Shareholders Naval Air Squadron meeting, normally held every morning, covering administration, flying programme, etc
SIG P226 Swiss-manufactured 9mm semi-automatic pistol
SIS Secret Intelligence Service: often but inaccurately known as MI6, and responsible for espionage outside the United Kingdom. Also referred to as ‘Six’
SISDE
SITREP Situation report
Sobs Senior Observer of a Royal Navy squadron
SOP Standard operating procedure
SPC Surface Picture Compiler. Royal Navy noncommissioned officer or rating responsible for tracking all surface radar contacts around the mother ship
Spectre Italian-manufactured 9mm sub-machine-gun, unique in that it is double-action, and unusual in having a magazine capacity of fifty rounds
Splot Senior Pilot of a Royal Navy squadron
SPS Standard Pressure Setting of 1013.25 hPa (hectopascals) or 29.29 inches (for some American aircraft). Set on the altimeter sub-scale, it is used above about five thousand feet to ensure all aircraft altimeters share a common setting to allow accurate vertical separation
SVR
SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics. Generic term applied to police and other law- enforcement agency paramilitary units
Two and a half Royal Navy slang term for a Lieutenant Commander
UHF Ultra high frequency
Unsub Unknown subject – the unidentified perpetrator of a crime (US slang)
USAMRIID United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Part of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the principal research laboratory of the American Biological Defense Research Program
Uzi Israeli-manufactured 9mm sub-machine-gun
Vauxhall Cross The headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service fronting the Thames in London: the building’s bizarre design has spawned a number of uncomplimentary nicknames
VHF Very high frequency
Walnut Slang term for the CIA’s main database
WASP White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Slang term applied mainly to young, white, affluent and powerful middle-class Americans in the 1970s and 1980s
Wings Commander (Air): the head of the Air Department on an aircraft carrier
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References
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‘Conspiracy of silence’ by Neville Hodgkinson.
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‘The AIDS Dilemma: drug diseases blamed on a passenger virus’ by Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick.
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