Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
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| AIR FORCE | Armed Individuals Regularly Fly On Reconnaissance (Covert) Exercises |
Top-Gun McCoy O'Grady |
| ALABAMA (2) | Americas Largest Active Battleship Alabama, Mobile Area |
Jan Morgan - Can Be toured here it saw action in WWII and was the largest ever built Transport Places:States & Regions |
| ALLIANCE | A Large League Is Always Necessary Combatting Evil |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| ANZAC | Army Needed Zeal And Courage |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (ANZAC actually stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ARCHER | Arrows Really Can Hurt Enemy Rogues |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ARCHERY | Arrows Rarely Cross Hearts - Excepting (Romantically) Yours |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| ARLINGTON | Armymen's Remains Laid In New Graves, They're Organised Neatly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Arlington is a (the?) major US military cemetery Places |
| ARMY | A Rifle Motivates You |
Blair |
| BOMBER | Billions Of Megatons Bring Earthly Ruin |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| BOWMAN | Bent Over Weapons, Many Arrows Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CAPTURE | Copse Attack! Plot Tracks! Unnameable Rewards! Existence! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Capture escapee. |
| CAVALIER | Charles' Allies Victorious Against Loathsome Illicit Emergent Roundheads |
TMcCO'G History |
| DISARM | Detectives Insist Submachineguns Are Removed Masterfully |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DRAFT | Deserters Resisted Armed Forces Training |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ENOLA GAY | Exploring Nippon Over Land Awakens Grisly Atomic Yesterdays |
Rico Leffanta |
| FORT | Forearmed Outpost Repels Tresspassers. |
Roger Williams Places:Buildings |
| FORTRESS | Family Of Ruler Took Refuge, Escaping Shooting Soldiers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| FYRD | Forced Youth Recruitment Decreed |
Angela Brett |
| FYRD (2) | Former Yoemanry Regular Division |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FYRDS | For Year-Round Defense Services |
Angela Brett |
| GUN SALUTE | Give Umpteen Numbered Shots As Laurels (Usually Toward Elsewhere) |
Angela Brett |
| HIT THE GROUND RUNNING | Helicopter Ingests Troops, Travels, Hastily Evacuates. Guys Running Out Under Nasty Deadly Riflefire, Usually Need No Incitement. Nearly Gallopping. |
TMcCO'G, who doubts that troops debarking from a helicopter, under fire, need to be told to "hit the ground running". Assorted Phrases:Sayings |
| IMPRESSED | If Military Personnel Require Extra Servicemen, Shanghai Eligible Drunks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - referring to the Press Gangs of the Royal Navy who 'kidnapped' men to fill out the crews of ships in days gone by |
| JOUST | Joy Of Using Spear Thingies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| KNIGHT | Killed Nasties In Glorious Heroic Times |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LOGISTICS (2) | Large Operation Gets Items Shipped To Infantry's Complete Satisfaction |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| MARCH (3) | Most Armies Rhythmically Continue Hiking. |
Angela Brett |
| MARINE | Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential |
The US Navy and the US Marines have a log tradition of dumping on each other. Here's one example from a US Navy Vet. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| MARINE (2) | My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment |
More US Marines-Versus-US Navy bashing, as brought home by one of my Navy friends, Col Myers. |
| MARINES | Men Armed, Ready If National Emergency Strikes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MILITARY INTELLIGENCE | Mainly It Looks Into Things About Rank&file. Yet It's Not Terribly Exact. Large Lapses In Guesswork, Evidently Never Called "Errors" |
TMcCO'G, who thinks that Military Intelligence is largely guesswork, and no amount of hindsight can ever prove otherwise. |
| MILITARY TERMS | Misinformation Is Largely Its Target - All Reports You Think Exact Really Mislead Someone |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NAVY | Numerous (And Violent) Yachts |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NAVY (2) | Never Again Volunteer Yourself. |
Was in the US Navy for 6 year as a volunteer (draftees not accepted). Enough said. |
| OCEAN | Overflow Can Evaporate Any Navy |
Rico Leffanta Places:Waterways |
| PEACE | Perhaps Enmity's At Complete End |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| PENTAGON (6) | Practises Every Night To Attack Governments, Overthrow Nations |
Chris Kjelgaard |
| PENTAGON (8) | Posits Enemies, Nuclear Threats And Gets Official Nod |
Chris Kjelgaard |
| PENTAGON (10) | Practically Every Newly Trained Army Grunt Overseas Now |
Chris Kjelgaard |
| ROVER | Remotely Operated Vehicle - Elevated Reconnaissance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: You know the remote-controlled aircraft used to spy over unfriendly territory? Well I don't know what they are called but they could be called ROVER. (Angela added that they're called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs) |
| RUMSFELD | Remarkably Unpleasant Man, Supercilious For Every Live Debate |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| RUMSFELD (2) | Recklessly Unrepentant Minister Shows Foreigners Extremely Lethal Displeasure |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| RUMSFELD (3) | Reactionary Upstart Makes Sure Forces Engage Less-Developed |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| SOLDIERS | Slaying's Our Loyal Duty... Insufferable Enemies Ruthlessly Slaughter |
Angela Brett |
| SQUAD | Special Quorum Under Army Directions |
TMcCO'G |
| TARGET | Taking Aim, Raise Gun, Embrace Trigger |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (One is always advised to 'squeeeeze' a trigger slowly, rather like embracing a partner, and not jerk it!) Sports & Recreation |
| UNARMED | Using No Ammunition, Righteous Man's Enemies Defeated |
Tony McCoy O'Black-belt-in-Karate |
| USA PATRIOT | Using Superior Armed Power, America Threatens Recalcitrant Individuals Opposing Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - see CLIMATE VISION Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| YELLOW (4) | Yell Enemy Lax Leaving Outlying Weapons |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |