text: Chapter 2
  Bolded entries apply only to the Army. An asterisk (*) marks terms shown in chapter 1.
  AEP allied engineering publication
  AER Army Emergency Relief
  AFATDS Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
  AFB Air Force base
  AFI Air Force instruction
  AFMAN Air Force Manual
  AFO *advanced force operations
  AFSB Army field support brigade
  AFTTP Air Force tactics, techniques, and procedures
  AFWA Air Force Weather Agency
  AG adjutant general
  AGL above ground level
  AGM *attack guidance matrix, air-to-ground missile
  AGO *air-ground operations
  AGR ability group run
  AHS Army Health System
  AI assistant instructor
  AIS automated-information system
  AIT Advance Individual Training, automatic identification technology
  AJP allied joint publication
  AKO Army Knowledge Online
  ALE Army special operations forces liaison element
  ALO *air liaison officer
  ALSA Air Land Sea Application (Center)
  ALT alternate
  AM amplitude modulation
  AMC *airborne mission coordinator, *Air Mobility Command
  AMD air and missile defense
  AMDWS air and missile defense workstation
  ANDVT advanced narrowband digital voice terminal
  ANG Air National Guard
  ANGLICO air-naval gunfire liaison company
  ANW2 Adaptive Networking Wideband Waveform
  AO area of operations
  AOA amphibious objective area
  AOC *air operations center
  AOI area of interest
  AOR *area of responsibility
  APC armored personnel carrier
  APCO association of public safety communication officials
  APEX *Adaptive Planning and Execution system
  APFT Army Physical Fitness Test
  APKWS advance precision kill weapon system
  APOD aerial port of debarkation
  APOE aerial port of embarkation
  APORT *aerial port
  APP allied procedural publication