Talk:List of government and military acronyms

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There are hundreds more U.S. military acronyms. Is this list meant to be a union of all acronyms of all military organizations, and all governments ?

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This list includes items that are not technically acronyms. Before the MPs (hehe) show up, perhaps the focus of this list should be changed to abbreviations, not just acronyms?

I imagine this list will eventually need to be split off categories for country and organizations as suggested by above poster.

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Given that there are many acronyms that are only used within the limited scope of certain organisations (such as only one particular military branch, as opposed to all military branches from all nations), it should be noted that placing the the scope of where the terms are commonly used would be appropriate. (In other words, listing in parentheses the military branch and nation that typically uses the acronym.)

Ricojonah 09:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 How to split the list 2 Acronyms? 3 Redundant list? 4 OFO

[edit] How to split the list

I think that this list should (if not now, eventually) be split into several catagories: weapons list (comprised of everything from airplanes to the M1 designation, whatever it means), acronyms of departments, non-U.S. acronyms (which could eventually be seperated by country if enough acronyms were listed), and probably many more.

I noticed in trying to find out what the M1 designation means that there is no list for military designation or code, so that list could also be created.

There should also be a list of military jargon such as BCG, for Birth Control Goggles, the name soldiers use for the standard issue glasses.

Will 18:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acronyms?

Looks to me like most of them aren't. They're abbreviations, & it's unencyclopedic to make the mistake... Captain Spellcheck 09:18, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redundant list?

It appears to me that the scope of this list is a subset of the scope of List_of_acronyms_and_initialisms. Rather than worry about splitting this list into categories, or relabeling the initialisms and abbreviations, should we talk about merging this into the other list? --orlady 04:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OFO

On 66.31.127.134's suggestion, I have looked into the addition of the acronym OFO to try to see if it is in fact vandalism. It is difficult to say with certainty. We should probably begin by reviewing the nature of the edits made by 71.202.205.148, the IP contributor who added this term. Any thoughts? -Thibbs (talk) 21:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC)