They're not all acronyms - like the UN, which has horrible bastardised names for some of its agencies, the Navy also just takes a random selection from the constituent words and welds them together in a vey A-Team haphazard like manner. Besides that, though, it's all fun and games for a rainy afternoon. Might even come in useful deciphering breaking news alerts next month, too. I present to you the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms:
From this page you can browse the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. The DOD Dictionary and the Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations master data base are managed by the Joint Doctrine Division, J-7, Joint Staff. All approved joint definitions are contained in Joint Publication 1-02, "DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. [more]
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