Favorite Military "sayings"

[garandman]

 

[garandman]

 

[jhagberg88]

Shut your cock holster

 

[jhagberg88]

DADT is still in effect, so I’m not saying you’re gay, I’m saying you’re showing signs and symptoms.

 

[garandman]

Welcome to Germany! It’s Spring! My buddy's comment when he saw it was "Hohenfels stock photo."

 

[garandman]

Some of you probably remember these towers, at Fort Benning since before WWII.



View: https://twitter.com/curtisbuzzard/status/1633551090753871888

 

[Picton]

Some of you probably remember these towers, at Fort Benning since before WWII.



View: https://twitter.com/curtisbuzzard/status/1633551090753871888

They were inoperable when I went through in 1996. I assumed they were permanently NMC.

 

[Andy in NH]

Some of you probably remember these towers, at Fort Benning since before WWII.



View: https://twitter.com/curtisbuzzard/status/1633551090753871888

"Hit the hole pole man, hit the hole!"

 

[garandman]

They were inoperable when I went through in 1996. I assumed they were permanently NMC.

Someone needs to blow up the Swing Landing Trainer.

 

[Picton]

Someone needs to blow up the Swing Landing Trainer.

My least-favorite (and least-useful) apparatus was the Suspended Harness. Thing nearly gave me a hernia when I had to do refresher training at Ranger School.

"Suspended Agony," everyone called it.

I think all you really need is the zipline-style PLF trainer (several times), the 34' tower a few times, and the thing where they drag you over the grass on a big piece of sheet metal while you figure out how to activate the canopy release assembly. The rest was all a waste of time.

 

[KBCraig]

Some of you probably remember these towers, at Fort Benning since before WWII.



View: https://twitter.com/curtisbuzzard/status/1633551090753871888

Winds were too high when I went through in 1986, so we didn't do the drop tower.

I hated the Swing Landing Trainer, though. There you are, swinging just a few feet off the ground, and then there's a big jerk as you're suddenly dropped and hit the ground. It's not at all like an actual parachute drop.

 

[Shark_Cage]

My dad was in the Navy in WW2. When he was on liberty (drinking at a bar) and some Coast Guard guys wandered in, some of the Navy guys would yell “He comes the Jewish fleet!”. It always started a fight that required the SP’s to break it up lol

 

[71montess]

I said it today about Tucker Carlson, If your getting Flak, you’re over the target.

 

[garandman]

 

[Andy in NH]

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That guy looks sinister.

 

[Andy in NH]

I once heard a crusty old Gunny say to a young LCpl (who was behaving as if he was more important than he really was), "I've got more time on block leave than you do on active duty, so you better get yourself squared away!"

 

[garandman]

At Fort Benning for a reunion and we were talking about hand signals.

This has two meanings:

“I’m f***ed, cover me,”

Or

“I’m under cover, you’re f***ed.”

 

[garandman]

 

[KBCraig]

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As a manager in today's retail environment... you have no idea.

 

[garandman]

 

[Maxrobot]

"Uncle Sam and I are business partners - only he don't know it."

 

[garandman]

 

[garandman]

 

[garandman]

 

[Andy in NH]

Favorite Military "sayings"

What do I know?

Who needs to know it?

Have I told them?

 

[MG2112]

heard this one in USCG boot camp - "eyes in the boat"

 

[Andy in NH]

heard this one in USCG boot camp - "eyes in the boat"

DI: EYEBALLS!

Recruits: CLICK! (while snapping their heads towards the DI.)

DI: EARS!

Recruits: OPEN!

Years ago I did this with the Scouts at Pack meetings and it really caught on!

A decade later, I still see some of the former Scouts and we still have fun with it.

Good times!

 

[Andy in NH]

 

[sjohnston0311]

"Someone give me six swingin dicks for a working party"

Also "daggone"

Also "it would behoove you..."

 

[Picton]

Also "it would behoove you..."

Almost every senior NCO I ever worked with literally thought the term was, “it would be who (or, occasionally, hooah) of you to…”