Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-1915363-20170526081117

Amoex wrote: Please do not come up with imaginary term like EE, you're not qualified to do so. We don't need qualifications to make fanspeaks and imaginary terms in fandom for our own designation.

If you insist on qualifications, it's the people in Naval History and Heritage Command who recommended to categorize them as "escort ships" when Tsubakura asked them about it.