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Ex. Military Lingo – Boonies = The Jungle in Military Speak
A Soldier Relaxing in
The Boonies- a.k.a. the Jungle
All Era Military Lingo, Jargon or Slang
pogey bait: candy/sweets

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pogey bait: all the snacks and goodies you could fit into your ruck during field rotations

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pogey bait: candy [navy talk]

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POGS: Profession Other than a Grunt.

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Pogue: Anyone whose MOS kept them in the "rear"

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Pogue: Another version of REMF

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Poguey Bait: Popcorn.Potatoe Chips etc

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Pogy bait: USMC, a term to use for candy.

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pogy bait: candy junk food

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POGY BAIT: CONTRABAND NOT AUTHORIZED

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Pointed cap worn by the Air Force, Army, & Marines: We in the Air Force called it a c..t cap

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Pointy End: The bow section of a ship.

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Pointy Head: USAF Avionics Systems Specialist

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POL: Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants (Fuels Specialists in the USAF).

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Police Call: picking up cigarette butts and trash around area

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police the area: assignment to pick up papers and cigarette buts

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Police the grounds: pick up all garbage

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Polly Wog: Personnel who had not crossed the equator and been properly initiated in the world of Shellbacks.

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Pop a cap: Fire off a round or two with your weapon

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POP ONE: Throw a grenade or shot M49 grenade

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Pop Smoke: To get the hell out of Dodge

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Pop Smoke: Leave in a hurry undetected.

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Possible: Bullseye or a perfect score at a particular distance

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Pot Walloper: Dish washer.

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POW: Prisoner of War.

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Pric-25: Army portable radio.

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Pric-E7: Something to send a boot after usually to the comm shop.

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Prick: AN/PRC-77 backpack radio.

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prick (PRC) 77: field radio

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Prick 24: PRC 24 Port. Radio

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Prop Head: Air Force personnel.

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prop top: Air Force member

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Prop Wash: What wed send the new guys for when washing a plane. Actually is the back blast from props or jet engines.

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Prop wash: Turbulent air off rotor blades and an imaginary cleaning agent boots are sent to fetch.

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prop wash: fast moving air behind propeler

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Prop Wash: A joke term given to new airman to go find a bucket of for a jet engine. There is no such thing.

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Prop Wash: Recruits new to the squadron were told to find a bucket of prop wash. No such thing!

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Prop Wash: Wind generated by a propeller - Get me a bucket of . . . by new Navy airmen on flightline.

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Prop Wash: Propeller cleanser Boot sent out to get

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Prop Wash: Newbee's to the Navy flight line are sent for a bucket of this

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Protect Family Jewels: Used to remind one about chute harnes in crotch area.

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provide air cover: air support

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PT: Physical Training push-ups, sit-ups, 2 mile run

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Pud Knocker: Any soldier that can't keep his Sh*t together

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PUDDLE PIRATE: U.S Coast Guard member. Havent seen them picked on yet!

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Puff or Puff the Magic Draggon: C-47 gun ship

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Puff The Magic Dragon: *AKA Spooky* A wicked a** gun ship which can either be your friend and a VC and NVA worst enemy.

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Puff, Dragon Ship, Nightstalker: Various Fixed Wing Gunships

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PUKE: TERM USED BY DI FOR A MARINE RECRUITS

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PUKE: Term of endearment for commrades of other branches of service or MOS's

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Pukin Buzzard: 101st Airborne shoulder patch

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pull pitch: take off in helicopter by increasing pitch in rotorblade

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Pungi stakes: Booby trap of sharpened lengths of bamboo, smeared with human excrement

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Purple haze: purple smoke grenade

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Purple-Suiter: Someone assigned to a Joint Staff made up or Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Personnel

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put a lid on it: hush

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Put a wrench on that.: Aviation term fix the current problem or situation

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put your hands behind your back and give it a good: pull your head out of your ass

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Puzzle Palace: Any headquarters battalion or higher.

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PX: Post Exchange

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PX: Post Exchange.

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PYHOOYA: Pull your head out of your ass

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QRK: Pronounced Querking followed by a number - used in Comm such as signal QRKing 5by (best signal).

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QSY: Change frequency

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Quack shack: Sickbay on the ship

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R H I P: Rank has it's privileges

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R.O.A.D : Retired On Active Duty

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R.P.M. GREASE: Sent new Motor T. guys looking for 5 gallon bucket of RPM GREASE (USMC)

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r.t.o.: radio telephone poretor

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rack: military bed, or bunk/berth

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RACK: a supended aluminam & wire spring used to support a mattress where an enlisted sailor sleeps

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Rack: Your Bunk or bed

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Rail Apes: Chap Crew members 16Ps.

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Rail Apes: Chapparila Crewmembers 16Ps

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Rail Road Tracks: Captain

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Rail Road Tracks: The insignia for O-3's in any service. Captain in Army, Marine Corp, or Air Force. Lieutenant in the Navy.

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Railroad Tracks: Captain

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Railroad Tracks: A Lieutenant in the US Navy, or Captain in the Marines or Army.

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Railroad Tracks: More than one set of creases on a pair of pants.

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Rain Bird: Nurse who has graduated from Walter Reed.

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Rain Locker: Showers

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Rain locker: shower

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RAIN ROOM: SHOWER

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Rainbow: new recruit in basic training

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Rainbow: Air Force Basic trainees that have yet to receive military uniforms (still in civilian clothes).

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Rainbow: New Air Force recruit, prior to uniform issue

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Rainbow Flight: Newbees at boot that haven't gotten uniforms yet.

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Rainbow gear: Civilian clothing used for PT in the Marines.

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Rainbows: New recruits in basic training

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Raisen Head: new boot camp person "USS NAVY"

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Ralphing: Throwing up the contents of one's stomach.

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Ralphing or Shotgunning: One member of US Forces taking a big swig of Marijuana smoke from a "roach" and blowing it down the barrel of an M-16 Rifle directly into the lungs of another US Armed Forces member.

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Ramp Rat: Aircraft Security Guard

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rat in the nest: there is a spy in the squad, platoon, ect.

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Rat-f***ed chow: C-Rations with all the good cans taken, leaving only the bad ones

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Rate: This in not you job in the Navy, it is your enlisted paygrade.

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Rating: The specific job classification of Navy enlisted personnel.

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Raunchy: Something that is nasty or dirty.

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RAUNCHY GEMOKE: GUYS A LOSER

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RAW LINSEED OIL....MARINE CORPS: M-14 RIFLE WOOD TREATMENT, HAND BURNED IN

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