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- U.S. monitor Nantucket
- U.S.-NATO assistance
- U.S. Government efforts to control inflation must be successful if the United States is to have a stable economy.
but British, French, and United States Governments; United States-British talks
9.10.
With the exceptions in the preceding rule, the abbreviation U.S. is used in the adjective position, but is spelled out when used as a noun.
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. farm-support program
- U.S. attorney
- U.S. citizen
- United States Code (official title)
- United States Steel Corp. (legal title)
- Foreign policy of the United States
not Temperatures vary in the U.S.
9.11.
The names of foreign countries are not abbreviated, with the exception of the former U.S.S.R., which is abbreviated due to its length.
9.12.
In other than formal usage as defined in rule 9.9, all States of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are abbreviated immediately following any capitalized geographic term, including armory, arsenal, airbase, airport, barracks, depot, fort, Indian agency, military camp, national cemetery (also forest, historic site, memorial, seashore, monument, park), naval shipyard, proving ground, reservation (forest, Indian, or military), and reserve or station (military or naval).
- Prince George's County, MD
- Arlington National Cemetery, VA
- Mount Rainier National Forest, WA
- Stone Mountain, GA
- National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
- Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge, IL-IA-MO (note use of hyphens here)
- Richmond, VA
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
- Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD
- Redstone Arsenal, AL
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- Leavenworth freight yards, Kansas
- Altoona sidetrack, Wisconsin
9.13.
The Postal Service style of two-letter State, Province, and Freely Associated State abbreviations is to be used.
