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![]() The Boonies- a.k.a. the Jungle |
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| 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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