I Guess It Should Have Been Operation "George"

[Damocles]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/20...f-geronimo-codename-in-bin-laden-mission.html

Some Native Americans are upset over the codename used for the attack on Osama (Usama depending on where you get the story) bin Laden's compound.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

The'll get over it. Bin Ladin on the other hand.......

 

[Onceler]

I never get this stuff. They could have used codename Onceler, and I wouldn't care, as long as they got him...

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

onceler is not your real name...when i first heard the name i thought the same thing...why would they link geronimo or any other person alive or dead (besides hitler etc) to one of the world's most vilified figures?

they have a point

 

[cawacko]

Wasn't it just a few years back a member of CBC asked why black names weren't used as hurricane names? This is just me but if my name were used in an operation to kill the most wanted man on the planet I would be pretty damn proud.

 

[Phantasmal]

Geronimo is a name often used in military operation, and in the alphabet, why are they complaining now?

 

[Southern Chicken]

The way the stories keep changing they may have given him the name Waldo

 

[Topspin]

because it's in keeping with America's racist tradition, so much so we don't see the problem till the agrieved injun speaks up.

 

[Phantasmal]

because it's in keeping with America's racist tradition, so much so we don't see the problem till the agrieved injun speaks up.

Geronimo was a warrior, known for his escape tactics and out smarting the US military, why would they be offended over this? Geronimo was the cry used by paratroopers in WWII, when they jumped! An American Indian could have started the tradition for all we know?

 

[Topspin]

Linking the worlds most hated criminal to an Indian Hero

 

[Minister of Truth]

When I saw the story, I predicted outrage over the call sign. Looks like have have my fellow mankind down pretty well.

Personally, I would have gone with something demeaning for the Big O's call sign, such as Shemale, Felcher, Mott, Herpes, etc.

 

[Phantasmal]

When I saw the story, I predicted outrage over the call sign. Looks like have have my fellow mankind down pretty well.

Personally, I would have gone with something demeaning for the Big O's call sign, such as Shemale, Felcher, Mott, Herpes, etc.

How about pig sucker...

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Linking KILLING the worlds most hated criminal to an Indian Hero

Added a very necessary detail there.

 

[Damocles]

Geronimo is a name often used in military operation, and in the alphabet, why are they complaining now?

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...

Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...

 

[Schadenfreude]

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...

Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...

code words are generated by computer to prevent them being associated with the actual project

 

[Minister of Truth]

How about pig sucker...

Yep, or Piglips. Pigfucker works, but lacks subtlety.

 

[Damocles]

BTW - Targets of missions are not assigned names they are assigned just words. In this case Osama's code word was "Jackpot". It was only the mission that was named Geronimo. They do this so that this very situation doesn't happen. People getting excited about code words is nonsense.

 

[Phantasmal]

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...

Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...

I know, thanks for the correction, Bud informed me later my alphabet was wrong!