Re: Stealth & Names

At 09:33 AM 12/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Another thing that amuses me about the Americans is the names they give
>operations (admitedly probably for political or PR reasons). The US had
>'Operation Desert Storm', we had 'Operation Granby', the Falklands was
>'Operation Corporate', would the US have had 'Operation Kick S**t out
of
>the Argies'?
>The American names do seem a bit childish sometimes, it most be the
>politicos.

Actually the way it used to work was that operational code names were
chosen at random. (for security measures) They were al lot cooler hten.
The first major change we noticed to this policy was the Panama Invasion
when someone actually started taking an interest in naming the thing in
some BS political correctness maner. (Just Cause...I know it's lame.)
and
since then it's been nothing but smarmy little code names which no doubt
are approved for political reason (porbbably at the highest level) but
do
nothing to whip up the fighting spirit of the troops involved (ala
Urgent
Fury).

Or at least that's what I was told when I went through the SF Operations
and Intelligence course.

Los