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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Of all the military's TWAs (three word acronyms) TDY has always been a mystery. Four years with the Air Force and no one was able to explain it.
T - temporary
D- Duty
Y - ???
The two best explanations give to me were Temporary Duty Yonder (with tongue in cheek) and that they had to use the Y from "duty" to have a third letter to make up the TWA.
Any other explanations?
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All branches of the military just love acronyms, it it is a sure sign of a real long term service member that can use them all correctly and fluently. Once again I really wish I had a recording of my dad telling about a briefing for a lot of high ranking brass at PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) of the joint military general officers. Dad was a Lt. Col at the time, he said he had a few sentences that were almost all acronyms with just a few verbs and adjectives. He said that he was under a directive from his commanders to use just the acronyms when possible. He said the sentence was virtually impossible to diagram and really hard to follow for the younger officers.
They liked his briefing so much they offered him a full bird, and an a transfer to the Pentagon. He said no way, and retired with 24 years of service.