I must concur. I am ex-military, and I have friends who have worked for the MoD down in Portsmouth, and I have NEVER heard anyone refer to the "Department of Defence".
I apologise for my use of terminology - i just typed the original posting of the top of my head and posted it without proof reading and was thinking in american, when i say "we referred to it internally as"; i am not saying that is what teams used internally across the gov, i was referring to the "slang" of own little team in our own corner of the organisation.
I know it is the MoD in the UK and i am quite aware of the differences between naming conventions across governments. Just re-read my original post and i admit i was shocked at the fact i used DoD instead of MoD.
PS - i never have worked for the DoD in the literal sense.
Funnily enough i did intentionally write Dept Of Defence but i unintentionally wrote the abbr DoD. I only realised i had used this abbr after BaS'heds told me i was wrong twice and I re-read my posting.
Back to my original point however - was that specs & guidelines distributed by the "Ministry Of..." tend on the whole to be far less ambiguous than those of the private sector / civil service.
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