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adsw

Military term, it stands for Active Duty for Special/Support Work. Usually referring to someone in the National Guard or Reserves being activated for a short period of time, such as a few days or weeks, for some special duty.

SPC Johnson is on ADSW orders to do some admin bitch work because all of the paperwork is screwed up.

Framling

One of four Demosthean terms of "otherness", derived from nordic phrases. A Framling is someone of the same species, just living on another planet.

The humans on the new martian colony are Framlings.