Leadership Material

Glossary

ACSC — Air Command and Staff College, an Air Force military school for junior field grade officers that prepares them for more leadership and command positions.

AFO — Accounting and Finance Officer — handles pay and leave matters ASAP—" as soon as possible"

AWACS — Airborne Warning and Control System, an aircraft with a large radar on board that can detect and track aircraft for many miles in all directions Backfire — a supersonic Russian long-range bomber Badger — a subsonic Russian long-range bomber Bear — a subsonic turboprop Russian long-range bomber and reconnaissance plane

BIOT — British Indian Ocean Trust, a chain of small islands in the Indian Ocean administer by the United Kingdom

Blackjack — an advanced supersonic Russian long-range bomber Buccaneer — a British long-range bomber Candid — a Russian cargo plane Chagos — the Iliot native name for the islands administered by the British Indian Ocean Trust

Class A's — the business-suit — like uniform of the U.S. Air Force

DIA — Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military's intelligence-gathering service

Diego Garcia — the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, part of the British Indian Ocean Trust

Dreamland — the unclassified nickname for a secret military research facility in south central Nevada

Extender — a combination aerial-refueling tanker and cargo plane operated by the U.S. Air Force firewalled — on an Officer Effectiveness Report, when all raters rate the officer with the highest possible marks

Goblin — nickname for the U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth fighter

GUARD — the universal radio emergency frequency, 121.5 KHz or 243.0 MHz

HAWC (fictional) — the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center, one of the top-secret Air Force research units at Dreamland

Ilots — the natives of Diego Garcia in the British Indian OceanTrust

IRSTS — Infrared Search and Track System, a Russian heat-seeking aircraft attack system where the pilot can detect and feed targeting information to his attack systems without being detected

Mainstay — a Russian airborne radar aircraft

Megafortress (fictional) — an experimental, highly modified B-52H bomber used for secret military weapons and technology tests

MiG — Mikoyan-Gureyvich, a Soviet military aircraft design bureau

MOI — Memorandum of Instruction, the directives issued by the Secretary of the Air Force to a promotion board on how to conduct candidate evaluations and scoring

MFC — Military Personnel Center, the U.S. Air Force's manpower and personnel agency

Nimrod — a British reconnaissance and attack plane

NOFORN — "No Foreign Nationals," a security subclassification that directs that no foreign nationals can view the material

O-5 — in the U.S Air Force, a lieutenant-colonel

OER — Officer Effectiveness Report, an officer's annual report on his job performance and his or her commander's remarks on his suitability for promotion

Orion — a U.S. Navy antisubmarine warfare aircraft

OSR — Officer Selection Report, the file members of a promotion board receive to evaluate and score a candidate for promotion

PCS — Permanent Change of Station, a long-term job change

Peel Cone — a nickname for a type of Soviet airborne radar

PME — Professional Military Education, a series of military schools that teach theory and practice to help develop knowledge and skills in preparation for higher levels of command

PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency, the speed at which a radar is swept across a target: a higher PRF is used for more precise tracking and aiming; when detected, it is usually a warning of an impending missile launch

SATCOM — Satellite Communications, a way aircraft can communicate with headquarters or other aircraft quickly over very long distances by sending messages to orbiting satellites

Scorpions (fictional) — the AIM-120, a radar-guided medium-range U.S. Air Force antiaircraft missile

SP — Security Police

Strait of Hormuz — the narrow, shallow, winding waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman, considered a strategic chokepoint for oil flowing out of the Gulf nations

Stratotanker — the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 aerial-refueling tanker aircraft

USAFE — U.S. Air Forces in Europe, the major Air Force command that governs all air operations in Europe

Warning order — a document notifying a combat unit to prepare for possible combat operations