over you. Also called Kill House.
CRRC Bundle: Roll it off plane, sub, boat. The assault boat for 8 seals.
CRRC: Combat Rubber Raiding Craft. Also the IBS or Inflatable Boat, Small.
Cutting Charge: Lead-sheathed explosive. Triangular strip of high-velocity explosive sheathed in metal. Point of the triangle focuses a shaped charge effect. Cuts a pencil-line-wide hole to slice a steel girder in half.
CYA: Cover Your Ass; protect yourself from friendlies or officers above you and JAG people.
Damfino: Damned if I know. SEAL talk.
DDS: Dry Dock Shelter. A clamshell unit on subs to deliver SEALs and SDVs to a mission.
DEFCON: DEFense CONdition. How serious is the threat?
Delta Forces: Army special forces, much like SEALs.
Desert Cammies: Three-color desert tan and pale green with streaks of pink. For use on land.
DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency.
Dilos Class Patrol Boat: Greek, 29 feet long, 75 tons displacement.
Dirty Shirt Mess: Officers can eat there in flying suits on board a carrier.
DNS: Doppler Navigation System.
DRAEGR LAR V: Rebreather that SEALs use. No bubbles.
DREC: Digitally Reconnoiterable Electronic Component. Top-secret computer chip from NSA that lets it decipher any U.S. military electronic code.
E & E: SEAL talk for escape and evasion.
E-2C Hawkeye: Navy, carrier-based, airborne early warning craft for long-range early warning and threat assessment and fighter direction. Has a 24-foot saucer-like rotodome over the wing. Crew 5, max speed 326 knots, ceiling 30,800 feet, radius 175 nautical miles, with 4 hours on station.
E-3A Skywarrior: Old electronic intelligence craft. Replaced by the newer ES-3A.
E-4B NEACP: Called kneecap. National Emergency Airborne Command Post. A greatly modified Boeing 747 used as a communications base for the President of the United States and other high-ranking officials in an emergency and in wartime.
EA-6B Prowler: Navy plane with electronic countermeasures. Crew of 4, max speed 566 knots, ceiling 41,200 feet, range with max load 955 nautical miles.
Easy: The only easy day was yesterday. SEAL talk.
ELINT: Electronic INTelligence. Often from satellite in orbit, picture-taker, or other electronic communications.
EOD: Navy experts in nuclear material and radioactivity. Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
Equatorial Satellite Pointing Guide: To aim antenna for radio to pick up satellite signals.
ES-3A: Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) intercept craft. The platform for the battle group passive horizon extension system. Stays up for long patrol periods, has comprehensive set of sensors, lands and takes off from a carrier. Has 63 antennas.
ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival.
Executive Order 12333: By President Reagan, authorizing special warfare units such as the SEALs.
Exficlass="underline" Exfiltrate, to get out of an area.
F/A-18 Hornet: Carrier-based interceptor that can change from air-to-air to air-to-ground attack mode while in flight.
Fitrep: Fitness report.
Flashbang Grenade: Nonlethal grenade that gives off a series of piercing explosive sounds and a series of brilliant strobe-type lights to disable an enemy.
Floatation Bag: To hold equipment, ammo, gear on a wet operation.
Fort Fumble: SEAL’s name for the Pentagon.
Forty mm Rifle Grenade: The M576 multipurpose round contains 20 large lead balls. SEALs use on Colt M-4A1.
Four Striper: A Navy captain.
FOX Three: In air warfare, a code phrase showing that a Navy F-14 has launched a Phoenix air-to-air missile.
FUBAR: SEAL talk: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair.
Full Helmet Masks: For high altitude jumps. Oxygen in mask.
G-3: German-made assault rifle.
Gloves: SEALs wear sage green, fire resistant Nomex flight gloves.
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time. Where it’s all measured from.
GPS: Global Positioning System. A program with satellites around Earth to pinpoint precisely aircraft, ships, vehicles, and ground troops. Position information is to plus or minus ten feet. Also can give speed of a plane or ship to one-quarter of a mile per hour.
GPSL: A radio antenna with floating wire that pops to the surface. Antenna picks up positioning from the closest 4 Global Positioning Satellites and gives an exact position within 10 feet.
Green Tape: Green sticky ordnance tape that has a hundred uses for a SEAL.
GSG-9: Flashbang grenade developed by Germans: a cardboard tube filled with 5 separate charges timed to burst in rapid succession. Blinding and giving concussion to enemy, leaving targets stunned, easy to kill or capture. Usually nonlethal.
GSG9: Grenzschutzgruppe Nine. Germany’s best special warfare unit… counterterrorist group.
Gulfstream II (VCII): Large executive jet used by services for transport of small groups quickly. Crew 3 and 18 passengers. Cruises at 581 mph. Maximum range 4,275 miles.
H & K 21A1: Machine gun 7.62 NATO round. Replaces the older, more fragile M-60 E3. Fires 900 rounds per minute. Range l,100 meters. All types of NATO rounds: ball, incendiary, tracer.
H & K G11: Automatic rifle, new type. 4.7mm caseless ammunition. 50-round magazine. The bullet is in a sleeve of solid propellant with a special thin plastic coating around it. Fires 600 rounds per minute. Single-shot, three-round burst or fully automatic.
H & K MP-5SD: 9mm submachine gun with integral silenced barrel, single shot, three shot, or fully automatic. Rate 800 rds/min.
H & K P9S: Heckler & Koch’s 9mm Parabellum double-action semiauto pistol with 9-round magazine.
H & K PSG1: 7.62 NATO round. High precision, bolt action, sniping rifle. 5- to 20-round magazine. Roller lock delayed blowback breech system. Fully adjustable stock. 6x42 telescopic sights. Sound suppressor.
HAHO: High Altitude jump, High Opening. From 30,000 feet, open chute for glide up to 15 miles to ground. Up to 75 minutes in glide. To enter enemy territory or enemy position unheard.
Half-Track: Military vehicle with tracked rear drive and wheels in front, usually armed and armored.
HALO: High Altitude jump, Low Opening. From 30,000 feet. Free fall in 2 minutes to 2,000 feet and open chute. Little forward movement. Get to ground quickly, silently.
Hamburgers: Often called sliders on a Navy carrier.
Handie-Talkie: Small, handheld personal radio. Short range.