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  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Abbreviations and Nomenclature
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction - Kosovo: Canada’s Unknown Air War
  6. 1 A Fearsome Aerial Ballet
  7. 2 Planning for War
  8. 3 I Cringed Every Time It Rained
  9. 4 Don’t Go to War without It
  10. 5 The Fog of War
  11. 6 Prelude to Censorship: Media, Body Bags, and the Persian Gulf War
  12. 7 Like an Overnight International Courier
  13. 8 A Blanket of Secrecy
  14. 9 Friction and Iron Will
  15. 10 On Body Bags and the News Media
  16. 11 Canada Missed a Good News Story
  17. 12 Homecomings
  18. 13 Context-Less Facts, Ambiguity, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
  19. Afterword
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index

Abbreviations and Nomenclature

AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery

AAR – Air-to-Air Refuelling

ACC – Air Component Commander

ACE – Aviation Combat Element

ADM (PA) – Assistant Deputy Minister (Public Affairs)

AETE – Aeronautical Engineering and Test Establishment

Air Ops – Air Operations

AMEs – Aircraft Maintenance Engineers

AMIRS – Advanced Multi-role Infrared Sensor

AOR – Area of Responsibility

ATO – Air Tasking Order

AWACS – E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System

BGen. or Brig. Gen. – Brigadier General

CADPAT – Canadian Disruptive Pattern

CANFORME – Canadian Forces Middle East

CANSOCOM – Canadian Operations Support Command

CAP – Combat Air Patrol

Capt. – Captain

CAS – Close Air Support

CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CDS – Chief of Defence Staff

CEFCOM – Canadian Expeditionary Force Command

CF – Canadian Forces

CFACC – Combined Forces Air Component Controller

CFB – Canadian Forces Base

CF-18 or CF-188 – McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 naval fighter jet aircraft (CF-18 Hornet)

CFCC – Canadian Forces Combat Camera

Chief MAAP – Chief Master Air Tactical Planner

CNN – Cable News Network

CO – Commanding Officer

COAC – Combined Air Operations Centre

Col. – Colonel

Cpl. – Corporal

C2 – Command and Control

DAOD – Defence Administrative Orders and Directives

DCDS – Deputy Chief of Defence Staff

DND – Department of National Defence

DoD – Department of Defence

EUCOM – United States European Command

FLIR – Forward Looking Infrared

FRY or FY – Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

GBU – Guided bomb unit

Gen. – General

GPS – Global positioning system

Hercs – Lockheed C-130 Hercules four-engine turboprop military
transport aircraft

Hercules – C-130 Hercules

Hornet – McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 naval fighter jet aircraft (CF-18 Hornet)

HQ - Headquarters

ID – identify

INS – Instrument navigation system

J-DAMS – Joint Direct Attack Munitions

J5 PA – Joint Operations Public Affairs

KC-135 – Boeing jet-powered Stratotanker

KLA – Kosovo Liberation Army

Lt. Col. – Lieutenant Colonel

Mach 1– the speed of sound, about 344 metres per second

Maj. – Major

MCpl – Master Corporal

NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization

MiG – Russian MiG Corporation multi-role fighter jet aircraft

NCMs – Non-Commissioned Members

NDHQ – National Defence Headquarters

NVG – Night-vision goggles

OP or OPS – Operation or Operations

OSCE – Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

PGM – Precision-guided munitions

POW – Prisoner of war

RCAF – Royal Canadian Air Force

ROEs – Rules of engagement

ROTO – 0 – First Rotation

SACEUR – Supreme Allied Commander Europe

SAM – Surface-to-air missile

SCONDVA – Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Trade

SEAD – Suppression of Enemy Air Defences

SFOR – NATO’s Stabilization Force in Bosnia

Sgt. – Sergeant

SHAPE – Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

snag – Malfunction

sortie – One flight by one plane

strat – Strategic

TFA – Task Force Aviano

TF Comd – Task Force Command

TFL or TF LIB – Task Force Lebeccio

TOT – Time on Target

Triple A – Anti-aircraft artillery

TRP – Timing Reference Points

UN – United Nations

UNSCR – United Nations Security Council Resolution

US – United States

WComd – Wing commander

WO – Warrant Officer

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