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Spent most of the afternoon zipping these back and forth with some of my friends (we email each other the weirdest stuff), when it struck me that aspiring fanfic writers who like to use (ptui!) humans in their fanfics, and military humans at that, might want to spice up their soldiers with a little US military-style lingo.

One thing the site doesn't explain is the 'boot search'. When you're the hopeless newbie, part of the hazing ritual is being sent from place to place for stuff that doesn't exist. We used to send our newbies out for "flightline" or "canopy lights" or "grid squares". It's not meant to be mean spirited--everyone fell for it once when they were new, and it livens up a boring day in the S-4. But it's something you might find useful. (Torment your newbies! It's the military way!)

Anyway, site is here. It's actually compiled by soldiers and sailors and the like themselves, so some of the spelling is a little...wonky. Fun stuff to browse through. Thought you might find it useful and/or fun.

HK, I likes a good lingo.

damn it kitty

you know i'm going to have to read threw that.

I'm a sucker for knowing things I may never need to apply.

woot information... this reminds me of the Australian slang dictionary.... not as useful but still an interesting read

thanks Hellkitty, may come in handy in the future

Ahhh, brings back memories of intiating the new guy in the unit.

Hey PFC Smith, bring me batteries for the chem lights and a box of grid squares!

Bloodlust wrote:Ahhh, brings back memories of intiating the new guy in the unit.

Hey PFC Smith, bring me batteries for the chem lights and a box of grid squares!

LOL---I'd forgotten about the chemlight batteries.

Ah, the good old days.

HK hazing the newbie: it takes a village.

hellkitty wrote:

Bloodlust wrote:Ahhh, brings back memories of intiating the new guy in the unit.

Hey PFC Smith, bring me batteries for the chem lights and a box of grid squares!

LOL---I'd forgotten about the chemlight batteries.

Ah, the good old days.

HK hazing the newbie: it takes a village.

not to be mean, but how many noobs did you get on your squad during your service?

Wheelimus Prime wrote:
not to be mean, but how many noobs did you get on your squad during your service?

Am I clueless? I can't see how this could possibly be a 'mean' question! Newbies normally come in batches. They can replace guys who are rotating back to ETS (get out of the Army), go TDY (temporary duty), or replace casualties. So it's a lose X amount, get X amount of newbies exchange. (Or it's supposed to be--most units rotate deployed understrength). Figure every couple of months, I think, the infantry division I was attached to got a batch of kids straight from AIT. Bald and bug eyed. Cute.

HK, we called them 'screaming eagles'.

ha, well, my first time in an organized paintball match, everyone called me the FNG (un abreviated) for several weeks, up until they found out i reload faster than most of them

good times.

and screaming eagles?

Lt Commander Waffles wrote:ha, well, my first time in an organized paintball match, everyone called me the FNG (un abreviated) for several weeks, up until they found out i reload faster than most of them

good times.

and screaming eagles?

Sorry to me so long, an average "boot" drop was about 20-30 for my company alone, so lets see, i personally got about 40 new marines and 4 new corpsman with me (me being the senior corpsman for my company).

Find me sometime and i'll blow your mind away with paintball