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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Strategic Air Command: SAC
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Time for my favourite SAC initialization. And this was a true story.
In the base phone book, offices were listed alphabetically according to a strict schema of letters. Specific letter combinations meant specific things so if you were savvy you could decode an office strictly from its initialization.
All units assigned to the Head Quarters Strategic Air Command had their initialization beginning with HQSAC
There was this office which was in charge of supply logistics. Supply Logistic offices were identified by the letters SU.
Within this office, there was a group which handled exercises. It was very common to have a separate branch the played the exercise games while the rest of the office handled real life stuff. The exercise branch was identified with the letter X.
So the exercise branch of the supply logistics office assigned to Head Quarters Strategic Air Command had the phone book identifier of...
wait for it.
HQSACSUX
The phone book schema was changed.
At one time the Defense Intelligence Agency had a college referred to as the Defense Intelligence College (it has since then changed names several times. One of the courses offered was a study in Low Intensity Conflict.
At the gift shop you could get a commemorative coffee cup with these acronyms on it.
Yes, you could get a DIC LIC coffee cup!
