I agee, most of them signed up knowing that they may have to go off to a undesribed war somewhere and now they are having to face up to the REALITY of that, but, do THEY (read admin, not neccessarily Bush) have to place these patroicic names onto the missions they are fighting and giving thier lives for to make them patriotic?
Can’t we agree that they are giving thier lives for a just reason without putting some cheessy desription to the campaign that they got killed in? It’s not about being agaist or for the action, it’s about having a little respect. They died just the same for campaign XYZ as they do for campaign Freedom isn’t it
I am amazed/worried. Since I posted they changed the name of the operation in the news story in the link from Task Force Liberty to Lightning. :eek: Looks like GW is watching and reading the STMB! :eek:
The military could use corporate sponsorships. How about “Operation Pepsi Cola” or “Operation Olive Garden”? They’re no less ridiculous, and they’d have extra cash for fighter jets or wall units or whatever it is that militaries like to buy.
As I understand it, task force names are chosen from a random list of names. They shouldn’t duplicate a previous name that year, and they should have nothing to do with the actual mission, so as to provide minimal helpful information to spies.
Liberty, being an ‘empty’ word operationally, is perfectly suited for this sort of naming.
This thread doesn’t really seem like a debate about what sort of names we should give our military operations; it seems like a rant. I am therefore carrying out Operation Screaming Noble Eagle of Freedom and moving this thread to the Pit as of 19:53 hours Zulu.
Yeah, if everyone got to pick their own operation names, they’d all be ‘Operation Badass’ or ‘Operation Boot to the Head’ or something equally profound. And think of the complaints in the ranks…
(channeling Tarantino)
Major: Hey, how come I’ve got Operation Pink?
Colonel: Because yer a faggot, alright!
(channeling Tarantino)
And before I forget, though I’m no fan of the administration, the CiC, or our foreign occupations, the OP is a raving lunatic.
That’s all people. This thread is Omega…let’s bug out!
It’s called ‘apostrophe’. “The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.”
Meaning 2 listed here: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=apostrophe
Sorry Bryan, I don’t don’t mud wrestle with pigs. Oh, forgive me I just did. :smack:
Yeah, you got this into the pit. Right where your kind belong. End of post. Go on, unlease your keen mind upon me, it will not be answered, :mad: FU too.
I would point out I am the (self-appointed) World’s Leading Authority on military codewords (for operations, not for units or things). If I can help you on this subject, let me know.
