Military Acronyms and Slang Dictionary

[FreeFloat]

WOG - "With Out Gun" - certain trades such as medics and chaplains which are unarmed trades. Can also be used as an uncomplimentary term against trades not accustomed to carrying weapons (ie. clerks, certain officers)

zipperhead - armored soldier
lawn dart - airborne assault
sh!thawk - airforce (fighter) referenced by the navy
writer, chief writer - clerk or chief clerk aboard ship
meathead - military police
binrat - storesman

 

[neophytediver]

Crashhawk= Blackhawk (dang near speak from personal experience)
S!@#hook= Chinook

 

[TCDiver1]

Irish Pendent - a loose thread on your uniform
Russian rope - see irish pendent
Pogie bait - candy, cookies or in the case of the movie FMJ, a jelly donut.
LCAC - Landing craft, Air Cushioned (i just love Naval acronyms)

 

[diverbrian]

NUB- Non-useful body (New guy-not qualified on any watchstation)

BC Glasses- Birth Control Glasses (Glasses issued in boot camp)

Non-qual- just above a NUB, not qualified submarines, but at least qualified on some watchstations

Khaki- Chief Petty officer and above

White hat or blue shirt- First Class Petty officer or below.

Dolphins- Submarine Warface Qualification insignia

Boomer- Missile Submarine

Slow approach sub- old missile sub converted to use as a fast attack for spec ops

Conehead- Non nuclear trained personnel on a submarine. So named because the "nucs" worked in the aft part of the sub (the engine room). The others tended to work in the forward half or the "cone"

Nucs- Nuclear trained personnel

Twidget- Electronics specialists

Wire biter- Electricians

A-Gang- Auxillary Machinists who dealt with all mechanical systems that were NOT directly connected to the nuclear plant

Knuckle dragger- Machinist mate

Butter bars- O-1 (officer just out of the academy or ROTC)

Canoe U- Navy Academy

Old Man- the Commanding Officer

 

[Squalus]

PRC 77: a radio no longer used that was carried by ground troops
PRC E7: Not a radio, usually a good joke to play on an FNG (tell him to go into the platoon sergeant's office and ask for the "Pr**k E7"
E7: Sergeant First Class (Army)

Get me some canopy lights for tonights airborne assualt.

Can of squelch.

Can of rotar wash.

Air sample to be submitted with AOAP.

Check for weak spots in the armor with a hammer.

Check the shocks on a M113 by jumping up and down on the back.

Need a box of grid squares.

 

[Firebrand]

Here are two definitions for AWOL:

Legal Definition: Absent With Out Leave
Working Definition: Another Way Of Leaving

 

[The Kraken]

Wobbly One - (old time) WO-1

Wodgie Bear - (see Wobbly One)

Elephant D!cks - Large water bladders hauled out to the boonies for the Lurps

Boonies - the one place you don't want to be with a bunch of FNG's

Lurps - short for LRRP's (long range recon patrol) Some BAD M/F's

FNG - Freakin new guy, someone you don't want to be with out in the boonies.

Limpy Lemon - yellow smoke grenade

Goofy Grape - purple smoke grenade

Willie Pete - white phophorus grenade

Chunker - M-40 grenade launcher

Sh!t Burner - someone who screwed up and was appointed to the delightful task of putting JP4 into the waste drums and burning it. ( you DON'T want to have to do this)

Fat Loach - when a Slick pilot gets a wild hair up his butt, becomes delusional that his Huey, since it does have 2 M-60's on it, suddenly qualifies as an OH-6A when he sees something very, very interesting on the ground (this action usually ends up in getting said pilot's butt severly chewed by the old man, or worse, his crewchief)

Duster - M-40 and twin 40mm tracked gun. Sort of like an open topped tank with pom-pom guns. Greatest thing in the world against ground attacks, especially with the flechette rounds . . . . oooooohhhhhhhh NASTY!!!!

Doughnut Dolly - the most wonderful young ladies God ever created. Wish I could meet some of the ones from 'Nam again.

 

[letterboy]

Redleg : Any Artillerymen

Cannon fodder : Marines anyone in the Infantry

Grease monkey : Mechanic

Lanyard grease : FNG ploy

Box of grid squares : Nother FNG ploy

Klingon Battle Axe : RDP

RDP : Range Deflection Protractor tool used in the FDC

FDC : Fire Direction Control Center

Fat Body : PT failure or anyone over weight

Donkey D!ck : Used to pour fuel from five gallon juggs

 

[FreeFloat]

muffin: anyone who prefers reporting to Sick Parade to get out of a morning class or PT

PT: physical training (morning exercise)

Sick Parade: morning medical center, functions kind of like an ER

Cepacol and foot powder: the standard remedies handed out by the medics handling Sick Parade. If it's above the belt, the remedy is Cepacol (throat lozenges); below the belt, is foot powder (unscented talc)

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MTF (more to follow) as I think of them.
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[Lil' Irish Temper]

Being a former Dirt Dart, 1st letters in US Army stand for:

U.S. Army = Uncle Sam Aint Released Me Yet

or backwards

Yes My Retarded A@# Signed Up

AO - Area of Operations