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(#11) Operation Paul Bunyan
This was a plan to chop down a tree in the DMZ that was obscuring spying on the North Korean side. Earlier, North Korean troops had hacked two American soldiers to death who had been trying to chop it down. So out came the giant guy with the huge axe - and hundreds of armed troops and helicopters.
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(#19) Operation Gothic Serpent
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Operation Gothic Serpent was a military operation conducted by United States special operations forces with the primary mission of capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
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(#12) Operation Steel Curtain
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"Operation Steel Curtain", was a hardened sweep and clear mission hence "steel curtain" because one of the SNCOs was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
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(#3) Operation Desert Storm
The code name for the US-led assault to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, the name predicted the conflict perfectly - a storm of hell coming out of the desert.
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(#29) Operation Operation Rapier Thrust
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oif-rapier-thrust.htm
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(#20) Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo
You wouldn't think an innocuous '40s song about a train could be used as a military operation - but you'd be wrong. Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo was the combined bombing offensive by the US and Britain against German railway lines and marshalling yards in preparation for D-Day
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For confidentiality reasons, the U.S. military began to use military operation codes as early as World War II. At that time, the staff of the U.S. military selected more than 1000 common nouns and adjectives to form a list of operation names. One of the most distinctive features is the naming of the Normandy landing Operation Overlord. In 1975, a computer system for automated management of military operations names was developed.
Are you interested in military operations? The random tool collected the 30 most awesomely American names for military operations, and you can see more pictures here, such as Operation Eagle Claw, Operation Urgent Fury, etc.
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