>When I was 17 in the Air Force, we used TLA’s and four letter acronyms, etc. ...
The "official" term for four-letter acronyms is EFLA.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)