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Veterans Day Quiz

dart4forte

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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
 
Atomhead.
Airedale
Jarhead.
Swabby
90 day wonder
Butter bar
Cracker Jack
Dogface
Doughboy
Sea going bellhop
I'll let others do more.
 
Self loading ugly cargo
PMEE (Prime mission electronics equipment)
WAC
WAF
PAX
FNG (New guy/new gal)
Blue suiter
Prime beef
 
there are a lot missing on this list but Maggot, Gun Bunnies,F- I remember dying cockroach this old age she is kicking I will to think back some years there are so many from when I was in aviation
 
Shellback
Head
Scuttlebutt
 
P-38 can opener
House mouse (guy who did things for the Drill Sergeant/Platoon in basic training)
 
My wife still has her P-38 on her key chain.
 
Ruck sack
Jump boots
PX
PX Ranger
Toe-to-heel (tighten it up) about standing in line
The side-straddle-hop
 
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