AAC Assistant Area Commissioner
AC Area Commissioner
ADC Assistant District Commissioner
APC Assistant Provincial Commissioner
APL Assistant Patrol Leader
ARC Assistant Regional Commissioner
ASM Assistant Scoutmaster
ASPL Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
BL Boy's Life (U.S. magazine)
BLT Basic Leadership Training (see also CBLT, SBLT)
BP Baden-Powell (Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell)
BP&P By-laws, Policies & Procedures (Boy Scouts of Canada)
BS Boy Scouts
BSA Boy Scouts of America
CC Committee Chair
CO Chartered Organization (local organization who holds a unit charter)
COR Chartered Organization Representative or Camp-o-ree
CP Chartered Partner
CSP Council Shoulder Patch
DAC District Activities Chair
DAM District Award of Merit
DC District Commissioner
DCM District Cubmaster
DE District Executive
DRP Declaration of Religious Principle
DSL District Scout Leader
FD Field Director
GAD Golden Arrow District
GSA incorrect form of GSUSA
GSM Group Scoutmaster
HB Handbook
HQ Headquarters

IH Institutional Head (head of the organization which charters the unit)
IHQ International Headquarters
JAL Junior Activity Leader
JLT Junior Leader Training
JOTA Jamboree-on-the-Air (ham radio)
MAL Member-at-Large (re: committees)
MB Merit Badge
MC Committee Member
NOAC National Order of the Arrow Conference
OA Order of the Arrow
PFE Provincial Field Executive
PL Patrol Leader
PLC Patrol Leaders' Council
PTC Philmont Training Center
QM Quartermaster
RC Regional Commissioner
RT Roundtable
SIT Scouter-in-Training
SA Assistant Scoutmaster (U.S.)
SBLT Scout Basic Leader Training
SE Scout Executive
SHAC Sam Houston Area Council
SLHB Scout Leaders' Handbook
SLWB Scout Leader Wood Badge
SM Scoutmaster
SME Sustaining Membership Enrollment
SMF Scoutmastership Fundamentals
SOR Scout-o-Rama
SPL Senior Patrol Leader
SWTH Scouting with the Handicapped (Can., now called SYD)
SYD Scouting for Youth with Disabilities
TLC Troop Leaders' Council (see definition)
TTT Train the Trainer
UW United Way
WA Assistant Webelos Den Leader
WB Wood Badge
WDL Webelos Den Leader
WJ World Jamboree
YIS Yours In Scouting