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| Hanger Basement: | A place to send new bee's for generator brushes. |
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| Hanger Queen: | Heavily Canabolized Acft for Parts far away from Flying again |
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| Hanger Queen: | A/C setting in the hanger and used for parts. |
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| Hanger Queen: | Equipment or aircraft used for spare parts |
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| Hanger Queen: | Aircraft that stay in the hanger 30+ days |
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| Happy Hour: | Running the Grider for an hour with your rifle over your head, after messing up in Boot Camp. |
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| Hardball : | Concrete or Pavement |
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| Harms Way: | putting yourself in danger |
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| Hat Up!: | Let's go! (Air Force) |
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| Haze Gray and Underway: | In the Navy, shipboard duty, or to be at sea on a ship. |
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| He: | An Air Force Security force member pulling stingermissile duty in korea |
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| He's " OUT THERE ": | crazy |
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| Headspace and Timing Alignment: | Someone/thing/mission that ain't going well and needs work. |
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| Heavy Junk: | referring to heavy equipment such as bulldozers |
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| Hello Mc Fly!: | Idiot. |
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| Helo Pad: | Landing area for Helicopters |
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| Hero: | Anyone in the military |
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| Hero: | What DI's call recruits in a sarcastic way ... usually after a recruit does something stupid. |
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| Hey Joe!: | Foreign nationals trying to sell just about anything to a serviceman overseas. Yells out "Hey Joe, look see, cheap." |
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| High & tight (to Airborne Personnel): | A good military haircut |
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| High Angle Hell: | Incoming Mortar Fire |
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| High Speed, Low Drag: | Pretty cool |
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| High and Tight: | A haircut used mostly Marines and super gung-ho Army guys. |
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| High and Tight : | Not a fresh haircut but a Marine corps cut, hair worn HIGH on the top and TIGHT on the sides. Resembling the lid on a jar. Therefore the name JARHEAD. |
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| High and tight: | A type of hair cut not a fresh one |
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| High-Bird: | Walking outside and flipping the "bird" to Russian Satillites |
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| Hit the bricks: | formation |
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| Hit the pit: | Go to bed |
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| Hit the skids - Navy: | Sumarine term for hitting the rack - some racks were on the torpedo loading skids |
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| Hog, feeding the hogs: | Marine dependents, feeding the dependents. |
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| Hogg: | Army - slang name for a 98H (Morse Intercept/Locator). |
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| Hoggie Bait: | Junk Food |
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| Hold Overs: | Military personnel awaiting orders |
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| Holy Ghost: | C130 with 20 rotery guns under the wings |
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| Honcho: | Boss. |
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| Honey Bucket Brigade: | Burn crap & p--- in half/55gal. barrels w/diesel fuel |
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| Honkey-Tonk PX Belibo: | Thats right! |
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| Honor Man: | The top graduate in a military school. |
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| Hoo-Rah!: | Also used by Sailors not just Marines to acknowledge an order that draws out excitment in doing ones job!! |
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| Hooah: | Army, cheer and an affirmitive response |
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| Hooah: | Army for I agree or yes sir |
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| Hooah: | Actually it is an acronym, HUA (pronounced Hooah) for Heard, Understood, Acknowledged |
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| Hooch: | A tent made by ponchos, rods and string. |
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| Hooch, Steam, Bright Penny, Holy Water: | Homemade illegal booze made in the field in small stills |
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| Hooker: | U.S. Army 67U personnel. CH-47 Chinook aircrewmembers |
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| Hootch: | Place where GIs slept. |
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| Hooyah: | Affirmative |
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| Horsecock: | Balogna- the large sausage roll |
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| Hosed up: | Person or situation that is royally screwed up |
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| Hot LZ: | Chopper landing zone being guarded by enemy. |
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| Hot Noser: | Butt Kisser |
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| Hot Rod: | Loach with Mini-Gun |
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| House Mouse: | Maid |
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| House Mouse: | The shortest military person. Helped NCO's in Boot Camp. |
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| Household 6: | Slang for the wife, as opposed to S-6 (command) |
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| Hubba Hubba: | In a hurry, move |
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| Hum Bik: | I don't understand |
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| Hump: | To walk or to march. |
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| Humping: | Guarding alert aircraft |
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| Hundered and Worst: | Used by the 82nd Airborne Div. to make fun of the 101st Airborne Div. |
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| Hut, Hootch: | Dwelling |
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| I D 10 T: | Idiots (used to send the new guys (newbees) to supply to pick up "I D 10 T's"). |
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| I Hear That: | What your telling me I know already and agree with what your telling! |
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| I Love Lucy: | Illumination round |
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| I croc-a dile you: | I kill you |
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| ID 10 TANGO: | idiot |
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| ID10T FORM: | USED TO SEND NEW MEMBER ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE |
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| IF YOU'RE NOT A HEAD YOUR A LEG: | AIRBORNE |
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| IHTFP: | I Hate This F@#!ing Place. |
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| INT WTF: | Interrogative WhatTheF%$# (communications jargon for What's happening?). |
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| ITR .... SAN ONEFRE, CAMP PENDLETON, CA.: | MARINE CORPS INFANTRY TRAINING REGIMENT |
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| IYAAYWOT: | "If You Ain't Ammo, You're Waiting on Them!" Predominately used by AF Weapons personnel. Play on Ammo's motto "If You Ain't Ammo, You Ain't Sh@*!" |
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| Iddy-wah: | P-38 for K 3/9 Marines |
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| Impact Area: | Area that Artillery aimed for while practice firing |
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| In Your Lap: | To discuss or talk about personal problems |
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| In coming: | Look out receiving artillary round fired and coming |
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| In the Rear with the Gear: | Someone who gets to stay away from the front lines or out of the field. |
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| In the rear with the gear: | Back in a relative safe area like a base camp or depot but still in hostile area |
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| Incoming: | VC/NVA Rocket Attack |
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| Indian Country: | AO owned by the enemy |
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| Ink Stick: | A pen |
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| Ink-stick: | Pen |
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| Inside Skinny: | What is really going on. |
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| Irish Pennants: | Loose/attached stings on uniforms |
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| Irish penit: | String on you uniforms that stick out |
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| It is 5 klicks north of here: | Do not know |
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| It's only a flesh wound : | They almost blew my freaking arm off |
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| Itty Wah: | Come here in Korea |
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| Itty-Waah: | c-ratrion can opener USMC 60's |
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| Itty-wa Shoes: | Sandles, flip flops. |
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| Ivan: | Plastic target of enemy at range qualification, originally was the bad Communist Russians |
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| JABFU: | Joint American/British Foul Up. |
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| JACK WAGON : | DONT KNOW ,, ASK R .LEE HERLY ?? USMC |
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| JAFO: | Just Another F***ing Operator |
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| JEEP: | New troop fresh out of basic training |
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| JEP: | Junior enlisted personnel (pronounced JEEP) |
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| JFK's: | Exercise normally performed at morning quarters by Navy personnel initiated by President Kennedy. |
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| JOHN WAYNE: | MORE COMMON NAME FOR A P-38 C-RAT OPENER |
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| Jack of the dust: | Someone who breasks out chow from storerooms for the gally on a navy ship |
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| Jack of the dust: | Guy in charge of dry stores on ship |
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