The 25 Least Inspiring Military Operation Names

When I was enlisted I saw two officers come up with "Operation Optimus Prime" once. They brought it into their boss and I heard him yell "Optimus Prime, what the hell is this shit?" "He's the leader of the good guys on transformers." "I know that, why is his name on this operation?" They eventually had to settle for Operation Decepticon.

By the way, your puppy analogy made no sense at all.

To Jenna_Tullworth: I was using the rotten egg as an example of something instantly recognizable as bad. I didn't imply that the eating thereof was forced. Should I change it to blue cheese cookies? Anyway, why would trying to "dominate and humiliate" you be a way to "raise [my]self up"? I have much more edifying things to do than point out your flawed logic. It would be pretty sad if my self esteem depended on winning an argument in the comments section of a subpar article on a website that nobody cares about.

@Lockett That's some pretty bullshit flawed logic there. Of course the egg would be awful. It's rotten. The experience would also be awful especially since you would have to FORCE me to eat it. Yeah being physically assaulted and forced to eat a rotten egg would be pretty awful and I dare say it'd be rather rotten of you to do this to someone. Perhaps by doing this to me you'd be the one attempting to raise yourself by trying to dominate and humiliate me. Thus closes the loop on this argument of circular logic. Why don't you go kick a puppy then chastise it for putting you down rather than raising itself up?

To Gemineye870530: If you bought a used Geo, and it broke down every twenty miles, had peeling upholstery, and looked like a metal snail, you would have to be an a**hole to criticize it, since you would never be able to build a better car. To Jenna_Tullworth: I will feed you a rotten egg. If you say that it was awful, you're just lowering me rather than making the effort to raise yourself.

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That's ok, orangemtl. Feel free to prove me right whenever you like. On an unrelated note, is it just me or does that fat dude in the camo look like that fat kid from The Man Show grew up and started working for Blackwater? Kinda creepy, man.

Operation Grizzly Forced Entry? For goodness sake, was some general just drunk off his ass one night and decided he would be a downright perv? I mean, there's no way around looking at Grizzly Forced Entry except as a gross thing.

Dear Jenna_Tullwortz: Your comments were fake, gay and stupid. I'm just sayin'...

During my time in the Marines, we had a training trip called Operation Noble Shirley. I'm surprised that didn't get a mention here.

@Gemineye870530: It's much easier for these people to elevate themselves by lowering others rather than putting forth the effort to raise themselves. It's pretty much the prime motivating factor for all the cries of "fake" "gay" and "stupid". That's my theory anyway.

People do it ALL the time Gemineye. People who watch sports and get pissed the team didn't win. A 7 course meal that didn't live up to certain standards... EVERYTHING!

why do people sign up to this site and read the articles so they can be assholes and criticize things they can't ever do better?

Well, I don't see my operation on here. It was called Operation Parklot. Basically we just fly from the west side of the Middle East to the east side of the Middle East and strafe everything that moves(Except for the Kurds. They're good people.)Then, nuke the site from orbit...it's the only way to be sure. After five years of cleanup a Disney World will be built and all will rejoice. And also, a video game detailing the mission with Tom Clancy's blessing will be released for Playstation.

Tweaker, that's genius!

Or operation Can we still be friends?

What we need is operation....we are going to shit on you.

C'mon, some of it was humorous, like when The Daily Show's Rob Riggle was in Iraq. I'm sure Cracked's intent wasn't to make fun of our brothers and sisters fighting in the Middle East or the creativity of our intel. Plus, we know why the operation names sound silly in normal vernacular; if we named an operation "Hostage Retrieval", that'd be a little obvious, yes?

uh...all it takes is a 30 second search on google to verify that these operations are real. Operation Grizzly Forced Entry was on Aug 21, 2004.

What the hell was that? That didn't even make sense. I've spent more time reading the Photoshop Contests and they don't even have words. And #1 was probably not even real. Operation Shut Your Ugly Face. What it is: You need to shut your ugly face. What it sounds like: YOU NEED TO SHUT YOUR UGLY FACE! 25! I didn't know they stacked lists that high!