For those of you interested in Travis' comment (really sounds like he has a lot of expertise!) but who, like me, don't have his military knowledge of acronyms, I looked some of them up: WIA: Wounded in Action (I knew that KIA is Killed in Action), GWOT: Global War on Terrorism, BMP is a Russian Infantry fighting vehicle; I think a tank,…
For those of you interested in Travis' comment (really sounds like he has a lot of expertise!) but who, like me, don't have his military knowledge of acronyms, I looked some of them up: WIA: Wounded in Action (I knew that KIA is Killed in Action), GWOT: Global War on Terrorism, BMP is a Russian Infantry fighting vehicle; I think a tank, ATGM: Anti-Tank Guided Missile, and APC: Armored Personnel Carrier.
I sympathize, Travis. My career was in special education, and talk about acronyms!! I appreciate your knowledge and experience, and fortunately, "Dr. Google", as I say to my grandkids, can answer a lot of questions.
Everybody does it, my late wife was a proposal manager for a large engineering company, one of her jobs was to get everybody to define their acronyms so she could put it in the proposal. She was explaining why to a group of engineers of various disiplines, she used EOP and gave a couple of examples, one was something to do with environmental studies and I don't remember the other one. An architect came up with End of Pipe and the road guy, said no it is end of pavement. proving why she wasn't just asking dumb questions.
The Navy has its own particular language for a lot of things--plus the usual load of acronyms that any large institution generates. Sometimes when writing or talking about my experiences there I forget to translate myself ;)
For those of you interested in Travis' comment (really sounds like he has a lot of expertise!) but who, like me, don't have his military knowledge of acronyms, I looked some of them up: WIA: Wounded in Action (I knew that KIA is Killed in Action), GWOT: Global War on Terrorism, BMP is a Russian Infantry fighting vehicle; I think a tank, ATGM: Anti-Tank Guided Missile, and APC: Armored Personnel Carrier.
I need to work on cleaning up the old jargon, thanks for the translation :-)
I sympathize, Travis. My career was in special education, and talk about acronyms!! I appreciate your knowledge and experience, and fortunately, "Dr. Google", as I say to my grandkids, can answer a lot of questions.
Everybody does it, my late wife was a proposal manager for a large engineering company, one of her jobs was to get everybody to define their acronyms so she could put it in the proposal. She was explaining why to a group of engineers of various disiplines, she used EOP and gave a couple of examples, one was something to do with environmental studies and I don't remember the other one. An architect came up with End of Pipe and the road guy, said no it is end of pavement. proving why she wasn't just asking dumb questions.
The Navy has its own particular language for a lot of things--plus the usual load of acronyms that any large institution generates. Sometimes when writing or talking about my experiences there I forget to translate myself ;)
Thanks Mary! (And thank you Travis for your expert commentary.)