| V |
| V-LOG | Vietnamese Logistics |
| VAA | Vietnamese Army Arsenal |
| VAC | Vehicle Authorization List |
| VADM | Vice Admiral |
| VAL | Light Attack Squadron |
| VAMP | Vietnamese Ammunition Monthly Program |
| VARS | Visual Air Reconnaissance and Surveillance |
| VATLS | Visual Airborne Target Locator System |
| VBF | Vietnamese Buddhist Forces |
| Vc | Closing velocity (relative). |
| VC | Viet Cong (Vietnemese Communists) Term used by the US to describe Communist forces in Vietnam. Although imprecise, it is in almost universal use. |
| VC-47 | Very Important Person C-47 |
| VC/NVA | Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army |
| VCC | Viet Cong Captive |
| VCI | Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) Infrastructure |
| VCNO | Vice Chief of Naval Operations |
| VCS | Viet Cong Suspects |
| VD | Venereal Disease |
| VDA | Vietnam Dredging Agency |
| VDP | Vehicle Deadlined Parts |
| VDPP | Vietnam Developmental Procurement |
| VECCO | Vietnam Engineering and Construction Company |
| Vedette | Interceptor, Cutter, Surveillance |
| VEH | Vehicle |
| VEMT | Vietnamese Equipment Management Team |
| VERT REP | Vertical Replenishment |
| VES | Vietnamese Economic Study |
| VEV | Voice Excited Vocoder |
| VF | Voice Frequency |
| VFM | Vice Foreign Ministers |
| VFR | Visual Flight Rules |
| VHA | Vietnamese Highway Agency |
| VHD | Vien Hoa Dao (The UBA Institute for the Execution of the Dharma) |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| VIC | Vicinity |
| Vic | Vicinity |
| VICCO | Vietnamese Industrial Construction Corporation |
| Viet Minh | Formal title - Viet-Nam Doe Lap Cong Minh Hoi or Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam. Formed on May 19, 1941 at the initiative of the ICP to develop a "national front" policy. |
| VIKYN | Technical Services Institute, Vietnam |
| VINAVATCO | Vietnamese Transportation Corporation |
| VINNELL | Vinnell Corp, Inc |
| VIP | Very Important Person |
| VIP | Voluntary Informant Program |
| VIP | Volunteer Information Program |
| VIS | Vietnamese Information Service |
| VM | Viet Minh |
| VMA | Marine Attack Squadron |
| VMAC | Vietnam Military Assistance Command |
| VMAC | Vietnamese Military Airlift Command |
| VMAT | Vietnamese Mobile Advisory Team |
| VMC | Vietnamese Marine Corps |
| VMFA | Marine Fighter/Attack Squadron |
| VN | Vietnam or Vietnamese |
| VN$ | Vietnamese Piaster |
| VNAD | Vietnamese Advisory Division, Office of the Comptroller |
| VNAF | Republic of Vietnam Air Force |
| VNAF-ELS | Vietnamese Air Force English Language School |
| VNAF-LS | Vietnamese Air Force Language School |
| VNAFELS | Vietnamese Air Force English Language School |
| VNAFM | Vietnamese Air Force Manual |
| VNCC | Vietnam Coordinating Committee |
| VNLSC | Vietnamese Navy Logistics Support Command |
| VNMA | Vietnamese National Military Academy |
| VNMA | Vietnamese Naval Military Academy |
| VNMC | Vietnamese Marine Corps |
| VNN | Republic of Vietnam Navy |
| VNNA | Vietnamese Naval Academy |
| VNNATFG | Vietnamese Amphibious Task Force Group |
| VNNDPC | Vietnamese Navy Data Processing Center |
| VNNLSC | Vietnamese Navy Logistic Support Center |
| VNNSC | Vietnamese Naval Supply Center |
| VNNSY | Vietnamese Naval Shipyard |
| VNOSEP | Vietnamese Navy Officer Special Education Program |
| VNQDD | Vietnam Quoc Dan Dong or Vietnamese Nationalist Party. Early nationalist noncommunist political party eventually supplanted by the ICP. |
| VNRS | Vietnamese National Railway System |
| VNSF | Vietnamese Special Forces |
| VP | Patrol Squadron |
| VP | Vice President |
| VPA | Vietnamese People's Army. In some translations of same official DRV documents the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) is referred to as the VPA. |
| VR | Visual Reconnaissance |
| VRE | Vietnam Regional Exchange |
| VSD | Village Self-Development |
| VSSP | Veterans' Stars and Stripes for Peace |
| VT | Variable Time |
| VTA | Vietnamese Telecommunications Authority |
| VTC | Vietnamese Training Center |
| VTO | Vietnamese Telecommunications Organization |
| VTP | Vietnamese Telecommunications Patrol |
| VTR | Vehicle Track Recovery |
| VTT | Vien Tang Thong (High Clerical Council of UBA) |
| VUNC | Voice of UN Command |