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2021-07-26 // day precision

Expanding-brain expeditionary contracting structures

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Expanding-brain meme progresses from Service support to self, through LSCC and LSC, to Marine Corps JTSCC.
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Editorial interpretation

An expanding-brain sequence ranks increasingly elaborate contracting support labels. The sole visible commenter corrects Marine Corps JTSCC to Marine Corps JTF-C, connecting it to the adjacent naming joke; the acronyms are retained without invented expansions. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-26 — Timothy Wilhelm: I believe you mean Marine Corps JTF-C. Coverage: Captured count matches displayed count at selected review; hidden/deleted comments remain unknown. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, Expeditionary contracting, Military terminology