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3 Every U.S. military branch has its own form of communication, jargon, acronyms and abbreviations. Getting stationed at a base surrounded by others of a separate service could be overwhelming for any airmen, soldier, sailor or Marine.
For ground liaison officers, their job is to understand and translate the differences between each of the Armed Services’ forms of communication.
“Their job is to be the ground liaison to communicate what the soldiers on the ground are seeing and to translate what the ground troops are saying in a way that the Air Force will be able to understand, so we can effectively work together to complete the mission,” said Sgt. Maj. Timothy B. Murchison, 4th Battlefield Coordination Detachment command sergeant major.