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Commonly used military terms

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  • SAC

  • 1. Substance Abuse Clinic, 2. Strategic Air Command

  • SAIC

  • Science Applications International Corporation (software)

  • SAR

  • Search and Rescue (Team) - USCG

  • SARC

  • Substance and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center; see ARC

  • SB

  • Scuttlebutt (rumors); see LR

  • SCR

  • Systems Change Request

  • screen

  • Ships stationed around such a unit as a battleship, Presidential plane or an aircraft carrier to protect it

  • SCUBA

  • Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

  • Seabee

  • Stands for CB or a member of the Construction Battalion in the Navy

  • SEAL

  • SEa-Air-Land (Team)

  • ship's company

  • Everyone assigned to a ship aside from the air- crew

  • Sick Bay

  • A ship's "clinic"

  • Sick Call

  • A time and place where service members report for medical evaluation

  • SIMA

  • Ship's Intermediate Maintenance Activity

  • SIQ

  • Sick in quarters

  • smokestack (one word)

  • The funnel of a ship

  • SNF

  • Skilled-Nursing Facility

  • sonabuoys

  • Floating sonar devices placed in the water to detect passing ships or submarines

  • sonar

  • Underwater detection achieved by analyzing sound. Active sonar emits a sound; passive sonar avoids this danger. Dipping sonar can be trailed through the water by helicopters or hydrofoils.

  • SOP

  • Standard Operating Procedure

  • SP

  • Shore Patrol

  • stabilizers

  • Fixed horizontal and vertical fins that keep an aircraft stable as it moves through the air.

  • starboard

  • The right side of the ship

  • stern

  • The rear end of a ship; see aft & abaft

  • superstructure

  • All structures above the main deck of a ship.


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