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The Special Forces community and the military
services in general use a multitude of words, phrases, and acronyms in its
vocabulary, documentation, correspondence, and publications. This
glossary is intended to aid those unfamiliar with specific special
operations terminology.
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BCT. Brigade Combat Team.
BDA. Battlefield (or bomb) damage
assessment.
Bde. Brigade.
BDOC. Base Defense
Operations Center.
BDU. Battle Dress Uniform.
Replaced by ACUs.
BE. Basic encyclopedia.
BFT. Blue Force Tracker.
BFV. Bradley Fighting
Vehicle.
Blood Chit. A small piece of
material (silk or cloth) with the depiction of an American flag printed on
it. A message, in several languages, states that anyone assisting
the bearer to safety will be rewarded.
BLS. Beach landing site.
BMP. A Soviet bloc era
fighting vehicle and troop transport.
Bn. Battalion.
BOS. Battlefield Operating System.
BPC. See
Building Partner Capacity.
Brevity Code. A code that
shortens messages. Useful when sending Morse Code messages.
For example, in earlier years SF units used the "Marge Bundle Code" to
send messages back to the SFOB requesting specific supplies.
BTR. A Soviet bloc era
figting vehicle and troop transport.
Btry. Battery.
BUFF. A slang expression for
the B-52 Stratofortress bomber. BUFF stands for "Big Ugly Fat
Fellow" or something close to that. This plane keeps on flying - latest
use has been the delivery of multiple JDAMs in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Buon Enao Experiment. Often cited
as the frontrunner to the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) program
of the Vietnam War run by U.S. Army Special Forces personnel.
Buon Enao
was a small village in the Central Highlands.
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