Have these been approved by the Army Command Reorganization Of Name-Yielding Mnemonics (ACRONYM) initiative?
A big part of officer schooling involves classes on briefing formats (CAS3 is almost nothing but briefings), and since the only people who will see them are your fellow students and a few instructors, the opportunities for mayhem with acronyms is, shall we say, target-rich. Here are a few that I've actually worked into briefings, without spelling out the acronyms that follow in parenthesis. It's always fun to see who actually reads the sentence and then does the acronym in their heads: :D
- Programmed Event Not Involving Soldiers (PENIS) (Great for training schedules)
- Joint Operations Center-Senior Transportation Resource Allocation Programmer (JOC-STRAP)
- Force Utilization Command Knowledge Integration Team (F***IT)
- Command Organization Networking For Unified Systems In Operational Nodes (CONFUSION)
- Digital Warfare Electronic Employment Planner (DWEEB) (I actually convinced someone that this was the correct term for a 25U)
- Network Employment Research and Development (NERD)
- Unit-Planned Youth Outreach Under Recruiting Support (UPYOURS) (The recruiting and retention NCO actually did a spit take when he read this)
- Battalion/Brigade Information Technology Elements-Mission Essential (BITE-ME)
But, my personal favorite was briefing that the country of Djibouti was a sheikdom, and that the ruler was Sheik Djibouti (pronounced "shake ya-booty"). :D
