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Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 25 12:48:21 UTC 2019
"Zoomie" has applied to naval and other military aviators since WWII. In
fact, it seems to have originated in the Navy. The Air Force used to
prefer "flyboy."
HDAS had a lot more exx. (all later), but these seem to have disappeared
into the cyberdepths, along with much else.
1943 Chicago Daily Times (Apr. 28) 22: Lt. Charles E. Rodebaugh, U.S.N.,
is a Zoomie – PPC of a PBY Catalina patrol seaplane.
"PPC" = "patrol plane commander.
JL
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:28 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > zoomies
>
> First time that I've seen this in print written by anyone except me. At the
> now-defunct Tempelhof AFB, GI's who worked there referred to their Air
> Force compatriots as "zoomies," back in 1961.
>
> In the context quoted above, _jarheads_ mostly likely = "marines," the
> Navy's army. So, "zoomies," in this case, may refer not to airmen, but to
> the Naval Air Forces and/or to Marine Corps Aviation.
>
> Think about that. The Navy not only has its own army and its own air force,
> but also the Navy's army even has *its* own air force.
>
> Baseball-legend Ted Williams is probably the most-famous Marine Corps
> zoomie, having been a fighter-pilot during World War II and during the
> Korean War.
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:05 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 'Submarine officer or crew member.' (From the double-dolphin badge.)
> >
> > 2019 https://www.quora.com/ : Nor am I trying to put down the
> > swabbies/dolphins. Contrary to what the jarheads think, and the delusions
> > of the zoomies, I know that the Navy is the most important service for
> > defending the US.
> >
> > JL
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