Some Army terms:
Squared Away = Things are in order
Good to Go = Self explanatory
Roger = The answer to anything
Hooah = The answer to anything
Ate up = all fouled up
12 up and 4 down = 8 up
We're sailing a Chickenwire canoe up the ****z River with Swiss cheese paddles = things are not going well
Big serving of Chicken noodle on Rye = See above
ODF = Out Dar Flappin = See above
Smaj = Sergeant Major
Top = First Sergeant
Platoon Daddy = Platoon Sergeant
Squad Leader = God
Team Leader = Not God, but has a direct line to God
PL = Patrol Leader = Lieutenant when he is "squared away"
MFIC = Mother F--ker In Charge
Bullet Launcher = Rifle
Pig = M240B Machinegun
Banger = Flashbang Grenade
Pop gun = Pistol
Universal Key = Shotgun (used to open doors)
Door Knocker = Exterior/Interior Breaching Charge
Orchestrated Ballet of Death = Trained Infantry Squad in the attack
Mix metal and meat = your job in the infantry
Kill people and break things = your job in the infantry
Tool = term for a private
Hotrod = term for a private as in "Come here Hotrod, Just what in the H--l do you think your doing??"
SLUG = Student in an Army School - acronym for "Student Leader Under Guidance"
Some things to send privates looking for:
Blank Adapter for a 203.
Blank Adapter for an M9
A salamander E7 = comes from the radio salamander 77-Best when you send the private to a Sergeant First Class (E-7). Go find Sergeant Dufflebag and tell you need to get a salamander E7!!
Frequency Grease
Canopy Lights = for jumpin at night
Keys to the Drop Zone
Box of Grid Square
Tell the new LT who is lost to check the map. Then you shake a bush and tell him to look for movement. Never had one not look for a second. At night shine a red light straight up and tell him to look for the red dot.
or show him:
Automatic Azimuth = Pushing the sighting glass down on the Lensatic Compass locks the needle in place. You never drift off azimuth that way!
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