Liste der US-Navy-Akronyme

Die United States Navy, wie jede Organisation, produziert ihre eigenen Akronyme und Abkürzungen, die oft über ihre bloßen Erweiterungen hinaus Bedeutung haben. Diese als „NAVSpeak“ bezeichneten Begriffe gehen auf die Anfänge der Seefahrt und der Seekriegsführung zurück, als Seeleute ihr eigenes Vokabular entwickelten, um Informationen effizient zu übermitteln und die Disziplin an Bord von Schiffen aufrechtzuerhalten. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde diese Sprache weiterentwickelt und an den technischen Fortschritt, die betrieblichen Anforderungen und die besonderen Bedürfnisse des Marinepersonals angepasst.

Offizielle Akronyme

A

AA

- – Anti Aircraft – Flugabwehr

- – Absolute Altitude – Absolute Höhe

- – Airmen Apprentice – Gefreiter

– AAM – Air to Air Missile – Luft-Luft Rakete

– AAR – Aircraft Accident Report – Flugunfallbericht

– AAV
- – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle

- – Aircraft Assault Vehicle

AAW – Anti-Air Warfare
AB – Aviation Boatswain’s Mate
AC – Air Traffic Controlman – Flugverkehrsleiter
ACR – Armored cruiser – Gepanzerter Kreuzer
AD – Aviation Machinist’s Mate
ADCON – Administrative control
ADNS – Automated Digital Network System – Automatisiertes digitales Netzwerksystem
ADSW – Active Duty Special Work
ADT – Active Duty Training
AE – Aviation Electrician’s Mate
AF – Aviation Photographer’s Mate
AFC – Aviation Fire Control
AFCM – Master Chief Aircraft Maintenanceman
AFSB – Afloat Forward Staging Base – Vorlaufstützpunkt
AG – Aerographer’s Mate
AIMD – Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department – Wartungsabteilung für Flugzeuge
ALNAV – All Navy
ALPO – Assistant Lead Petty Officer
AM – Aviation Structural Mechanic
AME – Aviation Structural Mechanic – Environmental
AMH – Aviation Structural Mechanic – Hydraulics
AMMRL – Aviation Maintenance Material Readiness List
AMO – Assistant Maintenance Officer
AMS – Aviation Structural Mechanic – Structures
AN – Airman
AO – Aviation Ordnanceman
AOW – Auxilliaryman of the Watch
AR – Airman Recruit – Flieger-Rekrut
ARRS – Afloat Readiness Reporting System
AS – Aviation Support Equipment Technician
ASAU – Air Search and Attack Unit

ASCM – Anti Ship Cruise Missile – Antischiffs-Marschflugkörper
ASUW – Anti-Surface Warfare
ASVAB – Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
ASW – Auxiliary Seawater system
ASW – Anti-Submarine Warfare
ASWO – Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer
AT – Annual Training
AT – Aviation Electronics Technician
AUTEC – Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center
AUXO – Auxiliaries Officer
AVCM – Master Chief Avionics Technician
AVGAS – Aviation Gasoline
AWCS – Assistant Work Center Supervisor
AZ – Aviation Maintenance Administrationman

B

B/N – Bombardier/Navigator;
BB – Battleship
BCD – Bad Conduct Discharge
BCGs – Birth Control Glasses
BCM – Beyond Capable Maintenance.
BESS – Basic Enlisted Submarine School
BJOQ – Blue Jacket of the Quarter
BJOY – Blue Jacket of the Year
BLUF – Bottom Line Up Front
BM – Boatswain’s Mate
BMOW – Boatswain’s Mate Of the Watch
BOHICA – Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BOL – Bupers Online
BT – Boiler Technician
BU – Builder
BUMED – Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
BUPERS – Bureau of Naval Personnel
BUSANDA – Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
BUWEPS – Bureau of Naval Weapons
BZ – Bravo Zulu

C

CA – Construction Apprentice
CA – Heavy Cruiser
CAG – Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser
CAG – Commander, Air Group
CAPT – Captain
CDB – Career Development Board
CDO – Command Duty Officer
CDR – Commander
CE – Construction Electrician’s Mate
CEC – Civil Engineer Corps
CEC- Cooperative Engagement Capability
CENTCOM – U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
CF – Charlie Foxtrot
CG – Guided Missile Cruiser
CGN – Guided Missile Cruiser, Nuclear Powered
CHC – Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy
CHENG – Chief Engineer
CHMC – Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps
CIC – Combat Information Center
CICO – Combat Information Center Officer
CIS – CASREP Information System
CIWS – Close-In Weapon System
CM – Construction Mechanic
CMC
- Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Chaplain of the Marine Corps

CMDCM – Command Master Chief

CMDCS – Command Senior Chief
CMS-ID – Career Management System-Interactive Detailing
CN – Constructionman
CNATRA – Chief of Naval Air Training
CNAVRES – Chief of Navy Reserve
CNET – Command Naval Education and Training
CNO – Chief of Naval Operations
CO – Commanding Officer
COB – Chief of the Boat
COD – Carrier Onboard Delivery
COMCVW – Commander, Carrier Air Wing
COMDESGRU – Commander, Destroyer Group
COMDESRON – Commander, Destroyer Squadron
COMEX – Commence Exercise
COMLANTFLT – Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet
COMMO – Communications Officer
COMNAVAIRES – Commander, Naval Air Force, Reserve
COMNAVAIRFOR (also CNAF) – Commander, Naval Air Forces
COMNAVAIRLANT (also CNAL) – Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic
COMNAVAIRPAC – Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific
COMNAVRESFOR – Commander, Navy Reserve Forces
COMNAVSEASYSCOM – Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command
COMNAVSECGRU – Commander, Naval Security Group
COMPACFLT – Commander, Pacific Fleet
COMPATRECONGRU – Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group
COMPATRECONWING – Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing
COMPTUEX – Composite Training Unit Exercise
COMSEC – Communications Security
COMSUBFOR – Commander, Submarine Forces
COMSUBLANT – Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic
COMSUBPAC – Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet
COMTACGRU – Commander, Tactical Air Control Group
COMTRAWING – Commander, Training Air Wing
CORTRAMID – Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen
COS – Flag Officer’s Chief of Staff
CPO – Chief Petty Officer
CPOM – Chief Petty Officer’s Mess
CR – Construction Recruit
CRG – Coastal Riverine Group
CS – Culinary Specialist
CSADD – Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions
CSC – Combat Systems Coordinator
CSC – Command Senior Chief
CSC – Culinary Specialist Chief
CSEC – Computerized Self Evaluation Checklist
CSMC – Combat Systems Maintenance Center
CSOOW – Combat Systems Officer of the Watch
CSOSS – Combat Systems Operational Sequencing Systems
CT – Cryptologic Technician
CTI – Cryptologic Technician Interpretive
CTM – Cryptologic Technician Maintenance
CTN – Cryptologic Technician Networks
CTR – Cryptologic Technician Collection
CTT – Cryptologic Technician Technical
CVN – Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier
CVW – Carrier Air Wing
CWO – Chief Warrant Officer

D

DAPA – Drug and Alcohol Programs Advisor
DC – Damage Controlman
DC – Dental Corps
DCA – Damage Control Assistant
DCAG – Deputy Air Wing Commander
DCC – Damage Control Central
DCO
- Damage Control Officer

- Direct Commission Officer

DCPO – Damage Control Petty Officer
DD – Destroyer
DDG – Guided Missile Destroyer
DDR – Radar Picket Destroyer
DE – Destroyer Escort
DESDIV – Destroyer Division
DESRON – Destroyer Squadron
DEVGRU – Naval Special Warfare Development Group
DFM – Diesel Fuel Marine
DIRNSA – Director of the National Security Agency
DL – Destroyer Leader
DLG – Guided Missile Destroyer Leader
DLGN – Nuclear-powered Guided Missile Destroyer Leader
DM – Destroyer Minelayer
DM – Illustrator Draftsman
DMHRSi – Defense Medical Human Resources System – internet
DOD – Department of Defense
DoN – Department of the Navy
DRB – Discipline Review Board
DRRS-N – Defense Readiness Reporting System – Navy
DSG – Defense Strategic Guidance

E

EAOS – End of Active Obligated Service
EAWS – Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist
ECRC – Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center
EDMC – Engineering Department Master Chief
EDO – Engineering Duty Officer
EEBD – Emergency Escape Breathing Device
EIDWS – Enlisted Information Dominance Warfare Specialist
EM – Electrician’s Mate
EM – Emergency Management
EMCON – Emissions Control
EMI – Extra Military Instruction
EMO – Electronics Materiel Officer
EN – Engineman
ENS – Ensign
EO – Equipment Operator
EOD – Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOOW – Engineering Officer of the Watch
EOS – Enclosed Operating Space
EOSS – Engineering Operational Sequencing Systems
ERS – Engineroom Supervisor
ESWS – Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist
ET – Electronics Technician
EW – Electronic Warfare
EWS – Engineering Watch Supervisor
EXW – Expeditionary Warfare

F

F/MC – Fleet Master Chief
FA – Fireman Apprentice
FAC – Forward Air Controller
FAC/A – Forward Air Controller/Airborne
FC – Fire Controlman
FCDSSA - Fleet Combat Direction Systems Support Activity
FCF – Functional Check Flight
FCPCP – Fleet Computer Programming Center of the Pacific
FCPOM – First Class Petty Officer’s Mess
FDO – Flight Deck Officer
FFG – Frigate, Guided Missile
FICEURLANT – Fleet Intelligence Center Europe & Atlantic
FIS – Fire Inhibit Switch
FLEACT – Fleet Activity
FMF – Fleet Marine Force
FMSS – Field Medical Service School
FN – Fireman
FOD – Foreign Object Damage
FR – Fireman Recruit
FRC – Fleet Readiness Center
FRS – Fleet Replacement Squadron
FSA – Food Service Attendant
FSO – Food Service Officer
FT – Fire control technician
FTS – Full-time Support

G

GCCS-M – Global Command and Control System-Maritime
GM – Gunner’s Mate
GQ – General Quarters
GSA – General Services Administration
GSE- Gas Turbine Systems Technician – Electrical
GSM- Gas Turbine Systems Technician – Mechanic

H

HA – Hospital Apprentice
HEDSUPPACTLANT – Headquarters, Support Activity Atlantic
HELO – Helicopter
HM – Hospital Corpsman
HMFIC – Head Mother Fucker In Charge
HN – Hospitalman
HR – Hospital Recruit
HS – Helicopter Squadron, Anti-Submarine Warfare
HT – Hull Maintenance Technician

I

IAMM – Individual Augmentation Manpower Management
IAP – In Assignment Processing
IAW – In Accordance With
IC – Interior Communications Electrician
ICO – In Case Of
IHO – Industrial Hygiene Officer
IMF – Intermediate Maintenance Facility
IMRL – Individual Material Readiness List
IRT – In Reference To
IT – Information System Technician
ITS – Information Technology Submarines

J

JAG – Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Navy
JBD – Jet Blast Deflector
JHSV – Joint High Speed Vessel
JP-5 – Jet Propellant no. 5
JTF – Joint Task Force
JTFEX – Joint Task Force Exercise

K

KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid

L

LANTCOM – Atlantic Command
LAWS – Laser Weapon System
LCDR – Lieutenant Commander
LCPO – Leading Chief Petty Officer
LCS – Littoral Combat Ship
LDO – Limited Duty Officer
LES – Leave and Earnings Statement
LPO – Leading Petty Officer
LPOD – Last Plane On Deck
LRAD – Long Range Acoustic Device
LS – Logistics Specialist
LSO – Landing Signal Officer
LT – Lieutenant
LTJG – Lieutenant Junior Grade

M

MAA – Master-at-Arms
MALS – Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron
MC – Mass Communication Specialist
MCO – Material Control Officer
MCPO – Master Chief Petty Officer
MCPON – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
MIDN – Midshipman
MIDRATS – Midnight Rations
MLCPO – Machinery Division Leading Chief Petty Officer
MM – Machinist’s Mate
MMCO – Maintenance/Material Control Officer
MMCPO – Maintenance Master Chief Petty Officer
MO – Maintenance Officer
MOA – Memorandum of Agreement
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
MPA – Main Propulsion Assistant
MPA – Military Patrol Craft
MRDB – Material Readiness Database
MSG – Message
MSW – Main Seawater System
MT – Missile Technician
MTS – Master Training Specialist

N

NAB – Naval Amphibious Base
NAF – Naval Air Facility
NALCOMIS – Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management Information System
NAS – Naval Air Station
NAS JRB – Naval Air Station / Joint Reserve Base
NATOPS – Naval Air Training and Operational Procedure Standardization
NAVAIR – Naval Air Systems Command
NAVCOMP – Comptroller of the Navy
NAVEDTRA – Chief of Navy Education and Training
NAVFAC – Naval Facilities Engineering Command
NAVFLIGHTDEMRON – Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
NAVMAT – Naval Material Command
NAVMILPERSCOM – Navy Military Personnel Command
NAVSEA – Naval Sea Systems Command
NAVSECGRUACT – Naval Security Group
NAVSTA – Naval Station
NAVSUBASE – Naval Submarine Base
NAVSUP – Naval Supply Systems Command
NAVTRA – Chief of Naval Training
NAWCAD – Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division
NAWCWD – Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division
NBSD – Naval Base San Diego
NCDU – Navy Combat Demolition Unit
NCF – Naval Construction Force
NCIS – Naval Criminal Investigative Service
NCM – Navy Commendation Medal
NCTAMS – Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station
NCTS – Naval Computer Telecommunications Station
NECC – Navy Expeditionary Combat Command
NeL – Navy eLearning
NEX – Navy Exchange
NFAAS – Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System
NFO – Naval Flight Officer
NFO – Normal Fuel Oil
NJROTC – Navy Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
NKO – Navy Knowledge Online
NMCB – Naval Mobile Construction Battalion
NMCI – Navy/Marine Corps Intranet
NMPS – Navy Mobilization and Processing Site
NMTI – Navy Military Training Instructor
NOSC – Navy Operational Support Center
NOSR – Network On-Site Representative
NPC – Navy Personnel Command
NROTC – Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps
NS – Naval Station
NSAWC – Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
NSGA – Naval Security Group Activity
NSIPS – Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System
NSWC – Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSWG – Naval Special Warfare Group
NSY – Naval Shipyard
NTC – Naval Training Center
NUWC – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
NWTD – Non Watertight Door
NWU – Navy Working Uniform

O

OAE – Old Antarctic Explorer
OBA – Oxygen Breathing Apparatus
OCS – Officer Candidate School
OFS – Out Freaking Standing
OIC – Officer in Charge
OM – On the Move
OMPF – Official Military Personnel File
OOD – Officer of the Deck
OOMA – Optimized Organizational Maintenance Activity
OPCON – Operational control
OPNAV – Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
OPS-O – Operations Officer
OSA – Overseas Contingency Operation Support Assignments
OSTR – Optimal Ship Track Route

P

PACOM – Pacific Command
PAX – Passengers
PCO – Prospective Commanding Officer
PCS – Permanent Change of Station
PDHA – Post-Deployment Health Assessment
PDHRA – Post-Deployment Health Re-Assessment
PFA – Physical Fitness Assessment
PHA – Physical Health Assessment
PHRA – Physical Health Re-Assessment
PIR – Pass in Review
PO(3/2/1) – Petty Officer (Third/Second/First Class)
POC – Point of Contact
POD – Plan of the Day
POM – Plan of the Month
POOW – Petty Officer of the Watch
POTUS – President of the United States
POW – Plan of the Week
POW – Prisoner of War
PRD – Projected Rotation Date
PRIFLY – Primary Flight Control
PRT – Physical Readiness Test
PSNS and IMF – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
PT – Physical Training
PTS – Perform to Serve
PWD – Public Works Department
PXO – Prospective Executive Officer

Q

QAWTD/QAWTH – Quick Acting Water Tight Door/Quick Acting Water Tight Hatch
QM – Quartermaster
QMOW – Quartermaster of the Watch

R

RADCON – Radiation Control
RADM – Rear Admiral (United States)
RADM – Relational Administrative Data Management
RAG – Replacement Air Group
RCA – Reactor Controls Assistant
RDBM – Red Data-Base Manager
RDC – Recruit Division Commander
RDML – Rear Admiral (United States)
REPO – Repair Division Officer
RHIB (RIB) – Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat
RIO – Radar Intercept Officer
RL – Restricted Line Officer
RMD – Restricted Maneuvering Doctrine
RPM – Remedial Project Manager
RP – Religious Program Specialist
RPOC – Recruit Petty Officer in Charge
RT – Radiotelephone (voice radio)
RTC – Recruit Training Command

S

S2F – Speed to Fleet
SA – Seaman Apprentice
SAG – Surface Action Group
SAM – Surface-to-Air Missile
SAPR – Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
SARC – Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman
SAU – Search and Attack Unit
SCAT – Small Craft Attack Team
SCBA – Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
SCPO – Senior Chief Petty Officer
SCW – Seabee Combat Warfare Specialist insignia
SE – Support Equipment
SEL – Senior Enlisted Leader
SEALs – United States Navy SEALs
SEAOPDET – Sea Operational Detachment
SECDEF – Secretary of Defense (United States)
SECNAV – Secretary of the Navy (United States)
SICLOS – Shift Inspect Clean Lube Oil Strainers
SLBM – Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
SN – Seaman
SNA – Student Naval Aviator
SO – Special Warfare Operator, aka US Navy SEAL.
SOFA – Status of Forces Agreement
SONAR – Sound Navigation And Ranging
SOP(A) – Senior Officer Present (Ashore)
SOPA – Senior Officer Present Afloat
SOQ – Sailor of the Quarter
SOY – Sailor of the Year
SPAWAR – Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
SPAWARSYSCEN – Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
SR – Seaman Recruit
SRB – Selective Reenlistment Bonus
SRW – Shutdown Roving Watch
SS – Submarine Specialist
SS – Submersible Ship
SSBN – Submersible Ship Ballistic Nuclear – U-Boot mit ballistischen Raketen

SSES – Ships Signals Exploitation Space.
SSGN – Submersible Ship Guided Missile Nuclear – U-Boot mit Marschflugkörpern

SSN – Submersible Ship Nuclear – Atomgetriebenes Jagd-U-Boot

SSOQ – Senior Sailor of the Quarter
SSOY – Senior Sailor of the Year
SSTG – Ships Service Turbo Generator
STG – Sonar Technician Surface
STREAM – Standard Tension Replenishment Alongside Method
STS – Sonar Technician Submarines
SUBRON – Submarine Squadron
SUBSAFE – Submarine Safety Program
SUPPO – Supply Officer
SWCC (swick) – Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen
SWO – Surface Warfare Officer

T

TAD – Temporary Additional Duty
TADCEN – Training and Distribution Center
TAO – Tactical Action Officer
TAR – Training and Administration of the Reserve
TE – Task Element
TF – Task Force
TFO – Temporary Flight Orders.
TFOA – Things Falling Off Aircraft
TG – Task Group
TM – Torpedoman’s Mate
TOPGUN – United States Navy Fighter Weapons School
TSP – Troubled Systems Process
TU – Task Unit
TYCOM – Type Commanders

U

UA – Unauthorized Absence
UA – Urinalysis
UAS – Unmanned Aerial System
UAV – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UCMJ – Uniform Code of Military Justice
UDT – Underwater Demolition Team
UNODIR – Unless Otherwise Directed
UNREP – Underway Replenishment
UNSAT – Unsatisfactory
URL – Unrestricted Line Officer
USMC – United States Marine Corps
USN – United States Navy
USNA – United States Naval Academy
USS – United States Ship
UWT – Underwater Telephone

V

VA/VAM – Fixed Wing Attack/Fixed Wing Medium Attack
VAQ – Fixed Wing Electronic-Attack Squadron
VAW – Fixed Wing Airborne Early Warning Squadron
VBSS – Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure
VCNO – Vice Chief of Naval Operations
VDS – Variable Depth Sonar
VERTREP – Vertical Replenishment
VF – Fixed Wing Fighter
VFA – Fixed Wing Strike Fighter Squadron
VLS – Vertical Launching System
VP – Fixed Wing Patrol Squadron
VRC – Fleet Logistics Support Squadron
VTU – Volunteer Training Unit
VX – Air Test & Evaluation Squadron

W

WAVES – Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
WCS – Workcenter Supervisor
WO – Warrant Officer
WSO – (Wizzo) – Weapon Systems Officer (Naval Flight Officer)
WTC – Watertight Compartment
WTD – Watertight Door
WTH – Water Tight Hatch

X

XO – Executive Officer

Y

YN – Yeoman

Literatur

Deborah W.Cutler: Dictionary of naval abbreviations. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2005, ISBN 1-59114-152-4 (englisch).

Bruce W. Watson, Susan M. Watson (Hrsg.): The United States Navy : A Dictionary. Garland, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-8240-5538-7 (englisch).

Weblinks

Wiktionary: Liste der US-Navy-Akronyme – Bedeutungserklärungen, Wortherkunft, Synonyme, Übersetzungen (englisch)