This week’s visitor on the Former Motion Guys Podcast is Marine Fight Engineer Justin Eggen who served with 2nd Fight Engineer Battalion. Eggen is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom with two deployments to Afghanistan to his title. On his first, he supported fight operations in Marjah as a fight substitute in 2010. After chopping his enamel and choosing up some expertise in Marjah, Eggen returned to Afghanistan in 2011 to help operations within the Sangin Valley.
Not solely is Eggen a fight vet, he is additionally an award-winning poet with six publications to his title. His subsequent work will likely be a fiction novel with an anticipated July launch. Till then, Eggen is ending his senior yr at Florida Atlantic College with a significant in Political Science.
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117 – Backpackable radio for tactical use
148 – Walkie-talkie type tactical radio
152 – Walkie-talkie type tactical radio
7-Ton – Medium Tactical Automobile Substitute (Dump truck-sized army automobile for hauling troops, provides, and so on.)
9-Line – CAS mission temporary format
AAV – Amphibious Assault Automobile (Additionally known as Tracks)
ABC – ANGLICO Primary Course
ANG – Air Nationwide Guard
ANGLICO – Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Firm
BLT – Battalion Touchdown Staff
BRC – Primary Reconnaissance Course
CAR – Fight Motion Ribbon
CAS – Shut Air Help
CCT – Fight Management Staff
CLB – Fight Logistics Battalion
CO – Commanding Officer
COC – Command Operations Heart
COP – Fight Outpost
Corpsman – Navy medic connected to Marines
EOD – Explosive Ordnance Disposal
FAC – Ahead Air Controller
FCT – Firepower Management Staff
FDC – Hearth Course Management
FET – Feminine Engagement Staff.
FSCC – Hearth Help Coordination Heart. The place hearth missions are deconflicted and accredited previous to capturing.
GBU – Guided Bomb Unit
GLT – Georgian Liaison Staff. Georgian army advisors in Afghanistan.
Hesco Barrier – Earthen crammed limitations used to make or reinforce outposts
HMMWV – Excessive mobility multi-wheeled automobile
IED – Improvised Explosive Gadget
IOC – Infantry Officer’s Course
JDAM – Joint Direct Assault Munition (GPS guided bomb)
JTAC – Joint Terminal Assault Controller
LGTR – LASER Guided Coaching Spherical
M-ATV – MRAP All-terrain automobile
MARSOC – Marine Corps Particular Operations Command
MART – Marines Awaiting Recon Coaching
MCAS – Marine Corps Air Station
MCMAP – Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
MCRD – Marine Corps Recruit Depot
MCIWS – Marine Corps Teacher of Water Survival
MCT – Marine Fight Coaching
MEU – Marine Expeditionary Unit (Unit connected to ships for deployment)
MRAP – Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (armored automobile)
MSOT – Marine Particular Operations Staff
MTU – Marksmanship Coaching Unit
OCS – Officer Candidate Faculty
OP – Commentary Put up. An space the place ahead observers spot enemy positions and conduct hearth missions on targets
PB – Patrol Base
PGM – Precision Guided Munitions
PLDR – Moveable Light-weight Designator Rangefinder
PosRep – Place Report
PSS-SOF – Precision Strike Suite Particular Operations Forces. Focusing on program.
RO – Radio Operator (Typically known as an RTO)
ROMAD – Radio Operator, Mechanic, and Driver
R&S – Reconnaissance and Surveillance
SACC – Supporting Arms Coordination Heart (FSCC on a ship)
SALT – Supporting Arms Liaison Staff
SERE – Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape
SOCS – Particular Operations Capabilities Specialist
SOI – Faculty of Infantry
SOTG – Particular Operations Coaching Group
S Retailers – S-1 (Administration), S-2 (Intelligence), S-3 (Operations), S-4 (Logistics), S-6 (Communication)
SVBIED – Suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive system
TACP – Tactical Air Management Social gathering
Taco Rice – Greasy meals for drunk Marines stationed in Okinawa
Water Canine – Logistics Marines in command of purifying water and working sanitation amenities
VBIED – Automobile-borne improvised explosive system
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