Acronyms Aboard Navy Ships

[n4jri]

Been going through the Wiki and the Internet, but not finding a very comprehensive list of acronyms that would be heard in shipboard comms. Stuff like CIC, XO, CDO seem easier to flesh out, but there are a number of others. (am particularly curious about one that I think may be ATWO) Can anybody point me toward a good list of acronyms/jargon that would serve our particular needs well?

Another, related question: Would some of the jargon being used in the movie Captain Phillips or the TV show The Last Ship be accurate enough to give me some education?

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[GROL]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Navy_acronyms

Likely it is ASWO.

• ASWO – Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer

 

[krokus]

Another, related question: Would some of the jargon being used in the movie Captain Phillips or the TV show The Last Ship be accurate enough to give me some education?

Nothing jumps out, about either of those, ad being egregiously bad. (Standard Hollywood embellishments type of stuff.)

Crimson Tide was about as accurate as Super Troopers, maybe less so.

 

[krokus]

Mostly older info on this page, but a fair amount of acronyms have not changed.

Navy Radio Communications & Technology Publications

 

[ecps92]

As said some are easy to find and determine, such as
CIC = Combat Information Center
XO = Executive Officer
CDO = Command Duty Officer

Others, well, all depends on the accent used and if you are used to that accent
New England, NY/NJ, Southern drawl etc

ATWO was likely ASWO

try here as one resourse

List of U.S. Navy acronyms

The United States Navy, like any bureaucratic organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their...

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Been going through the Wiki and the Internet, but not finding a very comprehensive list of acronyms that would be heard in shipboard comms. Stuff like CIC, XO, CDO seem easier to flesh out, but there are a number of others. (am particularly curious about one that I think may be ATWO) Can anybody point me toward a good list of acronyms/jargon that would serve our particular needs well?

Another, related question: Would some of the jargon being used in the movie Captain Phillips or the TV show The Last Ship be accurate enough to give me some education?

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[n4jri]

As said some are easy to find and determine, such as
CIC = Combat Information Center
XO = Executive Officer
CDO = Command Duty Officer

Others, well, all depends on the accent used and if you are used to that accent
New England, NY/NJ, Southern drawl etc

ATWO was likely ASWO

try here as one resourse

List of U.S. Navy acronyms

The United States Navy, like any bureaucratic organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their...

military-history.fandom.com

Context of ATWO probably not right for anti-sub. At first, I thought it might be the name 'Atwell' but unlikely on more than one ship in the same context. Visited the sites mentioned, but not much luck on several fronts. Was hoping to find a list of people who would ID by acronym on radio--particularly if that acronym might be unique to certain types of vessels.

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[n4jri]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Navy_acronyms

Likely it is ASWO.

• ASWO – Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer

Heard it again on the TV show 'The Last Ship', and closed captioning gave it an extra T, for ATTWO. Internet says it's 'Antiterrorism Tactical Watch Officer', and the context in the show was correct. The show also had a helicopter depicted searching 'zones' numbered up to 8, which also appears to match real life activity I've heard. Zones appeared to be numbered up to 8, and I assume that they would be slices of the area around the ship (45 degrees wide if all are equal?) possibly defined by the ship's bearing. Not sure how helos would determine what zone they're in if the ship isn't squawking AIS--would a destroyer have TACAN going if it had aircraft in the air?

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[mass-man]

Allen...please don’t try to correlate anything from a TV show to even a small slice of reality! While these shows may have a former USN member as a technical advisor, the producers and writers always win. Especially when it comes to the script...
Spoken as a 50+ year TV production technician..

 

[ecps92]

Like using a Scanner as a Cellphone or twoway radio

Allen...please don’t try to correlate anything from a TV show to even a small slice of reality! While these shows may have a former USN member as a technical advisor, the producers and writers always win. Especially when it comes to the script...
Spoken as a 50+ year TV production technician..

 

[n4jri]

Well, the TV show knew ATTWO and used it in the same context that I observed when hearing it myself. Nobody here even recognized it.

As for the helos using the 'zones', that may or may not be realistic. That sort of operation would not likely take place where I could hear it.

73/Allen

 

[ochf13]

ATTWO-anti terrorism tactical watch officer

 

[n4jri]

ATTWO-anti terrorism tactical watch officer

Figures heavily in my area, as ships transit waters with a lot of small boats around.

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[spacellamaman]

when in doubt, assume it's obscene

 

[mmckenna]

when in doubt, assume it's obscene

And 90% of the time, you'd be correct.