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Early out - Discharge prior to scheduled commitment release date.
EB-66 – An airplane specifically designed with electronic gear for intelligence gathering.
ECM - Electronic countermeasures, such as radar and other frequency jamming, deception, and detection.
Ecology - Defoliant and bomb craters have long-term effects of the war on the Vietnamese and their country.
E&E – Escape and evasion.
Eisenhower, President Dwight D. - Authorized 385 million dollars in aide in 1952, and enlarged the advisory group in South
Vietnam.
Elephant grass - The tall grassy foliage found in abundance in South Vietnam, primarily in the highlands. It has very sharp edges.
Elephant turd - 500 gallon rubber bladder filled with fuel. Air Force term "Blivet"
ELINT - Electronic intelligence
EM - Enlisted Man
Enhance - See: Operations
ENS - Ensign
Ensign - Junior officer (O-1) rank in both the Navy and the Coast Guard.
Entrenching Tool - A small collapsible shovel sometimes with an attached pick.
EOD - Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EODE - Explosive Ordnance Disposal
ER – Efficiency Report.
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival.
ETD - Removal of military personnel from the field.
ETS - Estimated Termination of Service – the date you were released from the military.
EVAC - See Medevac – Slang term for evacuation
Extraction - The withdrawal of personnel, primarily by air, from an operational area.
An "Unofficial" Vietnam
Dictionary
Written by Paul Kasper
Edited by Bob Nelson
Dedicated to all Vietnam Veterans--"Especially those who didn't come home."