[drop 50 and fire for effect]

That is standard Defense Department message formatting. It is an archaic remnant of the teletype era. It hasn’t been discontinued due to perception in some quarters (which I do not share) that using this format forces receiving units to actually read the message closely to identify any requirements or impact.

The only real surprise is that most of it is in upper/lower case. Most Army traffic is all upper case, which is excruciatingly painful to read.

[moovova]

I remember that stuff from my Navy days in flight ops. If I remember right, we actually had one of the teletypes you mentioned. And they used to love to hang that garbage on these...