Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force

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USACOM United States Atlantic Command. Unified Command that includes the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet and most Army and Air Force combat units based in the continental United States. USACOM’s special role is the training and “packaging” of joint task forces that may have to be deployed to support other unified commands, such as CENTCOM, EUCOM, or PACOM.

V-22 Osprey Twin-engine tilt-rotor aircraft. Combines the agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing turboprop. Joint Marine /Navy/Air Force program, deliveries scheduled to begin in 1997.

Viewgraph An overhead projector transparency or slide used in briefings or presentations. Sometimes used as a term of derision for a project that is incompletely developed, as “His plan was nothing but a set of viewgraphs,” or “that aircraft design is still in the viewgraph stage.”

Wing Air Force unit, typically commanded by a colonel, consisting of several squadrons with supporting ground elements. Depending on type, a Wing may have fewer than a dozen aircraft, or more than a hundred.

XO Executive Officer. Second in command of a unit.

XVIII Roman numeral for eighteen. The 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. Roman numerals have been used to designate Army Corps since the Napoleonic Wars, to the dismay of six generations of military historians.

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