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From: Phil & Heather <>
Subject: Re: Another war-coined word
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 16:17:20 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20030405145512.JSDI25705.imta02a2.registeredsite.com@smtp.registeredsite.com>


Hi Bill,

The use of mathematics <grin> has been around some time.

We had a British satirical news programme called That Was The Week That Was
which was always referred to TW3, hosted by David Frost (now Sir David).
Strictly it should be TW cubed!

Triple A aka AAA is of course Anti Aircraft Artillery. During the second
world War it was called Ack Ack as Ack, then, was the phonetic alphabet for
the letter A. The NATO Phonetic alphabet these days uses Alpha Bravo
Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November
Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whisky Yankee Zulu.
<grin> Only because I was in the Signals section of my school Combined
Cadet Force! It is still used for annunciating British post codes over the
telephone. British post codes have as many as 4 alpha characters - mine is
BR6 9TP (Bravo Romeo 6 9 Tango Papa) Also by the police for car
registration numbers over a radio link.

Best wishes,

Phil


At 03:55 PM 4/5/2003, wrote:

>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.
>
>
>
> >
> > From: "Willard Solie" <>
> > Date: 2003/04/03 Thu AM 08:44:35 CST
> > To:
> > Subject: Another war-coined word
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Willard
> >
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