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The following abbreviations have been compiled by Wikileaks staff and have been used to automatically expand US Army units and other US military units into a more readable form. Where an expansion has not been confirmed for at least one unit a '?' is designated. Where there is possible ambiguity an 'or' is designated. However it is likely that some ambiguities have not been detected, so serious reportage should confirm the validity of the name expansion through an unrelated source.

-A: - Afghanistan
-AF: - Afghanistan
-AP: Arabian Peninsula
-I: - Iraq
1CD: 1st Cavalry Division
A: Air Defense Artillery
AAFES: Army and Air Force Exchange Service
AB: Air Base?
ABN: Airborne
ADA: Air Defense Artillery?
ADMIN: Administration
ADV: Advance(d)
AEW: Airborne Early Warning?
AF: Air Force
AFFAIRS: Affairs
AFGHAN: Afghanistan
AFN: Armed Forces Network
AFOSI: Air Force Office of Special Investigations
AFSB: Army Field Support Brigade
AFSBn: Army Field Support Battalion
AG: Adjutant General
AGENCY: Agency
AIR: Air
AMC: Army Material Command
AMCOM: Aviation and Missile Command
AMSC: Area Support Medical Company
AR: Armor
ARMY: Army
ASB: Aviation Support Battalion
ASG: Area Support Group?
ASMC: Area Support Medical Company
ASOS: Air Support Operations Squadron
AV: Aviation
AVIATION: Aviation
AVN: Aviation
BAGRAM: Bagram
BAND: Band
BAT: Battery
BCT: Brigade Combat Team
BDE: Brigade
BDOC: Base Defense Operations Center
BIO: Biological
BITT: Border (Iraq) Transition Team
BN: Battalion
BOD: Board of Directors?
BRTY: Battery
BSB: Base Support Battalion
BSTB: Brigade Special Troops Battalion
BTB: Brigade Troops Battalion
BTRY: (artillery) Battery
BTT: Border Transition Team
BTY: Battery
Bn: Battalion
C-?3: Command, Control, and Communications
C-?6: Combined Staff Command, Control and Communications
C2: Command and Control
C4: Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
C4ISR: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance 
CA: Civil Affairs
CAB: (Combat Aviation or Civil Affairs) Brigade
CACE: Coalition Analysis and Control Element
CAFTT: Coalition Air Force Transition Team 
CAV: Cavalry
CBT: Combat
CC: (Command, Communications or Collection) Center
CCCI: Central Criminal Court of Iraq
CD: Calvary Division CE: Corps of Engineers
CECOM: Communications and Electronics Command
CELL: Cell
CENTCOM: Central Command
CENTER: Center
CF: Coalition Force
CHAPLAIN: Chaplain
CHEM: Chemical
CID: (Criminal Investigation Division or Combat Intelligence Division)
CIF: Central Issue Facility
CIS: Coalition Information Sharing
CITF: Criminal Investigation Task Force
CIVIL: Civil
CJOA: Combined Joint Operations Area
CJTF: Coalition Joint Task Force
CJTF: Commander, Joint Task Force
CJTF: Commander, Joint Task Force?
CM: (Countermeasure or Countermine)
CMATT: Coalition Military Assistance Training Team
CMD: Command
CO: Company
COALITION: Coalition
COIC: Combat Operations Intelligence Center
COIN: Counter-insurgency Operations and Intelligence
COMBAT: Combat
COMM: Communications
COMMAND: Command
COMMS: Communications
COMPANY: Company
CONTRACT: Contract
CONTRACTING: Contracting
CONTRACTING: Contracting
CONTROL: Control
CORP: Corps
CORPS: Corps
COS: (Chief of Staff or Combat Operations Squadron)
CPAT: Civilian Police Assistance Training
CPATT: Civilian Police Assistance Training Team
CRRB: Combined Review and Release Board (detainee operations)
CS: Combat Support
CSB: Corps Support Battalion
CSC: Combat Support Company/Center
CSG: Corps Support Group
CSM: Command Sergeant Major
CSSB: Combat Support Sustainment Battalion
CSTC: Combined Security Transition Command
CTC: (Combat Targeting Center or Counter-terrorism Center or Combat Training Center)
DCG: Deputy Commanding General
DCGS: Distributed Common Ground System
DCS: Deputy Chief of Staff
DCSINT: Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
DDOC: Deployment and Distribution Center
DEPT: Department
DET: Detachment
DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency
DISCOM: Division Support Command
DISO: Defense Intelligence Support Office
DIV: Division
DIVISION: Division
DLA: Defense Logistics Agency
DOCEX: Document Exploitation
DOD: Department of Defense
DSTB: Division Special Troops Battalion
DSTB: Division Special Troops Battalion
EASOS: Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron 
ECB: Engineer Combat Battalion
ECES: Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron
ECM: Electronic Countermeasures
ELEMENT: Element
EMDG: Expeditionary Medical Group
EMSG: Expeditionary Mission Support Group
EN: Engineer
ENG: Engineering
EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EQUIPPING: Equipping
ER: Electronic Reconnaissance?
ESC: Electronic Security Command (U.S. Air Force)?
ESFS: Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron
ETHICS: Ethics
FA: Field Artillery
FAR: Field Artillery Regiment
FAST: Forward Area Support Team?
FB: Forward Base
FIN: Finance
FMC: Force Mobile Command?
FOB: Forward Operating Base?
FORCE: Force
FORCES: Forces
FORWARD: Forward
FSB: Forward Support Battalion
FSC: Forward Support Company
FWD: Forward
GENERAL: General
GRD: Ground Resolved Distance
GROUP: Group
GRP: Group
GSAB: General Support Aviation Battalion
HCS: Helicopter Combat/Search and Rescue?
HHB: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
HHC: Headquarters and Headquarters Company
HHD: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
HHS: Headquarters and Headquarter Services
HHSC: Headquarters and Headquarters Service Company
HHT: Headquarters and Headquarters Troop
HQ: Headquarters
HSC: (Helicopter Squadron Combatant or Headquarters Support Company)
IA: Iraqi Army
IAG: Iraqi Assistance Groups
ICD: (Intelligence Collection Division? or Initiative Communications Deception?)
ID: Infantry Division
IED: Improvised Explosive Device
IG: Inspector General
IN: Infantry
INF: Infantry
INSCOM: U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
INT: Intelligence
INTEL: Intelligence
IRAQ: Iraq
ISAF: International Security Assistance Force
J-?6: Joint command, control, and communications systems directorate
JCCI: Joint Contracting Command-Iraq 
JCOA: Joint Center For Operational Analysis 
JDEC: Joint Document Exploitation Center
JFCOM: Joint Forces Command 
JIDC: Joint Intelligence Debriefing Center
JIEDDO: Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
JIOC: Joint Intelligence Operations Center?
JLENS: Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor
JOINT: Joint
JPO: Joint Project Office?
JRCC: Joint Rescue Coordination Center?
KBR INC: Kellogg Brown and Root, Inc (Halliburton)
LAM: Louisiana Maneuvers?
LAR: Light Armored Reconnaissance
LNO: (Liason or Logistics or ?)
LOG: Logistics
LOGCAP: Logistics Civil Augmentation Program
LSE: Logistic Support Element?
LTF: Logistical Task Force
MAINT: Maintenance
MAO: Major Attack Option?
MARCENT: Marine Forces Central Command
MARINE: Marine
MAW: Marine Aircraft Wing
MC: Marine Corps? 
MCB: Marine Corps Base?
MCT: Movement Control Team
MECH: Mechanized
MED: Medical
MEF: Marine Expeditionary Force
MI: Military Intelligence
MIL: Military
MILITARY: Military
MISSION: Mission
MITT: Military Transition Team
MNC-?I: Multi-National Corps-Iraq
MNC: Multi-National Corps
MND: Multi-National Division
MNDCS: Multinational Division Central South
MNF-?I: Multi-National Force - Iraq
MNF: Multi-National Force
MNSTC: Multinational Security Transition Command
MOBILE: Mobile
MOC: Mission Operations Center
MOD: Ministry of Defense
MP: Military Police
MPAD: Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
MSB: Medical Support
MSF: Mobile Strike Force?
MTT: (Military Transition Team or Military Training Team)
MWCS: Marine Wing Communication Squadron
MWR: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation?
Maint: Maintenance
NBC: Nuclear Biological Chemical
NCHB: Navy Cargo Handling Battalion
NCR: Naval Construction Regiment
NPTT: National Police Transition Team
NSE: National Support Element
NSWTG: Naval Special Warfare Task Group
OCF: Objective Counter-insurgency Force
OD: Ordnance Disposal?
ODIN: Odin (Observe, Detect, Identify, and Neutralize)
OFC: Office?
OFFICE: Office
OP: Operations
OPERATIONS: Operations
OPS: Operations
ORD: Ordnance
OTHER: Other
PAO: Public Affairs Office?
PAOC: Public Affairs Operations Center
PCO: Project Contracting Office 
PIR: Parachute Infantry Regiment
PMO: Project Management Office?
POB: Psychological Operations Battalion?
POLAND: Poland
POLICE: Police
POSTAL: Postal
POTF-?I: Psychological Operations Task Force-Iraq
POTF: Psychological Operations Task Force
PRT: Provincial Reconstruction Team
PSB: Personnel Support Battalion
PSCC: Personal Security Coordination Cell
PSYOP: Psychological Operations
PSYOP: Psychological Operations
PUBLIC: Public
QM: Quartermaster
QRF: Quick Response Force?
R&S: Reliability and Sustainment
RAID: Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment
RAOC: Rear Area Operations Center
RAPID: Rapid
RC: Reserve Component?
RCAG: Radio Communications Air Ground
RCLO: Regime Crimes Liaison Office
RECON: Reconnaissance
REG: Regiment
RETENTION: Retention
RETRO: Retro
RGT: Regiment
RIFLE: Rifle
ROBOTICS: Robotics
ROC: (Rear or Regional) Operations Center
ROMANIA: Romania
ROMANIAN: Romanian
RS: Reconnaissance/Surveillance?
RSC: Regional Support Center
RSTA: Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
Recon: Reconnaissance
SB: Sustainment Brigade
SBMR: Senior British Military Representative
SC: Sustainment Command
SCHOOL: School
SCID: Strategic Counterintelligence Directorate
SCJS: Secretary of the Combined Joint Staff 
SDDC: Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
SIG: Signals
SJA: Staff Judge Advocate
SLOVAKIA: Slovakia
SOCCE: Special Operations Command Communications Element
SPA: Strategic Plans and Assessment
SPT: Support
SPTT: Special Police Training Team
SQD: Squadron
SSA: Supply Support Activities
SSSC: Self Service Supply Center
STATE: State
STB: Special Troops Battalion
STOCK: Stock
STRAT: Strategic
STRATEFF: Strategic Effects
STRATEGIC: Strategic
STRATOPS: Strategic Operations
STRIKE: Strike
SUPPORT: Support
SUR: Survey
SURGEON: Surgeon
SURICAL: Surgical
SUST: Sustainment
SUSTAINMENT: Sustainment
SVC: Service
TAG: (Technical Assessment Group or Target Actions Group)
TALLIL: Tallil
TASM: Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
TC: Tank Company
TEAM: Team
TF: Task Force
THEATER: Theater
TIKRIT: Tikrit
TM: Team
TNG: Training
TRAINING: Training
TRANS: Transport
TRANSITION: Transition
TRP: Troop
TSC: Theater Sustainment Command
UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UAVS: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
UKRAINE: Ukraine
UNIT: Unit
US: U.S
USACE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAF: U.S. Air Force
USMC: U.S. Marine Corps
VICTORY: Victory
VIGILANT: Vigilant
ZEILAND: Zeiland
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