The Acronym Page

Why, Yes. This is President George H.W. Bush, Back In the Day (BITD)

New and Improved!

It's Alphabetized!

For which you should say, "Thank you Skip!"

Oh, it's more than just acronyms it's also a cast of characters, as it were. (And whatever I decide to throw in here.)

This page will be updated as necessary. POCIR....

• 1MC..........................................1 Main Circuit (1MC) is the term for the shipboard public address circuits on United States Navy and United States Coast Guard vessels.
• AAR..........................................After Action Report
• ACL...........................................Angry Cat Lady
• AGE..........................................Aerospace Ground Equipment
• Anya........................................New Cat #2, she of the sweetest disposition
• AO............................................Area of Operations
• Ausf..........................................Ausführung, German word for model or type (in regards to vehicles)
• BDU.........................................Battle Dress Uniform
• Beansian..................................A spectacular and (typically) long comment.
• Beansism..................................Any pithy term coined by Beans which I found memorable.
• Bear.........................................Pooch of The Nuke
• BFD.........................................Big Fire Trucking Deal (minus the "ire Tr", of course)
• Big Girl....................................My automotive conveyance of choice, a blue 2005 Honda Element
• Big O........................................My grandson, belongs to The Naviguesser and The DIL
• Big Time..................................My son-in-law, married to The WSO
• BITD........................................Back in the Day
• Blivet.......................................Ten pounds of excrement in a five pound bag. No, no one says "excrement," a cruder term is employed. 
• BTDT........................................Been There, Done That
• BuNo.......................................Bureau Number, aircraft serial number for the Navy and Marine Corps
• BWE........................................Best Wingman Ever
• BWI.........................................Blogging While Irritated
• CAVU.......................................Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
• CBPO.......................................Consolidated Base Personnel Office
• CCC..........................................Chant Commenting Corps
• CDW........................................Counter Drug Wienies
• CHENG....................................Chief Engineer
• CINCHOUSE............................Commander In Chief - House, aka The Missus Herself, The Lady My Wife and Her Supreme Majesty of the Yes Dear I'll Do That Right Now.
• City Girl..................................My niece, daughter of MOKB
• CPA.........................................Closest Point of Approach
• D&D.........................................Death and Destruction, a facet of the JCRT
• DACT.......................................Dissimilar Air Combat Training (Training against aircraft other than the one you fly)
• DN...........................................Damn Near
• DPK.........................................Dress Pocket Knife
• ETO.........................................European Theater of Operations
• FCF..........................................Functional Check Flight
• FMC.........................................Fully Mission Capable
• FNG.........................................Effing New Guy (we all know what effing stands for)
• FOD.........................................Foreign Object Debris (crap that can cause damage to a jet engine after being ingested) or Foreign Object Damage, too late, something got sucked down an intake!
• FPS..........................................First Person Shooter (a video game genre)
• FRaVMotC...............................Frequent Reader and Valued Member of the Commentariat
• FRBLM....................................Full Retard, Barking Leftist Moonbat (Courtesy of drjim!)
• FS............................................Fighter Squadron
• FSO..........................................Flight Safety Officer
• FTS..........................................Fire truck This Sh!t (minus the "ire tr")
• FWIW......................................For What It's Worth
• GAIMB.....................................Gubmint At Its Most Brilliant (Why yes, that is sarcasm...)
• GIB..........................................Guy In Back, the individual manning the back seat in the mighty F-4 Phantom. Or any two-seat tactical aircraft. (Nowadays "Gal In Back" applies. Ask The WSO.)
• GOFOs......................................General Officers and Flag Officers (think generals and admirals, people who wear stars on their costumes uniforms)
• GWGB......................................Get Woke, Go Broke
• HA............................................Historical Accuracy, a facet of the JCRT
• HALT........................................Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired (a bad mix...)
• Hinge........................................Slang for an O-4, or lieutenant commander (LCDR). So called because of the lobotomy that is supposedly mandated as soon as a naval officer is promoted to this rank, in which half of his brain is removed. A hinge is then inserted that allows for reattachment of the removed gray matter later. The hinge also limits the LCDR’s head movement to the fore–aft axis. This is clearly demonstrated as the O-4 is constantly nodding in the affirmative and saying, “Yessir, yessir” when in the presence of the CO. (Source)
• H/T...........................................Hat Tip (Tip of the hat to...)
• HSWHTPFIHC..........................He Said With His Tongue Planted Firmly In His Cheek (from Skip)
• IAS............................................In All Seriousness (a Juvatism)
• ICSFTH.....................................Insert cloying smiley face thingee here (coined by Frank C. - The Snake Eater, World Famous Lexican and former Spec Ops type)
• IIRC..........................................If I Recall Correctly
• ILMW.......................................I Love Me Wall. A place to hang stuff up illustrating one's illustrious life and times. Such as they may be...
• IMWTK....................................Inquiring Minds Want to Know (A Quandtism)
• IP.............................................Instructor Pilot
• ISSJW......................................International Society of Social Justice Warriors
• ISYN........................................I'm not kidding (actually stands for "I sh!t you not")
• JCRT........................................Juvat's Cinematic Rating Tool (a tool for rating films, guy films primarily)
• JK.............................................Just kidding
• JOPA........................................Junior Officer's Protection Association
• Kettenhunde............................Chained dogs, German slang for military police. German military police wore a gorget suspended with chains.
• KMAGYOYO.............................Kiss My Ass Guys, You're On Your Own
• Kodi........................................The SeaLawyer's The Nuke's other pooch
• koobecaF.................................While not an acronym per se, it belongs here. Aka Facebook, pronounced Koo-buh-kaff
• LCS..........................................Little Crappy Ship, er, I mean, Littoral Combat Ship
• LDL..........................................Latter Day Luddite, modern version of the anti-machine (or technology) crowd.  Invented by the Well Seasoned Fool.
• LIFT.........................................Lead-In Fighter Training
• L'il Sweetie..............................My youngest granddaughter, Little Bit's little sister, daughter of Big Time and The WSO
• Little Bit.................................My oldest grand-daughter, belongs to Big Time and The WSO
• Little Rhody...........................The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (seriously, that IS the official name of Rhode Island, Google it!)
• LIV.........................................Low Information Voter, AKA Idiots who gave us the Obummer
• LMTFA....................................Leave me the (ahem) "fire truck" alone
• LRU........................................Line Replaceable Unit is a modular component of an airplane, ship or spacecraft that is designed to be replaced quickly at an operating location.
• LSE..........................................Little Sir Echo (another PLQ nickname)
• LSM........................................Lame Stream Media (Same as MSM)
• LSO.........................................Landing Signal Officer (see "Paddles")
• LZ...........................................Landing Zone
• MCF........................................Mongolian Cluster F**k. Shorthand for extremely disorganized, tending to lethal levels of disorganization. (Also see SGC.)
• MCT........................................Metric Crap Ton, i.e. a lot of something
• Meh.........................................Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care.
• MFC.......................................Merry Freaking Christmas (See this post  for details)
• MOKB....................................My oldest kid brother
• Mom......................................Well, that's my Mother (duh)
• MOPP.....................................Mission Oriented Protective Posture
• Mrs Olde Vermonter..............Obviously the wife of MOKB
• MSJC.....................................Modified Standard Juvat Caveat = A Fairy Tale begins with "Once upon a time" and a War Story begins with "So, there I was". Everything else starts "With that being said...".
• MSM......................................Main Stream Media (CNN, NBC, ABC, Fox, etc...)
• MYKB....................................My Youngest Kid Brother 
• NCOIC....................................Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge
• Neh?......................................Largely used in Japan at the end of a sentence as a way of saying, "right?" or "isn't that so?" among other things.
• NES.......................................Not enough sleep
• NFO.......................................Naval Flight Officer
• NMC......................................Not Mission Capable
• NMUSAF...............................National Museum of the United States Air Force
• NORK....................................North Korean
• Nose Picker...........................Rude term for an Air Force crew chief. Guys, I know now, who had one of the toughest jobs in the Air Force. Known as plane captains in the Navy
• NTTAWWT...........................Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
• OAFSSRFTOTN.....................Old Air Force Sarge Standard Reference for Things of This Nature (i.e. Wikipedia)
• Oblt......................................Oberleutnant, German for 1st Lieutenant
• OFGTGA...............................Old Fat Guy Two Gun Action, for the Naval Air Cowman
• Ogf........................................Obergrammatikführer (for PLQ)
• OIDNR..................................Obviously I Did Not Remember
• OPB......................................Other People's Blogs
• OPE......................................Off Property Excursion, out and about for more than an hour. As in, must dress presentably.
• ORI.......................................Operational Readiness Inspection
• OROF...................................Officially Retired Old Fart
• Paddles................................See LSO
• Pat.......................................Original Cat #2, forces mice to commit seppuku
• P & M...................................Piss and moan
• PBI.......................................Poor Bloody Infantry
• PCS......................................Permanent Change of Station
• PMC.....................................Partially Mission Capable
• PMF.....................................Pardon my French
• POCIR..................................Provided Of Course I Remember - my caveat regarding when a certain story may get told.
• POCYR.................................Provided Of Course You Remember - what to tell me when you want something in the blog.
• PTO......................................Paid Time Off, think vacation days, though that usage is officially frowned upon by my employer
• PSP......................................Probability of Spousal Participation, a facet of the JCRT
• PzKpfw................................Panzerkampfwagen aka Armored Fighting Vehicle (also Pzkw)
• RAF......................................Royal Air Force, Random Old Fart, Rakish Old Fart, Random Older Fellow, Really Old Friend, etc. (Thanks to John in Philly!)
• Regal-Beagle.......................Big Time's pooch
• rettiwT.................................While not an acronym per se, it belongs here. Aka Twitter, pronounced "Re-twit"
• RIO......................................Radar Intercept Officer (Navy Term, think Tomcats)
• RTB......................................Return To Base, ya know, "Go home."
• RTWT...................................Read the whole thing
• RTU.....................................Replacement Training Unit
• SAP......................................Standard Acronym Page (what you're looking at now)
• Sasha...................................New Cat #1, she of ferocious disposition
• SHWF...................................Sh!t Hot World Famous (A prefix, e.g. SHWFOTS = Sh!t Hot World Famous Orange Tailed Shrikes, VFA-94
• SJC.......................................Standard Juvat Caveat = A Fairy Tale begins with "Once upon a time" and a War Story begins with "So, there I was".
• SEG.......................................Sh!t Eating Grin 
• SFBNITW..............................Stupidest F******g Band Name In The World
• SGC........................................Spectacular Group Copulation. A Beansism which is equivalent to an MCF.
• Shack....................................Term used by military pilots esp. the Air Force to indicate to combat controllers, targeters, and air command that the assigned or engaged target has been hit in a manner other than superficial damage.
• SLTP......................................Self-Licking Turd Polishers, certain extraneous members of the military (and the Federal Gubmint). Hat tip to the Prairie Adventurer for that one.)
• SMH......................................Shaking My Head
• SMSA....................................Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
• SWPE....................................Second Worst President Ever (Carter)
• TDY.......................................Temporary Duty
• TFC........................................Treasured First Comment
• TFS........................................Tactical Fighter Squadron
• TFTS.....................................Tactical Fighter Training Squadron
• TFW......................................Tactical Fighter Wing
• TIFIFY...................................There, I Fixed It For You
• TL;DR....................................Too Long;Didn't Read, seen in reference to online stuff
• TBGWABMO.........................The Big Guy Who Always Bails Me Out  (Blatantly stolen from The Naval Air Cowman, aka Shaun)
• The DIL.................................My Daughter-In-Law, married to The Naviguesser.
• The Musician.........................My youngest kid brother (MYKB)
• The Naviguesser....................My son, my oldest. Was a Navy navigator BITD.
• The Nuke...............................My oldest daughter, a lieutenant of nuclear propulsion
• The Olde Vermonter..............My oldest kid brother (MOKB)
• The Owl.................................My next-to-youngest granddaughter who has the biggest, wisest looking eyes, Big O's little sister, daughter of The Naviguesser and The DIL
• The SeaLawyer......................The Nuke's former, disgraced, significant other. Sometimes I'll spell this as The Sea-Lawyer.
• The WSO................................My youngest daughter, who is one of the above.
• The Young Vermonter...........My nephew, oldest son of MOKB
• TIFPA.....................................Things I Find Particularly Annoying
• Tiger......................................Original Cat #1 (pronounced same as Tiger, auf Deutsch - sounds kinda like "Teegger" in common practice)
• TINS......................................This Is No Sh!t
• TO & E...................................Table of Organization and Equipment
• TMI.......................................Too Much Information
• TRex......................................Ex-Husband of The Nuke (also disgraced)
• TTTTPMO..............................Things That Tend To Piss Me Off
• TTTTRAM..............................Things That Tend To Really Annoy Me
• Tuttle.....................................The Nuke's Husband, my oldest, yet newest son-in-law. A keeper this one.
• U2B.......................................A "Shaunism," short for YouTube.
• USA.......................................United States of America or United States Army
• UI..........................................Useful Idiot
• USAF.....................................United States Air Force
• USCG.....................................United States Coast Guard
• USMC....................................United States Marine Corps
• USMC....................................United States Marine Corps, aka Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
• USN.......................................United States Navy
• VLF.......................................Very Large Flashbulb, aka canned sunshine, aka "special" weapon, aka nuclear "device," aka nuclear BOMB!
• WBAGNFARB.......................Would Be A Good Name For A Rock Band - coined by Dave Barry
• WBtS.....................................War Between the States, aka Civil War (in the North)
• WCS.....................................(1) Weapon Control System
• WCS.....................................(2) Weapon Control System, Specifically referring to the F-4 Phantom radar and gun sight systems
• WHOGAS.............................Who Gives A Sh!t
• WoNA..................................War of Northern Aggression, aka Civil War (in the North)
• WPE.....................................Worst President Ever (#44)
• WRCS...................................Weapon Release Computer System (for Virgil)
• WSO....................................Weapon Systems Officer
• WTF....................................What the Fire Truck (sort of...)
• WTS.....................................Well Told Story, a facet of the JCRT
• WUWT.................................What's Up With That?
• YGBSM................................You Gotta Be Sh!tting Me
• Y,IHRTB..............................Yes, I Have Read That Book
• YMMV.................................Your Mileage May Vary