C.A.S.

This is known as close air support, or CAS, in military jargon.

“Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.

“SA-6s are the least of our concerns for CAS in the modern age of surface-to-air missile system proliferation,” the official said.

Therefore, a coastwise schooner harbors only transients, for whom the fo'cas'le is merely a shelter between watches.

Car en ce cas je dois mettre poyne de le nuyre et grever comme mon ennemi.

The root caps, or cas, does not appear to have any Teutonic correspondent, and may merit a philological investigation.

He believed his turn would come, even though he were a prisoner in the fo'cas'le of the Jeanne D'Arc.

Chatelard, trying to dodge, tripped over the base of the ladder and went down heavily on the floor of the fo'cas'le.