Pentagon drops 'Operation Faithful Patriot' as name of military mission at border

[left-of-center2012]

The Pentagon is no longer referring to the U.S. military mission at the U.S.-Mexico border as “Operation Faithful Patriot,” a Defense Department spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.

Pentagon officials now refer to the deployment of more than 7,000 active duty troops as “border support,” Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis told The Hill.

Davis said the name change has been in place for “a couple of days,” but did not give the reason for it.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the active duty troops - deployed to assist U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the 2,100 National Guard soldiers already at the border - were in support of border authorities and not part of an actual operation.

The military typically refers to combat missions as "operations".

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/415552-pentagon-drops-operation-faithful-patriot-as-name-of-military-mission-at

[ck4829]

1. Cheered on by those who exploit faith to get money, led by the least patriotic

[Freethinker65]

2. IOW, what "caravan"?

[guillaumeb]

3. My suggestion: "Operation fear mongering and deflecting from Trump's criminality".

[spanone]

4. but it was okay to use it up to and on the day of the election....fuck em all

[BeyondGeography]

5. Operation It Was All Bullshit

being the replacement name.

[rzemanfl]

6. Do they give campaign ribbons for stunts? n/t

[Aristus]

7. If I was Commander-In-Chief, I'd get rid of the propagandistic naming of military ops.

Operation Just Cause.

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Operation FreedomPatriotLibertyEagleUSA#1

What bullshit.

Time was, a military operation's code name might bear some relation to the op itself, without being overtly political or propagandistic.

Operation Torch was the invasion of North Africa by Allied forces in 1942, which Winston Churchill described as the 'lighting of the torch of liberation'.

Operation Overlord was the planned invasion of Western Europe by the Allies in 1944, 'overlord' being the big picture plan of the operation.

Operation Neptune was the first phase of Overlord, the seaborne invasion of Normandy, France.

So I have no problem with the code name hinting in some way at the nature of the operation. Although, if the op is easy for enemy intelligence to figure out from the code name, then it's a waste of code names.

Other military operations bore little resemblance to their code names; Operation Husky, Operation Varsity, etc.

The Pentagon used to just keep a roster of seemingly random code names that would be appended to whichever operation came next.

It led to some cool-sounding code names, like Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada. Certainly better than Operation Reagan Wants To Look Like A Tough Guy By Invading A Caribbean Medical School.

But the overtly jingoistic code names appended for purely political reasons has just gotten out of hand.