Phantom - F-4 Fighter plane
PIO - Public information officer
PF - Popular Forces. Native military forces locally recruited and employed within their home districts by district chiefs.
Police - Military term for clean-up of an area. Implies a clean, thorough search of a battle field.
POW - prisoner of war
PRC-25 - Backpack FM radio-basic communications for nearly every level of command within the division except aviation.
Prep - Short term for preparatory fires on a landing zone.
Bibliography
Pleiku: The Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam, by J. D. Coleman
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