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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Isn't a two-word name NATO standard, or is that just the US? I'm pretty sure Advent Crown was the 1997 offensive, I think I read that in Black Madonna.
Also, Butterfly might sound too peaceful? Churchill long ago called for code names to neither be too rough nor too soft, he didn't want to have to tell a widow her man died during Operation Bunnyhug.
I used to pull out a dictionary, and open it at random for code names.
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I used the name Butterfly to go with "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" quote. And the officer who was involved in the planning collected butterflies... and he regularlly used the various names for different butterflies as placeholders for operational names (kind of like how some authors use stock names like "Dylan Hunt" as the name of their main heroes when they write their books until they can come up with a better, more fitting name for said heroes). And the name just stuck. To be honest if i had named Operation Omega, i'd have gone with naming it after Eric Cartman (mainly due to the quote "Screw you guys, I'm going Home").
If i can find the 'official' name for the Summer Offensive I'll be able to put that in the writing i'm doing... and one of the reasons I asked.
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