Veterans Day Quiz

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With this being Veterans Day I thought I would dredge up some terms and slang that we as veterans probably remember. Feel free to comment and add to the list. I’m sure there are some branch specific terms and slang I missed.

Grunt
Leatherneck
Lid
SOS
The Pig
Slick
Loach
Rotor Head
Cannon Cocker
Sea Bat
Jug
Ma Duce
Shot over, shot out
Click
Standing tall in front of the man
FUBAR
Newby
Turtle
Turtle Farm
Foo Gas
Outside the wire
Tangle Foot
Tunnel Rat
MOAB
Fighter Jocky
Captains Mast
 
Two-block

Companion to FUBAR, SNAFU

Comsha

Scrambled eggs

Pull rank

Bad-Boys-Rape-Our-Young-Girls-But-Violet-Gives-Willingly

(How to remember the resistor-capacitor-wire color code, ET-A school, Treasure Island, 68-69)
 
67Dart273 said:
Two-block

Companion to FUBAR, SNAFU

Comsha

Scrambled eggs

Pull rank

Bad-Boys-Rape-Our-Young-Girls-But-Violet-Gives-Willingly

(How to remember the resistor-capacitor-wire color code, ET-A school, Treasure Island, 68-69)
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We used “bad boys” in tech school during the mid 80’s. Most people get a kick out of it when I tell them about it. There are rougher and nicer versions of it as well.
 
^^I still vaguely remember "that day" in class. I was already a licensed radio amateur when I joined the Navy, and had began to become interested in radio/ electronics when I was in Jr. high school. My Dad at some point dragged me out to the local "ham club" which I didn't realize for many years was VERY large and active considering the small town (about 4K) and rural area. There was a trove of old "ham" magazines, 73, CQ, and QST, which I read the heck out of, and a neighbor who'd lost her husband have me a 1951 ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook

BUT I COULD NOT REMEMBER that color code. I realized as soon as the instructor started writing that out for the first time, that I would never FORGET it!! AND I HAVEN'T!!!!

1951ARRL.jpg


Some of the members I remember, all RIP. Chuck Spealman, W7LIQ, Don LaMoreaux, K7VBP, Glenn Rusk, W7IDP, Fred Arndt, W7IDA, Roger Williams, Jim Weinand, K7WXD, Curt Reed, WA7CKG, Neal Fredstrom, K7JEP. once in awhile Jeff Woodhouse, W7FL He had a "two letter" call and had had it so long, that when it was first issued, had no "W" in front of it until later after WWII. In other words if his present call was W7FL, his pre-war call had been "7FL"

Roger Williams was a retired AF Colonel, and had flown some captured German aircraft for test purposes. He held several calls and had traveled all over the world. He was a guy you did not argue with, but most of the time, he was right, anyway!!! He build a lot of his own equipment, including some for 1296 mhz, "unheard of" back in those days
 
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Tread head
Cannon cocker
Snake eater
FUBAR
Wing nut
Swabby
Devil dog
 
4 duce
Quad 50
Grease Gun
Duce and a Half
Herman Nelson
CQ Runner
BFH
PFC not the rank
KP Ribbon
 
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I don't see Squid mentioned, I know a few squids. lol
 
Piss tube
OPORD
WARNORD
FRAGO
Shivies
LPCs
PC (hat or leader)
Cammies
LBFM
Long hair dictionary
Drive on rag
Wobbie aka Cho liner
P38 (not the plane)
LRRPs (food or unit)
FMs (not the books)
A7A belt
Pig sticker
SEAL (Sleep Eat and Lift)
Tac-P
SOT-A
ODA
ODB
TAC
FEBA
FOB
 
Japanese jump boot
Spot light ranger
Buck hunter
Spring butt
Butter bar
E I owe you one
Mosquito wings
AN/PVS3 Daylight vision device (aka eye glasses)
 
70chall440 said:
Japanese jump boot
Spot light ranger
Buck hunter
Spring butt
Butter bar
E I owe you one
Mosquito wings
AN/PVS3 Daylight vision device (aka eye glasses)
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I see no one mentioned JEEPS .----New recruit on his first assignment/base , out of basic training in the A.F..
 
famous bob said:
I see no one mentioned JEEPS .----New recruit on his first assignment/base , out of basic training in the A.F..
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DAMM, i haven't heard that in decades.
Forgot all about that term.
I guess i was called that at my first duty assignment, at Zweibrucken Air Base, Germany, when i was being trained to be a crew chief on the F4 Phantoms with the sergeant that was assigned to be my trainer.
Looking back on it, i thought that term was only used at that base in Germany.
Never heard it anymore after that.
For me, this dates back to the early 1970's.
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF!)
Sierra Hotel (**** hot)
RTB (return to base)
BDR (battle damage repair)
BDUs
Prime BEEF (Base Engineer Emergency Force)
Prime RIBS
Red Horse
Cut a chogie (from the ROK - means let’s get out of here)
 
These are bringing back lots of memories!

Air Force called new recruits "Rainbows".
B.A.M.B.I. (Back at my last base I...did)
FIGMO (Fu$k it, got my orders)
O dark thirty
Dirt bag
FNG (F-ing New Guy)
PINGERS (Person in need of graduation, education, recreation and sex). I worked at the schoolhouse and these were Airman coming from boot camp.
Tango Uniform
Sandbag
Bag drag
CM until MC
BUFF (Air Force B-52, Big Ugly Fat Fu$ker...I mean Fellow)
 
Bubblehead
Airedale
Skimmer
Flattop
Gator Frieghter
Mae West
Boomer
Fastie
Twiggets
Tweeks
Deck Apes
 
How to tell a lifer---index finger permanently formed to hold coffee cup Seriously resembles Frank Burns

Short timer: ME
 
70chall440 said:
Piss tube
OPORD
WARNORD
FRAGO
Shivies
LPCs
PC (hat or leader)
Cammies
LBFM
Long hair dictionary
Drive on rag
Wobbie aka Cho liner
P38 (not the plane)
LRRPs (food or unit)
FMs (not the books)
A7A belt
Pig sticker
SEAL (Sleep Eat and Lift)
Tac-P
SOT-A
ODA
ODB
TAC
FEBA
FOB
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You know a little too much fer yer own good!!
 
firewatch
green wings
red wings
SUBICWHORE (radio code for 0-9)
Geedunk
Chairborn
lifer
newb
frag
eat duck (eat fast)
dick skinner
pogie bait
hog board
rat fuc% (choose your MRE out of the case before they are handed out randomly, usually by staff NCO's)
top (E8)
libo
**** pot (many)
walking the dog (walking sentry)
Zero (any officer)
Huck (Filipino man)
LBFM (Filipino woman)
chicken legs (young Marine)
Buying rice (supporting a woman off base)
B Company Susan...you can guess who this was!
Jodie (civilian teenager back home that didn't join who's dating your girl)
Joey Smuckatelli
Joey Bagodonuts
Suzy Rottencrotch
Squid
Flyboy
BUDD
unk (went unqualified on the range)
field day (clean barracks for inspection)

Most of these were geographical to where you were stationed.

could do a whole posting of what we called food too!
 
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