Dear God, what more can the U.S. military ask from the poor letter C?

[BMT (RIP)]

Military acronyms and initialisms, as many of us know, can approach the absurd, but now the Pentagon has gone completely over the top with its latest term: C5ISR

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/blogs/aerospace-defense-blog/2013/04/dear-god-what-more-can-the-u-s-military-ask-from-the-poor-letter-c.html?cmpid=EnlMAEApril102013


BMT

[Richard]

Acronym inflation? Oh, for the 'good ol' days' when C3I was enough for the DOD. :p

Just wait until the next generation gets to that five-sided, concrete squirrel cage on the Potomac. :rolleyes:

And so it goes...

Richard :munchin

[Dreadnought]

That's not spectacular at all. To me, IVO, IOT, IAW, etc are just as bad and, quite frankly, lazy.

[MR2]

That's not spectacular at all. To me, IVO, IOT, IAW, etc are just as bad and, quite frankly, lazy.

IAC

[miclo18d]

There comes a point when the acronyms lose the words they were meant to shorten. SCUBA has become Scuba etal.


The one that drives me nuts is "time now."