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A A&TWF – Acquisition and technology work force a – Army AA – Assembly area AA – Anti-aircraft AA – Aegis ashore AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A" AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAC – Army Air Corps AAD – Armored amphibious dozer AADC – Area air defense commander AAE – Army acquisition executive AAG – Anti-aircraft gun AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US ...
At a basic level, that is a core aspect of training for all UK military personnel on an annual basis. Regular Army personnel are tested as part of their Military Annual Training Tests (MATTs) [ 11 ] as befits their frontline nature (similar processes are run by the Royal Marines and RAF Regiment ) with non-frontline personnel mandated to watch ...
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
There are various lists of government and military acronyms, expressions and slang: List of military slang terms; List of established military terms; Glossary of military abbreviations; by country. Grande Armée slang (France of the Napoleonic Era) Glossary of German military terms (Germany) List of Philippine government and military acronyms
In October 2009, the MOD was heavily criticised for withdrawing the bi-annual non-operational training £20m budget for the Territorial Army (TA), ending all non-operational training for six months until April 2010. The government eventually backed down and restored the funding. The TA provides a small percentage of the UK's operational troops.
Rear-Admiral Alan D. Richards (2009–2011) Major-General Mark Poffley (2011–2014) Rear Admiral Tim Fraser (2014–2017) Air Vice-Marshal Richard Knighton (2017–2018) Major-General Robert Magowan (2018–2020) Rear Admiral Hugh Beard (2020–2022) Major-General David Eastman (2022–2024) [1] Air Vice-Marshal Tim Jones (2024–present)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is war-gaming a major conflict to "stress-test" supplies of ammunition and equipment in a war time scenario. ... UK must be ready to fight war in three years, says ...
Acronym Finder (AF) is a free, online, searchable dictionary and database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. The entries are classified into categories such as Information Technology, Military/Government, Science, Slang/Pop Culture etc. It also contains a database of the United States and Canadian postal codes.