Stab
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The word stab can have these meanings:-
- The act of stabbing with a sharp instrument.
- In scuba diving in the United Kingdom, stab is sometimes used as short for stab jacket, which is another word for buoyancy compensator. Here, "stab" is short for "stabilizer".
- In some forms of assembly_language, STAB can mean "Store to accumulator B".
- Suffix Stab also referring in German military aeronautical terms at State Major in Flight (direct air command) of each Gruppen (Wings) or between Geschwaders (Squadrons) inside German Luftwaffe units during WW2.
these air command wing or squadron unit used the Green Colour in individual identification aircraft letter for distinguished of the rest of air units in same sections,these units are divided in present form:
- -Geschwader Stab=A
- -Stab I Gruppen=B
- -Stab II Gruppen=C
- -Stab III Gruppen=D
- -Stab IV Gruppen=E
- -Stab V Gruppen=F
in some occasions also used letters how G,Q,I,J,W and others or Numbers very little used commonly in these identifications.these units using the Red-Blue or Blue-White-Blue Reich Defense (German Reich metropolitan defense) sign and the Rank sign of Commander under cockpit how Air commander sign only or jointly at letters above mentioned.
for example:
- one airplane codified S2+ "A"(Green colour) D/St.III/St.G.77 meaning=the machine A painted in Green colour of Stab III of Stukageshwader(Dive bomber squadron) N°77.
- one aircraft codified "G"(Green Colour) in aircraft with Little white tank(Panzer) painting near at Cockpit/ S.G. 1,meaning= Machine with letter G painted in Green,of Stab of Schlachtgeschwader(Tank Buster Squadron) n°1.