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Veterans Day Quiz

Boat guy
River rat
Cocked, locked and ready to rock
Shoot, move and communicate
 
In 1969 I was in California visiting my brother at MCRD. (I think that was what it was called). As I was standing next to a couple of Marines a female Marine officer walked by. After she was far enough away, one of the marines looked at me and said, "we call them BAMs. Broad *** Marine. I was 12 at the time.
 
Flyboy= Aircrew member
Sweaty= enlisted person
College boy= a Officer
Zero=a Officer
Zoomie=Academy grad
BOPA= Boom Operators Protection Association
Mole hole= Alert Facility
For Alert Force, For Alert Force, Klaxon Klaxon Klaxon
Tanker Toad
Bomber Puke/Slug
Strato-bladder=KC-135
The Big Sexy= KC-10
 
bubblehead
surface puke
f&%kin maggot -
f&%kin ******** - Names you were called before and after the bootcamp haircut. I referred to it as our first promotion.
Blue Nose
Denizen of the Deep
Dolphins
Angles and Dangles
Boomer Sailor
Pig Boat Sailor
Mustanger
Goat Locker
poop suit
Mid-Rats
 
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GEEZ, guys, i must have lead a very sheltered 7 years in the Air Force.
Very few of those things have i ever heard of, and some i would know of anyway, without ever being in the military.
But it's fun, trying to figure out what they mean.
 
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!
 
Hooch
Butter Bar
Shake N Bake
Firing line (how many 2LTs were sent to supply to get some?)

LT

DIWEE

Most rickytic

11 Bullet Stopper

Sagger Dance

Ranger cookie

Frag

Bouncing Betty

OPORD

FRAGO

TOC

CP

OP
 
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Loved pogey bait out in the field!
Latrine. Had never heard it called that before.
K9P
Prick25, the PRC25 radio, hated humping that thing, plus the extra batteries.
RTO
 
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