IBCT: Infantry Brigade Combat Team
IDP: Imminent Danger Pay
IED: Improvised Explosive Device
IG: Inspector General
IOTV: Improved Tactical Outer Vest
IRR: Individual Ready Reserve
JETDS: Joint Electronics Type Designation System
KIA: Killed in Action
LBV: Load-Bearing Vest
LMTV: Light Medium Tactical Vehicle
LZ: Landing Zone
MEDCOM: Army MEDical COMmand
MEDEVAC: medical evacuation
MEPS: Military Entrance Processing Station
METL: Mission Essential Task List
MIA: Missing in Action
MLRS: Multiple-Launch Rocket System
MOAB: Massive Ordnance Air Blast
Mob: Mobilization
MOLLE: Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment
MOPP: Mission-Oriented Protective Postures
MOS: Military Occupational Specialty
MOUT: Military Operation in Urban Terrain
MP: Military Police
MRE: Meals, Ready to Eat
NBC: Nuclear-Biological-Chemical
NCO: Non-Commissioned Officer
O/A: On or About
O/O: Order of Operations
OCONUS: Outside Continental United States
OCR: Office of Co-Responsibility
OCS: Officer Candidate School
OER: Officer Evaluation Report
OLC: Oak-Leaf Cluster
OPFOR: Opposing Force
OPORD: Operations Order
OPR: Office of Primary Responsibility
OPTEMPO: operational tempo
OSD: Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSUT: One-Station Unit Training