07/02/10
From CNS News
No More ‘Psy Ops’ for Army
Army drops 'psy ops' name for influence operations
Friday, July 02, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP) - Army psychological operations will no longer go by that name after the Defense Department adopted a new moniker for the term that dates back at least to the Vietnam War. The Army branch is being renamed "Military Information Support Operations," or MISO. U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw says the name better reflects the mission of influencing enemy soldiers and civilians with things like air-dropped leaflets and radio broadcasts. Fort Bragg, N.C., is home to the 4th Psychological Operations Group, the Army's only active duty psychological operations unit. Psychological operations soldiers are trained at the post. Many in the psychological operations community dislike the new name. They say it makes it harder to explain what they do. (Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.) Violators will be exiled to a socialist country ruled by a dictatorial asshole.
* * * * * In Air Force Special Operations during the Vietnam War, we used to have a C-130 that flew in about once a month from Taiwan or Japan or some safe spot way the hell in the rear. It would fly over the Ho Chi Minh Trail or somewhere at high speed and dump out a trail of propaganda leaflets. They would then come back and report every light they had seen on the ground from takeoff to recovery, - campfires, flashlights, navaids, cooking fires, as "intense and highly accurate anti-aircraft fire." The crew would recommend each other for Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals, and return to Taiwan or wherever in their undamaged airplane as quickly as possible. We called them the "Bullshit Bombers". It was a good name - described them and their payload too.
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