Here is a list of terms I've used in the site

that may need to be explained...

In alphabetical order:

-ADCI Associate Director Central Intelligence

-AFOSI: Air Force Office of Special Investigations

-AST: Antiterror Specialty Team

-BMD: Balistic Missile Defense

-C.A.T : Counter Assault Team

-CBRN: Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear

-CENTCOM: Central Command

-CJCS: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

-Ci: Counterintelligence

-CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

-CIRG: Critical Incident Response Group

-CnC: Commander in Chief

-CoS: Chief of Staff

-CS: Counter Sniper

-CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

-CSM: Command Sgt. Major

-CT: Counter Terror

-CTC Counterterrorism Center

-DCI: Director of Central Intelligence

-DDO: Deputy Dir. Operations

-DDI: Deputy Dir. of Intelligence

-DDS&T: Deputy Dir. of Science & Tech.

-DI: Directorate of Intelligence

-DO: Directorate of Operations

-DoS: Dept. of State

-DPD: Digintary Protective Division

-DS&T: Directorate of Science and Technology

-DSS: Diplomatic Security Service

-ERT: -Emergancy Responce Team OR Evidence Responce Team

-FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation

-HRT: Hostage Rescue Team

-HSOC: Homeland Security Operations Center

-JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

-JSOC: Joint Special Operations Command

-JTF: Joint Task Force

-JTTF: Joint Terrorism Task Force

-LE: Law Enforcement

-NBC: Nuclear Biological Chemical

-NCTC: National Counterterrorism Center

-NGIA: National Geospatial Intel Agency

-NRO: National Reconissance Office

-MDW: Military District Washington

-MI: Military Intelligence

-NMCC: National Military Command Center

-NSA: National Security Agency

-NSOC: National Security Operations Center

-OEF: Operation Enduring Freedom

-OIF: Operation Iraqi Freedom

-OSS: Office of Strategic Services (from WWII, developed into CIA's D.O.)

-PEOC: Presidential Emergancy Operations Center

-POTUS: President Of The United States

-PPD: Presidential Protective Division

-SA: Special Agent

-SACEUR: Supreme Allied Commander Europe

-SAD: Special Activities Division

-SAIC: Special Agent in Charge

-SMA: Sgt. Major Army

-SMMC: Sgt. Major Marine Corp

-SOUTHCOM: Southern Command

-SSB: Strategic Support Branch

-SRT: Special Responce Team

-SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics

-Tango: term for a Terrorist

-TF: Task Force

-UAV: Unmanned Arial Vehicle

-USMC: US Marine Corp

-USMS: U.S. Marshal Service

-USSS: United States Secret Service

-USSOCOM: U.S. Special Operations Command

-VCJCS: Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

-VCOS: Vice Chief of Staff

-VPPD: Vice Presidential Protective Division

-WFO: Washington Field Office

-WHCA: White House Communications Agency

-WHMO: White House Military Office

-WMD: Weapons of Mass Destruction

How to decode symbols commonly used:

- 1* ("one ass to risk" , a common SWAT and operator term)

- Butterflies ( symbol for UAVs like the predator)

- Triangles (commonly used to make reference of Spec Ops Forces or SWAT teams)

- "Thin Blue line" (a way of life for LE people)

- Shields (implies defense)

- Eagles (implies stregnth and courage)

- Stars (can represent sources of merging info (particularly if there is more than 5 points to the star), or a source of guidence)

- Spade w/ two ties on the stalk: Direct reference to CIA's DO or perhaps the old OSS from WWII.

- Spade w/ three ties on the stalk: direct reference to USSOCOM

- Horse heads or knights from chess (generally reserved for MI battalions)

- Keys (generally reserved for intelligence community)

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