{"id":1132,"date":"2009-09-15T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2011-02-25T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T04:25:22","slug":"the-real-meaning-of-military-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/the-real-meaning-of-military-acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL Meaning of Military Acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Colorado Springs Gazette<\/em> recently got taken by a USAFA euphemism.\u00a0 In an article about the new Air Force Academy program that helps cadets learn about UAVs, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/world-61900-half-controlled.html\">paper said<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The F-35 fighter now in production may be the last fighter the Air Force buys that carries a pilot.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean the remote planes are super stars at the Air Force Academy, where the cadet wing\u2019s favorite acronym is IHTFP for \u201cI\u2019m here to fly planes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cadet wing&#8217;s favorite acronym may be IHTFP (though it would be in close running with BOHICA), but that&#8217;s not what it stands for.\u00a0 <!--more-->A quick web search will tell you that, as well as the ongoing controversy about where it originated (apparently MIT claims credit).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not for polite company, so if you&#8217;re a reporter for the <em>Gazette<\/em>, yes, cadets will probably tell you\u00a0it\u00a0means flying planes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re lucky, they&#8217;ll tell you off the record what it <em>really<\/em> means.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll keep you from looking naive when you put it in print.<\/p>\n<p>On a related topic, this site has\u00a0a resource for understanding a\u00a0variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm\">fighter pilot terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Springs Gazette recently got taken by a USAFA euphemism.\u00a0 In an article about the new Air Force Academy program that helps cadets learn about UAVs, the paper said The F-35 fighter now in production may be the last fighter the Air Force buys that carries a pilot.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean the remote planes are super stars at the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[13,1499,1498,2,40,65],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","category-military-academies","tag-aircraft","tag-bohica","tag-ihtfp","tag-military","tag-tradition","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}