I'm sorry to bring this one back up, but I'm currently altering some of my PC stuff, so if I screw up, the list isn't lost, but on the forum!

List of acronyms used on the ETS- forum:

AIRSAVE - (USAF) (see also, PALS & MOLLE)
ABCDE= Airway/ Breathing/ Circulation/ Disability/ Exposure
ABD-pad= ABDominal pad
ALICE - All-Purpose Lightweight Carrying Equipment
ALS= Advanced Life Support
ATLS- Advanced Trauma Life Support
AM - Amplitude Modulation
AIRSAVE - (USAF) (see also, PALS & MOLLE)
AMK: Adventure Medical Kits
ASAP= As Soon As Possible
ASP: Aviation Survival Pak
ABG= Arterial Blood Gas
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AOT - As Opposed To

BLS= Basic Life Support
BOB=Bug Out or Bail Out Bag
BOT= Bag of tricks
BOV= Bug Out Vehicle
BTW - By the Way
BK or BK's = Bloody Kid(s)! i.e. Anyone under 60.

CB - Citizens Band
CHP - California highway patrol
CPR - Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
CRKT - Columbia River Knife and Tool
CW - Continuous Wave (synonymous with radio Morse Code)
C.D. or C.D's. = Coffin Dodger(s). i.e. Anyone over 60.

"DW" means "Dear Wife"
"DH" means "Dear Husband" (or sometimes Damn Husband!)
"DD" is "Dear Daughter"
DIY - Do it Yourself

EDC=Every Day Carry
EAS - Emergency Alert System
EMP - Electro-Magnetic Pulse
Epirb: Electronic positioning indicating radio beacon
EBR - Energy bar wrapper (??)
EDC - Everyday carry
ETS - Equipped to survive
E&E= Escape and Evasion
EMS= Emergency Medical Support
EMT= Emergency Medical Technician

FCOL= For Crying Out Loud
FWIW - For What it’s worth.
FM - Frequency Modulation
FRS - Family Radio Service
FSK: Fire Starting Kit
FAK: First Aid Kit
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
FUBAR - Fouled Up Beyond All Repair (polite form)

GMDSS=Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
GMRS - General Mobile Radio Service
GPS - Global Positioning Satellite

Ham - Amateur radio operator (not really an acronym)
HF - High Frequency
HTH - Hope this helps

IIRC - If I recall Correctly
IMHO - In my humble opinion (also; In my honest Opinion)
IME - In My Estimation
IOW - In Other Words
IANAL - I am not a lawyer

KISS= Keep it Simple, Stupid

LBTOJ - Little brown truck of joy ( UPS)
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LTS - Long Term Survival
LE - Law Enforcement
LEO - Law Enforcement Officer

MOLLE - Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment (USMC) (also PALS)
MRE - Meals Ready to Eat (Military Rations)
MURS - Multi-Use Radio Service
MMT: Mobile Medical Team
MVA= Motor Vehicle Accident

NOAA - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
NBC= Nuclear/ Biological/ Chemical

OTOH - On the Other Hand
ORS= Oral Rehydratation Salts

PSK: Personal Survival Kit
PALS - Pocket Attachment Ladder System (US Army) (also MOLLE)
POV - Privately Owned Vehicle
PSP - Pocket Survival Pak
PHTLS= Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support
PLB= Personal Locator Beacon
PM= Private Message

RSK - Ritter survival knife
RSKM2 – Ritter Survival Knife w/ M2 High Speed Steel
RTG’S - Radioisotope thermal electric generators

SOS= Save Our Souls
SAK: Swiss Army Knife
SAR=Search And Rescue
SEP= Survival Equipment Pack (in a life-raft)
SWAT: Special Weapons And Tactics
SF: Special Forces
SAME - Specific Area Message Encoding (NOAA EAS feature)
SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SAR - Search and rescue
SAS - Special air service
SRLB - Self Righting Life Boat
STS= Short Term Survival
STOP= Stop Think Observe Plan
SIFMS -Sugar I forgot my stuff (polite version)
SNAFU - Situation Normal All Fouled Up (polite form)

TANSTAAFL= There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
TEOTWAWKI= The End Of The World As We Know It

UPSK=Urban Personal Survival Kit

WRT - With Respect To….
WTF= What The F**k
WTSFTF= When The S**t Hits The Fan
WYSIWYG = What you see is what you get

YASKT = Yet Another Survival Kit Thread
YMMV = Your Mileage may vary

I would never have guessed that ABG stood for "arterial blood gas." How often does that one come up in a thread? <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Also, you may want to correct KISS from "Keep it simple and stupid" to "Keep it simple, stupid". It makes more sense that way. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Jim, you keep leaving out my favorite- BOHICA. (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again).

It just so neatly sums up the state of the world.

Just to tease you........ <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

GOML! Get off my lawn! Something old people say. Alot.

Is there any format that would allow a download to an Excel spreadsheet with the acronym in one column & the meaning in the adjacent one? Using the same separator for all would make Excel's "text to columns" tool much easier to use. BTW, thanks for the list. I found some new ones that I had not heard of before.

Wow, am I glad I posted the list on the forum. My computer had a problem.Had to completely delete everything.
Now is everything back to normal.
Shields at maximum and manning battle stations! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Sorry to bump an old thread but A) it's a very useful thread and B) what do you folks have against your male offspring that "DS" isn't an acronym like "DD", "DH" and "DW"?

Nancy

P.S. C) This way Chris won't purge my membership, hahah.

Hello Nancy,

My wife (and most of the kids) are too important to me to lower them to an acronym. I can type out wife just about as easily as DW, and it means more to me. Just like the way I say "my wife," rather than "the wife." "The" wife sounds about like "the" lawnmower, an object I am not real fond of, not a person I care everything about. Of course, I also don't use LOL as a period at the end of ever sentence either.

Color me old, and old fashioned...

Nancy,

I think my wife and I were the ones to first used these acronyms on the equipped board. We picked them up on boards devoted to Chinese adoptions where, quite frankly, their isn't much discussion about sons... <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

-Blast