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FUTURE OF THE AIR BASE; An alphabet soup of acronyms clouds Navy base hearings; Weymouth councilor hopes to clear the air with list of definitions; ONLINE The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA (2/16/2005)
...meetings. One of the major culprits: acronyms. The base plan is filled with them. LNR...redevelopment. And SWNAS is for South Weymouth Naval Air Station, the former base itself...decoder ring. She has listed 24 common base acronyms and what they stand for. "I was getting...public hearings. Whenever she ...

Air base acronyms: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA (2/16/2005)
SWNAS: South Weymouth Naval Air Station, a 1,405-acre parcel in Abington, Rockland and Weymouth that once was a naval air base. SSTTDC: South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp., the public agency overseeing redevelopment of the SWNAS. LNR: Lennar...

The Naval Institute guide to naval writing, 3d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Reference & Research Book News (5/1/2008)
...Institute guide to naval writing, 3d ed. Shenk, Robert. Naval Institute Press 2008 328 pages $27.95 Paperback VB255 Directed at the specific needs of the naval community, this writing manual covers all aspects of writing required by naval personnel, and is based on interviews with hundreds of ...

The Naval Institute Guide to World Military Aviation, 1997-1998 Sea Power (6/1/1998)
THE NAVAL INSTITUTE GUIDE TO WORLD MILITARY AVIATION,1997-1998, by Rene J. Francillon. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, August 1997. 904 pp., $150.00. Authoritative...military powers. Aerospace professionals, defense analysts, and naval/ military intelligence specialists will find World ...

In St. Mary's, All Roads Lead to Naval Air Station; County's Livelihood Closely Tied to High-Tech Research Facility The Washington Post (11/5/2003)
...only public access to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, which generates half of the...finish. The reason for such anxiety is an acronym that looms like an approaching thunderhead...sentiment after it opened in 1943. The Naval Air Station was first seen as an unwanted...whose jobs had been shifted ...

In St. Mary's, All Roads Lead to Naval Station The Washington Post (11/5/2003)
...only public access to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, which generates half of the...finish. The reason for such anxiety is an acronym that looms like an approaching thunderhead...sentiment after it opened in 1943. The Naval Air Station was first seen as an unwanted...whose jobs had been shifted ...

A quiet siege: the death and life of a gay naval officer. Harper's Magazine (6/1/1993)
...Group aboard the USS Ranger, an aircraft carrier, and we called him by the acronym CAG. He shot himself with his .38 revolver because two investigators from the Office of Naval Intelligence came aboard ship while we were anchored off lwakuni in Japan...

The stowaway simulator. (naval electronic warfare simulator) Journal of Electronic Defense (10/1/1997)
...training program in the US Navy by the office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Yet its name is still a bit of a mystery...an at-sea, multiship simulation system. Either way, the acronyms are pronounced the same - beef it - and that's exactly what it's going to do: beef up Naval shipboard training ...

Tapping into Spawar. (transfer of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command from Washington DC to San Diego sparks company relocations to city) San Diego Business Journal (6/16/1997)
...local expansion can be summed in one acronym: Spawar, which stands for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Spawar, a Navy...founding in 1988. In Navy jargon, the acronym NRaD is shorthand for Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance...

Navy dog-tag acronym decoded.(NATION)(SGT. SHAFT) The Washington Times (5/26/2008)
...don't go back that far. Some guess it's for U.S. Naval Institute, but I never had anything to do with...War II Navy enlisted men were drafted into the Naval Reserve under the V-6 Program, or Naval Enlisted Reserve - General Duties. But Ludwig...

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