Army slang - WW II

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/07/31/wwii-slang/

[Forty Rod]

I have seen FUBAR and FIGMO tee-shirts here in Arizona.

I always laugh out loud and the juvenile squad always look confused.

[St. George]

I've been OCONUS and sometimes see the damndest t-shirt slogans being worn by locals who obviously have 'no' idea what's on the front (or back) of them.

Apparently, they buy them for the colors and how the lettering's arranged - like a design - and meaning be damned...

Scouts Out!

[Trailrider]

More modern: BUFF - Big Ugly Fat (f----r) Fellow - A B-52 bomber.  P-38 (no, not the airplane) or John Wayne - a small folding can opener; Capsule driver - Minuteman ICBM Launch control officer - the Launch Control Facility, located below ground is shaped like a medicinal pill.  Bone - a B-1 bomber (B-One = Bone), rather than the official "Lancer". 

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I knew this one would get responses!

On another tangent; What at was that about a left handed monkey wrench? I didn't know that Y'All recruited left handed monkies!

[pony express]

I knew this one would get responses!

On another tangent; What at was that about a left handed monkey wrench? I didn't know that Y'All recruited left handed monkies!

Just a way of sending Newbies on a wild goose chase.

P-38 (no, not the airplane) or John Wayne - a small folding can opener;

Only John Wayne reference I remember from my army days was for the C-rations toilet paper. It was John Wayne tp, because it was "rough, tough, and wouldn't take any S--t off anybody".

[Niederlander]

B.M.O. = Black Moving Object (Arab woman wearing a burkah)

Sticks = Somalis (as in stick people)

The Dish = Mogadishu, Somalia

Black Boots = First Marines to land in Somalia.  Wore black leather boots.  Everyone after that wore tan desert boots.

[Pitspitr]

My son says they have a (relatively) new one; GFGI= Go F-g Google It

[Blair]

Boon-docks = are where you are when you are in the middle of no where.

Boon-Dockers = are what you wear on your feet when your in the boon-docks. (aka, work/combat boot or shoe)
My best,
Blair

[Pitspitr]

B.M.O. = Black Moving Object (Arab woman wearing a burkah)

Sounds similar to a B.H.O. 

[pony express]

Boon-docks = are where you are when you are in the middle of no where.

That one goes all the way back to the Philippines, an "Americanization" of tagalog word "bunduk", which means, basically in the middle of nowhere.

We did the same to German when I was there- "mox nix" meant didn't matter, from German "Macht nichts". In the middle of Stuttgart, there was a road intersection we called "Mox Nix intersection" There were there were 6 or 8 roads all coming together like spokes of a wheel, and whenever the light in front of you turned green, you just cross your fingers and head for the one you wanted! Derogatory term for the locals was "rads" I guess short for "comrade". I know there's some others, just can't remember them at the moment.

[OklaTom]

Funny how "Bug-Juice" changed from cheap a$$ whiskey in the 1880s to something meaningful in WWII.  This was a lot of fun.  Thanks for sharing.  I remember hearing my Dad say some of these...  LT in the US Army in Europe during the big campaign.