Re: oops: Operation code names causes backlash.

> http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/05/use-of-geronimo-codename-in-bin-laden-operation-stirs-american-indian-backlash/1

> .  Fort Still Apache Tribal Chairman Jeff Houser wrote to President 
> Obama asking for an apology for the "slur." Houser says equating 
> Geronimo or any other Native American figure with a "mass murderer and 
> cowardly terrorist" is painful and offensive.

Eh?  When I heard that the raid had gone by the code name "Operation 
Geronimo", I assumed it something to do with the fact that "Geronimo" is a 
word that people yell when they make a big jump ... so I assumed it was 
referring to the Navy SEALs jumping into action, *not* to Osama bin Laden.

BTW, does anyone know how Geronimo's name became the word that people yell 
when jumping in the first place?

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