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 The Boonies- a.k.a. the Jungle |
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| All Era Military Lingo, Jargon or Slang |
| Elbow Grease: | To use force when scrubbing |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Get the key to the "Basement": | all the units I been at didn't have any basement. USMC |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Jeep: | a low ranking enlisted person/new to the military |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| John Wayne: | Small can opener for c-rat cans |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Out in the Boondocks: | Out in the field on bivouacs |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Tin-Can: | Destroyer |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| s.s.d.d: | Same sh*t different day. |
| Current Rating 7.33 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Beachhead: | A footing gained on hostile shores by an army. |
| Current Rating 7.32 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Beaucoup Dinki-Dau: | Plenty Crazy |
| Current Rating 7.32 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| File 13: | An imaginary file that really means the waste basket |
| Current Rating 7.32 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| DILLIGAF: | DOES IT LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FU@! |
| Current Rating 7.31 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Mustang: | Naval officer who came up through the ranks |
| Current Rating 7.31 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Sinloi: | Tough Shit |
| Current Rating 7.31 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| gooks in the wire: | Enemy approaching |
| Current Rating 7.31 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| FM: | F'ing Magic - The mysterious way equipment that was broken suddenly begins to work.... |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Field day: | Day set aside for cleaning the office and barracks |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Gremlin: | When something went wrong with a plane it was blamed on gremlins |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Kabar: | USMC fighting knife (made by Kabar & other companies). |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| OO-Rah!: | The Marine cheer |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Pineapple : | Slang for hand grenade. |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Ring nocker: | Academy grad |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| US ARMY: | Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet |
| Current Rating 7.3 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Balls to four: | The midnight to four am watch in the morning |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Belly Robber: | Navy cooks. |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Bulkhead: | wall |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Chop Chop: | Hurry up. |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Fly Boy: | Officer or Enlisted Men on Flying Duties. |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| High and Tight: | Fresh Hair-Cut |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Pig Alley: | The Rue Pigalle in Paris, France--Full of houses of prostitution |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Poggie Bait: | Candy-Junk food that you buy at a geedunk |
| Current Rating 7.29 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Brown Shoe Army: | Before the Army changed the standard issue uniforms from O. D. color to green and from brown leather to black. |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Butter Bar: | Second Lieutenant |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Crud: | Skin fungal infection or jungle rot |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Ladder: | Stairs |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Rack: | Your bed |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Scuttle butt: | water fountain or rumor |
| Current Rating 7.28 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Acting Jack: | Temporary Rank for SGT or CPL |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Circle Jerk to the right/left: | Organized confusion |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Donkey Dick: | Flexible hose spout used in fuel cans |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Grab Ass: | Soldiers messing or screwing around; usually involves wrestling |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Hatch: | Door on ship/sub (also used on land by Navy personnel) |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Police Call: | Cleaning an area of Cig. Butts, And trash IE; Parking Lot |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Swab jockey: | Navy deck hand |
| Current Rating 7.27 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| BOHICA: | Bend over, here it comes again! |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Boot: | A new recruit or young Marine |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| On your six: | On your rear-end |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Scuttle Butt: | Rumor started and spread around ship, also water fountain |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Section Eight: | Crazy, looney tune |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| SinLoi: | Sorry About That |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Snipe: | Used by Sailors as slang for an engineer type such as an Engineman or anyone working in "the hole". |
| Current Rating 7.26 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Bucket of DRY Steam: | Newbies usually sent to ships Engine Room for this |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| CONUS: | Continental United States |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Can Bird: | Aircraft used for spare parts. |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Charlie: | Enemy |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Eighty-six: | Get rid of, out of item, "86 that before the CO gets here" |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| HOOAH: | (who-a) adj.[slang used by soldiers] referring to or meaning anything and everything except "no". |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Hope to Shit in your Flat Hat: | Navy term used to express emotion about something they really believed to be true. |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| J-5: | MENU CODE FOR STEAK - NAVY SUBS |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| NAVY: | Never Again Volunteer Yourself |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Shamming: | Pretending to work while actually doing nothing. |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Skate: | Person who got out of work |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Squid: | Navy Personnel |
| Current Rating 7.25 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Cut-a-chogy: | Get out of here |
| Current Rating 7.24 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| STRAC: | (Army) Skilled, Tough, Ready Around (the) Clock - soldier who is totally squared-away in every aspect |
| Current Rating 7.24 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| FIDO: | f### it drive on |
| Current Rating 7.22 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| G.I.: | Government Issue |
| Current Rating 7.22 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Mail Bouy Watch: | A Fresh out of Boot Camp Sailor is placed on this while on Ship, to see how smart he is, or to break him in to ship's crew |
| Current Rating 7.22 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| 5 will get you 10: | Asking for a loan until payday |
| Current Rating 7.21 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| AO: | Area of operation |
| Current Rating 7.21 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Gravity Check: | Dropping equipment |
| Current Rating 7.2 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Mud Puppy: | Army military police person (MP). |
| Current Rating 7.2 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Spoon: | Army cook |
| Current Rating 7.2 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| plank owner: | first crewmembers of a newly commissioned vessel |
| Current Rating 7.2 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Geedunk: | Candy and garbage food or a place to buy it |
| Current Rating 7.19 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Anchor Clanker: | Personnel in the Navy's Boatswains Mate rating. |
| Current Rating 7.18 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Un-ass the AO: | Get out of the current location |
| Current Rating 7.18 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| A "Dear John" Letter: | A letter from a girlfriend, informing a Service Man that "it's all over; I'm dating another guy." |
| Current Rating 7.17 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Band-Aid: | Slander for any medic who cannot preform his/her job to standard. The medic you DON'T want to see running to help you. |
| Current Rating 7.17 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Ping Jockey: | Navy Sonarman |
| Current Rating 7.17 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Cattle Van: | An enclosed military truck carrying people packed inside like cattle. |
| Current Rating 7.16 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Anchor Cranker: | Boatswain's Mate (Navy) |
| Current Rating 7.15 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Midnight Requisition: | Going into another company's area to get brooms and mops to clean your own barracks after someone has swiped yours. |
| Current Rating 7.15 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Bildge-Rat: | Bolier Maker in the Navy |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Dinky Dau: | Stupid person/not too bright |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| DotHead or White Head: | Somebody wearing Garmet or White Towel on their head |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Dudd: | no brains- can't do anything right |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Field Day: | General Quarters Cleaning |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| bed stretcher: | basic trainees were sent all over Lackland A.F.B. looking for one of these |
| Current Rating 7.14 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| 10 feet of waterline: | Imaginary line(rope) the new crew members are sent looking for |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| A "Deuce and a Half": | A two and a half ton army truck. |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Black Hat: | Instructors at jump school |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Grapes: | Personnel who refueled aircraft on carriers. Named so because their shirts were purple. |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Operation Golden Flow: | Army drug-detecting urinalysis testing |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Sandy: | USAF/USN Douglas A-6 "Skyraider prop fighter escort for helicopter airborne rescue missions. |
| Current Rating 7.13 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Boonie: | Jungle. |
| Current Rating 7.12 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Go Grab A Piece Of Flight Line: | Newbees in Squadrons are sent to get this. It isn't a thing to get, it is where planes taxi back to their Squadrons. |
| Current Rating 7.12 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Raunchy: | Really bad condition of uniform. ie: a piece of lint on collar |
| Current Rating 7.12 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Comm: | Communications |
| Current Rating 7.11 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| Exhaust Sample: | When you tell a soldier to take a plastic bag and attempt to retrieve exhaust from a military vehicle. It's fun to watch. |
| Current Rating 7.11 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
| RUMINT: | Rumored intelligence |
| Current Rating 7.11 | Email This Jargon to a Friend |
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