It's really a shame they're so paranoid. It's an honor, not a slur.
"...Geronimo as the courageous leader... the use of his name honors him and links him to the courage of the Navy SEALS who carried out the operation . . . Geronimo was an Apache leader around the turn of the century who was on of the last of his tribe to surrender to the U.S. He was widely feared..."
update: Given this:
"The President only knew the mission was successful after the Navy Seals commander heard the word “Geronimo” on the radio, a code word from commandos reporting that they had killed bin Laden."
I rescind the above. It was derogatory, imo.
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