WTF is JFAC?
 

The proliferation of acronyms in the services never ceases to amaze (and confuse) me! Many of the posts on this forum are unintelligible to anyone who retired more than a few months ago. Now I hear on the Christmas Card grapevine that a distant relative is likely to be posted to "JFAC" at High Wycombe. Can anyone provide a translation? I would be most grateful as his uncle, apart from me, would like to know WTF he will be doing!

A very Merry Christmas to all those on active service and to all Ppruners.

My daughter, who married a Frog, was asked to give a chat at her sprogs' school on English Christmas traditions with particular reference to Christmas Pud. We had pre-positioned our 2006 pud, made to a traditional family recipe, in France in November. So my beloved daughter said "Better than that, I will bring one along to the school". Silly girl! Inevitably the froglets demolished it. Not a crumb left for poor old FV! And my grandsprog ate three helpings! :mad:

JFACHQ

Joint Force Air Component Headquarters

A GOOGLE search should provide all your answers.

Merry Xmas

I concur with FV, they even give out Acronym booklets on aircraft courses now, and they get thicker each time I see them. I was given a task to write a manual for an aircraft that involved taking Word documents and transferring them into an electronic version, the Word versions were supplied by the RAF. I decided to add an Acronym list as there was so many, from memory I was able to translate some of them, I had to give up with the majority. When I sent the powers that be the version with the missing Acronyms highlighted with a plea to tell me what they meant, i got it back and approximately 5 remained unknown, I had to delete them from the list and the original text, (had to do a bit of re-wording so it still made sense).

At times its like trying to read Arabic. You have to fit the acronym into the context of the sentence. The classic example is ILS which is either Instrument Landing System or Integrated Logistic Support.

I got a letter from the head shed asking me to do something about some nonsense acronym. I phoned him to ask what it meant and he told me he didn't know. He was just passing the message on from a letter he received. I said if he ever found out what it meant, he should get back to me. Never heard from him again!

Not an acronym, but I've drafted 2 letters that have been signed off by very high priced help with the phrase "onageristic estimate" in them.

"The name onager comes from the Greek onagros or wild ass" hence Onageristic Estimate = Wild Ass Guess:ok:

TLA - Three Lettered Abbreviation. Fantastic, who would have thought of it!

Note to self, "Remember to use the words 'Onageristic Estimate' in next piece of staff work!"

JFAC HQ done above.
JFACC Joint Force Air Component Commander (Usually Gp Capt or above). Think of the JFACC as a kind of mobile Combined Air Ops Centre (CAOC). The UK JFAC HQ is a relatively small core organization which relies on external reinforcement (ERS) when they deploy. They also rely largely on host-nation support or specialist deployable UK assistance (eg TCW) for comms and IT support.

As with the CAOC, they issue the ATO and ACO if they have OPCOM of assigned forces and an Area of Responsibility (AOR).

As Shawshank suggests, though, Google is pretty good for explaining.

STH

Thanks for the help and the suggestion about Google. :)

Its all bollocks! Abbreviations and acronyms like this are for folk who can't speak English. Utter tripe.

Flatus, is it too late to produce another Old Family Recipe Christmas Pud? (OFRCP)
Happy Xmas all.

It is essentially a standing component level HQ, circa 70 cadre staff augmented as required. A deployable CAOC is part of the task. It is Stategy to Task for A1-9.

Generally misunderstood by FEs as they only usually see the JFACHQ in a HICON function producing a reverse engineered flying programme to achieve Tier 1 trg objs.

So the JFACC sends the AOD and ACO to the CAOC, AOCC, ACC and AFLD (at least in ACCS); the CAOC plans the ATO with COMAOs; the AOCC plans the CAS; the ACC plans the AD. Then the WX goes TU and it all goes FUBAR.

Just remember that a US CAOC is an AOC and a French one is a CCOA and you´ll be OK..... :ok:

Got that - now, what does ORAC stand for? :confused:

:E

ORGANICS BY REALTIME AIRBORNE CHROMATOGRAPH (ORAC)

Google is a wonderful thing!

Or it could be:
Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC)
I'm confused again!

Wasn't it the character out of some sci-fi prgo in the 70s?

"Blake's Seven" onboard PC

I know ..... :)

I've just found out what "WTF" means .... :bored:

My Life's learning is complete .... :p

From here:

ORAC - Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster

Hmmm, memory suggests that JPA is based on this...

Ah, Them damn Yanks you mean? :hmm:
Someone mentioned Orac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orac :ok:

Was an IED placed in the CAOC? Just wondered why ATO was tasked!! ;)