I know that when I was in USAF there were routine peacetime deployments of ANG or AFRES assets to various locations on a rotating schedule. e.g. three airplanes and associated crews and ground support would deploy from the US to, e.g., Guam for a month and then be replaced by the next group from somewhere else in the States.
And these ops were always named “CategoryWord RandomWord”. DoD combined service deployments seemed to follow a similar pattern. Not sure these fall into the same “bucket” as true exercises though.
Regardless of these details, we all agree the OP’s backronym is pure nuttery.
I did just find that in a .mil published document with no reference in the document to said joint assistant being involved in this exercise. Theyvpulled that piece from a real acronym even if it’s just a coincidence that it was used in this case. I started to dig a touch further and then stopped. I need a crazy shower now.
You do realize that one of reasons that Denver International Airport is thought to be headquarters of the New World Order is because the cornerstone has on it “New World Airport Commission”
This is an accurate acronym, but it’s for software dated around 2001. Here is a PDF file about Joint Assistant for Deployment and Execution, the software.
Everything I’ve seen regarding Jade Helm, the exercise, has typed “Like This” instead of “LIKE THIS” so I doubt it’s an acronym.
I haven’t really been following it, since I have a low tolerance threshold for conspiracy theories. When I typed it I was falling back on my previous life.
That’s a pretty common element in conspiracy theories, though, that they hide what they’re doing in plain sight. On one level it makes the conspiracy look arrogant, on another I suspect it’s an implied (or sometimes overt) answer to the obvious question “if this is so secret, how come you know it?”
JADE PIZZA is obviously settling the New York vs. Chicago vs. New Haven question once and for all.
Well, the “15” part of the name Jade Helm 15, I understand, is to distinguish it from a very similar exercise that was staged in, well, let’s say 2004, that was named “Jade Helm 4”.
The military and names can be really amusing. Someone up at regiment got the idea that it’d be good for our morale if we chose a new name for our firebase. Well, in keeping with the proud history of our regiment, Garry Owen and all that, we submitted “Fire Base Little Big Horn”. That got shot down. So we submitted “Fire Base Dien Bien Phu II”. Nope. After they turned down “Fire Base Balaclava”, we got invaded by a bunch of chaplains for morale building. After they went away, they accepted “Fire Base Masada”. Obviously, there were no mispocha on the regimental staff.
We named the cafeteria in my high school the Alfred Packer Memorial Cafeteria. Then the next year someone actually looked him up in the encyclopedia. sigh :smack:
