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COT– Consecutive overseas tour.
The PCS
reassignment of a member from one overseas
permanent duty station (PDS) to another
overseas PDS, regardless of whether it is within
the same country or intra- or intertheater.
Completion of the initial overseas tour is not
essential. (Exception to the PCS requirement is
when the member serves an in-place consecutive
overseas tour.)
CONSORTIUM– A partnership or association.
CONSUB– Relates to continuous submarine pay.
CONTIGUOUS– This word is often used when
referring to the contiguous United States and
the District of Columbia. The word contiguous
means in physical contact; touching along all or
most of one side, and near, next, or adjacent.
In other words, the contiguous United States
includes all of the continental United States and
the District of Columbia less the states of
Hawaii and Alaska are connected.
CONUS– Continental United States.
CONUS
means the 48 contiguous states and the District
of Columbia.
CONVALESCENT LEAVE– Convalescent leave is a
period of authorized absence granted to persons
while under medical care that is part of the care
and treatment prescribed for a member’s
recuperation or convalescence. Convalescent
leave is not chargeable to a member’s leave
account.
COPA– Council on Postsecondary Accreditation.
CORRESPONDENCE– As used in the Navy, this
term applies to all written material, including
publications, letters, memoranda, and forms.
CPO– Chief petty officer.
CREO– Career Reenlistment Objectives.
CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET– A sheet that is
distributed with a directive, and filed in the
directives binder, to assist users in locating the
directive, when the directive is filed separately.
CRP– Command religious programs.
CURRENT EAOS– Section 2 of the Enlisted
Distribution and Verification Report (EDVR)
lists members with current EAOS. These are
members who must extend, reenlist, separate, or
transfer for separation during the current
month.
CURRENT PRD– Section 2 of the EDVR lists
members with current PRD.
These are
members with a PRD in the current month who
have not yet been ordered to detach.
CURRENT PROSPECTIVE GAINS– Section 1 of
the EDVR lists members as current prospective
gains. These are members who are due to
report on board during the current month.
CURRENT PROSPECTIVE LOSSES– Section 2 of
the EDVR lists members as current prospective
losses.
These are members who are under
orders to transfer from the activity during the
current month.
CURRENTLY INSURED– For Social Security
purposes, currently insured means that certain
benefits are paid to survivors if a contributor is
currently insured when he or she dies. To be
currently insured, a contributor must have Social
Security credits for at least 1 1/2 years for work
within the 3-year period before death. Using
this format, a first-term servicemember, who is
30 years old and who has never worked under
Social Security coverage before enlisting would
be currently insured when he/she has completed
18 months of his/her enlistment.
CV– Multipurpose aircraft carrier.
DANTES– Defense Activity for Non-Traditional
Education Support.
DATE-TIME GROUP (DTG)– The DTG is assigned
on messages for identification and file purposes
only. The DTG is expressed in six digits; the
first two digits being the day, the second two
digits being the hour and the third two digits
being the minutes. This is followed by a zone
suffix, the month, and the year. The month is
expressed by its first three letters and the year
by the last two digits of the year of origin. The
zone suffix ZULU
Time, is used as
messages except
(Z), for- Greenwich Mean
the universal time for all
where theater or area
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