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Defining and/or Avoiding Acronyms So Others Know What You're Talking About

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Try this one on:

#1

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The (PEO USC) announced that the (RCIED) (JCREW) (I1B1) program has achieved full operational capability ahead of schedule.

Maybe this makes some sense:

#2

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The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced that the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Increment One Block One (I1B1) program has achieved full operational capability ahead of schedule.

 

The second one makes sense to me.  That scares me a little.  Maybe I’ve been doing this stuff too long.

We have a rule where I work: if you use an acronym, you must be able to explain what it stands for if challenged.

It's my rule. And I challenge people all the time.

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The item is from the Navy site.  #2 is the way the Navy explained it in the first paragraph of the article which gives the reader some hope.  When the Navy wrote the heading of the article it used an abridged version that wasn't as bad as #1.  I thought the writer of the article did a decent job of explaining as well as he/she could.

PEO is the only acronym that I recognized.

 

It’s difficult for anyone to understand #2.  What this is jamming enemy radio signals used to remotely detonate explosives

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