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deployed ahead of a combat group to
establish a headquarters team and set up support operations for combat aircraft
                STRC—Strategic Training Range
Complex, an extensive series of low-level navigation corridors, radar
bomb-scoring sites, live bombing ranges, and fighter-intercept exercise areas
in the north- central United States, operated by the Strategic Air Command for
bomber aircrew training
                STS—Shuttle Transportation System,
the official name of the Space Shuttle program
                sugar pills—doughnuts, rolls, and
other such snacks
                TACIT RAINBOW—AGM-136 antiradar
cruise missile designed by Northrop Ventura Corporation; seeks out and destroys
enemy radar sites from as far as fifty miles; if the enemy radar shuts off, it
can orbit the area until the radar is reactivated, at which time it will home
in and destroy it.
                Tank—nickname for the main Joint
Chiefs of Staff conference room; also called the “Gold Room”
                TCS—Telescopic Camera System, the
long-range optical sight used on F-14 Tomcat fighters to identify enemy
aircraft from beyond unaided visual range
                TDRS—Tracking and Data Relay System,
a series of satellites used to relay information from spacecraft to
ground-control facilities without using other Earth stations; provides
continuous and rapid data exchange for spacecraft
                TDY—temporary duty, usually
referring to military assignments lasting less than 180 days
                Tomahawk —long-range,
very accurate attack cruise missile; can be launched by submarines or naval
vessels, and can carry a variety of warheads including nuclear, antiship, land
attack, antirunway, or antipersonnel mines
                Type EF5 guided missile destroyer —new
class of primary Chinese heavy warships
                UHF—ultra-high-frequency; primary
line-of-sight radio frequency band
                UNIDO—United Nationalist Democratic
Organization, the principal political party in the Philippines organized to oppose the Marcos regime;
placed in power in 1986
                VFR—Visual Flight Rules;
good-weather flight rules
                VLS—Vertical Launch System, the
current standard Navy missile- launch system, which uses a large box of missile
cells instead of rotary missile storage magazines and which fires its missiles
straight up instead of on rails
                VPVO, VIP VO —Voyska Protivovozdushnoy Oborony, the Troops of Air Defense of the
Soviet Union; here referring to the complex of fixed and mobile simulated enemy
radar threat sites in the Strategic Training Range Complex operated by the
Strategic Air Command to train bomber crews
                WSO—Weapon Systems Officer, the
navigator-bombardier on most tactical bomber aircraft such as the F-4, A-6,
F-lll, etc.
                ZSU-23-4—mobile air-defense gun unit
built in the Soviet Union and used all over the world, consisting of four
rapid-firing radar- guided 23-millimeter cannons; deadly to all aircraft which
come within range
                Zuni —standard
unguided attack rocket carried by tactical fighter attack aircraft

          Actual News Excerpts
     
     
                Date: 5/21/90
     
                PENTAGON DECLARES PHILIPPINES “IMMINENT DANGER” AREA
     
     
                WASHINGTON
(MAY 18) UPI —The Defense
Department designated the Philippines Friday as an area of imminent danger for
special pay purposes, which means US military and civilian employees will be
getting slightly larger paychecks.
                The Pentagon said it took the action
because of the “current unstable conditions” in the Philippines , where three American servicemen have been
killed in politically motivated attacks this month