Advanced Squad Leader - ASLOK (split from Where are you ?)

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I've always had a suspicion that acronyms are around so that normal folk have no idea of what you're talking about. I also have a suspicion that a lot of the officials using the acronyms have no idea what they mean either!

An older, saltier Army buddy/reenactor buddy of mine(actually retired and border patrol agent now, matter of fact) and I believe that the Department of Defense (DOD ) create the acronym first, based solely on coolness factor...then figure out how the hell they are going to tie it into the equipment's type and use by combing the dictionary and thesaurus later.

HAWK, MILES, MOPP, FLASH just to name a few that I can recall.

-Hauser