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Aerospace Parking Attendant:The crew chief.

AKA Air ETC(etcetera), AKA Adults Eternally Treated Like Children, AKA The Air Education and Training Command. In the “kinder, gentler” Air Force, aircrew are permitted to hold hands. The 111 featured side by side seating so the crew could pass a joint back and forth while hoping the TFR worked.

APU: Auxiliary Power Unit not to be confused with an EPU which is a Emergency Power Unit which is utilized on single engine single tail pieces of e "Yard Dart" or F-16.

Angle between the flight path of an attacker and its target. Aerodynamic angle formed between the chord of an airfoil and the direction of the relative wind. "Angels ten" indicates 10,000 feet of altitude.

Angels: Altitude in thousands of feet.

Missile with active radar transmitter in nose that tracks target, allowing "fire and forget" tactics.

AMRAAM: Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile.

(2) Second most likely career field to be discharged due to drugs (1st SFs). Ammo troops yell: "IF YOU AIN'T AMMO, YOU AIN'T SHIT!" and believe this to be true. Nicknamed "BB-Stackers", "Ammo Troops" "461s" are notoriously tightknit and perceived, perhaps accurately, as completely crazy compared to the average Air force career field.

AMC: Air Mobility Command, formerly known as the Military Airlift Command.

ALS:"At Last Some Time Off" the cry of Maintainers who will be in class for 8 hours a day rather than on the flightline for 12 hours or more.ALPHA FOXTROT UNIFORM AFU = All Fucked Up.Missile with active infrared transmitter in nose that homes in on targets emitting radar energy. ALARM: Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile.Again mostly Air Force units are invited to have an opportunity to eat Gator and have a mini Mardi Gras outside the gate. Air Warrior II: Another mock air war supporting the Army, held every now and then by the Air Force at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.Mostly Air Force assets and another reason to go to Vegas for two weeks to get rolled by the ladies downtown. Air Warrior: A mock air war supporting the Army, held all the time by the Air Force at Nellis AFB, Nevada.Air Off on Two: Usually means shut the fuck up someone is coming.A young enlistedman who is a total idiot. Airman Snuffy: USAF equivalent of the Marines' Private Gomer Pyle.Usually a derogatory term for an airman who acts like he is in charge of airmen of equal rank (but has been given no authority by an NCO). AKA: Ain’t Generating Shit, Ain’t Got Shit. The crew chiefs and everyone else involved in the day to day business of sortie generation. In other words, a plane maybe be flying at 1,500 ft. Measure of a plane's altitude above the terrain it is flying over.

AFMC: Air Force Materiel Command group of people far removed from the flightline, making rules for the flightline from when they did it in the 70s.

AFE: Aircrew Flight Equipment, the people who keep pilots alive.

AFI: Airmen Fighting Inactivity, a state of government funds being spent wisely while airmen "Await Further Instruction".

ACC: Air Combat Command We gave these guys nukes!?.

AB: Afterburner capability also an acronym for an air base outside of the United States also an acronym for Airman Basic (E-1).“The new Lieutenant is All Afterburner with No Compass Heading”. Moving a lot with nothing being accomplished. AANCH: All Afterburner, No Compass Heading.Also "Triple-A" or "flak " heavy version of the AA gun, often mounted on an armored vehicle. AA: Anti-Aircraft Weapons used to down aircraft.A-10: A model of Armoured Ground Attack aircraft used by the USAF.