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

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does this mean for Airborne Brigade Combat Teams?

Brian said...

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

Too easy, man!

Brant said...

The airborne brigades were tagged as IBCT(A)

Brian said...

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...

Brant said...

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

Brian said...

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...