* VMFA ( AW ) is the United States Marine Corps acronym for Marine ( All Weather ) Fighter Attack Squadron.

However, with increasing bonhomie between the Indian government and the Burma junta and KIA becoming the main source of training and weapons for all northeastern rebel groups, R & AW initiated Operation Leech, with the help of Army and paramilitary forces, to assassinate the leaders of the Burmese rebels as an example to other groups.

A tactical fighter and fighter-reconnaissance unit for most of its history, the 152 AW transitioned to a tactical airlift mission in 1995.

* Aisin AW ; Aisin AW is a Japanese automotive parts supplier, known for its automatic transmissions and navigation systems

In 1996, the 182nd AW wing began participation in ongoing flying missions for Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia.

During a September 2002 deployment to Oman, 182nd AW aircraft flew combat supply missions into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.

In 2004, 2005, and 2006, the C-141s assigned to the 445 AW participated in missions to Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly for the medical evacuation of wounded service members.

** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Aruba: AW

* 374th Mission Support GroupThe 374th Mission Support Group is responsible to the 374th Airlift Wing Commander for command, control and direction of support activities to 374 AW and 32 tenant units to include HQ US Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force.

The axioms AB, AC, AK and AW, and the rule MP are complete for the implicational fragment of intuitionistic logic.

Reinholt made it a point of letting the press know that he was happy to be leaving AW and going to a soap that knows how to write for actors.

Stuart appeared for only one day when former AW co-star Linda Dano fell ill.

In 1926 Palestine Railways sent six of its H class Baldwin 4-6-0 locomotives to AW for conversion into 4-6-2 tank locomotives to work the PR's steeply graded branch between Jaffa and Jerusalem.

AW went on to build 20 large three-cylinder “ Pacific ” type locomotives for the Central Argentine Railway ( F. C. C. A ) in 1930, with Caprotti valve gear and modern boilers.

AW also obtained the UK license for Sulzer diesels from 1919, and by the 1930s was building diesel locomotives and railcars.

SunRace Sturmey Archer have modified the design and manufacture in many respects ; compared to the old AW hub, the current 3-speed equivalent ( SRF3 ) now has an aluminium alloy shell for lighter weight.

* Payne PR, Greaves AW, Kipps TJ., CRC Clinical Trials Management System ( CTMS ): an integrated information management solution for collaborative clinical research, AMIA Annu Symp Proc.

Over time, Kesmai produced improved versions of the game, starting with SVGA Air Warrior ( AWSVGA ) in 1993, and continuing with Air Warrior for Windows ( AW4W ) in 1996, Air Warrior II ( AWII ) in early 1997, Air Warrior III ( AWIII ) later in 1997, and finally Air Warrior III Millennium Version ( AW: MV ) in 2000.

However, given the 314 AW's primary training mission as the Formal Training Unit ( FTU ) for C-130s, the base and the 314 AW were transferred to the Air Education and Training Command ( AETC ), and the base's two operational Regular Air Force C-130 squadrons were organized under the 463d Airlift Group, an AMC unit.

* JDF Air Wing ( JDF AW )-this provides air support for the infantry, and surveillance and maritime patrol, which is used in anti-drug missions.

On July 1, 2007, the Air Force Reserve Command's ( AFRC ) 433d Airlift Wing ( 433 AW ) at Lackland AFB / Kelly Field assumed responsibility for all flying training and academic training for the C-5 aircraft for all Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard ( ANG ) aircrews, leaving the 97 AMW and Altus to concentrate on C-17 and KC-135 training for AMC, AFRC and ANG aircrews.

Classified as AW hot-humid ( according to the Koppen classification ), tropical with dry winter, with a well-defined rainy season from October to April and a dry season from May to September.

Such a system, for example, was developed for the unsuccessful N / AW ( Night / Adverse Weather ) version of the USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Stewart ANGB and the 105 AW also host a site of the C-5 Aircrew Training System, which provides assured aircrew ground training that is concurrent with the C-5 weapon system and its operating procedures for regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard C-5 flight crews in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

* ATLAS is an acronym for Association for Tourism and Leisure Education, a European educational project

* AOTUS is also the acronym for the Archivist of the United States

* Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP, for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell.

Capitalised, BASIC is sometimes taken as an acronym that stands for British American Scientific International Commercial.

* BMI, acronym for Broadcast Music, Inc., a collecting society for composers ' copyrights

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

The global youth movement is known as NOAM ( an acronym for No ' ar Masorti ); its North American chapter is called the United Synagogue Youth.

Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).

PID is an acronym for Proportional-Integral-Derivative, referring to the three terms operating on the error signal to produce a control signal.

* CNS is a short acronym in musical jargon to reference the catalog numbering systems for single records

* ( Hanukkah ) is also the Hebrew acronym for — " Eight candles, and the halakha is like the House of Hillel ".

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( Digital European Cordless Telecommunications ), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.

The acronym BIND is for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, from a technical paper published in 1984.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

Euphoria is an acronym for " End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications " although there is some suspicion that this is a backronym.