BNP for the FNG

The only thing the military likes more than hookah-pipes, subway sandwiches, tattoos and cash advances are acronyms. We have acronyms for everything and we use them as easily as you use words like ‘mall’, ‘grocery store’, and ‘high school’. But like most things, acronyms don’t cross over between services. The simplest example is BX and PX. The Air Force has ‘Base Exchanges’ and the Army has ‘Post Exchanges’. Trust me, there are a million more of them and they get exponentially harder to decipher and remember all the while they are constantly changing.

So I’ve spent the last 6 days trying to learn a whole bunch of Special Operations acronyms. And today, I learned a new one; BNP (beer and pizza).