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Using the codes eases coordination and improves understanding during multiservice operations. The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel ...
Pancake - Code word ordering an aircraft or formation to land. Rag – decoy flying operations to misdirect the enemy. [1] Ramrod – short range bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to Circus attacks. [1] Ranger – freelance flights over enemy territory by units of any size, to occupy and tire enemy fighters. [1]
A vertical service code (VSC) is a sequence of digits and the signals star (*) and pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access certain telephone service features. [1] Some vertical service codes require dialing of a telephone number after the code sequence.
The Black Code (more formally, Military Intelligence Code No. 11) [1] was a secret code used by US military attachés in the early period of World War II. The nickname derived from the color of the superencipherment tables/codebook binding. [2] The code was compromised by Axis intelligence, the information leak costing a great many British lives.
First unveiled and designed in 2002, MultiCam was designed for the use of the U.S. Army in varied environments, seasons, elevations, and light conditions. It is a seven-color, [4] multi-environment camouflage pattern developed by Crye Precision [5] in conjunction with United States Army Soldier Systems Center.
Monty the giant schnauzer is this year's top dog, finally taking the coveted best in show title at the 149th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Tuesday night, in his third year competing.
The Vought F7U Cutlass is a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought. It was the first tailless production fighter in the United States as well as the Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners .
Black Codes (From the Underground), a 1985 album by Wynton Marsalis; Black (code), a diplomatic cypher system used by the U.S. prior to its entry into the Second World War; Black Code, a Canadian documentary film; Sometimes Black code is synonymous for Black bag operation