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.

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

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

And how do they name planes?

Since we're on the subject, how do other countries do all this?