MOS— Military Occupational Specialty, a job classification.MP— Military Police, mostly replaced by PMO.MRE— Meal, Ready-to-Eat, standard U.S. field ration. Sometimes jokingly referred to with backronyms such as "Meals Rejected by Ethiopia," "Meal, Rotten to Eject," "Mister E," or the...
To Hugh Evans, Lieutenant in the royal marine corps, and to William Robert Hale King, tin-plate worker, for a new table apparatus to promote the ease, comfort, and economy of persons at sea, or on nautical excursions. Dated 12th June, 1827...