"Here Are The Top Mil-Speak Contest Entries"

[MarkOttawa]

Some examples via Tom Ricks (a leading US military writer) at his new blog, Task & Purpose (CAF?):

Last week, I asked readers to submit one sentence of U.S. military jargon that makes sense to military personnel yet incomprehensible to civilians. Here are 22 excellent responses.
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7. Michael McCoy: “With the NEO CONOP activation and SPMAGTF going hot the DONSA is called off and CCDR needs the FUPLANS OPT to refine the TCP LOE’s, IMO’s, & MOP/MOEs NLT COB today.”..

12. Ben Parry (who says “True story, btw”): “When we first ‘upgraded’ from BCS to AFATDS,  oak leaves at DIVARTY were all doing no-handed push-ups, but it needed a piece status or it was all red gum balls in the box,  so we couldn’t hip shoot and Smoke was all ‘New Fido’s a chickenwire canoe.’”..

16. Jay Hulbert: “Gunny says drop the pogey bait, grab your deuce gear, form on the grinder at 1500.”..

18. Chris Beyer: “My PCS to the AOC at JBER was such a charlie fox that after using my GTC for TLF, it went delinquent because of a SNAFU with PIPS, and my Shirt went full blue falcon and talked the CC into giving me an LOR.”..
https://taskandpurpose.com/top-mil-speak-contest-entries/

Mark
Ottawa

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Does it speak to my level of institutionalization that I understand nearly all of that?

 

[MarkOttawa]

We have a winner!
https://taskandpurpose.com/heres-winner-long-march-mil-speak-contest/

Mark
Ottawa

 

[pbi]

We Canadians should be careful about glass houses. The next time I hear a Cdn GOFO open his (or her) mouth and spew out the latest collections of buzzwords, corporate-speak and catch-phrases, I will poke my eyes out.

That said, when I served in a US CJTF HQ in Afgh, I was amazed at the American military's ability to have a sentence composed almost entirely of acronyms.