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Space Blanket: Green foil blanket to keep troops warm. Vacuum-packed and folded to a cigarette-sized package.
SPIE: Special Purpose Insertion and Extraction rig. Essentially a long rope dangled from a chopper with hardware on it that is attached to each SEAL’s chest right on his lift harness. Set up to lift six or eight men out of harm’s way quickly by a chopper.
Sprayers and Prayers: Not the SEAL way. These men spray bullets all over the place hoping for hits. SEALs do more aimed firing for sure kills.
SS-19: Russian ICBM missile.
STABO: Use harness and lines under chopper to get down to the ground.
STAR: Surface To Air Recovery operation.
Starflash Round: Shotgun round that shoots out sparkling fireballs that ricochet wildly around a room, confusing and terrifying the occupants. Non-lethal.
Stasi: Old-time East German secret police.
Stick: British terminology: 2 4-man SAS teams. 8 men.
Stokes: A kind of Navy stretcher. Open coffin shaped of wire mesh and white canvas for emergency patient transport.
STOL: Short TakeOff and Landing. Aircraft with high-lift wings and vectored-thrust engines to produce extremely short takeoffs and landings.
Sub Gun: Submachine gun, often the suppressed H & K MP5.
Suits: Civilians, usually government officials wearing suits.
Sweat: The more SEALs sweat in peacetime, the less they bleed in war.
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. 15x6 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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