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AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A". AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle. AAC – Army Acquisition Corps. AAD – Armored amphibious dozer. AADC – Area air defense commander. AAE – Army acquisition executive. AAG – Anti-aircraft gun. AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US) AAL – Additional authorization list.
Military organization ( AE) or military organisation ( BE) is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require. Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit).
In the modern United States Army, a squadron is an armored cavalry, air cavalry, or other reconnaissance unit whose organizational role parallels that of a battalion and is commanded by a lieutenant colonel . Prior to the revisions in the US Army structure in the 1880s, US Cavalry regiments were divided into companies, and the battalion was an ...
APPN – Appropriation Number (U.S. Military) APRT – Army Physical Readiness Test (U.S. Army) ARCENT/TUSA – US Army Central /HQ Third US Army (TUSA) [ 3] ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (e.g., 1969 to 1989; antecedent of the information superhighway; now DARPA) ARM – Anti-Radar Missile.
AADS – Alaskan Air Defense Sector. AAFES – Army and Air Force Exchange Service (pronounced "A-Fees") AB – Airman Basic; enlisted pay grade E-1. AB – Air Base. ABDR – Aircraft Battle Damage Repair. ABM – Air Battle Manager. ABU – Airman Battle Uniform. ABW – Air Base Wing. ACA – Airspace Control Authority.
P-51. Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 194th Fighter Squadron. 410th Fighter Squadron. Mitchel Field. P-47. Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Reactivated 24 May 1946 and Redesignated 195th Fighter Squadron, 146th Fighter Group, 146th Fighter Wing. 411th Fighter Squadron. Mitchel Field. P-47.
Small unit tactics. Small unit tactics is the application of US Army military doctrine for the combat deployment of platoons and smaller units in a particular strategic and logistic environment. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The composition of a United States Army squad falls into three broad categories: classical, balanced and combined.
Breach: a gap in fortified or battle lines. Breakout: exploiting a breach in enemy lines so that a large force (division or above) passes through. Bridgehead and its varieties known as beachheads and airheads. Camouflet. Chalk: a group of paratroopers or other soldiers that deploy from a single aircraft.