Now calm down there space cowboy. I am very familiar with all of those terms. I am very aware that my classmates are intelligent people and no doubt know things that I do not. I am sure all of them know things that I don't. In fact every single person on the planet knows something I don't. I obviously was being facetious. It's just that I thought relaying that story would hopefully create some laughs with some of the members of the board. Don't be too proud of these technological terrors you have imaginary control of. The difference between the specific weapon systems you have named and a abbreviation like CO or LZ is quite different. In fact if I said the sentence,"The private saluted his CO at the LZ right after his chopper landed there." anybody could get an understanding of what is meant there.
I read The Hunt for Red October when I was eight years old and Red Storm Rising right after. All of those systems are used and explained in heavy detail in those books. I am not saying you aren't intelligent but I am saying you shouldn't try to wave it around like you are always in some kind of intelligence noodle measuring contest. You aren't. No one cares. Also next time you try to outsmart someone on a forum that has people mainly interested in military weapons you might not want to use everyone's common base of knowledge to prove how you know things that we do not.
I think I made it clear that I was not attempting to outsmart you. I made that rather clear in the preceding part of the sentence. I tried to load my language with as much jargon as I could in the hope that you'd notice how difficult it is to read, and that an accident of my upbringing was the only reason I knew it. No ulterior motive there, just proving a point. I admit that military jargon was a poor choice in retrospect. Now, if you want jargon that I'm almost certain you can't read, then here:
"On the rigging boat, make fast your boomvang!"
"Haul away peak!"
"Balantine that loose sheet!"
If it were your first time sailing, and I laughed at you for not understanding, it would be rude. The same applies here. The term LZ does not immediately connote Landing Zone, to the unacquianted, it could as well just be an arbitrary designation like the Omaha in Omaha beach.
-Penguin
