Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms

[Feuer Frei!]

Point of Origin-Poo
Fast-Rope Infiltration / Exfiltration System-Fries
Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office -Disco
Traveling Wave Amplification Tube -Twat
Naval Underwater Tracking System for Advanced Coverage- Nutsac
Man-portable air defense systems-Manpads
Turbine Inlet Temperature-Tit
Professor of Military Science-Pms

Add if you want.

[TLAM Strike]

Strategic Air Command: SAC

[Torplexed]

USMC : Uncle Sam's Misguided Children

MARINE : My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment

GOBI : General Officer's Bright Idea; usually means the opposite

[Fish In The Water]

MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction

[gimpy117]

i am actually hammered...and i think those are bad acronyms

[UnderseaLcpl]

COC -Combat Operations Center. It's actually pronounced as cee-oh-cee, but when you you put a half-dozen or so young enlisted guys who think that sex jokes are the highest form of humor in it, the pronunciation magically becomes phonetic.

CINCUS- Commander-In-Chief-US fleet. Possibly the most unfortunate-sounding acronym ever.

HMMWV- High-Mobility-Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle. Often pronounced as "Hum-vee". Nothing wrong with the acronym itself, other than that many service-members think it means High-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle. While this is an understandable error given the large number of combat unicycles we field, it is nonetheless incorrect and somewhat annoying. The term "high-mobility" is also somewhat subjective.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Strategic Air Command: SAC

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!

[Jimbuna]

Friendly Fire

[UnderseaLcpl]

@ Platapus

I don't think I have any military acronyms that can beat those.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Friendly Fire

I wasn't aware that was an acronym, but if you could make one up I'd be thoroughly impressed.

[Platapus]

Here is a funny one

OIC

Officer in Charge.

That coming from an old crusty and rusty NCO viewpoint.

[Gerald]

Is short for "fighter" Which means' combat management "in Swedish.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Here is a funny one

OIC

Officer in Charge.

That coming from an old crusty and rusty NCO viewpoint.

Nice

Here's one from a newer NCO and slightly lest rusty NCO viewpoint:

NCOIC- No Chicken-sucking Officer In Charge

[Platapus]

Careful you will get the wrath of Steve coming soon.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction

That's a military acronym? Last I heard MAD stood for Magnetic Anomaly Detector.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Careful you will get the wrath of Steve coming soon.

No wrath. No anger. Just comments on common decency and family forums. Though with James I'm more likely to give him a phone call which will end up lasting a couple of hours as we discuss anything and everything under the sun.