[Ads-l] REMF antedating

[Bill Mullins]

The OED (and Jesse Sheidlower's book _The F-Word_) have an entry for REMF with a first citation of 1/11/1971, in _Newsweek_.


1970  St. Petersburg, FL _Tampa Bay Times_ 8 Feb 12/1
"The 50,000 men who spent their year at Long Binh were known to the grunts as 'R.E.M.F.s' (rear-echelon mother--)."

1970 _Boston Globe_ 26 Apr 63/2
"The grunts call them Rimfs, which stands for 'rear echelon mother -- .' "


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