Facebook Complete History

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"> <o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape alt="Capture.PNG" id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1034" style="height: 77.25pt; margin-left: -28.5pt; margin-top: -21pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 531pt; z-index: 1;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="Capture" src="file:///C:\Users\SHAHZA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png"> <w:wrap type="square"></w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc444670612"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span></a><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook is a corporation and online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in the United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws. Its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Mkc1AE4eDUr11QAkNT19k08kO2nxhI0OZ2tFhfHSdBLmrbw3Ws7_a-2aM4AIZkMFIrRqBmUeSG5Bs_nYcBiW0oJirOihtm66PAESphUBFLy9LAQOAcoGrtdsRxHK75VHR8Wb_4dTng/s1600/Facebook_%2528login%252C_signup_page%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Mkc1AE4eDUr11QAkNT19k08kO2nxhI0OZ2tFhfHSdBLmrbw3Ws7_a-2aM4AIZkMFIrRqBmUeSG5Bs_nYcBiW0oJirOihtm66PAESphUBFLy9LAQOAcoGrtdsRxHK75VHR8Wb_4dTng/s640/Facebook_%2528login%252C_signup_page%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><o:p></o:p><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Also users can complain or block unpleasant people. Facebook had over 1.18 billion monthly active users as of August 2015. Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies. Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion. Following its Q3 earnings call in 2015, Facebook's market cap soared past $300 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook is the most popular social network, in the U.S. and internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• In October 2011, more than half of the world’s Internet users (55 percent) engaged with Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Around the world, approximately 3 in every 4 minutes spent on social networking sites were spent on Facebook and about 1 in every 7 minutes spent online took place on Facebook in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div><h1><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">History<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: .05in;"><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">2003–2005</span></span><span class="mw-headline"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">:</span></span><span class="mw-headline"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Thefacebook, Thiel investment and name change</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Zuckerberg wrote a program called Facemash on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard University as a sophomore (second year student). According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not and used "photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person"<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><v:shape alt="1.png" id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_i1028" style="height: 194.25pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 274.5pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="1" src="file:///C:\Users\SHAHZA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.png"> </v:imagedata></v:shape></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 231pt; left: 0; margin-left: 222.75pt; margin-top: 71.55pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 285.75pt; z-index: -8;" wrapcoords="-57 -70 -57 21530 21657 21530 21657 -70 -57 -70"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> </v:textbox><v:textbox> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied private dormitory ID images. Harvard did not have a student "Facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information) at the time, although individual houses had been issuing their own paper facebooks since the mid-1980s, and Harvard's longtime Freshman Yearbook was colloquially referred to as the "Freshman Facebook". Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Original layout and name of  Thefacebook, 2004.</span></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 19.5pt; left: 0; margin-left: 234.75pt; margin-top: 130.05pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 267.75pt; z-index: 3;"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy. Ultimately, the charges were dropped. Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final exam. He uploaded 500 Augustan images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section. He shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He said he was inspired by an editorial about the Facemash incident in The Harvard Crimson. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors—Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra—accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com. They claimed that he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation. They later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling in 2008 for 1.2 million shares (worth $300 million at Facebook's IPO).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College; within the first month, more than half the undergraduates at Harvard were registered on the service. Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to the universities of Columbia, Stanford, and Yale. It later opened to all Ivy League colleges, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In mid-2004, entrepreneur Sean Parker — an informal advisor to Zuckerberg — became the company's president.In June 2004, Facebook moved its operations base to Palo Alto, California. It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. In 2005, the company dropped "the" from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com for US$200,000. the domain facebook.com belonged to AboutFace Corporation before the purchase. this website last appeared on 8 April 2005, whereas from 10 April 2005 to 4 August 2005, this domain gave a 403 error.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In May 2005</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added $1 million of his own money. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><v:shape alt="1.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_10" o:spid="_x0000_i1027" style="height: 112.5pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 247.5pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="1" src="file:///C:\Users\SHAHZA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"> </v:imagedata></v:shape></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 159.75pt; left: 0; margin-left: 141pt; margin-top: 51.65pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 262.5pt; z-index: 4;"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> </v:textbox><v:textbox> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A high-school version of the site was launched in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.(At the time, high-school networks required an invitation to join.) Facebook also expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Mark Zuckerberg, co-creator of Facebook, in  is Harvard dorm room, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1029" style="height: 35.25pt; left: 0; margin-left: 150.75pt; margin-top: 12.25pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 246pt; z-index: 5;"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br clear="ALL" /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">2006–2011</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">: Public access, Microsoft alliance and rapid growth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On September 26, 2006, Facebook was opened to everyone at least 13 years old with a valid email address.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In late 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages (pages which allowed companies to promote themselves and attract customers). These started as group pages, but a new concept called company pages was planned. Pages began rolling out for businesses in May 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international advertisements on the social networking site.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Almost a year later, in September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. The company announced 500 million users in July 2010 making it the largest online social network in the world at the time. According to the company's data, half of the site's membership use Facebook daily, for an average of 34 minutes, while 150 million users access the site by mobile. A company representative called the milestone a "quiet revolution."<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><v:shape alt="1.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_11" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" style="height: 128.25pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 192pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="1" src="file:///C:\Users\SHAHZA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg"> </v:imagedata></v:shape></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1030" style="height: 187.5pt; left: 0; margin-left: 262.5pt; margin-top: 19.25pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 216.75pt; z-index: -4;" wrapcoords="-75 -86 -75 21514 21675 21514 21675 -86 -75 -86"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> </v:textbox><v:textbox> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc. (an exchange for privately held companies' shares), Facebook's value was $41 billion. The company had slightly surpassed eBay to become the third largest American web company after Google and Amazon.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook headquarters entrance sign at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal">Facebook headquarters entrance sign at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California</div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1031" style="height: 41.25pt; left: 0; margin-left: 274.5pt; margin-top: 15.6pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 193.5pt; z-index: 7;"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move its headquarters to the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California. In March 2011, it was reported that Facebook was removing approximately 20,000 profiles offline every day for violations such as spam, graphic content, and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Release of statistics by DoubleClick showed that Facebook reached one trillion page views in the month of June 2011, making it the most visited website tracked by DoubleClick.According to a Nielsen Media Research study, released in December 2011, Facebook had become the second-most accessed website in the U.S. behind Google.<o:p></o:p></span></div><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: .05in;"><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">2012–2013</span></span><span class="mw-headline"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">: IPO, lawsuits and one-billionth user</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook eventually filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012. Facebook held an initial public offering on May 17, 2012, negotiating a share price of US$38. The company was valued at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012. Based on its 2012 income of $5 billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time in May 2013, ranked in position 462.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook filed their S1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2012. The company applied for a $5 billion IPO, one of the biggest offerings in the history of technology.The IPO raised $16 billion, making it the third-largest in U.S. history.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The shares began trading on May 18; the stock struggled to stay above the IPO price for most of the day, but set a record for the trading volume of an IPO (460 million shares).The first day of trading was marred by technical glitches that prevented orders from going through; only the technical problems and artificial support from underwriters prevented the stock price from falling below the IPO price on the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In March 2012, Facebook announced App Center, a store selling applications that operate via the site. The store was to be available on iPhones, Android devices, and mobile web users.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook to NASDAQ, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On May 22, 2012, the Yahoo! Finance website reported that Facebook's lead underwriters, Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), and Goldman Sachs (GS), cut their earnings forecasts for the company in the middle of the IPO process. The stock had begun its freefall by this time, closing at 34.03 on May 21 and 31.00 on May 22. A "circuit breaker" was used in an attempt to slow down the stock price's decline.Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Chairman Rick Ketchum, called for a review of the circumstances surrounding the IPO.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook's IPO was consequently investigated, and was compared to a pump and dump scheme. A class-action lawsuit was filed in May 2012 because of the trading glitches, which led to botched orders. Lawsuits were filed, alleging that an underwriter for Morgan Stanley selectively revealed adjusted earnings estimates to preferred clients.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><v:shape alt="1.jpeg" id="Picture_x0020_12" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" style="height: 153.75pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 192.75pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="1" src="file:///C:\Users\SHAHZA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg"> </v:imagedata></v:shape></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1032" style="height: 201.75pt; left: 0; margin-left: 287.25pt; margin-top: 117.7pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 207.75pt; z-index: -2;" wrapcoords="-78 -85 -78 21515 21678 21515 21678 -85 -78 -85"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> </v:textbox><v:textbox> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The other underwriters (MS, JPM, GS), Facebook's CEO and board, and NASDAQ also faced litigation after numerous lawsuits were filed, while SEC and FINRA both launched investigations.It was believed that adjustments to earnings estimates were communicated to the underwriters by a Facebook financial officer, who used the information to cash out on their positions while leaving the general public with overpriced shares. By the end of May 2012, Facebook's stock lost over a quarter of its starting value, which led the Wall Street Journal to label the IPO a "fiasco".<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook to NASDAQ, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><v:rect id="_x0000_s1033" style="height: 34.5pt; left: 0; margin-left: 297pt; margin-top: 152.55pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 191.25pt; z-index: 9;"> <v:textbox> <!--[if !mso]--> <!--[endif]--></v:textbox></v:rect><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Zuckerberg announced to the media at the start of October 2012 that Facebook had passed the monthly active users mark of one billion—Facebook defines active users as a logged-in member who visits the site, or accesses it through a third-party site connected to Facebook, at least once a month. Fake accounts were not mentioned in the announcement, but the company continued to remove them after it found that 8.7% of its users were not real in August 2012. The company's data also revealed 600 million mobile users, 140 billion friend connections since the inception of Facebook, and the median age of a user as 22 years<o:p></o:p></span></div><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: .05in;"><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">2013–present</span></span><span class="mw-headline"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;">: site developments, A4AI and 10th anniversary</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On January 15, 2013, Facebook announced Facebook Graph Search, which provides users with a "precise answer," rather than a link to an answer by leveraging the data present on its site. Facebook emphasized that the feature would be "privacy-aware," returning only results from content already shared with the user.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The company became the subject of a lawsuit by Rembrandt Social Media in February 2013, for patents involving the "Like" button.On April 3, 2013, Facebook unveiled Facebook Home, a user-interface layer for Android devices offering greater integration with the site. HTC announced the HTC First, a smartphone with Home pre-loaded.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On April 15, 2013, Facebook announced an alliance across 19 states with the National Association of Attorneys General, to provide teenagers and parents with information on tools to manage social networking profiles.[85] On April 19, 2013, Facebook officially modified its logo to remove the faint blue line at the bottom of the "F" icon. The letter F moved closer to the edge of the box.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Following a campaign by 100 advocacy groups, Facebook agreed to update its policy on hate speech. The campaign highlighted content promoting domestic and sexual violence against women, and used over 57,000 tweets and more than 4,900 emails that caused withdrawal of advertising from the site by 15 companies, including Nissan UK, House of Burlesque and Nationwide UK. The social media website initially responded by stating that "while it may be vulgar and offensive, distasteful content on its own does not violate our policies". It decided to take action on May 29, 2013, after it "become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On June 12, 2013, Facebook announced on its newsroom that it was introducing clickable hashtags to help users follow trending discussions, or search what others are talking about on a topic. A July 2013 Wall Street Journal article identified the Facebook IPO as the cause of a change in the U.S.' national economic statistics, as the local government area of the company's headquarters, San Mateo County, California, became the top wage-earning county in the country after the fourth quarter of 2012. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average weekly wage in the county was US$3,240, 107% higher than the previous year. It noted the wages were "the equivalent of $168,000 a year, and more than 50% higher than the next-highest county, New York County (better known as Manhattan), at $2,107 a week, or roughly $110,000 a year."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Russian internet firm Mail.Ru sold its Facebook shares for US$525 million on September 5, 2013, following its initial $200 million investment in 2009. Partly owned by Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanovhe, the firm owned a total of 14.2 million remaining shares prior to the sale.[91] In the same month, the Chinese government announced that it will lift the ban on Facebook in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone "to welcome foreign companies to invest and to let foreigners live and work happily in the free-trade zone." Facebook was first blocked in China in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook was announced as a member of The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) in October 2013, when the A4AI was launched. The A4AI is a coalition of public and private organisations that includes Google, Intel and Microsoft. Led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable so that access is broadened in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Google will help to decrease Internet access prices so that they fall below the UN Broadband Commission's worldwide target of 5% of monthly income.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A Reuters report, published on December 11, 2013, stated that Standard & Poor's announced the placement of Facebook on its S&P 500 index "after the close of trading on December 20."[94] Facebook announced Q4 2013 earnings of $523 million (20 cents per share), an increase of $64 million from the previous year,[95] as well as 945 million mobile users.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By January 2014, Facebook's market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion. At the end of January 2014, 1.23 billion users were active on the website every month.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The company celebrated its 10th anniversary during the week of February 3, 2014. In each of the first three months of 2014, over one billion users logged into their Facebook account on a mobile device.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In February 2014, Facebook announced that it would be buying mobile messaging company Whatsapp for US$19 billion in cash and stock.[99] In June 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of Pryte, a Finnish mobile data-plan firm that aims to make it easier for mobile phone users in underdeveloped parts of the world to use wireless Internet apps.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At the start of July 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of LiveRail, a San Francisco, California-based online video advertising company. LiveRail's technology facilitates the sale of video inventory across different devices. The terms of the deal were undisclosed, but TechCrunch reported that Facebook paid between US$400 million and $500 million. As part of the company's second quarter results, Facebook announced in late July 2014 that mobile accounted for 62% of its advertising revenue, which is an increase of 21% from the previous year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Alongside other American technology figures like Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician Lu Wei, known as the "Internet czar" for his influence in the enforcement of China's online policy, at Facebook's headquarters on December 8, 2014. The meeting occurred after Zuckerberg participated in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2014, where he attempted to converse in Mandarin—although Facebook is banned in China, Zuckerberg is highly regarded among the people and was at the university to help fuel the nation's burgeoning entrepreneur sector. A book of Chinese president Xi Xinping found on Zuckerberg's office desk attracted a great deal of attention in the media, after the Facebook founder explained to Lu, "I want them [Facebook staff] to understand socialism with Chinese characteristics."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Zuckerberg fielded questions during a live Q&A session at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park on December 11, 2014. The question of whether the platform would adopt a dislike button was raised again, and Zuckerberg said, "We're [Facebook] thinking about it [dislike button] … It's an interesting question," and said that he likes the idea of Facebook users being able to express a greater variety of emotions. In October 2015, Zuckerberg said that instead of creating a dislike button, Facebook is testing emoji reactions as an alternative to the 'like' button. On February 24, 2016, Facebook launched Facebook Reactions, which allows users to respond to posts with multiple reactions in addition to "liking" it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As of January 21, 2015, Facebook's algorithm is programmed to filter out false or misleading content, such as fake news stories and hoaxes, and will be supported by users who select the option to flag a story as "purposefully fake or deceitful news." According to Reuters, such content is "being spread like a wildfire" on the social media platform. Facebook maintained that "satirical" content, "intended to be humorous, or content that is clearly labeled as satire," will be taken into account and should not be intercepted. The algorithm, however, has been accused of maintaining a "filter bubble", where both material the user disagrees with and posts with a low level of likes, will also not be seen.  In 2015 November, Zuckerberg prolonged period of paternity leave from 4 weeks to 4 months.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> From: Wikipedia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook users can:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Find and add friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Find and follow companies, entertainers, politicians, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Create rich profiles with information about their interests, job history, education, religion, politics, relationship status, location (past and present), and favorite music, movies, and companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Create and share photo albums, event invitations, and basic blog posts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Share videos, links to online articles, photos, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Send instant messages and private messages and post public messages or messages to friends only.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Play online games and use other online applications or “apps” for short.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Use privacy settings to control what information is shared with whom.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• “Check in” to physical places online by mapping their location in a tag in a status update.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Donate to charity; sign online petitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Create free pages for a company, business, or group.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• Find and join groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraph"><br /></div></div>

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Words Relating to Army Life and their Uses

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 21.5pt; line-height: 115%;">All Words Relating to Army Life and their Uses:</span></h2><h3><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><h3><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3>Base : </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">A place where members of the armed forces live and work.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Billet : </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">To</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">put</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">soldiers</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">in</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">a</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">billet</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">.                                                                                               </span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Detail</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : To give someone</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">a particular job, especially someone in the armed forces.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ydf6YDvY2Qv_5OrztIh1p_DIo-K3pMiDptMUeYnHkAhCq5RbCuKXQjTwTxSyWygTMm6MivJMP8T_ykl376oQO-OzjRb59fc3h4Qvi7PK6xZO3bIdQcghBPfFqmM37jPfTnqsj6vAhA/s1600/images+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ydf6YDvY2Qv_5OrztIh1p_DIo-K3pMiDptMUeYnHkAhCq5RbCuKXQjTwTxSyWygTMm6MivJMP8T_ykl376oQO-OzjRb59fc3h4Qvi7PK6xZO3bIdQcghBPfFqmM37jPfTnqsj6vAhA/s1600/images+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></h3>Fatigue</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jobs such as cleaning rooms or cooking food that a soldier is given to do, sometimes as a punishment.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Fort</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A place where an army lives or trains.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Garrison</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The place that a group of soldiers are living in and defending.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Garrison</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To put soldiers in a place to live there and defend it.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Garrison</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To defend a place that you live in as a soldier.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Generalship</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: The skills or position of an army general</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> Guardroom</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A room for soldiers who are working as guards, sometimes also used as a place for keeping military prisoners</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Irregular</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> :</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Irregular soldiers are not part of the official army of a country</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Mess</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A room where people have their meals in the armed forces</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Mess hall</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> :</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> room where people in the armed forces have their meals</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">National service</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A fixed period of time that young people in some countries must spend in the armed forces</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Observation post</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A high position from which a soldier watches for enemy activity</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">..</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Picket</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: To put soldiers in position to guard a place</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Quarter</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : To give soldiers a place to live temporarily</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Regular :</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Belonging to a professional army, or consisting of professional soldiers.</span><span style="color: windowtext;">                                 </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Salute</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To put your hand to your head as a formal way of showing respect to someone, especially a senior  officer in the armed forces</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Serge</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Used for talking to or about a sergeant in the armed forces</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Service</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Relating to or belonging to the armed forces</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Soldiering</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The work of a soldier</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Soldierly</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Typical of a good soldier</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Standard-issue</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">standard-issue equipment is the basic equipment that everyone in the armed forces gets</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Standing order</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A rule in the armed forces that must always be obeyed until another rule officially changes it</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Station</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A small military base</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Stores</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : Supplies of food and equipment used by an army</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">In</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">uniform</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> :</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Serving as a member of the armed forces</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Tour of duty</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : A period of time when a group of soldiers or a government representative is sent to work somewhere</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Under arms</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> : Trained and ready to fight as an army</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 14.55pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some Words and there uses:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">• <b>Aggression : </b>An unprovoked attack by an enemy<br />• <b>Belligerents : </b>Nations carrying on warfare<br />• <b>Conscriptions : </b>Compulsory enrolment as soldiers and sailors<br />• <b>Casualties : </b>The killed or wounded in battle<br />• <b>Convoy : </b>A number of ships traveling together under escort for the sake of safety<br />• <b>Contraband : </b>Smuggling of goods and engaging in prohibited traffic<br />• <b>Espionage : T</b>he act or the practice of spying<br />• <b>Evacuate : </b>To remove from one place to another to avoid the destruction of war<br />• <b>Embargo : </b>An order prohibiting the ships to leave the ports<br />• <b>Mobilize : </b>To make troops and ships for war services<br />• <b>Invade : </b>To enter another country as an enemy<br />• <b>Neutral : </b>Taking neither side in a struggle<br />• <b>Alien : </b>An illegal foreigner in a country<br />• <b>Intern : </b>To keep citizens in confinement<br />• <b>Ammunition : </b>Shells, bombs and other destructive items<br />• <b>Ordnance : </b>Heavy guns and army store-items<br />• <b>Bayonet : </b>A knife fixed on to the end of a gun<br />• <b>Parole : </b>A promise given by the prisoner if given a temporary release<br />• <b>Puttees : </b>Long cloths bound round the legs of soldiers from ankle to knee<br />• <b>Reveille : </b>Music for awakening the soldiers in the morning<br />• <b>Arsenal : </b>A place where naval or military weapons are made or stored<br />• <b>Parachute : </b>An apparatus which opens like an umbrella to enable a person to drop safely from an aircraft<br />• <b>Volley : </b>A shower of bullets<br />• <b>Salvo : </b>The firing of many guns at the same time to mark an occasion<br />• <b>Cavalry : </b>Horse-soldiers<br />• <b>Infantry : </b>Foot-soldiers<br />• <b>Fusillade : </b>A number of fire arms discharged continuously<br />• <b>Reconnoiter : </b>To make an examination of enemy territory<br />• <b>Armistice : </b>An agreement to stop fighting<br />• <b>Capitulate : </b>To surrender to an enemy on agreed terms<br />• <b>Annihilate : </b>To reduce to nothing<br />• <b>Amnesty : </b>A general pardon of offenders</div><div class="MsoNormal">• <b>Battalion : </b>The main division of an army<br />• <b>Besiege : </b>To surround a place with the intention of capturing it<br />• <b>Recruit : </b>A soldier recently enlisted for services<br />• <b>Leave : </b>A soldier’s holiday<br />• <b>Furlough : </b>A soldier’s holiday</div><div class="MsoNormal">• <b>Bulletin : </b>Official report on the progress of the war<br />•<b> Diplomacy : </b>The art of conducting negotiations between nations<br /><b>• Garrison : </b>A body of soldiers stationed in the fortress to defend it<br />• <b>Garrison : </b>The fortified fortress<br />• <b>Bandolier : </b>A broad belt worn across the chest with pockets for carrying ammunitions<br />• <b>Conscript : </b>A person who is forced by the law to become a soldier<br />• <b>Guerilla war : </b>An irregular war conducted by scattered bands<br />• <b>Man oeuvre  : </b>Movement of ships or troops in order to secure an advantage over the enemy<br />• <b>Commandeer : T</b>o seize for military use<br />• <b>Demobilize</b> : To release from army<br />• <b>Bivouac</b> : An encampment in the open air<br />• <b>Bivouac</b> : To camp in the open air without tent<br />• <b>Canteen </b>: A place where soldiers can buy drinks and other refreshments<br />find for the first time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some other words:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Anti-guerrilla Operations:</span></b> Operations which are conducted against guerilla forces. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Area Defense:</span></b> A type of defense that is oriented toward retaining a particular terrain. Area defense will rely mainly on the deployed forces that fire to repulse and stop the attackers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxeO2Kf4BKnjXeOYFWwbs06TXoa8YvocElCxfZ78BaId4iickNwLEIep0k_vptPOu2YGSPlLHIqNmlfnXfAV957Jics0K8MCAUsC5tdB58OUm4b0DpN9Py8GRriWRAoLkicE6VDe-fg/s1600/UK-Female-Soldier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxeO2Kf4BKnjXeOYFWwbs06TXoa8YvocElCxfZ78BaId4iickNwLEIep0k_vptPOu2YGSPlLHIqNmlfnXfAV957Jics0K8MCAUsC5tdB58OUm4b0DpN9Py8GRriWRAoLkicE6VDe-fg/s320/UK-Female-Soldier.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Assault</span></b>: The last step on an attack phase. It is rushing to close combat in order to drive the enemy out for hand-to-hand combat, using hand grenades and bayonets.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Attack</span></b>: Form of offensive combat. It is an offensive type of action that is directed against the enemy. The purpose is to drive the enemy from his position in order to kill or capture.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Barrage:</span></b>Protective firing of indirect firing weapons</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Boundaries</span></b>: The company and battalion defense areas which are limited due to terrain and means of approach.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Caliber</span></b>: The diameter of the measured bore. It is expressed in decimal inch fractions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Charge</span></b>: Part of a fire command. It establishes the propellant’s amount in a shell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Checkpoint</span></b>: An easy to identify point on a terrain used for controlling the movement or identifying locations.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Civic Action</span></b>: The act of using military forces on certain projects involving its contribution to economic development purposes for the locals. Some of the projects usually cover agriculture, education, public works, communications, sanitation, and health </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Close combat: </span></b>Refers to hand-to-hand combat or fighting. It involves the use of weapons such as pistols, bayonets, rifles, and hand grenades.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Counterattack</span></b>: Refers to the attack by a portion or the entire defensive force against the attackers. The main purpose of such an attack is to regain the ground that has been lost, or to destroy the enemy’s advance units. The objective is to deny the enemy of friendly territory.  </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">D-day</span></b>:  Refers to the day in which an operation will commence.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Debarkation</span></b>: The process of unloading equipment, supplies, or troops from an aircraft or ship.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Deployment</span></b>: The extension of depth or width of a unit. It refers to how a particular unit is organized for combat.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Direct fire</span></b>: Refers to the fire that is delivered by a weapon which is aimed directly to its target.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Dump:</span></b>Temporary space to store military supplies.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Ejection</span></b>: Refers to the process of expelling empty cartridges from weapons using an ejector.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Evacuation</span></b>: It is the process of relocating casualties from the battlefield. It is also the clearance of personnel from a locality. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Extraction</span></b>: The phase of an operation which involves the removal of empty cartridges through ejection.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Ground Zero</span></b>: The specific point on a ground where a nuclear weapon exploded.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Guerillas</span></b>: Refers to the combatants which are members of an organized military force. Their activities usually involve harassment and disruption of the opposing forces.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Infiltrate</span></b>: The passing of troops in small groups through an entrance in the enemy’s side.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Insurgency</span></b>: Refers to rebellious political activity, revolt, or rebellion designed to overthrow or weaken the authority by its very own people.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Insurrection</span></b>: The process of rising up to challenge the government by its very own people. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Obstacle</span></b>: A natural or artificial barrier that impedes or stops the unit’s movement.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Penetration</span></b>: Form of attack that allows the attacking force to enter or move forward through the enemy’s defensive position. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Political warfare</span></b>: Refers to the aggressive approach in using politic methods to fulfill national plans.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Raid</span></b>: Refers to a small scale operation that involves quickly penetrating hostile territory in order to secure important information, to rattle the enemy, or to destroy their installations. When the mission is accomplished, the operation ends with a withdrawal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Rebellion</span></b>: Refers to open resistance that is organized and armed against the government. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Revolt</span></b>: To cast off allegiance to the government.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Revolution</span></b>: A rebellion that is able to succeed in toppling down the government and establishing new authority. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Security</span></b>: Actions taken by a certain command in order to protect its group from sabotage, espionage, and observation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Withdrawal : </span></b>An action whereby the unit disengages from the enemy as a direct order from their commander. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Zone of fire:</span></b> A particular area where a unit delivers or is about to deliver fire.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Army Abbreviations</span></u></b><u><o:p></o:p></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACK </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Acknowledgement<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Access control list; allowable cabin load<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACLANT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Command Atlantic<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACLP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Affiliated contingency load planning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced conventional munitions; advanced cruise missile;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">air combat maneuver; air contingency Marine air-ground<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">task force (MAGTF); airspace coordinating measure<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACMREQ </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airspace control means request; airspace coordination<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">measures request<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACN </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assign commercial network<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACO </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Administrative contracting officer; airspace control order<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACOA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adaptive course of action<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACOC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Area communications operations center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACOCC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air combat operations command center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACOS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assistant chief of staff<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Access control point; air commander’s pointer; airspace<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">control plan; Allied communications publication;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">assign common pool<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACR </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armored cavalry regiment (Army);<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">assign channel reassignment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Agile combat support; air-capable ship; airspace control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">system; Auxiliary crane ship<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACSA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Acquisition and cross-servicing agreement; Allied<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Communications Security Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AC/S, C4I </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assistant Chief of Staff, Command, Control,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Communications, Computers, and Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">(USMC)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activity; advance civilian team;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Command Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACU </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assault craft unit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACV </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aircraft cockpit video; armored combat vehicle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACW </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced conventional weapons<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A/D </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Analog-to-digital<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AD </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Active duty; advanced deploy ability; air defense;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">area denial; automatic distribution; priority add-on<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aerial damage assessment; air defense artillery<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A/DACG </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arrival/departure airfield control group<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADAFCO </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense artillery fire control officer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADAL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Authorized dental allowance list<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADAM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense airspace management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADAM/BAE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense airspace management/brigade aviation element<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADAMS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Deployment and Movement System<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADANS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Mobility Command Deployment Analysis System<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense commander; area damage control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADCAP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced capability<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A/DCG </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arrival/departure control group<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADCI/MS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADCON </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Administrative control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADD </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assign on-line diagnostic<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADDO </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assistant Deputy Director for Operations<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADDO(MS) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assistant Deputy Director for Operations/Military<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airdrop damage estimate; assign digit editing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADF </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automatic direction finding<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADIZ </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense identification zone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADKC/RCU </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automatic Key Distribution Center/Rekeying Control Unit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced distributed learning; assign XX (SL) routing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense measure<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADMIN </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Administration<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADN </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Command Europe desired ground zero number<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADNET </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anti-drug network<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADOC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense operations center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense plan; Army doctrine publication; automated<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">data processing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADPE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automated data processing equipment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADPS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automatic data processing system<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADR </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Accident data recorder; aircraft damage repair; airfield<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">damage repair<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADRA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventist Development and Relief Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADRP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Army doctrine reference publication<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense section; air defense sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">amphibian discharge site; authoritative data source<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADSIA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADSW </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Active duty for special work<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Active duty for training; assign digital transmission group;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">automatic digital tester<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADUSD(TP) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Transportation Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADVON </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced echelon<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADW </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense warnings<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADWC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air defense warning condition<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADZ </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amphibious defense zone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A/E </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ammunition/explosives<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation; assault echelon; attenuation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">equalizer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation crew<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AECA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arms Export Control Act<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AECM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation crew member<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AECS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation command squadron<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AECT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation control team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEG </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air expeditionary group<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEHF </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced extremely high frequency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AELT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation liaison team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEOS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation operations squadron<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEOT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation operations team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEPS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aircrew escape propulsion system<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEPST </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation plans and strategy team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AES </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation squadron<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AESC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aero medical evacuation support cell<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AET </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airport emergency team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AETC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Education and Training Command<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AETF </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air expeditionary task force<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A/ETF </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automated/electronic target folder<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEU </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assign essential user bypass<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AEW </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airborne early warning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AF </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force; Air Force (form); amphibious force<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AF/A2 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Director of Intelligence, Surveillance,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">and Reconnaissance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFAARS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force After Action Reporting System<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFAPD </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Applications Program Development<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFARN </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force air request net<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFATDS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFB </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force base<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">area frequency coordinator; automatic frequency control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Communications Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCAP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force contract augmentation program; Armed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Forces contract augmentation program<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCB </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Chaplains Board<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Component Commander<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCCC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Combat Climatology Center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCEC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Civil Engineer Center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCEE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCENT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allied Forces Central Europe (NATO)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCERT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force computer emergency response team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFCESA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Civil Engineering Support Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFD </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assign fixed directory<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force doctrine annex<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Doctrine Center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDD </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force doctrine document<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDIGS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force digital graphics system<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDIL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFDIS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Weather Agency Dial In Subsystem<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AF/DP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, United States Air Force<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFE </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFEES </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFFIS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Facilities File Information System<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFFMA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Frequency Management Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFFOR </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force forces<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFH </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force handbook<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFHSC </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFI </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force instruction<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFIAA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFICA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Air Force Installation Contracting Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFID </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anti-fratricide identification device<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AF/IL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics, USAF<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFIP </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Institute of Pathology<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFIRB </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Armed Forces Identification Review Board<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">AFIS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">American Forces Information Service.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

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