{"id":3818,"date":"2003-03-26T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2003-03-26T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:10:36","slug":"the_names_the_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/26\/the_names_the_t.html","title":{"rendered":"The Name’s the Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce <\/a>has discovered a marvelous listing of US military operation names<\/a>. Many of them are so prosaically noble as to be insipid (not unlike “Operation: Iraqi Freedom,” but others are interestingly goofy:<\/p>\n

Operation: Bevel Edge
\nOperation: Noble Obelisk
\nOperation: Zorro II
\nOperation: Garden Plot
\nOperation: Frequent Wind
\nOperation: Graphic Hand<\/i><\/p>\n

Fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doyce has discovered a marvelous listing of US military operation names. 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