TACP�Tactical Air Control Party, a subordinate operational com�ponent of a tactical air control sysrem designed to provide air liaison to land forces and for the control of aircraft.
TAD C�Tactical Air Direction Center, an air operations installation under the Tactical Air Control Center, which directs aircraft and aircraft warning functions of the tactical air cenrer.
TAFDS�Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System, [he expedition�ary Storage and dispensing system of aviation fuel at tactical air�fields, It uses 10,000-gallon fabric tanks to store the fuel.
TAOC�Tactical Air Operations Center, a subordinate component of the air command and control system which controls all en-route air traffic and air defense operations.
Tank, M48�U.S.-built 50.7-ton tank with a crew of four; primary armament is turret-mounted 90mm gun with one .30-caliber and one ,50-calibcr machine gun; has maximum road speed of 52 miles per hour and an average range of 19^ miles.
TAOC�Tacrical Air Operations Center, a subordinate component of the air command and control system which controls all en-route air traffic and air defense operations.
TAOC�Tactical Area of Coordination.
TAOI-Tactical Area of Interest.
TAOR-Tactical Area of Responsibility, a denned area of land for which responsibility is specifically assigned to the commander of the area as a measure for control of assigned forces and coor�dination of support. TE�Task Element.
TE�Table of Equipment.
TG-Task Group.
Tiger Hound�Airstrikcs in Laos directed by U.S. Air Ibrce small fixed-wing observation aircraft, flying up to 12 miles into southeastern Laos.
TO�Table of Organization.
Trufig-si�A South Vietnamese Popular Force sergeant,
TSF�Transitional Support Force.
TU-Task Unit,
UCMJ� Uniform Code of Military Justice
UH-lE-Bell "Huey"-A single-engine, light attack/observarion heli�copter norcd for its maneuverability and firepower; carries a crew of three; it can be armed with air-to-ground rocket packs and fuselage-mounted, electrically-fired machine guns.
UH-34D�Sikorsky Sea Horse, a single-engine medium transport helicopter with a crew of three, carries eight to 12 combat sold�iers, depending upon weather conditions.
USA-U.S. Army.
USAAG�U.S, Army Advisory Group.
USAF-U.S. Air Force.
USA1D�U.S. Agency for International Development.
USARV-U.S. Army, Vietnam.
USASuppComDaNang�U.S. Army Support Command, Da Nang.
USIA�U.S. Information Agency.
USMC-U.S. Marine Corps.
U.S. Mission Council�Council, chaired by the U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam and including ComUSMACV. which deve�loped and coordinated U.S. policy within South Vietnam. USN-U.S. Navy.
VC� Viet Cong, a term used to refer to the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam; a contraction of the Vietnamese phrase mean�ing "Vietnamese Communists."
Viet Minh �The Vietnamese contraction for Viet Nam Doc Lap Nong Minh Hoi, a Communist-led coalition of nationalist groups, which actively opposed the Japanese in World War II and the French in the first Indochina War.
VCI�Viet Cong Infrastructure.
VIS�Vietnamese Information Service.
VMA�Marine attack squadron (in naval aviation, the "V" desig�nates "heavier than air" as opposed to craft that are "lighter than air").
VMF(AW)-Marine Fighter Squadron (All-Weather).
VMPA�Marine Fighter Attack Squadron,
VMCJ- Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron.
VMGR�Marine Refueller Transporr Squadron.
VMO�Marine Observation Squadron-
VNAF�Vietnamese Air Force.
VNMB�Vietnamese Marine Brigade.
VNMC�Vietnamese Marine Corps.
VNN�Vietnamese Navy.
VT�Variable timed electronic fuze for an artillery shell which causes airburst over the target area.
WestPac-Western Pacific,
WIA-Wounded in Action.
WFRC�Washington Federal Records Center.