Military Retiree's & Veterans talk

[Brandy]

Remember vividly doing 100 pushups in the summer of '75 in SC 95* heat and humidity with a DI's boot in the middle of my back while he screamed
every obscenity known to man. Was not offended then and will not be offended now. Jargon is just that, jargon, look it up.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Glad I got out in 2011, was definitely trying dealing with 18 year olds and their phones. I used to make them lock them in their cars and only check them on break and lunch. Got reported blocking a members freedom of speech. Well my shops productivity went from 60% to 93 so the Col made it base policy then! Have to watch what you ask for, you usually get it. Like a very smart GST told me when I was a e-4 if you aren't the same rank twice your not doing your job!

 

[Brandy]

I think it's mil wide now that you cant talk on a cell and be in motion at the same time.

 

[miller]

A big THANKS to all of you that served. I wanted to, but never lucky enough (asthma history), AF brat.

Skin thickness. Remember something that happened. Air show, AF base at Shreveport, La, flew in just as tornado alarms were going off. Big rush to shove airplanes into C-130 hangars, our B-25 with 'em. Time for a drink! Got bedded down on the base, and was invited to the officers club, lol.
My buddy (gear up), and me (one-eyed mexican) closed the place down. (gawd I love remembering this stuff!) Politely, they ran us out. Slightly drunk, walking towards the barracks, got to the street. Some old boy came out on his balcony, and yelled at us. Guess we were singing too loud. Told him...f**k you!, and went on.
Morning comes, get going, and someone mentioned us, getting drunk, a little talk with someone. He was the base commander!
Probably glad to see us bomber pukes leave.

 

[Gone]

SAC covered a lot of ground and many fields. Most were not fly boys. Heavy vehicles mechanic ( tow, deicing were my specialty) then there were garbage trucks, cranes, land fill shredders, all kinds of snow equipment, farm tractors, missile transports, fork lifts. Motor pool was our biggest pain in the *** that and brass.

Yep, SAC comprised two-thirds of the nuclear triad and was all about the delivery of nuclear weapons, whether by aircraft or silo launched, and the survival of the national command authorities in the event of a nuclear strike against the US. Everything else was secondary.

 

[Gone]

Active duty had much worse names for reservists. It escapes me why someone would get upset over normal military jargon.

Back in the day, the Active Component called National Guardsmen "Weekend Warriors"...they certainly did not like it. No Active Component leader would use that term today given the expanded and critical role the Guard has in national security and overseas deployments. That term is not used any more...for good reason. Same with the Army Reserve.

 

[69a100]

Don't forget Fighter Pukes. Just because they had a private seat! I was a Bomber Puke, and proud of it.

I was proud to be a Tanker Toad and proud of it too!

Yep, SAC comprised two-thirds of the nuclear triad and was all about the delivery of nuclear weapons, whether by aircraft or silo launched, and the survival of the national command authorities in the event of a nuclear strike against the US. Everything else was secondary.

Been there, done that! I was in the 4th ACCS for 3+ years and was a part of the ALCS. I also flew Looking Glass missions too.
ACCS= Airborne Command & Control Systems.
ALCS= Air Launch Control Systems
Tanker Toad= Any crewmember that flew on Tankers, KC-135/KC-10.
Reserve Bum= Any Reservist that works the system for a living. I was a Reserve bum!
Guard Bum= Same as above except they are a Guardsman.
Trougher= See Reserve Bum.
Crew Canoe= A different name for a Crew Bus. I came up with this when ordering a bus to take us from the Sqdrn. to the jet during a 4 day blazing rainstorm.
Lawn dart= Nickname for a F-16, it's what it becomes when the engine flames out.
Steam jet= It was the KC-135A or B-52G models because they used water/thrust augmentation for takeoff.

 

[Runner 68]

Deck Apes Rule!

Deck Apes.... now there's one I haven't heard in a while.
Of course there is always the ever popular Grunt.
I picture this every time I hear it.

 

[Brandy]

Back in the day the language of military jargon flowed freely and nobody got upset about it. Nobody that mattered anyway. Now we are so PC it is ridiculous.
Here's an example...as kids we often visited Aunts and Uncles so they could catch up and we could play together. My Uncle Richard is a Navy vet and always called us names like Hemorrhoid, Mergatroid, numbskull, numbnuts, wingnut, and a host of others, as did my Dad to his brothers kids. Nobody got upset, took it personally, it was all good. They loved us and showed it. it was just a thing. my parents MC had 42 member bikes comprising 70 something people. I got called a load of different names as a kid. When I joined the service and went to basic I was amused by the city kids who got upset about Di's calling them names.

 

[69a100]

Of course there is always the ever popular Grunt.

Grunt=Ground Running Unit Not Trainable

 

[mopar 3 B]

Target - those with poor shooting skills

 

[Brandy]

cannon fodder.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Deck Apes.... now there's one I haven't heard in a while.
Of course there is always the ever popular Grunt.
I picture this every time I hear it.
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I was a bit of everything, deck ape, then squint, then USAF pole climber then pilots god and last sparky! Hell of a experience.

 

[Cranky]

Was in the AF in the early 70's and never heard the term puke but heard plenty of others lol. You can do a google search and find a bunch of stuff. A lot of it I've heard but a lot of it I haven't. In basic we had a DI that wasn't 'over the top' with colorful language and name calling so probably missed a lot. Did hear a few that sounded like they were straight out of the Marines tho and was confronted by one during morning chow for doing something that was pretty minor. Don't even remember what it was....

 

[Gone]

As a cadet, the jodies we used to sing were often obscene and we'd sing them while marching by parents sitting in the grandstands on the way to parade. Nobody cared...us or the parents. In fact, the parents beamed with joy and pride when we marched by. It was a different time, my brothers.

 

[Cranky]

Hey 69, how bout starting a conversation over there about all of the different names that military personnel use?

 

[69a100]

Hey 69, how bout starting a conversation over there about all of the different names that military personnel use?

?????????? You lost me, explain.

 

[Cranky]

?????????? You lost me, explain.

Weren't you on a social media site asking a question? Do they have a forum or is it more like a FB type of place? You can't ask a question about the different names/titles/slang that military personnel use for the different jobs they do/did? Might even start out asking what a 'buddy ******' is....

 

[oldbee]

As a cadet, the jodies we used to sing were often obscene and we'd sing them while marching by parents sitting in the grandstands on the way to parade. Nobody cared...us or the parents. In fact, the parents beamed with joy and pride when we marched by. It was a different time, my brothers.

Lol, we were marching down main road the day before graduation; got into a particularly risqué ditty. The DI stopped us before the “good” part, you could the smiles from the dads &uncles.who figured out what the ending would have been!

 

[69a100]

Cranky- I was askin something totally different for Guard & Reserve personal, and some pussy got all offended when I mentioned that Active Duty pukes need not reply. I'll let you guess where it went from there. That's why I started this here. God forbid what might happen if I posted all the terms I've posted here, I'd have a bounty on my head!