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

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/blo...MAEApril102013


BMT

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

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

IAC

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."