Recruit rhymes with Boot. A Boot camp is for new recruits. Part of it is to help them break in, as if they were a new pair of boots, before sending them to the larger military organization. It is to provide a baseline for behavior.

Don’t call your orientation boot camp. It is insulting to both the people that went through an actual basic training, and to the professionals that come in with more than 6 months of experience.

Really, minimize the use of military expressions unless you know what them mean. “Locked and Loaded” means you are ready to fire your weapon in anger: the magazine is locked in its receiver, and there is a bullet in the chamber.

You don’t “lift and shift.” That mistaken concept comes from the sections of the Operations Order (OPORD) where you talk about the criteria for these two actions. A machine gun support by fire section lays down heavy suppressive fire on the location where the maneuver element is going to pass through. Since you don’t want to shoot your own people, you shift fire to the side of that section, away from the maneuver element.

Once they have passed that point, you lift fire, or stop shooting. Lift fire used to mean literally firing higher so that troops can pass underneath it, but in small unit training like Ranger School, it means “cease fire” so that you don’t accidentally shoot the next unit over etc.

Neither are done with moving services from on premise to a data center in a technological sense.

We love to use our military analogies, as they sound tough, they sound cool.

Warfare is not cool. It is brutal. It leaves people dead and dismembered. It is the last resort of politics gone foul. Lets leave the military analogies alone unless they really help the conversation.

But please feel free to continue to use the acronyms
SNAFU (Situation normal all …)
and add in the addition
FUMTU (more than usual)
TARFU(Things are really)
FUBAR (.. Beyond all recognition)
and the superlative
JANFU (Joint army Navy).