Reflexive Fire - 01

by Jack Murphy

  MC-5: Free fall parachute used by Special Forces personnel

  MH-47: Special Operations variety of the double rotor CH-47 transport helicopter

  Milkor Mk14: Six-shot 40mm grenade launcher

  Mosin-Nagant: World War Two era Russian bolt action rifle

  Mossad: Israeli Intelligence service

  MP5: Heckler and Koch 9mm sub-machine gun

  MRUD: A Yugoslavian copy of the US-made Claymore anti-personnel mine

  NCO: Non-Commissioned Officer, Sergeants

  NSA: National Security Agency, handles signal intercepts

  NVG: Night Vision Goggles

  O2: Oxygen

  OPCEN: Operations Center

  Operations Order: Written mission format distributed to combat leaders

  PETN: Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, used instead of blasting caps to detonate larger explosive charges

  PG-7: Anti-Tank rocket for an RPG-7

  PKM: Belt-fed Russian machine gun

  PMC: Private Military Company

  PRC: People's Republic of China

  PsyOps: Psychological Operations

  RAF: Royal Air Force

  Rangers: US Airborne Light Infantry unit

  RDX: Research Developed Explosives, also known as hexogen

  Remington 270: Short barrel 12 gauge shotgun used for ballistic breaches

  RFID: Radio Frequency Identification

  RPD: Russian belt-fed machine gun

  RPG: Rocket Propelled Grenade

  RPK: Heavy barrel AK-47 with an extended magazine

  RV: Rendezvous

  S2: Intelligence section of a military unit

  SA-7: Russian anti-aircraft missile launcher

  SADF: South African Defense Force

  Samruk: Kazakhstan based Private Military Company

  SATCOM: Satellite Communications

  SEAL: SEa Air and Land, naval commandos

  SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission

  Sergeant Major: Senior ranking Sergeant in a military unit

  Short 360: Mid-size passenger aircraft

  SIG Blaser Tactical Two: State of the art sniper rifle with interchangeable barrels to allow more than one caliber of bullet to be used by the same platform

  SIGINT: Signals Intelligence

  SITREP: Situation Report

  SOP: Standard Operating Procedure

  Special Collections Service: A joint venture between the CIA and NSA that conducts “black bag” operations such as surreptitious entry to plant surveillance and monitoring devices

  Special Forces: Also known as Green Berets, specialize in training indigenous forces. A separate unit from SEALs, Rangers, and Delta Force

  Spetsnaz: Russian Special Forces

  SPG-9: Russian-made recoiless rifle

  SQL injection attack: A type of computer code injection that allows hackers to exploit security flaws in computer systems

  Sunkar: Elite Kazakh police force

  TNT: Trinitrotoluene explosives

  Trilateral Commission: An international off-shoot of the Council on Foreign Relations that fosters cooperation between the US, Europe, and Japan

  TRP: Target Reference Point

  Type 63 APC: Tracked Chinese Armored Personnel Carrier

  UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, typically used for surveillance

  UH-60: US Army general purpose helicopter

  Unit 8200: Israeli signals interception unit

  UWSA: United Wa State Army, a Burmese narco-militia

  VSS rifle: Russian-made rifle with integrated sound suppressor for use by Spetsnaz units during covert operations

  WIA: Wounded In Action

  World Bank: A private international lending institution

  XO: Executive Officer, second in command after Commanding Officer

  Yaa baa: Methamphetamine pills

  ZSU-23: Twin barreled 23mm anti-aircraft machine gun

  Jack Murphy is an eight year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.

  Learn more at: http://reflexivefire.com/

  Contact the author at: reflexivefire@yahoo.com

  Also by Jack Murphy:

  PROMIS: Vietnam

  PROMIS: Rhodesia

  Non-Fiction:

  Special Forces Weapons Report Card

  Reflexive Fire is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

  © 2011 Jack Murphy

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