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Subject: Re: Another war-coined word
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 8:55:12 -0600
Last evening I heard a military officer refer to "Baghdad's C2 structure". I know only from the context of the interview that this is the next evolution of the phrase C & C Structure which was the short hand for Command and Control Structure which I am certain is short hand for some much longer phrase.
A few weeks ago I kept hearing the phrae "triple A's" (please forgive my use of the apostrophe, without it the phrase had less meaning). It took me a while to decipher what was mean by triple A.
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> From: "Willard Solie" <>
> Date: 2003/04/03 Thu AM 08:44:35 CST
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> Subject: Another war-coined word
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> EMBEDDED: fixed firmly in a surrounding mass, enclosed snugly or firmly, fixed in the memory - or so says my dictionary. Nowhere does it say "assigned to a military unit" as in, "The reporter was embedded with the Third Marine Division."
> For better or for worse, it would seem that EMBEDDED has acquired an additional meaning. Gad! I would like to know precisely how, and by whom, that additional meaning was given birth.
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> Willard
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