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[Jonathan Lighter]

"Meat in the seat" is the for m in HDAS.

To my limited knowledge, "unass" (v.t., v.i.) is unattested (in print)
before the VN war.

JL

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:44 AM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM
AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> Wilson - I’m not surprised
> Bill
>
> > On Oct 8, 2018, at 7:20 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
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> > ----
> >
> >> "Unass" is older than this; I have heard it in use verbally since the
> >> mid-1990s.
> >
> > unass v. to dismount or disembark (a vehicle); to get off of
> > (something); to unseat (someone); to leave (somewhere). Editorial
> > Note: This term dates back to at least the 1960s and the Vietnam War.
> > It is especially associated with the military, from where it has
> > spread to politics and aeronautics. (Nov 17, 2004
> > A Way with Words | unass
> > Caution-https://www.waywordradio.org/unass/
> >
> > My personal experience is that this was used in the Army as far back
> > as the Korean War.
> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 12:35 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The most recent updates include a lot of entries derived from ass, bum,
> >> butt, and the like.
> >>
> >> Included is "bums in seats" (1978), but missing is "butts in seats".
> >>
> >> _Corbin [KY] Times-Tribune_ 23 Oct 1970 p 2 col 1
> >>
> >> " "The object of the game is to put butts in the seats," said Cousy."
> >>
> >> Evanston IL _Daily Northwestern_ 7 Oct 1971 p 8 col 2
> >>
> >> "How do you get the butts in the seats?"
> >>
> >>
> >> And also missing is "Asscrackistan"
> >>
> >> _Rolling Stone_ 25 Jul 2002, quoted in _Slug & Lettuce_ Summer 2003, p 2
> >> col 2
> >>
> >> "Now while the reporting in Rolling Stone is dodgy, and superficial at
> >> best, this article, "Horny and Heavily Armed" (issue 901, July 25, 2002)
> >> was great because it portrayed military men as exactly what they are.
> >> In this article, the journalist Even Wright, joins an army platoon in
> >> garrison based in a country they call "Ass-crack-istan." "
> >>
> >> Caution-
> https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=Caution-https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2814&context=as220_root
> >>
> >> _Prisoner Express_ Spring 2010 p. 16 col 1
> >>
> >> "Let me especially extend my apologies to the anonymous government
> >> employees whose brilliant idea to set this man to killing his fellow
> >> Arabs in Asscrackistan caused him to instead begin murdering the killers
> >> he was training with."
> >>
> >> Caution-
> https://prisonerexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2010_1_Spring.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> "Unass" (to get people to get off their butts) is not included, either.
> >>
> >> _Small Arms Defense Journal_ Jan 2016  p 104 col 1
> >> "Defilade, enfilade, grazing fire, plunging fire, and suppressive fire
> >> on assault or effective cover for your platoon to unass an AO gone bad."
> >>
> >> Caution-
> http://machinegunarmory.com/MGAMilSite/Publications/SMDJ_vol8_no1_JANUARY_2016104-107.pdf
> >>
> >> _The Eddy Line_ Mar 2001 p 17 col 2
> >>
> >> "Footage includes Clint Rinehart demonstrating how to unass a kayak and
> >> swim from the hole below Left Crack and into Middle Crack's hole at 2.4
> >> feet."
> >>
> >> Caution-http://www.gapaddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/el200103.pdf
> >>
> >> _The Intake_ Sum 2011 p. 32
> >>
> >> "He wrote back that because he didn't have to "unass" the bird, it
> >> didn't fit there either."
> >>
> >> Caution-
> https://supersabresociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Issue-16-Summer-2006.pdf
> >>
> >> ("Unass" is older than this; I have heard it in use verbally since the
> >> mid-1990s.)
> >>
> >>
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