Battlenet — Human Command Network for Continental Defense.
B-Dec — See BattleDec.
BDUs — Battle Dress Uniform. The US Ground Force standard camouflage field uniform.
Belvoir, Fort — Headquarters of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Located just outside of Washington, D.C.
Beretta — Standard 9mm sidearm of US Ground Force.
berm — An elongated pile of dirt used for cover.
Blackhwk — Military medium lift helicopter designated UH-60.
bowsers — Military tanker trucks.
Bradleys — Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV). Crew of two, holds eight infantrymen. Armed with a 25mm chaingun and a TOW-2 Missile Launcher.
Bragg, Fort — Home of the Airborne. Located in central North Carolina.
Bullpup — Design of assault rifle. Places the ammunition magazine behind the firing hand thus shortening the overall length of the weapon.
Bushmaster — 25mm chaingun mounted on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
caltrop — Four-pointed spike device designed so that one point always faces up.
castellaine — The manager of a Posleen estate.
cav — Cavalry.
C-Dec — Command Dodecahedron. Holds the senior God King of a Posleen “B-Dec” conglomerate and its most heavily armed normals. Is usually the center ship of a B-Dec. Has interstellar drive. Holds 1400-1800 Normals and 3-6 God Kings along with some light, simple armor.
chai — British Navy word for tea.
circumvallated — Surrounded by fortifications.
clacker — Detonation device for a claymore directional mine. So called because when compressed it makes a distinctive “clack” sound.
claymore — Directional mine. Consists of a convexly curved box with two ports for detonators on the top. The rear is a thin metal plate, then a sheet of explosive, then 750 ball bearings.
CONARC — Continental Army Command.
COS — Chief of Staff.
cratering — Detonating explosives so as to cause a large crater. This is primarily used as an obstacle.
CSP — Combat Space Patrol.
Cyberpunk — Elite information warfare unit. Extremely secretive.
Dantren — Indowy Megascraper Deushi Megalopolis. Refuge for mobile forces.
Darhel — Galactic Federation race.
DataNet — Posleen information network. Very similar to the internet except without any indexing tools.
defilade — Maneuvering to obtain cover from terrain
detcord — Explosive cord. Similar to fusecord, but explodes instead of burning.
didee-mao — Vietnamese: Retreat.
Diess — Indowy Planet. Under assault by the Posleen.
DivArty — Division Artillery.
Dunkirked — Evacuated by water.
edan — Posleen: Battle madness.
edas’antai — Posleen: Primary genetic sponsor. Father.
emphysemic — A person who has emphysema.
enfilading — Fire from the flank.
esonal — Posleen: Ovipositor.
eson’antai — Posleen: Primary genetic derivative. Son.
Farbase — Primary military base on the moon. Hidden on the backside in a crater to reduce ehance of detection by the Posleen.
Fars — Primary plateau of the country of Iran.
FedCreds — Federation Credits.
firebase — Heavily defended base where artillery is concentrated.
FireTac — Artillery Coordination Network.
Fistnal — Posleen: Damned. (Lit. “Eaten” reduced from “Eaten by sky demons.”)
flechette — Finned metal dart.
flikker — To turn in the air like a hummingbird.
Fredericksburg — Town in central Virginia.
Fort A.P. Hill — Military base in central Virginia.
fuscirt — Posleen: Demons.
fuscirto — Posleen: Demons. Part of a wordy curse that translates more or less as “Demon Feces.”
Galil — Name of an Israeli assault rifle.
GalMed — Galactic Medications. General name for a wide variety of medications the Federation has supplied to Earth.
GalTech — Galactic Technologies. General name for a wide variety of technologies the Federation has supplied to Earth.
Gamalada — Clan of the Po’oslenar.
Gatling — Type of automatic weapon that has multiple barrels.
ghillie — Type of camouflage suit used to break up the outline of an infantryman or sniper. Introduced by Scottish gamekeepers (or poachers alternately) during WWI.
Ghurka — Elite Nepalese Mercenary Infantry.
Glock — Type of pistol.
grat — Rare but extremely unpleasant pest of the Posleen. Resembles a very large ant and forms colonies.
Hiberzine — alactic drug that causes almost instantaneous unconsciousness and places the user in a state of virtual suspended animation for up to 180 days. Combines pharmacological substances with nannites. Dosage is managed internally to the substance so that there is no chance of an over- or underdose.
Himmit — ederation race. Racial cowards and long-ranging scouts.
Hummelstown — Town outside of Fort Indiantown Gap.
Humvee — High Mobility Multi-Use Vehicle (HMMV).
HVM — Hypervelocity Missiles.
Indiantown Gap, Fort — Military post in Pennsylvania near Harrisburg.
Indowy — Galactic race. Short bipeds with apparently innate ability with technology and tools.
Irmansul — Galactic planet under threat of invasion by the Posleen.
Isfahan — Town in central Iran. Famous for its rugs.
Kasserine — Town in Morocco where the US Army suffered an early defeat in WWII at the hands of the German Afrikacorps.
Kenallai — Posleen: Senior battlemaster. Equivalent to a colonel or brigadier general.
Kenallurial — Gene derivative of Kenallai. Equivalent to a lieutenant or captain.
Kenstain — Posleen: Term for a castellaine. Castellaines are a lower “caste” God King and are formed from God Kings that have either voluntarily stopped fighting or were incompetent or cowardly.
Kessanalt — Posleen: Battle honor.
Kessentai — Posleen: God King (translates literally as “Philosopher” or “Thinker”).
Kevlar — Aramide fiber used in body armor. Also used to refer to the helmets made of it that are worn by US Ground Force personnel.
Kiowa — Scout helicopter.
klicks — Short for “kilometer.”
laager — Grouping of tanks or other fighting vehicles.
lidar — Laser detection system.