How have America’s Wars Changed The English Language?

http://taskandpurpose.com/how-americas-wars-have-changed-the-english-language/
RP Members here is anothewr one of those posts/questions that got lost over time in RallyPoint, but it was good one worth sharing again!

What are some the words or phrases that have been coined while you served in the combat zone or during the past wars?

Throughout history, American speech has adopted thousands of soldier-coined slang into everyday language.

However unintentionally, soldiers have become architectures of language and profound agents of change throughout history.

Words are paltry things even when compared to peaceful, everyday human experience, and war words are often invented to describe things that are brutally indescribable, bring humor to things that are not funny, and create designations for things that are otherwise unidentifiable.