ABM | Antiballistic Missile Installations |
AD | Air Division |
Air | Staff Air Force Air Staff |
ARDC | Air Research and Development Command |
Army | Corps Army Corps of Engineers |
BG | Bombardment Group |
BMD | Ballistic Missile Division |
BMW | Bombardment Missile Wing |
BS | Bombardment Squadron |
BW | Bombardment Wing |
CEBMCO | Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Construction Office |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
Convair | Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation |
DE | Declaration of Excess |
EWO | Emergency War Order |
FMMS | Field Missile Maintenance Squadron |
GSA | General Service Administration |
HF | high frequency |
HICS | Hardened Intersite Cable System |
ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
IG | Inspector General |
IMPSS | Improved Minuteman Physical Security System |
ISST | ICBM Super-High-Frequency Satellite Terminal |
JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
LCC | Launch Control Center |
LCF | Launch Control Facility |
LF | Launch Facility |
MALA | Missile Area Landowners Association |
MP | Military Police |
MPT | Missile Procedures Trainer |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NPS | National Park Service |
OMMS | Organizational Missile Maintenance Squadrons |
ORI | Operational Readiness Inspections |
RON | Remain-Over-Night |
ROTC | Reserve Officers' Training Corps |
SAC | Strategic Air Command |
SALT | Treaty Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty |
SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative |
SELM | Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman |
SLBM | Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile |
SLFCS | Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System |
SMS | Strategic Missile Squadron |
SMW | Strategic Missile Wing |
START | Treaty Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms |
TE | Transporter Erector |
UHF | ultrahigh frequency |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
USSTRATCOM | United States Strategic Command |
VHF | very high frequency |
WADC | Wright Air Development Center |
WDD | Western Development Division, extension of ARDC |