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M -- Machinery
M-day -- Mobilization-day
MAB -- Marine Amphibious Brigade, changed to MEB in 1988
MAC -- Military Airlift Command (now AMC)
MACCS -- Marine Corps Air Command and Control System
MACH NUMBER
MAD -- Magnetic Anomaly Detection
MAD -- Mutual Assured Destruction
MADAR -- Maintenance Analysis, Detection, and Recording
MAF -- Marine Amphibious Force, changed to MEF in 1988
MAFET -- Microwave Analog Front End Technology
MAGNETIC MINE
MAGTF -- Marine Air-Ground Task Force
MAJCOM -- Major Air Command (USAF)
MAJCOM -- Major Command
MANPRINT -- Manpower and Personnel Integration Program (USA)
MAP -- Military Assistance Program
Mar -- Marine
MARAD -- Maritime Administration (US)
MARDEZ -- Maritime Defense Zone (USN-USCG)
MARS -- Military Affiliate Radio System
MARSAT -- Maritime Satellite
MaRV -- Maneuvering Reentry Vehicle
MARV -- Mobile Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle
MASINT -- Measurement And Signature Intelligence
MASS
MATERIAL
MATERIEL
MATS -- Military Air Transport Service (USAF) (now AMC)
MAU -- Marine Amphibious Unit, changed to MEU in 1988
MAW -- Marine Aircraft Wing
MAX TAKE-OFF WGT -- MAXIMUM TAKE-OFF WEIGHT
MBFR -- Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
MBT -- Main Battle Tank
MC -- Marine Corps (US, usually USMC)
MC -- Medical Corps (USN)
MC -- Military Committee
MC -- Mission Capable
MCAS -- Marine Corps Air Station
MCC -- Military Coordinating Committee
MCCDC -- Marine Corps Combat Development Command
MCE -- Modular Control Equipment
MCEB -- MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS-ELECTRONICS BOARD
MCM -- Mine Countermeasures
MCS -- Maneuver Control System
MCTL -- Military Critical Technology List
MDAP -- Mutual Defense Assistance Program
MDZ -- Maritime Defense Zone
MEACONING
MEADS -- Medium Extended Air Defense System
MEB -- Marine Expeditionary Brigade (USMC), formerly MAB
Mech -- Mechanized
Med -- medical
Med -- Mediterranean
MED-ALTITUDE BOMB -- MEDIUM-ALTITUDE BOMBING
MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE
MEECN -- Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network
MEF -- Marine Expeditionary Force (USMC), formerly MAF
MERCHANT SHIP
MEU -- Marine Expeditionary Unit (USMC), formerly MAU
MF -- Medium Frequency
MFCS -- Microprocessor Flight Control System
MFD -- Multifunction Display
MFO -- Multinational Forces and Observers
MG -- Machine Gun
MG -- Military Government
MGB -- Motor Gunboat (not USN ship designation)
MGTOW -- Maximum Gross Take-off Weight
MHD -- Magnetohydrodynamic
Mi -- Mil' (Soviet aircraft designation)
MI -- Military Intelligence
MICOM -- Missile Command (USA)
MIDEASTFOR -- US Middle East Force
MiG --
MiG -- Mikoyan-Gurevich (Soviet aircraft designation),
MIL CAPABILITY -- MILITARY CAPABILITY
MIL DEPARTMENT -- (US) MILITARY DEPARTMENT
MIL INTELLIGENCE -- MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
MIL OCCUPATION -- MILITARY OCCUPATION
MIL POSTURE -- MILITARY POSTURE
MIL-STD -- Military Standard
MILCON -- Military Construction (funding)
MILES -- Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System
MILITARY CONVOY
MILSPEC -- Military Specification
Milstar -- Military Strategic and Tactical Relay System
MIMIC -- Micro-Millimeter Wave Monolithic Integrated Circuits
MINE
MINE WARFARE
MINEFIELD
MINEHUNTING
MINESWEEPING
MINIMIZE
MIP -- Management Improvement Plan
MIP -- Model Installation Program
MIRACL -- Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (USN)
MirSIP -- Mirage Safety Improvement Program
MIRV -- Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle
MISSILE DESIGNATIONS
MISSION
MIUW -- Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare (USN)
Mk -- Mark
MLRS -- Multiple Launch Rocket System
MLU -- Mid-life Update
mm -- millimeter
MM -- Minuteman (Missile)
MMP -- Master Mobilization Plan
MMS -- Mast-mounted Sight
MMS -- Multi-Mode Seeker (Raytheon)
MMWG -- Military Mobilization Working Group
MNC -- Major NATO Commander
MNV -- Mine Neutralization Vehicle
MO -- Medical Officer (British)
MOA -- Memorandum Of Agreement
MOB -- Main Operating Base
MOBILE MINE
MOBILIZATION
MOD -- Ministry of Defence (British, West German, USSR)
Mod -- Modification
MOMAG -- Mobile Mine Assembly Group (USN)
MOORED MINE
MOP -- Magnetic Orange Pipe (minesweeping device)
MORTAR
MOS -- Military Occupational Specialty
MOSS -- Mobile Submarine Simulator
MOU -- Memorandum Of Understanding
MOUT -- Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (USA)
MP -- Material Professional (USN)
MP -- Military Police
MPA -- Main Political Administration of the Army and Navy (Soviet)
MPA -- Main Propulsion Assistant
MPA -- Maritime Patrol Aircraft
MPAS -- Multipurpose Armament System
MPF -- Multipurpose Facility
MPK -- MALYY PROTIVOLODOCHNYY KORABL'
MPS -- Maritime Pre-positioning Ship (or Squadron)
MPS -- MARITIME PRE-POSITIONING SHIPS
MRBM -- Medium Range Ballistic Missile
MRD -- Motorized Rifle Division (Soviet)
MRL -- Multiple Rocket Launcher
MRT -- Miniature Receive Terminal
MRV -- Multiple Reentry Vehicle
MSC -- Military Sealift Command (USN)
MSE -- Mobile Subscriber Equipment (USA)
MSG -- Marine Security Guard (USMC)
MSIP -- Multistage Improvement Program
MSO -- Military Service Obligation
MSOW -- Modular Standoff Weapon
MSS -- Moored Surveillance System
MSTS -- Military Sea Transportation Service (now MSC)
MT -- Megaton (1,000 KT equivalent)
MTB -- Motor Torpedo Boat
MTBF -- Mean Time Between Failure
MTCR -- Missile Technology Control Regime
MTI -- Moving Target Indicator
MTM/D -- Million-Ton-Miles per day
MTTR -- Mean Time To Repair
MTU -- Motoren and Turbinen Union
MVD -- Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet)
MYP -- Multiyear Procurement

N
N.B. -- New Brunswick
n.m. -- Nautical Miles
NAAWS -- NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
NAAWS -- NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
NAB -- Naval Amphibious Base
NACES -- Navy Aircrew Common Ejection Seat
NADC -- Naval Air Development Center
NADEP -- Navel Air Depot
NAF -- Naval Air Facility
NAF -- Nonappropriated Fund
NARF -- Naval Air Rework Facility (USN)
NAS -- Naval Air Station
NAS -- Naval Audit Service (USN)
NASA -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASAMS -- NORWEGIAN ADVANCED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
NASP -- National Aerospace Plane (X-30)
NASSCO -- National Steel and Shipbuilding Co
NAT DEF BUDGET (050) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET
NAT MIL AUTHORITY -- NATIONAL MILITARY AUTHORITY
NATC -- Naval Air Test Center (Patuxent River, Md)
NATIONAL SECURITY
NATL DEFENSE AREA -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AREA
NATL EMERGENCY -- NATIONAL EMERGENCY
NATO AIRSPACE
NATO ASSGN FORCES -- NATO ASSIGNED FORCES
NATO COMMANDER
NATO MIL AUTHORIT -- NATO MILITARY AUTHORITY
NATO -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAV AUGMENTION GPOUP -- NAVAL AUGMENTION GROUP
Nav -- Navigation
NAV/COMM -- Navigation/Communications
NAVAIR -- Naval Air Systems Command
NAVAL CAMPAIGN
NAVFAC -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command
NAVFAC -- Naval Facility
NAVMASS -- Navigation and Weapon Aiming Subsystem
NavSat -- Navigation Satellite
NAVSEA -- Naval Sea Systems Command
NAVSPECWAR -- Naval Special Warfare
NAVSTAR GPS -- NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITION SYSTEM
Navstar -- Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging, satellite
NAVSUP -- Naval Supply Systems Command
NAWS -- Naval Air Weapons Station
NBC -- Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
NBCRS -- NBC Reconnaise System (Fox)
NC -- Nurse Corps (USN)
NCA -- National Command Authority
(NCA) NAT COMMAND AU -- NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY
NCMC -- NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex
NCO -- Non-Commissioned Officer
NCS -- National Communication System
ND/SB -- Nuclear Depth/Strike Bomb
NDAA -- NonDevelopmental airlift Aircraft (program)
NDB -- Nuclear Depth Bomb
NDDS -- Nuclear Detonation Detection System
NDI -- NATO Defense Initiative
NDRF -- National Defense Reserve Fleet
NDU -- National Defense University
NDY -- Naval Dockyard
NEACP -- National Emergency Airborne Command Post
NEAR REAL TIME
NEARTIP -- Near-Term Improvement Program (Mk 46 torpedo)
NEED TO KNOW
NEO -- Non-combat Evacuation Operation
NFIP -- National Foreign Intelligence Program
NFO -- Naval Flight Officer
NFR -- NATO Frigate
NG -- National Guard (generally use ANG or ARNG)
NGF -- Naval Gunfire
NGFSC -- Naval Gunfire Support System
NH -- NATO Helicopter
NIC -- Naval Intelligence Command
NIE -- National Intelligence Estimate
NIS -- NATO identification system
NIS -- Naval Investigative Service
NISC -- Naval Intelligence Support Center (now NTIC)
NLOS -- Non-Line-Of-Sight
NMC -- Naval Material Command (abolished)
NMCC -- National Military Command Center
NMCS -- National Military Command System
NMIC -- National Military Intelligence Center
NMS -- New Manning System
NMW -- Naval Mine Warfare
NNBIS -- National Narcotics Boarder Interdiction System
NNMC -- National Naval Medical Center (USN) (Bethesda, Md)
NOAA -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOB -- Naval Operating Base
NOB -- Naval Order of Battle
NOCONTRACT -- No Dissemination to Contractors/Consultants
NODIS -- No Distribution (security restriction)
NOE -- Nap-of-the-earth
NOFORN -- No Foreign Dissemination (security restriction)
NOIC -- NavyOperational Intelligence Center
NOIWON -- National Operations/Intel Watch Officer Net
NOLO -- No Live Operator
NORAD -- North American Aerospace Defense Command
NORCANUKUS -- Norway, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
NORTHAG -- Northern Army Group (NATO)
NOSIC -- Naval Ocean Surveillance Information System (USN)
NOTAM -- Notice to Airmen
NPG -- Nuclear Planning Group (NATO)
NPGS -- Naval Postgraduate School
NPS -- Nonprior Service
NRAC -- Naval Research Advisory Committee
NRF -- Naval Reserve Force
NRL -- Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC)
NRO -- National Reconnaise Office
NROSS -- Navy Remote Ocean Sensing System (satellite)
NROTC -- Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
NRT -- Naval Reserve Training (now NRF)
NRT -- Net Registered Tons
NSA -- National Security Agency
NSA -- National Security Agency
NSC -- National Security Council
NSDD -- National Security Decision Directive
NSF -- National Science Foundation
NSNF -- Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces
NSOC -- National SIGINT Operations Center
NSRA -- National Security Revitalization Act
NSRDC -- Naval Ship Research and Development Center (David W. Taylor)
NSSDC -- National Space Science Data Center (NASA)
NSSM -- NATO Sea Sparrow Missile
NST -- Nuclear and Space Talks
NSW -- Naval Special Warfare (USN qualification)
NSWP -- Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact
NSY -- Naval Shipyard (also NSYd)
NTC -- National Training Center
NTDS -- Naval Tactical Data System
NTIC -- Naval Technical Intelligence Center (was NISC)
NTM -- National Technical Means (arms verification)
NTPF -- Near-Term Pre-positioning Force
NTPI -- Nuclear Training Proficiency Inspection (USN)
NTU -- New Threat Upgrade (USN)
NUCLEAR YIELDS
NUD -- Nonupdated
NUDET -- Nuclear Detonation
nuke --
nuke --
NUSN -- Non-US NATO
NVGS -- Night Vision Goggle Sensor
NVR -- Naval Vessel Register
NWC -- Naval War College
NWC -- Naval Weapons Center
NWS -- National Warning System
NWS -- North Warning System
NWTDB -- Naval Warfare Tactical Database
NY -- Navy Yard

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