Finding Aids: Reference Information Paper 90 Appendix Q

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Reference Information Paper 90

A Finding Aid to Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War Era, 1960-1994

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Appendix Q: Acronyms Used in this Publication

AARs	After Action Reports
ARVN	Army of Republic of Vietnam
BNR	Body Not Recovered
CDEC	Combined Document Exploitation Center
CDIC	Combat Data Information Center
CI	Civilian Internee
CINCPAC	Commander In Chief of the Pacific Command
CIDG	Civilian Irregular Defense Group
CMIC	Combined Military Interrogation Center
CORDS	Civilian Operations and Rural Development Support
DCSPER	Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel
DPMO	Department of Defense POW/MIA Office
EPW Camps	Enemy Prisoner of War Camps
FPJMC	Four Party Joint Military Commission
HES	Hamlet Evaluation System
INTSUMs	Intelligence Summaries
JCRC	Joint Casualty Resolution Center
JCS	Joint Chiefs of Staff
JPRC	Joint Personnel Recovery Center
JTF-FA	Joint Task Force - Full Accounting
KIA	Killed in Action
LC	Library of Congress
MAAG	Military Assistance Advisory Group
MAC	Military Airlift Command
MACV	Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
MACV-SOG	MACV Studies and Observations Group
MIA	Missing in Action
MOPSUMs	Monthly Operations Summaries
NARA	威尼斯人娱乐场 and Records Administration
OPLANs	Operational Plans
ORLLs	Operations Reports/ Lessons Learned
POW	Prisoner of War
PWCIIC	POW/Civilian Internee Information Center
RVN	Republic of Vietnam
RVNAF	Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
SEA	Southeast Asia
SEER	System for Evaluating the Effectiveness of RVNAF
SITREPs	Situation Reports
TAFFS	The Army Functional Filing System
USARV	U.S. Army, Vietnam
VC	Viet Cong
VC/NVN	Viet Cong/North Vietnamese
WIA	Wounded in Action

Note: Compiled by Charles E. Schamel. Published by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 and Records Administration, Washington, DC, 1996.

Web version prepared 1999. Additions and changes incorporated in the Web version are between brackets [] and in italics.

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