Military Vocab Quiz

"A medium like the land, sea, and air within which military activities shall be conducted to achieve US national security objectives."

That, according to the recently amended Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (PDF), is the military's definition of the word space.

Via Secrecy News.

Comments

[jf]

This is precisely the thing that we must be willing to take up arms against in order to preserve the Constitution and the ideals of our Founding Fathers.

[Marine Pilot on the Simpsons]

Ahhh militaryspeak . . .
(speaking of the Harrier) "One of our more dollar-intensive ordnance delivery vectors"

[Number 6]

Paging all the tinfoil-hatters!

[kelley]

The backstory for James T. Kirk begins.

[Sarnath]

Paging all the tinfoil-hatters!

It's hard work being part of the tinfoil brigade. Have you tried to find tinfoil lately? It's not easy. It's all aluminum foil. Think it's coincidental that tinfoil began to vanish when its properties became well-known?

[R C Dean]

I see a very similar use of the word "space" whenever I talk to anyone in either (a) consulting or (b) large firm IT. "The single sign-on requirement is really part of the security space." or "That function is housed EMR space." That kind of thing.

[Number 6]

Sarnath-That's why my hats havn't been working! Thank god. I thought the german nihilists who secret run our government from a secret Bauhaus lair were using stronger mind rays.

Fornit some Fornus.

[Jeff P.]

This is a slight improvement over the Hitchiker's Guide discription:
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

[2]

That's about like civilian mechanics at McLellan AFB being placed on "non-duty, non-pay status."

[Eric the .5b]

Space, as in "the space we have to work in" or a conceptual arena, or "up above the atmosphere" space?

*checks the link*

Looks like the former. Is that really a novel definition? Heck, programming and marketing-speak both use it.

[rob]

Gads - grab a FM 22-100 (Amry leadership) or any doctrinal manual - they're chock full of similar stuff. Its all about establishing a common, professional vocabulary to conceptualize with.

[TallDave]

Sounds about right.

[joe]

RC and Eric are almost certainly right.

You scared us there, Kerry! This is how rumors get started!

[Sven]

Has Tom Cruise (and to a lesser extent, H.G. Wells) taught us nothing? When the martians attack you will all be the same fools boohooing because we didn't militarize space!!!

[Larry David]

Sven,

Is that Swedish or Norwegian?