For example aircraft will often have birds as there codenames, and tanks and heavier vehicles codenames such as "Red Bull" and "Warpig". Fire teams may have "Wolf" or "Dagger" as their codenames generally smaller meaner land animals. Command units often adopt names such as "Eagle" or "Overlord". More @Wikipedia
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