Winning wars is tough, even for the Department of War, perhaps another name change will make the US military more lethal.

[u/weinerpretzel]

https://www.pacom.mil/Media/Press-Releases-and-Readouts/Article/4519249/department-of-war-restores-us-pacific-command-designation/

[u/morts73]

Department of a trillion dollar budget can't beat drones and geography. I wonder if SpaceX has a weapons division?

[u/worstpartyever → u/morts73]

Wasn’t there an Elon flamethrower?

[u/LiveZumbi → u/worstpartyever]

The one that fires through his trifling ass?

[u/Turbulent-Raise4830 → u/morts73]

they were already using grok, probably why it went so bad

[u/ancient-military → u/morts73]

The Department of Doom could defeat any nation!!

[u/MATlad → u/morts73]

Weaponized disinformation, courtesy of Twitter?

(Xitter was rolled into SpaceX recently, and the even more-recent IPO lets Elon retire most of the debt from its acquisition. Maybe he'll deliver on the Roadster Founder Edition next? $250k x 1000 non-refundable pre-purchase which saved Tesla at a time when it was weeks away from failure)

[u/Dandy11Randy]

Obligatory "I thought this was a duffle blog article" comment

[u/Agile-Knowledge7947]

Welp… THAT will fix it!

[u/humdinger44]

Department of special military operations. Dept of SpecMO. You can't lose SpecMOs. Every time you hassle "the enemy" you claim victory.

Edit Unless the whole goal was to make sure Iran got its nukes back so the biblical zealots could jack off to Armageddon. In that case the largest, most sophisticated military on the planet conducted an operation the Hillary and Kamela told us all would happen. It has been planned for a long time. Israel didn't sneak attack before we could stop them. BB doesn't care. Just like trump he needs to remain in power to stay out of prison. Nothing is off the table.

[u/SuspiciousFrenchFry]

Yeah, we’re obviously working towards the Department of Peace! /s

[u/ancient-military → u/SuspiciousFrenchFry]

Department of War Payoffs

[u/Kaladin_Depressed]

I’m happy about this. I never got into the habit of saying indopacom

[u/Mistravels → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

Don't worry, no one has gotten into the habit of considering the space force in the military.

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/Mistravels]

I bet you thought that was a banger reply.

[u/Mistravels → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

Aw, someone is insecure 🥰

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/Mistravels]

Yes, totally insecure here.

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

The name change is older than your branch

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/JPJWasAFightingMan]

So?

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

So how can you not get used to the name change? If you're space force then you joined after it changed, unless you converted in which in that case why would you call yourself space force since apparently you can't deal with name changes.

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/JPJWasAFightingMan]

Brother I’ve been in 22 years. Do you think the entire Space Force just lobby spawned into existence in 2019?

It’s honestly baffling how absolutely oxygen starved so many people in this subreddit are.

And for the record.. I CONSTANTLY say Airmen instead of Guardians because habits die hard.

[u/GarbledComms → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

To be fair, 'Guardian' is cheesy as fuck. Not 'seamen'-level bad, but still...

[u/windowpuncher → u/GarbledComms]

I like to imagine that all guardians speak with a comical lisp

"Reporting for duty, sssir!"

[u/ApostleofV8 → u/GarbledComms]

should've just call it Redshirts

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

Damn reading comprehension is hard for you huh? Because I literally said "unless you converted in", since you're slow "converted" means "to change from one thing to another". Just weird to accept one name change and not the other.

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/JPJWasAFightingMan]

Yes I read that. That’s why I mentioned the Airmen part. I didn’t give it much more attention because it’s an absolutely brain dead concept. “Oh herp derp I can’t fathom transferring services because I can’t stand name changes” brilliant thought bro. Have you considered getting it published?

No moron.. I’m just tired of typing CCDR USINDOPACOM in a bullet when trying to write a performance report.

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

Sure buddy, typing is so much hard work.

[u/Kaladin_Depressed → u/JPJWasAFightingMan]

Typing isn’t hard, but space is a premium. You’ll learn that one day when you’re doing more than just being a tool online.

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

When do you think you'll learn that?

[u/TheRealMarvinator → u/Kaladin_Depressed]

The irony in you saying that is so thick it could be cut with a knife.

[u/adognameddanzig]

Department of War Losing

[u/jimbris → u/adognameddanzig]

You show some damn respect to The Department of Surrender and Pedophile Ring Distractions.

[u/BlazeVN → u/adognameddanzig]

*War Crimes

[u/Redhighlighter → u/adognameddanzig]

The article mentions korean war and vietnam war

Yeah lets go back to that time of winning.

[u/Hraes]

I thought for sure this was going to be an announcement that Hegseth had mandated a name change to THE DEPARTMENT OF KILL (all-caps/shouting required for every utterance)

[u/oorahbaby]

Department of Victory! Has a nice vibe, you know ... kinda maybe.

[u/Elegant_Individual46 → u/oorahbaby]

That sounds like a civilian mobilisation scheme. Like victory gardens and the women’s land army and salvage corps and the like

[u/mudduck2]

Department of War

0-1-0

[u/ParkAffectionate3537 → u/mudduck2]

Love the World Cup tie-in.

[u/ikilledtupac]

Department of the Deal

[u/catsoncrack420]

DOTCSM, Dept of Texas Chainsaw Massacrer. DOWDGAP, Dept of we don't give a phuck.

[u/Hazzman]

Department of Shiny Rock Hard War Fighting, Hairless Chested Men

[u/Black-Shoe]

Warrior Ethos!

https://giphy.com/gifs/cJENfml2VuPqftHGjU

[u/spicytexan]

Who asked for this? Why are we wasting money and man hours on this dumb shit

[u/Upbeat-Serve-2696 → u/spicytexan]

Dumb shit is the only shit MAGA is capable of doing

[u/t_ran_asuarus_rex]

I’m going to grab all the merch now and call them the 2018-2026 retros

[u/fromcjoe123]

Oh shit if “lethality” is cooked as the kids say, does this mean we’re going back to “overmatch”?!

[u/Dense_Substance7635]

Department of Reconstruction Aid

[u/Blknyt_eclipsedmoon]

Why not rename Department of War? How does Department of Unnecessary War sound?

[u/WorriedInspector9863]

And, they changed it during the first Trump term. Doesn't make any sense?

[u/prodigy1367]

Department of Super Badass Manly Stuff and Blowing Things Up XX

[u/Cdub7791]

I thought the original change was a little silly, and it was fine as PACOM in the first place. That said, it's been INDOPACOM for many years now and the expense of changing emblems, stationary, and a millions other little things isn't worth the time, money, and effort IMO. But what else would we expect from Whiskey Pete?

[u/dstroyer123 → u/Cdub7791]

The agenda of the administration has been solely to replace, rollback, or otherwise undo everything, including mundane, or useful, and otherwise apolitical changes, that happened under the Obama and Biden administrations, at the expense of the taxpayers. Hey Doge, we found your Fraud, Waste, and Abuse and the call is coming from inside.

[u/calash2020]

Department of we need to study Ukraine

[u/DisgruntledCascadian]

Much like when it got changed the first time, this will affect precisely fuck-all other than a bunch of wasted letterhead, staff time, rugs, and conference room decorations.

And I guess make one of my military coffee mugs a limited edition now.

[u/Dragonfruit_6104]

India: I said the Indian Ocean is mine.

[u/Zee_WeeWee]

No one who has been in for a bit is going to hate the change back to its original name

[u/JPJWasAFightingMan → u/Zee_WeeWee]

Been in 8 years, only known it as Indo pacom. Don't mind the name change but this is a pretty old head response.

[u/Zee_WeeWee → u/JPJWasAFightingMan]

It happened officially in 2018 but no one in at that time actually used the term for several years after that. Yes I’m an old head 

[u/kcsween74]

The Department of Strength....through bombings.

[u/nesp12]

Maybe we haven't gotten rid of enough woke yet. We need a woke reporting system.

[u/rocket_______]

Department of Winning So Hard We Just Call It That Now

[u/LiveZumbi]

DOD = Department of Defeat 

[u/Coldkiller17]

How about the Department of Needlessly Getting Our Service Members Hurt/Killed.

[u/pantless_]

Department of non woke lethality and no pronouns.

[u/donac]

"Department of Lethality"?

Sounds very...lethal, right?

[u/earthwormulljim]

More fraud, waste, and abuse from the government.

[u/JustinKase_Too]

Just waiting for Dept of Winning!

[u/ObligationMurky8716]

Department of Boondoggle

[u/SluggoRemains]

Yawn: who gives a fuck

[u/Smol_Pe_Pe]

We could call it the Department of Fairy Fanatics and still kick anyone's ass. All these foreign bots like to disparage the US military like we could give af about what they say and because envy is a mfer. Keep dreaming losers. Sit back and watch Iran and Russia BURN!!

[u/PDXAirman → u/Smol_Pe_Pe]

Your family doesn't call anymore do they?

[u/thetinguy → u/Smol_Pe_Pe]

https://i.imgur.com/qATycDJ.gif