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U.S. Veteran's Day - SNAFU, FUMTU, TARFU, FUBAR

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Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-11-12 00:35:51 UTC
In honor of U.S. Veteran's Day, a short list of some of the military's fine contributions to the English language. A lot of them are useful for anybody who works in any normal, screwed-up organization. A short list of old, kind of polite ones. Vets and active service, let's hear some other good ones.

ARMY: Air Force Rejected Me Yesterday
ARMY: Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet
CYA: Cover Your Ass
DEH: Don't Expect Help
DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give a ****
FIDO: **** It, Drive On
FIFO: Fit In or **** Off
FIGMO: **** It, Got My Orders
FILTAB: **** it, let's take a break
FNG: ******* New Guy
FRED: ******* ****** Extra Dumb
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond All Repair
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond Any Recognition
FUMTU: ****** Up More Than Usual
G2G: Good To Go
I&I: Intoxication and Intercourse
LGH: Let's Go Home
LOST: Looking Over Strange Terrain
MARINE: Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential
MARINES: My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment
MRE: Meals Rejected by the Enemy
Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
NBC: No Body Cares
OMGIF: Oh My God, I'm ******
****: Special High-Intensity Training
SNAFU: Situation Normal All ****** Up
SPFO: Some Place ******* Off
SWAG: Scientific Wild Ass Guess
TARFU: Things Are Really ****** Up
TURD: Trainee Under Rigid Discipline
USARMY: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet
USARMY: Used, Screwed, And Released My Ass, Yep
USCG: Uncle Sam's Confused Group
USMC: U Suckers Missed Christmas
USMC: Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
YMRASU (U.S. Army spelled backwards): Yes My ******** Ass Signed Up
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-11-12 03:03:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
Telegram Sam wrote:
In honor of U.S. Veteran's Day, a short list of some of the military's fine contributions to the English language. A lot of them are useful for anybody who works in any normal, screwed-up organization. A short list of old, kind of polite ones. Vets and active service, let's hear some other good ones.

ARMY: Air Force Rejected Me Yesterday
ARMY: Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet
CYA: Cover Your Ass
DEH: Don't Expect Help
DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give a ****
FIDO: **** It, Drive On
FIFO: Fit In or **** Off
FIGMO: **** It, Got My Orders
FILTAB: **** it, let's take a break
FNG: ******* New Guy
FRED: ******* ****** Extra Dumb
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond All Repair
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond Any Recognition
FUMTU: ****** Up More Than Usual
G2G: Good To Go
I&I: Intoxication and Intercourse
LGH: Let's Go Home
LOST: Looking Over Strange Terrain
MARINE: Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential
MARINES: My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment
MRE: Meals Rejected by the Enemy
Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
NBC: No Body Cares
OMGIF: Oh My God, I'm ******
****: Special High-Intensity Training
SNAFU: Situation Normal All ****** Up
SPFO: Some Place ******* Off
SWAG: Scientific Wild Ass Guess
TARFU: Things Are Really ****** Up
TURD: Trainee Under Rigid Discipline
USARMY: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet
USARMY: Used, Screwed, And Released My Ass, Yep
USCG: Uncle Sam's Confused Group
USMC: U Suckers Missed Christmas
USMC: Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
YMRASU (U.S. Army spelled backwards): Yes My ******** Ass Signed Up


Adding one...

USMC: U Signed the Mothf*cking Contract Big smile

*Edit: Marine Corps birthday was yesterday... Congress placed Veteran's day the day after because they knew that all Marines not on deployment at the time would be hung over.

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Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-11-12 03:31:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
Damn, I didn't know the U.S. gov't was that smart! Smile Happy b'day jars.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-11-12 03:42:29 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
Damn, I didn't know the U.S. gov't was that smart! Smile Happy b'day jars.


I'm still a little hung over... but more alcohol is helping.

You forgot USAF: Uncle Sam's Aerial Fairies Blink

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Tinja Soikutsu
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-11-12 04:17:02 UTC
guess you never head of TACFUBAR: Totally and Completely ****** up Beyond All Repair.
Marie Hartinez
Aries Munitions and Defense
#6 - 2012-11-12 06:56:52 UTC
Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself

Surrender is still your slightly less painful option.

Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#7 - 2012-11-23 12:27:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Mostly British Military Specific

REMF - Rear Echelon Mother****er
CCP - Casualty Collecting Point
GPMG - General Purpose Machine Gun (also affectionately known as a gimpy pronounced with a J)
KFS – Knife, Fork and Spoon
OBE - Other Buggers' Efforts (Officer of the British Empire Medal)
ODTF - Operation Doomed To Failure
OGDW - Operation Gone Disastrously Wrong
SIB - Special Investigation Branch (branch of the Royal Military Police not so affectionately known as Stab In Back)
BFOT - Big **** Off Tent
BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
CTF - Chuffed To **** (Happy for the americanese speakers P)
NEWD - Night Exercise Without Darkness
CHIPS - Causing Havoc In Public Spaces, or Creating Havoc in Peoples' Streets
DSO - Did Something Outstanding (Distinguished Service Order medal)
FIBUA - Fighting In Built up Areas
FIPAC - Fighting In Pubs And Clubs
FISH - Fighting In Someone's House
FIWAF - Fighting In Woods and Forests
U3 - Utterly Utterly Useless
FUB - ****ing Ugly Bastard (as in: "that man's a FUB")
SAS - State Authorised Slaughter
GIFA - Great Iraqi **** All
JAFFA - Just Another Fat ****ing Administrator
JANFU - Joint Army Navy **** Up
JEWT - Jungle Exercise Without Trees
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
UMIN - Ugliest Man In NATO
TEWT - Tactical Exercise Without Troops
MBE - My Bloody Efforts (Member of the British Empire medal)
MPI - Mean Point of Impact
MUPPET - Most Useless Person Pirbright Ever Trained (Pirbright is the army training centre)
WOFTEX - Waste Of ****ing Time Exercise

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Jago Kain
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-11-23 20:00:30 UTC
Missed a couple of important UK ones.

STABS = Stupid Territorial Army Bastards. (TA is our version of the National Guard... only with less student murdering)

also

WRAC = Weekly Ration of Army ****. I believe that the Women's Royal Army Corps is no more, but my grandad always used to refer to them as that.

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Elias Greyhand
#9 - 2012-11-23 20:27:41 UTC
Jago Kain wrote:
STABS = Stupid Territorial Army Bastards. (TA is our version of the National Guard... only with less student murdering)


One of my favourite "military" stereotypes is that of the TA part-timer who claims to have been "in the Regiment".

"That which is done cannot be undone. But it can be avenged."

Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#10 - 2012-11-23 20:29:23 UTC
Jago Kain wrote:
Missed a couple of important UK ones.

STABS = Stupid Territorial Army Bastards. (TA is our version of the National Guard... only with less student murdering)

also

WRAC = Weekly Ration of Army ****. I believe that the Women's Royal Army Corps is no more, but my grandad always used to refer to them as that.


Makes me wish Rupert was an acronym. I was brought up around the army, so I joined the air force where 90% of the acronyms were the sameP

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