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| Acronym | Full Name | Comments & Primary Location |
|---|---|---|
| SAASS | St. Andrew's Anglican Secondary School | Grenada |
| SAC | Social Action Centre | Jamaica |
| SACP | South African Communist Party | |
| SAIS | School of Advanced International Studies (of The Johns Hopkins University) | Baltimore, Maryland |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitations Talks | USA |
| SAM | Surface-to-air missile | |
| SAS | Special Air Service | [British Special Forces] |
| SASS | Saint Anne's Secondary School | Grenada |
| SATCOM | Satellite Communications System/Equipment | USA |
| SCC | Security Coordination Center | DoD/USA |
| SCI | Sensitive Compartmented Information (data classified higher than Top Secret) | USA |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | USA |
| SCMFA | Standing Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs | CARICOM |
| SCUBA | Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus | |
| SDA (1) | Seventh Day Adventist | |
| SDA (2) | Special Development Assistance | USA |
| SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative | USA |
| SDSS | St. David's Secondary School | Grenada |
| SEALS | Sea, Air, Land Forces or Team | US Navy |
| SECDEF | Secretary of Defense | US MIlitary |
| SECNAV | Secretary of the Navy | US Navy |
| SED | Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands | GDR |
| SELA | Latin American Economic System | |
| SEOG | State Educational Opportunity Grant | |
| SERVOL | Service Volunteeres For All | |
| SES | Social and Economic Studies | |
| SFC | State Farm Corporation | Grenada |
| SG | Study Group | Grenada |
| SGU | St. George's University | Grenada |
| SGUSM | St. George's University School of Medicine | Grenada |
| SI (1) | Socialist International | |
| SI (2) | Special Intelligence (very secret communications intercept) | USA |
| SIC | Small Industry Credit | |
| SICLAC | Socialist International Latin American and Caribbean Section | |
| SIG | Senior Interdepartmental Group | USA |
| SIGINT | Signals Intelligence | USA |
| SJC | St. Joseph's Convent (Secondary School) | Grenada |
| SJCSS | St. John's Christian Secondary School | Grenada |
| SJLP | St. John's Labour Party | Grenada |
| SLAM | St. Andrew's Liberation Movement | Grenada |
| SLOCs | Sea Lanes of Communication (around 16 of them after exiting the Canal on the Atlantic side) | |
| S/LPD | Secretary of State's Office for Latin Public Diplomacy (see OPD) | USA |
| SLR | Self-Loading Rifle | |
| SMAO | Students Movement Against Oppression | Grenada |
| SMG | Sub-Machine Gun | |
| SNCC | Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee | USA |
| SNIE | Special National Intelligence Estimates | USA |
| SOAS | School of Oriental and African Studies | UK |
| SOBU | Student Organization for Black Unity | USA |
| SOCOM | Special Operations Command | |
| SOCRU | Students Organization for Caribbean Regional Unity | |
| SODEPAX | Society, Development and Peace | |
| SOF | Special Operations Forces | US Military |
| SOS | Struck Off Strength | Grenada |
| SOW | Special Operations Wing | US Military |
| SPAC | Sixth Pan African Congress | Guyana |
| SPC | State Propaganda Committee | Grenada |
| SPECAT | Classified Special Category | USA |
| SPG | Society for the Propagation of the Gospel | |
| SPO | Senior Police Officer | Grenada |
| SPPYC | St. Patrick's Progressive Youth Council | Grenada |
| SRP | Special Reserve Police | Grenada |
| SSBN | Ballistic missile submarine (nuclear) | |
| SSCI | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence | US Congress |
| SSG (1) | Special Situations Group [or Crisis Preplanning Group CPPG] | USA |
| SSG (2) | Guided missile submarine | |
| SSGN | Guided missile submarine (nuclear) | |
| SSU | Special Security/Service Units | (of OECS members) |
| STA | Weekend Star newspaper | Jamaica |
| STR | Struggle newspaper | Jamaica |
| SU | Soviet Union | |
| SUP | Socialist Unity Party | GDR |
| SWAPO | South West African Peoples Organization | Namibia |
| SWP [1] | Socialist Workers Party | Dominica |
| SWP [2] | Socialist Workers Party | USA |
| SWWU and/or SWWTU | Seamen and Waterfront Workers [Trade] Union | Grenada |
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Not only did the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) and their political party, The New Jewel Movement (NJM), have a proclivity for using acronyms or short-hand letters for what was meant, but they were in communication with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Cuba, the Soviet Union and the United States were no shirkers from using acronyms either. Have fun with these. Use the Google on-site search engine to find their location(s), though many are not on this site, but in the literature. You can copy these singly as ownership is not involved. Copying the complete list and reproducing it in a publication is not allowed. Using the compilation on this page as a complete compilation or partial compilation for other than personal use is not acceptable. Please notify the web administrator below for any additions or corrections. |
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