04-10-2013, 09:25
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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
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04-10-2013, 09:54
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Acronym inflation? Oh, for the 'good ol' days' when C3I was enough for the DOD. 
Just wait until the next generation gets to that five-sided, concrete squirrel cage on the Potomac. 
And so it goes...
Richard 
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04-10-2013, 21:15
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That's not spectacular at all. To me, IVO, IOT, IAW, etc are just as bad and, quite frankly, lazy.
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04-10-2013, 21:18
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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
That's not spectacular at all. To me, IVO, IOT, IAW, etc are just as bad and, quite frankly, lazy.
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04-11-2013, 06:15
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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."
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