They come out in the first paragraph and I'm worried they'll alienate my reader, but I can't personally find any level of verisimilitude with a military story without them. Even our current vocab if filled with military terminology that's morphed over the years. High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle or HMMWV became Humvee and then Hummers.
So, will acronyms scare people or if I explain them in context and pseudo-subtly will I be OK?
Somehow this is bothering me less than trying to make Gareth's English more 20th C. Queen's English without being a bother to my online UK friends.
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