Posted on Mar 17, 2017
What catch-phrase used by veterans instantly identifies in which branch of service they serve(d)?
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Pull chocks for leave area
Wheels up, heels up relax, someone else is flying the plane
Touch & goes the nod & jerk head movements of someone trying not to fall asleep (learned from my airdale buddies before I converted to shipboard rating).
Wheels up, heels up relax, someone else is flying the plane
Touch & goes the nod & jerk head movements of someone trying not to fall asleep (learned from my airdale buddies before I converted to shipboard rating).
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"go to GQ" (General Quarters) over something, (stop what you're doing and take immediate action on some sudden new issue/problem/concern) (Coast Guard) (Navy, too??)
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Sailor talk;
Getting the fid.
Hot racking it.
A clueless person has "marbles in the overhead".
Eight O'clock reports.
Boating your oars at meals.
Ordering "Gang Way" in a busy passageway.
When someone is walking away, ordering, "Come about".
Seasickness; Ralph, Huey, Alice, Dry Heaving
"Pipe Down" to keep quiet.
"Red Lead", "Green Death", and "Purple Haze" primer coatings.
Getting the fid.
Hot racking it.
A clueless person has "marbles in the overhead".
Eight O'clock reports.
Boating your oars at meals.
Ordering "Gang Way" in a busy passageway.
When someone is walking away, ordering, "Come about".
Seasickness; Ralph, Huey, Alice, Dry Heaving
"Pipe Down" to keep quiet.
"Red Lead", "Green Death", and "Purple Haze" primer coatings.
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'Shack". Is one I've heard within the tactical fighter community. It's,another way to agree with something or acknowledge something.
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Heard throughout the Navy, and generally, throughout the day: "shit, man, f**k!" It expressed a wide variety of responses to situations, feelings, orders, officers, chow, etc. One could register a pleasant reaction to something-or negative. It had universal applications. Say, you're reading the POD and see you drew the 4 to 6 compartment watch: "shit, man, f**k! " Or liberty call: "shit, man, f**k!" I'm surprised we never heard it on the bitch box: "now hear this: shit, man, f**k!!"
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Get your head out of your fourth point of contact!
Army, specifically Airborne.
Army, specifically Airborne.
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First heard in Navy basic, but common therafter, is especially on Field Day. Usually spoken by a Chief with his everpresent coffee cup: "Awright you mutts, Turn to! I wanna see assholes and elbows!" A reference to getting everything spotless for inspection. Sometimes mutts could be changed to much more colorful, but descriptive terminology.
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Golly, for the Army, when I was in back in 1948-51, I do not remember any of the words I have read here. However, there are some I remember that are not printable here. :-)
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