Military Acronyms and Slang Dictionary

[diverbrian]

Target- Surface ships (so named because of their appearance through a periscope with crosshairs on them)

Goat Locker- Chief Petty Officer quarters

Chop- Supply officer

Dink- Someone delinquent in their qualifications progress

Doc- Independent Duty corpman who handled doctor's duties on the submarine

Sports pages- something that you wanted to stay out of! The part of the Plan of the Day that listed who got Non judicial punishment from the Captain

Captain- Commanding Officer of the boat regardlass of rank

Captain's Mast- when a hearing was presented for the captain to decide what to do with a discipline problem (normally) or meritious action. Punishment was normally handed out here.

POD- Plan of the day. The CO's day orders put out by the ship's yeoman (clerk) everyday

Hot Rack- Due to the low number of racks on a sub, junior people often had to rotate racks such that while one was on watch, another was sleeping in his rack.

 

[TCDiver1]

Hey Brian, you forgot "Bubblehead" .... you bubblehead!

Bubblehead - submarine sailor

 

[diverbrian]

Hey Brian, you forgot "Bubblehead" .... you bubblehead!

Bubblehead - submarine sailor

You're right! I did forget that one...

Add...

Mustang- Officer who started life as enlisted and later went to officer's schooling. Don't try to con one of these! They have seen it and/or done it before you even thought of it!

Wardroom- The officer's portion of the ship. Good place to stay out of if you are enlisted!

Basket Leave- Illegal process where an approved, signed leave chit was stored in the Yeoman's office and no checkout was done. The leave wouldn't start until someone noticed the lack of a checkout time (if they did) and if they didn't, the leave chit could be ripped up on the return of the person taking the leave and no time would be taken off of that person's leave account with the officers being none the wiser.

Day after duty- Tradition where (in port) the off going duty section would be released as soon as possible after the start of the work day. Many times this would be right after morning muster.

Bag job- Where the off-going watchstander did nothing more than the minimum on their watch and leaves the on coming watch "holding the bag" for all of the things that were supposed to happen on the off-going watchstander's watch. HIGHLY FROWNED UPON!

STAR baby- a derogatory term for an E-5 that got promoted to E-5 by re-enlisting for two years on top of the four year+2 YR extension that existed for highly technical programs. The name of the program was the STAR (Selective Training And Re-enlistment) Program.

 

[Firebrand]

C.H.A.O.S. - Colonel Has Another Outstanding Suggestion!

Not really a military acronym, but has anyone ever noticed that Evian (as in Evian bottled water) is Naive spelled backwards? Hmmmm, makes you wonder what these bottling companies think of thier consumers.

 

[neophytediver]

Wouldn't that be "NAIVE" Firebrand?

D'oh!!

 

[Jason B]

Scuttlebutt = Water drinking fountain
Head = bathroom
Reefer = refrigerator
Deck = floor
Passageway = hall way
Geedunk = candy
Roach Coach = little truck that drives down pier and sells geedunk to on duty sailors
FOD = foreign object destruct (trash on flight deck)
Donkey Dick = nozzle used for re-fueling ship
Gig Line = line created by shirt buttons and pants zipper
BJM = Blue Jackets Manual
ASW = Anti Submarine Warfare
**** on a shingle = corn beef hash on toast

Jason

 

[Firebrand]

Wouldn't that be "NAIVE" Firebrand?

D'oh!!

It is now! Thanks for catching that!

 

[wstein]

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)

When I was in the Corps it was Motrin and Malox that the corpmans carried in their unit 1's. Used to think anything up to and including sucking chest wounds could be cured with either.

Boots - FNG's outa bootcamp
Black Cadilacs - your black leather boots
Hump - the lovely walk to work for the infantryman
03-walk-alot - 0311 Infantry rifleman
SS10 - Shoes, socks, 10 toes (a mode of transportation)
Frog - CH-46 SeaKnight
Brain Bucket - helmet
Soup Cooler - your mouth as in "shut your soup cooler!"
Rubber ducks - the little roll up life vest issued on any overwater helo flight
Gators - The amphibous assault ships in the Navy
Grunt candy - motrin
Gorilla cookies - cookies that came in some of the origianal MRE's, they were stuck together and we used to say that only a gorilla could pull them apart.
BLT - Boot LT or 2nd LT
Gunny - E7 Gunnery Sgt in the Marines
Top - E8 Master Sergent in the Marines

That is all I can think of for the moment.

Paul

 

[wstein]

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

For the Marines out there

U Suckers Missed Christmas

Uncle Sam's Misguided Children

Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential

Semper Gumber, Always Flexible

 

[GDI]

Hey what about all those indirect fire boys

Fire Mission

10 rnds of Shake and bake with Candle light for dinner it's their birthday

Translation
10 rnds He with Wp and illumination

Remember Indirect Fire is never Friendly