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by Kennedy, Michael


  BATT British Army Training Team, the SAS unit training the Sultan's loyal forces in Oman

  Batt House BATT headquarters

  BET behavioural exposure therapy

  BHM British Military Hospital

  Bradbury Lines SAS barracks until 1999, in Redhill, Hereford. Later renamed Stirling Lines

  buckshee free; a freebie

  bukit hill, mountain (from the Malay)

  Carl Gustav 84mm anti-armour recoilless rifle

  casevac casualty evacuation, removal of injured to aid post or hospital

  CBF Commander British Forces

  CES complete equipment schedule

  CO Commanding Officer

  Cobra Whitehall's domestic emergency situation room

  CPO command-post orderly

  crap-hat failure; member of the regular Army

  cross-grain march over hills direct from summit to summit

  CRW counter-revolutionary warfare

  CT Communist terrorist

  cyalume stick light-stick attached to clothing or lifejacket, activated by squeezing; visible from up to a mile away

  D11 Metropolitan Police elite firearms team

  DF direction-found

  DG Dhofar Gendarmerie

  dickers in Northern Ireland, youths who note security forces' movements

  DPM Disruptive-Pattern Material camouflage

  dragon light hand-held searchlight

  DZ dropping zone

  EU Emergency Unit

  Figure 11 man-shaped target on firing range

  Firqat, FKW Firqat Khalid bin Waalid, company of Dhofaris loyal to the Sultan

  frag fire at (from fragmentation granade)

  FST field surgical theatre

  full battle order fully armed

  Gemini large rubber dinghy

  GOC General Officer Commanding

  GPMG General-Purpose Machine Gun, belt-fed 7.62mm machine gun

  green slime nickname for Intelligence Corps (from their distinctive green berets)

  Guryunov Soviet 7.62mm medium machine gun

  hangi Fijian feast

  Head Shed nickname for senior officers

  hexamine stove lightweight stove burning blocks of solid fuel

  ISFE instantaneous safety fuse electric

  Jenson's Violet purple-coloured medication

  Kremlin nickname for intelligence section at Regimental headquarters

  L42 sniper rifle, based on the Lee Enfield. The standard British Army sniper rifle until the 1990s

  LFT liver-function test

  LMG light machine gun

  LSL landing ship logistics

  LZ landing zone

  M202 66mm multi-shot portable flame weapon, firing incendiary rockets

  M79 grenade launcher

  mag magnetic north

  majnoon 'mad one' (from the Arabic)

  maroon machine nickname for the Parachute Regiment (from their maroon berets)

  MFC mortar fire controller

  mixed-fruit mortar fire pattern, two HE shells to one white

  pudding phosphorous

  MO medical officer

  mod plod MoD policeman

  MT motor transport

  OC officer commanding

  O group orders group

  OGs olive-green Army clothing

  pig an RUC armoured car

  PIRA Provisional IRA

  POST Post-Operational Stress Trauma

  PTSD Pos-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  QM Quartermaster

  QRF quick-reaction force

  RAOC Royal Army Ordnance Corps

  RCL 75mm recoilless anti-armour weapon

  RE Royal Engineers

  re-entrant valley running into side of a hill

  REME Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

  REMFs rear-echelon motherfuckers

  RF Reconnaissance Force

  Rigid Raider fast assault boat

  RPD Soviet 7.62mm light machine gun

  RSM Regimental Sergeant Major

  RTU Returned to Unit (of origin)

  Rupert officer

  Sabre Squadron SAS combat squadron. There are four, A, B, D and G

  SAF Sultan's Armed Forces (of Oman)

  sangar protective wall built of stone or sandbags

  sarbe small radio used for ground-to-air communication

  scran food

  SF (general) sustained fire

  SF (Ireland) security forces

  shake-out preparation for combat

  shamag cloth worn on head as protection from sun

  sit rep situation report

  SLR 7.62mm self-loading rifle

  souk Middle Eastern market

  SP superintendent

  spider sleeping quarters, so called because it has eight 'legs' – dormitory areas – off one central section

  Sports and Social SAS barracks

  SSM Squadron Sergeant Major

  stag period of watch

  Startrek air strike

  sustained-fire heavier-barrelled GPMG, mounted on a tripod

  (SF) kit and equipped with a dial sight, enabling it to fire at night on preset targets

  tout informer

  trig point summit of hill

  vet rep vertical replenishment (by helicopter)

  wads sandwiches

  Wali governor of province (Oman)

  wet rep weather report

  XM203 M16 assault rifle equipped with underslung 40mm grenade-launcher

  First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Osprey Publishing,

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