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Death Blow sts-14

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by Keith Douglass


  Sykes-Fairbairn: A commando fighting knife.

  Syrette: Small syringe for field administration often filled with morphine. Can be self-administered.

  Tango: SEAL talk for a terrorist.

  TDY: Temporary duty assigned outside of normal job designation.

  Terr: Another term for terrorist. Shorthand SEAL talk.

  Tetrahedral reflectors: Show up on multi-mode radar like tiny suns.

  Thermal Imager: Device to detect warmth, as a human body, at night or through light cover.

  Thermal Tape: ID for night-vision-goggle user to see. Used on friendlies.

  TNAZ: Trinittroaze Tidine. Explosive to replace C-4. 15 % stronger than C-4 and 20 % lighter.

  TO&E: Table showing Organization and Equipment of a military unit.

  Top SEAL Tribute: “You sweet motherfucker, don’t you never die!”

  Trailing Array: A group of antennas for sonar pickup trailed out of a submarine.

  Train: For contact in smoke, no light, fog, etc. Men directly behind each other. Right hand on weapon, left hand on shoulder of man ahead. Squeeze shoulder to signal.

  Trident: SEALs’ emblem. An eagle with talons clutching a Revolutionary War pistol, and Neptune’s trident superimposed on the Navy’s traditional anchor.

  TRW: A camera’s digital record that is sent by SATCOM.

  TT33: Tokarev, a Russian pistol.

  UAZ: A Soviet 1-ton truck.

  UBA Mark XV: Underwater life support with computer to regulate the rebreather’s gas mixture.

  UGS: Unmanned Ground Sensors. Can be used to explode booby traps and claymore mines.

  UNODIR: Unless otherwise directed. The unit will start the operation unless they are told not to.

  VBSS: Orders to “visit, board, search, and seize.”

  Wadi: A gully or ravine, usually in a desert.

  White Shirt: Man responsible for safety on carrier deck as he leads around civilians and personnel unfamiliar with the flight deck.

  WIA: Wounded In Action.

  Zodiac: Also called an IBS, Inflatable Boat Small. 15×6 feet, weighs 265 pounds. The “rubber duck” can carry 8 fully equipped SEALs. Can do 18 knots with a range of 65 nautical miles.

  Zulu: Means Greenwich Mean Time, GMT. Used in all formal military communications.

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  Third Platoon assigned exclusively to the Central Intelligence Agency to perform any needed tasks on a covert basis anywhere in the world. All are top secret assignments. Goes around Navy chain of command. Direct orders from the CIA.

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