The U.S.-Canadian military commands responsible for protecting North America from terrorists have changed the names of key readiness exercises to more politically correct words that do not offend American Indians. [. . .]An exercise called "Amalgam Chief" has been changed to "Amalgam Arrow," the message states. And an exercise dubbed "Amalgam Fabric Brave" is now "Amalgam Fabric Dart." "Fabric Indian" was deleted in favor of "Fabric Sabre."
The problem is more serious than we initially thought, gentlemen. For starters, the US is going to have to rename pretty well nearly all of its military helicopters, past and present. A few that come to mind (well, with some assistance from Wikipedia): Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Black Hawk, Shawnee, Chinook.
Canada gets off a bit easier. Our Iroquois-class destroyers will have to find some other designation, assuming we indeed still have any. Fortunately our naval helicopters are immune from this revisionism, unless I'm overlooking some obscure Indian tribe called the Sea Kings that specialized in falling out of the sky.
Via Nealenews