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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Couldn’t they come up with something better-sounding than MANPADS?


5 posted on 06/24/2022 1:29:34 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KingLudd
I don't care who you are, that's FUNNY right there! MANPADS: means surface-to-air missile systems designed to be man-portable and carried and fired by a single individual;
6 posted on 06/24/2022 1:33:59 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (et, so p )
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To: KingLudd

MAN Portable Air Defense System


7 posted on 06/24/2022 1:35:41 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (Idemo Brandon)
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To: KingLudd

Yes, they’re renaming them to MAX Infantry Portable Air Defense.


10 posted on 06/24/2022 1:43:12 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: KingLudd

Man-ballistic operating ordinance bombing system (MANBOOBS).


11 posted on 06/24/2022 1:44:56 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: KingLudd

they’ve been ever thus...


13 posted on 06/24/2022 1:55:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: KingLudd

It’s an acronym, standing for man portable air defense system. Today it would be a Non-Binary Person Portable Air Defense System. NBP2AD.


15 posted on 06/24/2022 2:09:07 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: KingLudd; UMCRevMom@aol.com

You two are being naughty.


17 posted on 06/24/2022 11:19:07 PM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television.)
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