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Tough crap, I say. Get over it. Pussy.
Geronimo = Latin variant of “Jerome”
It’s just a name. It’s like getting pissed at naming conventions for hurricanes, because you happened to be named something like Bertha.
Geronimo wasn’t even Geronimo’s real name:
If we’d used the code name “Sean” for OBL, do you suppose the Irish would be itchin’ for a fight?
The Irish are always itchin’ for a fight.
Way too whiny. If the government had used ‘Cherokee’ or ‘Ojibway’ or some other tribe name, I could see them getting their loincloths in a twist.
My memory might be faulty here, but IIRC code names and code phrases for operations are actually randomly generated, so as not to give anything away to anyone snooping on US operations by puzzling out what the name might imply.
-XT
I would’ve thought that “Geronimo” could just as easily apply to the “good guys,” the badass Navy SEALs, as their target.
Something like that. Yes you had the awesomely named Operation Overlord in WWII, but you also had Operation Market-Garden, Cornflakes, and Goodwood. Vietnam had Operations Junction City, Babylift and Patio. It’s the luck of the draw. For all we know the next on the list was “Monica Lewinsky.”
Quit whinning
IIRC, Katrina of ‘Katrina And The Waves’ wasn’t thrilled about sharing her name with the storm.
I’ve never heard of that one. I should bone up.
It sounds like the Apache leader has confused the operation name with a code name for Osama.
Got cite?
Actually, I’m asking because I’m curious what the target’s code name was. I may also wander over to a nascent “Operation Geronimo” article on Wikipedia, or otherwise work it in to the “Death of ObL” article.
There was some confusion by the media early on, but it seems clear now: the operation was “Neptune Spear,” and the code name for OBL was Geronimo.
Send Team Six to talk to Houser.
There are some interesting ones in Trinity And Beyond. Apparently, one series of nuclear bomb tests was named “Operation Upshot-Knothole”. The wiki page has more fun names at the bottom; Tumbler-Snapper, Niblick, Plumbbob, and Buster-Jangle, to name a few.
I saw what you did there.
Are the Natives pissed about the military’s appropriation of their culture for naming the most badass shit on the planet? Apache helicopter…Comanche helicopter…Tomahawk missile…I’d be honored to have those things named after me or my tribe.
I believe some people are, yes. It is essentializing, after all.
Oh. This here is the first mention I’ve seen of the other name.
Are you saying you don’t think they had the Native American leader in mind when they picked that name?
I can kinda sort see why they’d be upset. Maybe this can be a “teachable moment” for Obama, and future presidents.