It doesn’t take long to get lost in the alphabet soup of acronyms when you live the military lifestyle. A seemingly meaningless string of letters exist for every military situation. The longer you are part of a military family, the more of these acronyms you understand and remember.
If you just married into a military family, you may not know them. Or, you may just be like me and refuse to learn the proper military terms for the move that is about to happen. (Hubby tells me sometimes I am difficult, a fact I only argue some of the time!)
Common Military Acronyms
In no particular order of importance, here is my list of military move acronyms.
PCS – Permanent Change of Station.
PPPO – Personal Property Processing Office
TSP – Transportation Service Provider
TMO – Transportation Management Officer
TO – Transportation Office
DPS – Defense Personal Property System
CSS – Customer Satisfaction Survey
HHG – Household Goods
FRV – Full Replacement Value
MCO – Military Claims Office
SIT – Storage in Transit
NTS – Non-Temporary Storage
HOR -Home of Record
HOS – Home of Selection
CONUS – Continental United States
OCONUS – Outside of Continental United States
Did you find an acronym that is not here? Look it up on the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms!
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