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Time For School
So you signed on the dotted line and joined the military…via your marriage license. Congrats, welcome to the club, and pull up a chair because it’s time for school! You’re gonna need to learn a whole lotta stuff to figure out this crazy military wife life. Don’t worry though. I’m a total know it all and am happy to share all the things; like this handy military dictionary and acronym list.
Let’s get started with the vocabulary because there are so.many.words! Like, so many words and acronyms there really should be an actual dictionary but there won’t be because half of them mean different things in different services and even more change based on the MOS. {Yes I know that was a ridiculously long run on sentence but think of it more as a train of thought than grammatically correct because when you’re living it, it always comes out that way.}
Military Dictionary and Acronyms
AF – Air Force {Yeah. It stands for that too but unofficially. lol}
AFVC – Armed Forces Vacation Club
AMC – Air Mobility Command [Air Force. Formerly MAC.]
—MAC – Military Airlift Command
ANG – Air National Guard
AWOL – Absent Without Leave
CO – Commanding Officer
CONUS – Continental United States
—OCONUS – Outside the Continental United States
DITY – Do It Yourself {When it refers to moving its now called PPM.}
DLA – Dislocation Allowance
HHG – Household Goods
ITT – Information, Tickets & Travel
MCCS – Marine Corps Community Services
MOS – Military Occupational Specialty {A code that says what job the service member has.} [Army & USMC]
MWR – Morale, Welfare and Recreation
NAS – Naval Air Station
OCONUS – Outside the Continental United States
—CONUS – Continental United States
PCS – Permanent Change of Station {When you move.}
*Read more here.*
POV – Privately Owned Vehicle
PPM – Personally Procured Move {formerly called DITY moves. When you do it yourself!}
PTO – Property Transportation Office
SOFA – Status of Forces Agreement
SpaceA – Space Available Travel {Unofficial but completely awesome website.}
TDY – Temporary Duty
TAD – Temporary Additional Duty
TLA – Temporary Lodging Allowance
TLE – Temporary Lodging Expense
TMO – Transportation Management Office
USAF – United States Air Force
USCG – United States Coast Guard
USMC – United States Marine Corps {My personal favorite.}
USN – United States Navy
