[Ads-l] 'jarhead' (a soldier) antedatings

[James Eric Lawson]

OEDO senses 2a ("member of the United States Army") 1931, and 2b
("member of the United States Marine Corps) 1944. Green ("a US
Marine") 1943. ADS-L, Lighter, 1918 ("Artilleryman"), 1942
(soldier).

1930  *Telling The Marines! [ad]* _The Leatherneck_ 13/6 33 No
wonder the little dame is giving her Marine the works!  No female
loves a briar that smells like a Chinese fish market.  Now if this
jar-head had used Sir Walter Raleigh in his pipe, you’d see the
skirt with her arms around our hero, while the fragrant smoke
wafted its way skyward.

 
https://archive.org/details/sim_leatherneck_1930-06_13_6/page/n34/mode/1up?q=%22jar-head%22

1932  *Army “Slanguage”* _Recruiting news_ 6–7  An Army mule is a
"jar head ” or a Missouri Mustang. Soldiers of a machine gun
company are also “jar heads” to their buddies but - when you call
’em that, stranger, smile!

 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112099968973&view=page&seq=184&q1=jar-head

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James Eric Lawson

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