More humorous mil. acros.

[Jonathan Lighter]

In my haste to educate, illuminate, and aggravate I misspoke.

  "CYA" and "FTA" are not only genuine, they're very well documented. Also familiar to HDAS are BOHICA, BUFF, (FT) EUSTIS, DILLIGAF, FIDO, FIGMO, FNG, FUBAR, HMFIC, I&I, MRE, OMGIF, PFC, SNAFU, SWAG, TARFU, USMC ("Uncle Sam's Misguided Children"). Some of these go back to WWII.

  Still others that come to mind are DILLIGAS ("...a shit"), WTF?, USMC ("Uncle Sam's Moldy Crotch"), FUJIGMO ("Fuck you, Jack, I Got My Orders"), FUBIS ("...Buddy, I'm Shipping"), TARFUBAR, SUSFU ("Situation Unchanged, Still...").

  There's a chigger whose scientific monicker is _Tribicula fujigmo_.  For details, as well as other bizarre Linnaean names (including the fly _Phthiria relativitae_), see [http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html].

  JL



Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Back in my day, CYA and FTA were really in use, *especially* FTA. Two
other real ones from my day are missing:

RFM: [The Great] Random-Fuck Machine [in the Sky], used to explain why
bad things happen to good people; pronounced "R-F-M"

At graduation from the Army Language School at the preesidio of
Monterey, there was an opening for two warm bodies (don't kknow
whether the preceding originated in the military, but that's where I
became accustomed to hearing it) at the Security Agency unit in the
Aleutian Islands. The two men assigned to said unit were both from
Boston. The Army gave each person thirty days of leave and enough
money to fly first-class to his port of embarkation. Given that the
POE for the Aleutians is San Francisco, only a hoot 'n' a holler from
Monterey, the two men received a travel allowance of $25. Therefore,
in addition to getting assigned to the worst shithole in the Security
Agency, they had to pay their own way home to Boston for leave and
back to Frisco for shipment out of a paycheck of $75/mo. Given that
there were plenty of people from the Greater SF Area who could have
been assigned to the Aleutians, there was absolutely no reason for the
two people in our class who would be hurt *the most* to be assigned
there. Since assignments were made completely randomly by some company
clerk at Agency HQ at Fort Holobaird, MD, there was only one possible
explanation for this outcome: the operation of the RFM.

My own travel allowance was $750, my POE being Maguire AFB in NJ..

WGAF: (As though) We Give A Fuck; pronounced "WE gaff!"

WRT the cadences, "Josephine" and "Used to live in a shack," they both
are ripoffs of Fats Domino's "My Girl Josephine."

-Wilson

On 11/5/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> This site has many, none of which, I think, are meant to be taken seriously:
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> http://miljokes.com/military-cadences.html
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> GRUNT is conspicuously absent.
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> The following are new since I checked on Sept. 4, 2003:
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> CUNT
> FART
> FLIF [sic]
> FUBAR ("...recognition")
> MARINES ("Many Americans...")
> NAVY ("Need any...")
> NCO
> SONFI
> USARMY ("Used,...")
> USCG
> USMC ("Unlimited...")
> USMC ("Urine Samples...")
> YMRASU
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> JL
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