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    Quote Originally Posted by Pattonmat89 View Post
    What on God's green Earth does "Xe" mean? I'm sure it's just something that I don't get. Could someone please enlighten me?
    It certainly is going to make them more able to operate under the radar. Web searches become much more difficult, and their other division changing to 'US Training" seems to follow that same notion.

    There's a reason behind the name change, I don't know what it is, but they didnt just throw a dart at the Periodic chart.

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    Default Xe=Xenon . . .

    which is a noble gas.
    Remember the Xenon searchlights on tanks--They want to show that they are willing to shine a light on their internal operations because they have nothing to hide.

    Xe is also an inert gas--Thety want to show they are very stable and not prone to "react" at a moments provocation.

    I'm surprised no one else in this august group picked this stuff up--no wonder the bad guys are whipping us at the strategic communications game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wm View Post
    which is a noble gas.
    Remember the Xenon searchlights on tanks--They want to show that they are willing to shine a light on their internal operations because they have nothing to hide.

    Xe is also an inert gas--Thety want to show they are very stable and not prone to "react" at a moments provocation.

    I'm surprised no one else in this august group picked this stuff up--no wonder the bad guys are whipping us at the strategic communications game.
    So it's an oxymoron, in other words.....
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    XE = Xenon which is a noble gas.
    I think they're just blowing smoke up our collective assets.

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