C-130 - Air Force Hercules transport aircraft
Caribou - Army twin-engine transport aircraft
C and C - (Command and Control) Aircraft in which a troop or unit commander circles a battle area to direct the conduct of the fight. Also called Charlie-Charlie
CG - Commanding general
Charlie - the letter C in the phonetic alphabet, also slang for Vietcong.
Chopper - helicopter
Chinook - The official name of the CH-47 tandem rotor transport helicopter. Also known as the Hook.
CIDG - Civilian Irregular Defense GRoup, indigenous populations recruited to serve with Special Forces units.
CINPAC - Commander in Chief, Pacific
Claymore - Antipersonnel mine that spews out 700 steel balls in a 60-degree arc, lethal up to 50 meters
COMUSMACV - Commander, US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Company - the basic building block unit for all non-artillery and noncalvary units in the Army - the smallest unit in which the commissioned leader is a commander.
CP - Command Post
CS Grenade - tear gas grenade
CTZ - Corps Tactical Zone, numbered I through IV north to south. The zones were administrative as well as tactical and the ARVN used of the term "corps" caused the American forces to invent euphamisms for a corps-level command structure, eg Task Force Alpha.
Bibliography
Pleiku: The Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam, by J. D. Coleman
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