More USMC acronyms (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Over 1,000 Raw Googlits back to 1992.

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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I heard this definition of a Marine once:

Muscles
Are
Required
Intelligence
Not
Essential

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> 2007 Milo S. Afong _Hogs in the Shadows_ (N.Y.: Berkley)
> 3-4: Because a Marine has no training as a sniper, during
> indoctrination he is known as as a SLUG, an acronym for Slow,
> Lazy, Untrained Gunman....Once in a scout/sniper platoon, the
> Marine receives the honorable name of PIG, meaning
> Professionally Instructed Gunman. The name explains that the
> Marine is worthy to receive the training to become a
> sniper....A HOG is a Hunter of Gunmen and is the only one of
> the three designations to be considered a Marine
> scout/sniper....Once a PIG graduates scout/sniper school he
> receives the title of HOG and the current military occupation
> specialty of 0317.
>
> (Make of it what you will....)
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> JL
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