Iraq's battlefield slang

LA Times ^ | Jan 28, 2007 | Austin Bay

[Nowhere Man]

bump for later reading

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

FNG

Thanks. Well. That clears it up....

(Hopefully not something applied to the surgeon rebuilding your chest or arm...Everyone has to start somewhere.)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Rumsfld's Restraint: You can only kill an Iraqi if he has first killed you.

I thought this was more like a Boxers Brief...

[sleddogs]

Florida National Guard

or

F'ing National Guard

[sleddogs]

Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and Slang


http://grunt.space.swri.edu/glossary.htm

[nopendejos]

Re-up and Bolo were both old terms in the late 60's. Not sure how far back they go.

[abigkahuna]

Ha! I was a tanker way back when Jesus was Corporal! Tread Head and proud of it! M-60 driver, gunner then TC!

[btcusn]

No No No, it means "Friendly New Guy" ;)
Jack
we called em boots in the Navy.

[wku man]

Yeah, you and my Dad...he was a career armor officer. He still talks with reverence about the M48, his favorite of all he trained and served on. He was a "greasy coveralls" tanker, even as an officer. He still talks about when he was XO of 2-69 Armor at Benninng, he enjoyed crawling under the 60s on command maintenance day, getting dirty along with the men. He would read through the latest copy of PS Magazine (with Connie and Bonnie), see what checks they had that week for the 60, then go out in the motorpool and look for those items himself. He really misses being a tanker.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[abigkahuna]

Trained on the M-48 at Fort Knox, stationed in Kirch-goens Germany. 2bn33AR. Great days being on the tanks! Ho-raaah!

[ops33]

f--- new guy. It means someone who is inexperienced and their inexperience makes them a danger to themselves and others.

[sfc rico]

i went to anaconda three times in 2005, on escort. the place was a paradise, safe, with pools, movie theatres, pizzaras. the most memorable moment i had in iraq was eating pistacio ice cream from a ceramic bowl with a metal spoon. people in the defac asked me “why do you have a gun?” [my M-14] i do not know if they were curious or indignant. on our fob we got melted ice cream, and shrimp, when someone was kia. i have never seen so many pogues in my life, and grew to loath them more with all their bitch giggling and whining about mortarvilla. i can only imagine how much shit they talk when they get home.

[tet68]

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