[Milsurplus] Army Departmental Abbreviations

[Scott Johnson]

The USAF now uses the same convention, With the Letter "A".  I'm still 
trying to keep it straight!

Scott

Sheldon Daitch wrote:
> You are correct on the difference between "G" and "J."
>
> Shamelessly ripped from Wikepedia:
>
> The following are designations used in the United States Armed Forces 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces>:
>
>    * The G-1 is the chief of staff for personnel.
>    * The G-2 is the intelligence staff officer.
>    * The G-3 is the chief of staff for plans, operations, and training;
>      sometimes called the Operations Officer.
>    * The G-4 is the logistics officer.
>    * The G-5 is the civil affairs or public affairs officer.
>    * The G-6 is the command, control, communications, and computer
>      systems staff officer, and is frequently the Chief Information
>      Officer (CIO) of the component.
>    * The G-7 is the joint operations
>      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_warfare> staff officer. Very
>      few organizations have a G-7 office; most of the offices are J-7,
>      at the Department of Defense
>      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Defense> level.
>    * The G-8 is the resource management officer.
>
> The Navy uses "N" rather than "G". "J" is the designation at the DoD 
> level. At lower command levels (air group 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Air_group&action=edit>, 
> squadron <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadron>, regiment 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment>, battalion 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion>), the "G" designations are 
> replaced by "S" designations. It should be noted, however, that the 
> Goldwater-Nichols Act 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater-Nichols_Act> of 1986 
> specifically prohibits the Joint Staff (which is part of the Joint 
> Chiefs of Staff) from acting as a general staff: "The Joint Staff 
> shall not operate or be organized as an overall Armed Forces General 
> Staff and shall have no executive authority. The Joint Staff may be 
> organized and may operate along conventional staff lines." (10 U.S.C. 
> section 155(e).)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Staff
>
> 73
> Sheldon
>
> Richard Arland, W3OSS wrote:
>
>> OK, I'm a feathermerchant. I'll admit it!
>>
>> Not being Regular Army, I am wondering about the various 
>> abbreviations for
>> Intelligence, Communications, Logistics, Operations, etc.
>>
>> G-2 I believe is Intelligence.
>>
>> J-6 was Commo when I was working with SOTFE back in the early '80s.
>>
>> Is G-6 the same thing but used for just Army units not something like 
>> SOTFE
>> which was a joint command (hence the "J").
>>
>> OR....am I all wrong in my thinking?
>>
>> Help would be appreciated.
>>
>> 73 Rich Arland, W3OSS
>> MSgt, USAF, Ret.
>>
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