Demonpenta2 wrote:

Subject: How were Have Blue and Tacit Blue codenames chosen?
From: Cub Driver
Date: 9/27/2003 6:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Arbitrary. I believe they were thrown up by a computer.

As fas as I know (could be wrong, of course!), the nicknames are _not_
chosen by a computer. And if you think about it, it's not _that_
difficult for a human to come up with a perfectly harmless word - like
"Blue" ;-).


It finally dawned on someone that code names tend to be self-breaking
(Overlord!).

Well, OK. Then, how do they pick exercise/operational codenames?

You might be interested in this article:

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/P...5/sieminsk.htm


Andreas