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From: shafer@drynix (Mary Shafer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Acronym list
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Date: 8 Sep 89 06:26:32 GMT
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From: Mary Shafer <shafer@drynix>

Stuart Sheldon (ssheldon@BLACKBIRD.AFIT.AF.MIL) wrote:

>I have on my desk a Lexicon of Authenticated Systems and Logistics
>Acronyms (LASLA).  It contains "4,150 acronyms extracted from 
>directives, regulations, and manuals of the Department of 
>Defense and its agencies."

Only 4,150?  The AFTI/F-16 has more than that, singlehandedly.  :-)

>It was compiled some time ago by the AFIT school of Systems and
>Logistics.  It is hardly a complete list, and I certainly don't
>want to type them all into a file to post.  

You didn't even want to type out "Air Force Institute of Technology."
Not everyone is familiar with AFIT.

>Perhaps it would be better just to ask people to explain those
>acronyms that you don't understand, or can't deduce.

By the time I've gotten the explanation back, I've forgotten or lost
the original message.  My time is limited and if I don't get it right
away, too bad.  (This applies to badly-written postings, too, but
these rarely appear in sci.military.)

Let me clarify things, in case someone else also missed the point
here.  I'm not looking for acronyms that used for three months on a
small part of an obscure program.  I'm not looking for acronyms used
only by insiders.  I'm looking for the biggies that we tend to use
without realizing that not everyone knows what they mean.  FEBA, CAS,
HARM, ALCM, SAM, USAFE, CINCPAC, NATOPS, NORAD, AFIT, TAC, SAC, ....

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Mary Shafer   shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov  arpa!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
         NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
                    Of course I don't speak for NASA