Originally Posted by
Mink
As a guy that used to hope for AMC to get me to "the World" from Diego Garcia, AMC = Airplane Might Come
Not trying to start a USN vs. USAF thread here, but the comment about noisy dorms gave me a chuckle. USS Nimitz, during flight ops, was a pretty noisy dorm.

Which is the real reason they went to AMC from MAC "Maybe Airplane Come"
I guess that the non-deploying leadership was tired of the poor grammar of our users...