Pointless Exercise Not Including Soldiers (PENIS)

Originally Posted by aefoc

Pointless Exercise Not Including Soldiers (PENIS)

Thanks for that post, the acronym now appears on every other page of the thread.

Hasnt anyone ever needed a TPG for a TCV or LCV?
And what about MUP'p'ET

Tire Pressure Gauge
Load Carrying Vehicle
Most Useless Person Ever Trained

Oh and the NHS is bored of the old TLAs now and sticks numbers in too
A4C - Agenda For Change
And theres also CfH, which is the same as NPfIT which comprises the NCRS which will be linked to the PDS where you can go on the SUS and search the SUD providing you can get past the SSB with your UUID and after typing in your PIDN and you've got the RBAC rights to do so.
So thats what your 24 billion is going on.

Royal Signals blokes - Network Engineering Response Detachment. What a bunch of NERDs!

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PEdO - Physical Education Officer

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Originally Posted by flynavy

Back in the early 90's we had at HMS Raleigh ' Chaplains Under Naval Training ' it was regulary broadcast over the pipe and always abbreviated on daily orders!

On a similar theme, when I was a sea cadet and went to Naval Establishments we had to wear a badge with "Cadet Under Naval Training". My, how we laughed when we had the pi$$ taken out of us by the regular sailors.....

Oh alright then, I'll bite - with my etymological-historical head on:
Wimp, which is now widely used and not recognised as an acronym at all, was actually coined by the Rob all my Comrades bunch in WW1, and is ever so slightly less benign than it now seems to us: Whinging Incompetent Malingering Person. And don't we all know one or two of them....
BtH

Falkland Island Garrison Provost Unit = FIGPU

Southern Hemisphere Investigation Team = SH1T

Southern Hemisphere Investigation Team Executive = SH1TE

Fragmentation Anti-Riot Topper And it did exist at one stage for a nanosecond.

NHS goodies

ADT Any damn thing!
GOK God only knows!


fastmedic

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the BFOT on Ex SAIF SAREEA 2. The Big, Fcuk-Off Tent (football pitch sized, air conditioned super-marquee, all-purpose cookhouse, meeting place and briefing room) became such a part of exercise vocabulary that a good proportion of senior staff officers didn't know what it meant and (too embarrassed to admit their ignorance) included the term in several instructions, orders and reports without expansion.

This continued to such an extent that, when a second marquee was erected, somewhat smaller than the first, it was immediately christened the MFOT (Medium Fcuk-Off Tent) and I had it on reasonable authority that there were several SFOTs dotted around the Omani desert as well.

I had the immense pleasure (sincerely) of telling not only Comd JFLogC but also MinAF what the acronym stood for.

IF