STA - Military

Military

  • STA-21 or Seaman to Admiral, the U.S. Navy's commissioning program for the 21st century
  • Surveillance and Target Acquisition, as in artillery STA, or:
    • STA platoon, up to the first Gulf War
    • STA sniper, after the first Gulf War

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