Definition of "TAC"

TAC

noun
countable and uncountable, plural TACs
1. (US, military) Acronym of tactical air command.
2. (US, military) Short for tactical officer.
  Quotations
  There were six tactical officers (TACs) in 95th Company, each in charge of a platoon of 40 officer candidates. TACs were not responsible for classroom or field instruction, as their title might suggest, […]
  Darrell S. Mudd, The Boys of Chattahoochee: Sons of the Greatest Generation
  The TACs were commissioned officers; most were infantry officers and OCS graduates. They were lieutenants and called “sir.”
  2017, John R. Oreskovich, SCUMBAG: The Education of an American Officer, page 40
proper noun
1. Abbreviation of Tacoma.
2. (publishing) Initialism of The American Conservative.