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CAC Card... Common Access Card Card. Sorry DoD Acronyms never stopped getting on my nerves even 5 years later. We had a game to find how many acronyms we coul
by bargl 8y ago
CAC Card... Common Access Card Card.
Sorry DoD Acronyms never stopped getting on my nerves even 5 years later.
We had a game to find how many acronyms we could find with the same word multiple times.
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- ageitgey 8y agoI was once part of a 2-vendor software demo/showdown with a DoD client. Both vendors (us and them) each had two hours to present our solution and why it would be a better fit for the DoD base to adopt. It was a totally routine enterprise software demo. But during the day's introductory remarks, it became clear that the DoD had invented a new acronym for the meeting. I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was something silly along the lines of S.P.E.A.R. - <Some Topic> Project Education And Review. It was when I witnessed the US military invent a brand new acronym to represent one specific routine meeting I had with them that fully internalized just how out of control acronyms were in the US military.
- userbinator 8y agoThe aviation community is also quite acronym-ful. I wonder if it's because of military influence, or the other way around.
- branweb 8y agoGranted DoD acronyms are insane and that CAC Card is like ATM machine, but the 12 year old in me always winced a little when referring to "my cac". To the emotionally immature (me) it's a useful redundancy.
- userbinator 8y agoI suspect the pun was intentional, given some of the other names that the DoD has come up with...
- an123456 8y agoWhen I was part of the DoC I dropped the "card" and just referred to it as a CAC. Admittedly I was one of the few.
- craftinator 8y ago"Please insert your CAC here, sir." "I'm pretty sure it won't fit, but I'll give it my damnedest!"