USO
Soldiers' morale organization
USO stands for United Service Organizations, a nonprofit that provides entertainment, support, and morale-boosting programs for American military personnel and their families.
Best known for celebrity entertainment tours to troops stationed overseas, a tradition dating to World War II: Bob Hope's USO shows became legendary.
USO lounges at airports offer rest areas for traveling service members.
Military personnel collectively
- moraleGroup emotional well-being
- entertainmentAgreeable diversion of attention
- canteenPortable liquid container
- servicemembersActive military personnel
deployment · base · veterans · armed forces · overseas · Bob Hope · soldiers · shows
Lacking financial patronage
- ADROut-of-court resolution method
- Level 1Horizontal and uniform
- OTCAvailable without prescription
- tradingExchanging for value
securities · shares · international · equity · pink sheets · custodian · ownership · conversion
troops
Military personnel collectively
- moraleGroup emotional well-being
- entertainmentAgreeable diversion of attention
- canteenPortable liquid container
servicemembers · deployment · base · veterans · armed forces · overseas · Bob Hope · soldiers · shows · recreation
unsponsored
Lacking financial patronage
trading · securities · shares · international · equity · pink sheets · custodian · ownership · conversion · offshore
custom
Habitual group practice
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- habitSettled regular tendency
manner · convention · cultural · routine · norm · heritage · ritual · social · behavior · folklore
- wartime organizationsWar Department, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service, Joint Chiefs
- U.S. MilitaryArmy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Pentagon
- US MilitaryArmy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Pentagon, West Point
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- Military Recreationrecreation centers, recreation center, recreational facilities, outdoor recreation, leisure activities
- military social lifeofficers club, mess hall, military ball, dining in, dining out