[tanknetter]

"RN" "GR 9s" "OOB" "SSN's" "GOP"

Decent points in your post, mind you, but if there's an award given for "Most Use of Abbreviations in a Post", you win......hands down. :)

This is FR (Free Republic); it has an educated lurker and participantship. IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), if I want to use acronyms to talk about the Royal Navy, the Harrier Ground-attack and Recce version #9, Order(s) Of Battle, Nuclear-powered Attack Submarines (ok, that's not an exact acronym, but I digress) or the Grand Old Party (that would be the Republicans - which I know can be a dirty word around here) people should be able to go look them up.

I mean, if I wanted to dumb-down my postings by spelling everything out so a 3rd grader would understand, I'd just go over to DU (that would be Democrat Underground) ...



(JOKING!)

[marktwain]

Proper Department of Defense (DOD) use of acronyms requires that the first use in a text be spelled out with the acronym in parenthesis. ;-)

Of course, FR is not DOD.