I swear law enforcement and the military choose the cringest name codes, not much better than names kids would pick.
I have it on good authority that the people in law enforcement and the military — and indeed all humans in general — were in fact kids at one point. Maybe we all just like cool sounding codenames, even if some keyboard jockeys on a forum will call it “cringe”.
Why? That name’s dope. If you can’t give cool names to military operations of all things, then you can’t give cool names to anything. And as someone else pointed out, the US military does have a framework for how they name operations.
They at least avoid sounding like our names in the software industry: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
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The patch for "Operation Endgame" (in the screen cap at the top of the article) even shows chess pieces, not superheroes.
Thus nothing risky, edgy or creative makes it out of such meetings.