Alligators are cold-blooded and pretty low energy most of the time.
Ferrets are small, furry mammals that have been domesticated. The wild ones are known to dance a gig to hypnotize their prey, according to Mental Floss.
Operation Black Ferret was a search and destroy mission in Vietnam.
In addition to not finding ferrets frightening — setting aside "The Big Lebowski" scene where a ferret scares the Dude in a bathtub — I don't especially find the prospect of mermaids at dawn threatening.
Rebels named their 2011 assault on Tripoli, according to this excellent overview of military naming by Mental Floss.
Got an itch?
What about the mousetrap makes it Cajun? And did this mousetrap work better the 3rd time around?
This was the name of a nighttime raid on Samarra, Iraq in 2004.
This is one jazz set that just doesn't quit!
Fully 6,000 troops in NATO's ready-response force participated in this ludicrously named 2013 exercise.
Hat tip to Business Insider's Pentagon Correspondent Ryan Pickrell for the suggestion.
Notably, NATO also has an Exercise Dynamic Manta.
How does it make you feel?
The was the name of a 2005 Army mission in Tikrit, Iraq.
These operations and exercises almost made the cut.
Gringo-Goucho: Aircraft carrier exercises involving the US and Argentine navies. The term "gringo" occasionally has a pejorative meaning for English-speaking Americans.
Team Spirit: A joint US-South Korea training that ended in 1993, and that keeps reminding me of Nirvana's 1991 hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Operation Desert Snowplough: Reportedly a name for a Danish operation during the Iraq War.
Operation Frequent Wind: The evacuation of civilians from Saigon in 1975.
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