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Military organisations with peculiar names

10-03-2011 01:47AM

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Victor

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Military Organization Lizard Union name origin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Union_%28medieval%29

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#2 10-03-2011 05:44PM

pablomakaveli

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Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Philippines is usually good for a cheap chuckle.

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#3 10-03-2011 06:49PM

Locust

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Police - Not Military (but isn't far of it) but i always laugh at 'SAPS' :- The South African Police Service
http://www.saps.gov.za/

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#4 10-03-2011 07:51PM

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Late on in WW2 the germans had a battle group called Kampfgruppe 1001 Nights , yes they called it after the Arabian Nights book. Even the germans don't seem to know why.

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#5 10-03-2011 10:01PM

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The peaceful left-wing sounding "Student Movement of Pakistan", more commonly known to the Western world as the Pakistani Taliban.

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#6 10-03-2011 10:08PM

rednik

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http://www.euromil.org/

Not to be mixed up with a lottery organisation.

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