Defense Secretary Jim Mattis can get ticked off at times over stilted military terminology and its blizzard of unfathomable acronyms. Last week, he let loose at one of his pet peeves.
In this case, it was "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," or UAVs, which is what the Defense Department calls drones.
Mattis didn't propose an alternative, or say he was going to order a name change. He just wanted it known that he doesn't like the term.
"One of the most misnamed weapons in our system is the unmanned aerial vehicle. It may not have a person in the cockpit, but there's someone flying it," Mattis told reporters traveling with him on the trip back from a series of security conferences in Europe. Read More