Cease action or terminate the attack prior to weapons release or event or mission
Abort
Height of friendly acft in thousands of feet from MSL
ANGELS
Positively identified as an enemy in accordance with theater ID criteria
BANDIT
Prebriefed fuel state needed for recovery
BINGO
No visual contact with friendly acft, ship or ground position
BLIND
Notification of potential for blue-on blue or on blue-on neutral situation
BITTERSWEET
A Contact whose identify is unknown
BOGEY
Perform an immediate maximum performance turn in the indicated direction
BREAK
Helicopter buddy it self extraction is not possible
BROKEN SPUR
Call inbound aircraft the landing zone, helicopter landing zone, or drop zone has enemy activity above the prebriefed risk tolerance
CHERRY
Request action is authorized
CLEARED
Term used by JTAC/ Forward air controller during Type 1/2 CAS terminal attack control when granting weapons release clearance to an aircraft attacking a specific target
CLEARED HOT
Term used by a JTAC/FAC during type 3 control, granting a weapons release clearance to an acft or flight to attack a tgt or tgts within the parameters by the JTAC
CLEARED TO ENGAGE
