The following are included as explanatory remarks, not exact definitions, for the reader who may not be familiar with the terms.
ACV: Armoured Command Vehicle.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEax5Yfv65v
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Ao-dai: The Vietnamese national dress, a close-fitting top and bodice, with long flowing panels from the waist, under which long pants or trousers are worn. Pronounced "ow zhy," by the Northerners and "ow why' by the Southerners.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmjetMk6vX
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Arc of fire: Each weapon is positioned to fire over a certain piece of ground, which has left and right boundaries. If this is planted on a map, the area would be represented as an arc of the extremities of the boundaries. There are primary (main) and secondary arcs of fire.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvRXWAHume
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ARVN: Army of the Republic of Vietnam, usually pronounced "arvin."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5NIcAuJf2
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AWOL: Absent Without Leave.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeduyc73P5
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Back-up: With reference to meals, coming back for a second serving.
Base-bludging: Bludging in a base or rear area. Anyone who is farther back from the enemy than oneself is a base-bludger. They rarely, if ever, go forward of the wire.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPV002jq1pn
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Base-up! Make camp.
Basic Webbing: Generally the minimum harness that a soldier can wear and carry to enable him to perform his basic fighting functions: waist belt, shoulder harness, ammunition pouches, water bottles, bayonet, entrenching tool, and whatever else the unit deems necessary. On this "basic" webbing the thoughtful army can build big and little packs, bedding, radios, and so on.
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BHQ: Battalion Headquarters.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFqLXnUx3I
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Bird: girl/woman969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshV08UIOLG
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Brass-up: To shoot, be shot at, as in "they brassed up two Charlies," and "they got brassed up by a machine gun."
CHQ: Company Headquarters.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCds6WSkHR
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Chalk: The group of passengers for a single aircraft.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjQlaBcj0S
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Charlie: The enemy, from VC = Viet Cong = Victor Charlie in radio phonetics.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wuefaH5Ba
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CO: Commanding Officer.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLZNkrYXo4
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CP: Command Post969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24QOyS4oMU
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CSM: Company Sergeant Major.
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Corps: The British army is composed of various corps e.g. infantry, artillery, transport, dental, etc. Everyone belongs to one of them.
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III Corps Conference: South Vietnam was divided into four Corps Tactical Zones (CTZ): I, II, III, and IV. These were a means of dividing the country into areas of responsibility in which the various units operated, and had nothing to do with the infantry, artillery, etc., kind of corps. The III Corps HQ was almost adjacent to the airbase and the Conference was attended by a British representative.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJi7gSqkt1f
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DMZ: The so-called Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoLAzpVMUR
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Dust-off: Radio callsign for a medical evacuation helicopter, the crews of which were renowned and revered for their efforts to lift wounded out of battle and back to the medical facilities despite bad weather and enemy gunfire. Spoken usage included: "We require Dust-off for six," and "Nigel got Dusted-off to Saigon," i.e., Nigel was evacuated to Saigon by helicopter.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCEP65Nn8b
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FAC: Forward Air Controller: a pilot who flies a small (Cessna) aircraft into the battle area to locate, mark, and guide the fighters or bombers onto the targets. A high degree of skill and courage was needed.
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FN: Fabrique Nationale, the Belgian firm of arms makers.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8ooU35ktU
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Forward of the wire: Outside the barbed-wire perimeter of the unit or base, i.e., out where the enemy may be met. See "basebludger" and "pogo."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzTqMHU5U6
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GVN: Government of Vietnam, the Saigon regime.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgfAKzpifB
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Hutchi: Japanese (possibly Korean) word for house or shelter, corrupted to mean the soldier's tent in the field. American "hooch" or "hoochi."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiqSck7F9b
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Huey: UH-1 Helicopter, became Huey.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFY8hiYZNQ
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IO: Intelligence Officer.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZir3LmyR9o
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Iron Triangle: A jungle area, roughly shaped like a triangle, about 30 miles west of Saigon, used by the Viet Cong as a base area.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhovo0pEToq
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J: Jungle.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZpUfoMcxh
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KIA: Killed In Action.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAFsuLLUxw
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Locstat: Location statement, present location.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAaw7f1gMt
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LO: Liaison Officer969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyK8FMD2ai
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Local Force: The Viet Cong National Liberation Front organized their fighting forces on several levels. At the bottom was the village guerilla, then units organized to operate in their home area----but larger than the usual village squad, and given tasks of a more demanding military nature, naturally enough these were called local force units. Above them were regional units and finally the main force.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIoBP6I5CU
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LZ: Landing Zone969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KdvWK8kQh
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Main Force: Units of soldiers who have graduated from the village guerillas, local and regional force units, are full-time members of the armed forces, and are now regular troops who can be given military tasks such as those given to regular units of the NATO armies.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBg9LlIfCN
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MASH: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoUMzibhGu
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Military Region: The National Liberation Front had divided Vietnam into these areas for their own administrative and operational purposes.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8IOUDTEKP
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MPC: Military Payment Certificate. "Play money" or "Monopoly money" issued by the military authorities in an attempt to halt the flow of dollars into the black market, etc. It is only good in the military system such as canteens, messes, etc. The type or pattern of MPC would be changed at very short notice, and all unchanged old MPC would then be so much paper. There are said to be people throughout Asia with boxes of old MPC, hoping for the day when the particular pattern is again issued, and they will get rich.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyz0oeDQsN9
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MP: Military Police.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvReM5tCPX
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NCO: Non-Commissioned Officer, i.e., below the rank of 2nd lieutenant.
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NLF: National Liberation Front. No Communist Revolution is complete without this title.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjGb0H4ax7
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NVA: North Vietnamese Army. Never admitted by Hanoi to be in South Vietnam, an assertion believed only by the very naive.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnOdQc32H4
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OC: Officer Commanding. A company has an OC, a battalion a CO, a division a COC---General Officer Commanding.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVXb7YVLML
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Orders Group: A gathering for the purpose of passing on orders to subordinates.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CNOT6JTYl
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Political Officer: The communist forces, being the armed effort of the political organization, are always subject to strict political control, which is achieved by placing a political infrastructure paralleling that of the military command, at all levels from company on up. The political officer has the final word in disagreements between the military and political. Called commissars in earlier times, they are a very important and effective means of ensuring control, motivation, and explanation of policy to the soldiers.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWPN0UwHNT
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Pepper-pot: A tactic for advancing under fire where one or two soldiers at a time leap up, run forward a few paces, go down, roll away, and fire on the enemy while their comrades are doing likewise. The enemy is presented with fleeting targets all across his front, making it very hard for him to take on an accurate shot. Like many other things, it requires practice and teamwork.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT1fJmZk25
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Pogo: See Basebludging. Pogos are the same, but worse. They supposedly spend their time bouncing aimlessly around the rear areas on a pogo-stick and are thus of no use to the fighting troops, i.e., anyone closer to, or likely to be closer to, the enemy.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZNFdO6bx3
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PPS: Russian submachine gun of World War II vintage, firing a 7.62mm round.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDUy7MG2rA
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PX: Post Exchange = US Canteen.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YHgXXxCun
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RATTV: Royal Army Training Team, Vietnam.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXW9Tmyy5S
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Regional Force: Along with a similar organization called the popular force, were part-time troops of the Saigon Regime, used for guard and other light military duties, which could include operations to search for the VC, normally operating in their home locations or areas. Abbreviated in RF/PE so immediately were called "ruffpuffs."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5bRAclr3A
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RPD: Russian light machine gun for section or squad use. The initials stand for the Russian words, the D being for Degtyarev, the designer.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZBxJqIlM8
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RMO: Regional Medical Officer, the battalion doctor.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdlM6c713x
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RSM: Regimental Sergeant Major, the senior noncommissioned officer in the unit, responsible to the CO for discipline.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPWf1kKX0L
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RV: Rendezvous969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjpfx1fh6Z
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Slicks: Troop-carrying helicopters, as opposed to armed versions, the "gunships," called "pigs"969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtM9jVd0ni
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Slope: U.S. term for Asian, similar to the British "wog."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmNlBKcOmu
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SLR: Self Loading Rifle; the British-modified Belgian FN, produced at Birmingham, firing the standard NATO 7.62mm round, pronounced "slur."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJevTWvIse
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Smoke: To shoot, kill969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpXUzWRFdY
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Tommy: A British soldier.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jloRILVkH
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Twenty mike mike: 20-millimeter cannon, from 20mm.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kcGi5dOV0
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VC: Viet Cong, the Vietnamese for Vietnamese Communist.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsK89wLc0YP
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VNAF: Vietnamese Air Force.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBHIjlgBan
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War Zone D: A term dating from the 1950s war against the French, for a large expanse of jungle about forty miles northeast of Saigon, in which the VC had base camps, training areas, etc., and which was rarely entered by government forces prior to 1965; also called D-Zone or Zone D. Zone C was farther to the southwest, and others were to the north.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1EOu6cgVD
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Wog: British slang for an Asian: more fully "Westernized Oriental Gentleman." Plural is "wogs" and the land is sometimes referred to as "Woggeria."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRePPsWE6O
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Watch your front!: Do not stare down your shirt buttons and trouser fly, but pay attention to the area of ground before you, your arc of fire.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwjGCe2ljP
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WIA: Wounded in Action. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBG8h0Gbuu
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Yank(s): citizen(s) of the United States of America.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveeOWnH49Q
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