> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:16:21 -0400
> From: "J. P. Letellier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Military acronyms
>> The military does love their acronyms, don't they <grin>?
> Yup. The Navy actually had an Undersecretary for Research and
> Acquistion who **REFUSED** to accept any piece of paper with
> an acronym in it.
It crossed national and language barriers, too. When the F-4E aircraft
converted from an analog to a digital Target intercept Computer, a new
piece of shop equipment came with it: the Computer Logic Unit Test Station,
known as the CLUTS.
When the Germans bought the digital system for their F-4F craft, it became
the Komputer Logik Unter-Test Zeuge, or KLUTZ.
Pronounced identically in either language. ( and descriptive ! )
- John T.
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