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Initials are not necessarily acronyms. Initials that spell a pronounceable word make an acronym. SASBE might be an acronym because its combination of consonants and vowels are pronounceable as a word , but DH and JM are not. Some well-known acronyms are CARE, UNICEF, radar, sonar, and scuba. For example, the letters in scuba stand for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus."
I stand reminded, Dolly, I just think of them as acronyms because in my head they sound like words, but of course you're quite right, most of them are just initials. SASBE can be pronounced, saze-bee, but it certainly was not designed to be combined into a word. I think CARE might have been deliberately picked to end up with the word care - do you know? As for the military acronyms, well, the military does love its acronyms, and then they pass into general usage and even metaphoric usage, like radar, Radio Detection and Ranging. Who would ever have guessed that a main character on one of the longest running TV series would be named after a military acronym? LOL. x, Carrie
