And You Are?
Prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia there had been one army - the JNA. As the country split so did the army. Which was going to make things interesting."Erm excuse me Mr Heavily-Armed-Sort of Soldier would you mind awfully telling me whether you are a member of the ARBiH, MUP BiH, TO, HOS, Green Berets, Patriotic League, VRS, JNA, Arkan's Tigers, White Eagles, Scorpions, HVO or HV?"
fired down the range by DC at 5:41 pm
11 Comments:
Perhaps flash cards would have been appropriate.
I had 28 years of exposure to initial labels and the only one that stuck was MOD.
oh i work in an place that just thrives on TLA's
three letter ........you get the picture, plus i can't spell acronym?
ML - it wasn't nearly as bad as when they had an election - I think there were over 50 parties - all with abbreviations.
PI - I live with them day in and day out - it's almost possible to converse in abbreviations in the army.
Hugh - we once had an officer who loved his TLAs - it took him a very long time to twig what TLA stood for though - he checked all of the manuals.
I can see I am going to have to concentrate VERY hard if I am to learn.
Yeah gods!
Sounds a bit like that scene from "Life of Brian"...
Excuse me, are you the People's front of Judea...
etc.
hahah tide ur brain is awesome
Jane - that's what I thought.
Tideliar - that's pretty spot on actually.
It's nearly as bad today - except that they aren't fighting of course.
In Croatia in Tudjman's day they used to say that if you gather enough people for a dinner party you might as well turn them into a political party - because everyone else has. (It's not quite so bad now, I'm told, but I'm not sure I believe it.)
Still better than those one-party systems where the party is always right :-(
FYI, the East german party song was called "Die Partei, die Partei, die Partei (hat immer recht)". There's a sound-byte(sic!) of it on my sidebar.
Stu
Tideliar's got it in one...
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