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21 February 2012

What's in a Name?

The Army is changing the name of their "HBCT" to "ABCT".
This does not in any way affect tomorrow's sunrise. As far as we can tell.



By: Brant
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 February, 2012 16:36

    What does this mean for Airborne Brigade Combat Teams?

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  2. Brian22 February, 2012 17:05

    Simple: "Airborne" is changed to "Heliborne", which is more accurate anyway, and so the two just swap acronyms.

    Too easy, man!

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  3. Brant22 February, 2012 17:42

    The airborne brigades were tagged as IBCT(A)

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  4. Brian22 February, 2012 19:09

    So what if they create Advisory Brigade Combat Teams? (http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA482993)

    Thay can't use ABCT.

    So would they use ABCT(A), SBCT(A), IBCT(A), and logically IBCT(A)(A) in the case of an airborne advisory unit?

    Or just BCT(A) and leave everyone guessing what kind of unit it originally was?

    Hee hee hee, I could do this all day...

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  5. Brant22 February, 2012 19:51

    ^ don't you have a game to design?!

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  6. Brian22 February, 2012 22:36

    Got a couple on the cook, actually... good suggestion for a design event at Connections, but it might be the ultimate exercise in Cooks Spoiling Broth too...

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