Training Acronyms
This list has been compiled based on acronyms that have been used in council training documents and course flyers.
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| ACC |
Assistant Council Commissioner |
| ACRONYM |
- Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
- Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory
- A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
- Abbreviation By Cropping Names That Yield Meaning
- Alphanumeric Code for Remembering Odd Names You Make up
- Abbreviated Code Rarely Or Never Yielding Meaning
- A Concise Recollection of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
- A Concise Reduction Obliquely Naming Your Meaning
- Alphabetical Character Rendition Of a Name Yielding a Meaning
- Alphabetical Character Reduction Of a Name Yielding a Meaning
- Alphabetically Condensed Representation of Neologically Yclept Magniloquence
- Annoyingly Cryptic References or Names You Make
- Automatic Computerized Reorganization of Names Yielding Meaninglessness
- Abbreviated Capitalized Randomly Ordered Names Yielding Madness
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| ACS |
Associate of Commissioner Science |
| ADC |
Assistant District Commissioner |
| ADMS |
Automated District Management System |
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| BALOO |
Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation |
| BB |
- Blackberry
- Brass Bead or Bullet (as in BB rifle competition)
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| BCS |
Bachelor of Commissioner Science |
| BLT |
Basic Leader Training |
| BRCS |
Bachelor of Roundtable Commissioner Science |
| BSA |
Boy Scouts of America, Inc. |
| BSLST |
Boy Scout Leader Specific Training |
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| CBT |
Commissioner Basic Training |
| CCC |
Council Coordinated Committee Meetings (also referred to as "C3" meetings) |
| CCRTC |
Council Commissioners Roundtable Training Conference
(a monthly event held in conjunction with the Council Commissioners' Cabinet Meeting) |
| CDC |
Course Director's Conference |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| COPE |
Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience |
| COR |
Chartered Organization Representative |
| CORT |
Chartered Organization Representative Training |
| CSLST |
Cub Scout Leader Specific Training |
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| DC |
District Commissioner |
| DCS |
Doctor of Commissioner Science |
| DTC |
District Training Chair |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disk |
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| EDGE |
- Extreme Durant Guided Experience
- Explain, Demonstrate, Guide and Enable
(a TDC supplemental course model for training stages and methods)
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| e-list |
Electronic Distribution List [Doubleknot] |
| Execomm |
Executive Committee (Council Board) |
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| HAT |
High Adventure Training |
| HR |
Human Resources |
| HRT |
Human Resources and Training |
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| ILSC |
Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews |
| ILST |
Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops |
| ILT |
Instructor Led Training |
| IOLS |
Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills |
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| LAST |
Leader Advanced Skills Training |
| LLD |
Lodge Leadership Development (ref. OA) |
| LNT |
Leave No Trace |
| LOS |
Language Of Scouting... http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Media/LOS.aspx |
| LOST |
Leader Outdoor Skills Training
[This proposed name was never adopted given the negative connotations of the acronym] |
| LRP |
Long Range Plan |
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| MaRC |
Media and Resource Coordinator |
| MarCom |
Marketing Communications Committee |
| MBC |
Merit Badge College |
| MBU |
Merit Badge University |
| MCS |
Master of Commissioner Science |
| MEGA |
Massive Educational Gathering for Adults |
| MOLT |
More Outdoor Leader Training |
| MOST |
More Outdoor Skills Training |
| MRCS |
Master of Roundtable Commissioner Science |
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| NLE |
New Leader Essentials |
| NSA |
Northern Service Area |
| NSA |
Northern Service Area Training Coordinator |
| NYLT |
National Youth Leadership Training |
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| OA |
Order of the Arrow |
| O3T |
One-On-One Training |
| OLC |
On-Line Course |
| OLS |
Outdoor Leader Skills |
| OLSWL |
Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders |
| OSR |
Occoneechee Scout Reservation |
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| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
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| RTP |
- Required for Tour Permit
- Research Traingle Park
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| SATC |
Service Area Training Coordinator |
| SATW |
Say All The Words (i.e., do not speak in acronyms, especially when teaching) |
| SLST |
Scoutmaster [and ASM] Leader Specific Training |
| SME |
Subject Matter Expert |
| SMF |
Scoutmaster Fundamentals (replaced by OLS) |
| SOS |
Scouting Outdoor Skills for women |
| SSA |
Southern Service Area |
| SSATC |
Southern Service Area Training Coordinator |
| SSBL |
Scouting Safety Begins with Leadership |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Wealnesses, Opportunities and Threats |
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| TBD |
To Be Determined |
| TCC |
Troop Committee Challenge |
| TDC |
Trainer Development Conference |
| TIS |
This Is Scouting |
| TLT |
Troop Leadership Training |
| TRD |
Training Records Database |
| TTT |
Train The Trainer or Triple-T (replaced with TDC) |
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| UC |
Unit Commissioner |
| UoS |
University of Scouting |
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| VCR |
Video Cassette Recorder |
| VHS |
Video Home System format tape cartridge |
| VLSC |
Venturing Leadership Skills Course |
| VLST |
Venturing Leader Specific Training |
| VP |
Vice President |
| VRC |
Volunteer Resource Center |
| VSLST |
Venture Scout Leader Specific Training |
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| WB |
Wood Badge |
| WCSA |
Wake County Service Area (dissolved into NSA and SSA) |
| WHAG |
Wild Hairy Audacious Goal |
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| YIS |
Yours In Scouting [an e-mail or letter closing] |
| YISF |
- Yours In Scouting Fun
- Yours In Scouting a Friend
- Yours In Scouting Fellowship
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