Stand up

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Discussed last year:

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>
> I thought I knew military jargon, but this is a new one on me:
>
> <quote>The Air Force wants to significantly increase funding
> for its two high-profile unmanned aerial vehicle programs by
> devoting over $2.3 billion in coming years toward expanding
> its Predator and Global Hawk operations, a senior service
> budget official told Inside the Air Force last week.
> The Air Force will invest $2.3. billion across the future
> years defense plan, which will stand up more Predator
> squadrons and increase the number of Global Hawks fielded
> annually, Maj. Gen. Frank Faykes, the service's deputy
> assistant secretary for budget, said during a Feb. 1 Pentagon
> roundtable with reporters.
> </quote>
>
> "stand down" (noun or verb) means to take a pause in combat
> operations.
> "stand up" here apparently means the opposite, to make a unit
> available for combat.
>
> Source:  Martin Matishak "Inside the Air Force" Febuary 10,
> 2006, apparently a newspaper or magazine column, quoted in
> the Northrop Grumman Web page=20
>      http://home.northgrum.com/news_stories_2006/in_021006a.html
>
>
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