November 30, 2011
"FIBUA: Fighting In Big, Unpronounceable Acronyms."

Should be familiar to anyone exposed to that crap. Also FISH (Fighting In Someone’s House).

Fish famously goes well with CHIPS: Creating Havoc In Populated Streets. Usually practised in the jolly fake Bavarian town, or, more recently, in the fake Afghan village, at Copehill Down.

November 29, 2011
"BOWMAN: Better Off With Map And Nokia."

— UK Signals wisdom. BOWMAN is the notoriously shite platoon to division level comms platform that suffered from every single possible failure initially. Like the SA80. Or Ptarmigan. Or… detect a theme there?

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