Interservice derogatory nicknames
David Conner
different services to describe the others? I know Marines are "jarheads,"
Navy personnel are "squids," are there any other memorable ones? I like
the way submariners refer to the rest of the Navy as the "skimmer Navy."
James L. Coffey
: Does anybody have a list of derogatory nicknames used by members of
: Navy personnel are "squids," are there any other memorable ones? I like
: the way submariners refer to the rest of the Navy as the "skimmer Navy."
That's skimmer pukes.
Nukes -> bubbleheads
USAF -> Air Farce, Bus Drivers
Jim
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>In article <2rqnbu$u...@clarknet.clark.net> dco...@clark.net (David Conner) writes:
>>From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
>>Subject: Interservice derogatory nicknames
>>Date: 23 May 1994 16:58:38 GMT
>Cannon fodder & grunts for Marines or Army, jy-rene (sp?) from jarhead, Air
>Farce, Air Heads, zoomie, or just plain "civilian" for the Air Force.
>Targets for the surface navy, glow worms, bubble-heads for the submariners.
DAT = dumb assed tanker
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Scott Burris
>From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
>Subject: Interservice derogatory nicknames
>Date: 23 May 1994 16:58:38 GMT
>Does anybody have a list of derogatory nicknames used by members of
Cannon fodder & grunts for Marines or Army, jy-rene (sp?) from jarhead, Air
Farce, Air Heads, zoomie, or just plain "civilian" for the Air Force.
Targets for the surface navy, glow worms, bubble-heads for the submariners.
And there are tons of nicknames for all the carriers, or I guess just about
any unit in the various services.
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From: David Conner, dco...@clark.net
Date: 23 May 1994 16:58:38 GMT
writes:
Surface ships = Targets
Yard Birds = civilian refit crews
Airforce = Wing nuts
Sam Johnson ex !Fresh Air Snipe!
Jim
: Jim
In the army, tanker are known as "Tread Heads".
Jim
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Chemical Corps Personnel: Retort Rangers
Any Combat Service Support Personnel: REMFs (Rear Echelon Mother F*****) or
Chairborne Rangers
Infantry: Grunt, Groundpounder
Tanker: Tread head, DAT (Dumb A**ed Tanker)
Non-Airborne Personnel: Leg
Air Assault Personnel: Dope on a rope
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Marines: Jar Heads, Neanderthals
Navy: Squids, Guppies (usually reserved for low ranking officers)
Military Police: Mop Pushers, Multi-Purpose, Military Pricks,
Mud Puppies, Assholes.
Army Infantry: 11 Bang-Bang, 11 Bulletstopper (comes from the Military
Occupational Specialty (MOS) for infantry of 11-B or 11
Bravo)
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David Conner
: And there are tons of nicknames for all the carriers, or I guess just about
What are some of the memorable carrier nicknames?
Scott Burris
>From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
>Date: 24 May 1994 14:23:47 GMT
Without putting much thought to this, the ones that stand out are:
Sorry Sara (Saratoga), Forest Fire (Forrestal), Miserable Midway
(Midway), Kitty cock (Kitty Hawk), Danger Ranger (Ranger),....dang! I
just looked at that list and realize how many of those aren't in service
anymore <sigh>.
Oh and one of my favs that isn't a carrier, the Happy Jose (San Jose AFS-7),
named after a rather unfortunate episode involving several sailors of
"alternate" lifestyles and their Lt.
David Conner
Vanderbilt.
Air Force ROTC members: "Postal ROTC"
Scott Burris
>From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
>I just got another one from my friend's brother, who is in Army ROTC at
>Vanderbilt.
>Air Force ROTC members: "Postal ROTC"
I've always called anybody in ROTC, "Nazi ROTC's" or "Aryan Youth."
But only in jest I assure you :>)
Daniel B Case
>David Conner (dco...@clark.net) wrote:
>: Does anybody have a list of derogatory nicknames used by members of
>: different services to describe the others? I know Marines are "jarheads,"
>: Navy personnel are "squids," are there any other memorable ones? I like
>: the way submariners refer to the rest of the Navy as the "skimmer Navy."
There are two kinds of ships...subs, and targets.
I also have heard (well, seen on Usenet) the Marines' self-description
as the MEN's division of the Navy.
"'My country right or wrong' is like saying,
'My mother drunk or sober'"-G.K. Chesterton
Daniel Case
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Samuel P. Johnson
Date: 24 May 1994 14:23:47 GMT
dco...@clark.net writes:
>Scott Burris (c58...@showme.missouri.edu) wrote:
>: And there are tons of nicknames for all the carriers, or I guess just
about
>: any unit in the various services.
>
>What are some of the memorable carrier nicknames?
Forrestal = Forest Fire (bad flight deck fire in !60!s)
Independence = End of Penis
Saratoga = Sorry Sara
Coral Sea = ?
America = ?
That!s all that come to mind at the moment but I!m sure there is more.
Sam
Steve Sample
>Jim
Hmm...
Coast Guard -> Puddle Pirates
Marines -> Bullet Sponges
those are my favorites... don't really know many others...
Scott Burris
>Subject: Re: Interservice derogatory nicknames
>Date: 24 May 94 15:19:51 -0500
>Subject: Re: Interservice derogatory nicknames
>From: David Conner, dco...@clark.net
>Date: 24 May 1994 14:23:47 GMT
>In article <2rt2lj$j...@clarknet.clark.net> David Conner,
>dco...@clark.net writes:
>Coral Sea = ?
The Oral Sea of course! I had almost forgotten that one.
>America = ?
Can't think of any for the America, that's a tough one to screw with.
Although I'm sure the guys on the boat could tell you some, perhaps "Amerika"
or something.
>Sam
Thomas Schoene
c58...@showme.missouri.edu (Scott Burris) wrote:
> I've always called anybody in ROTC, "Nazi ROTC's" or "Aryan Youth."
> But only in jest I assure you :>)
I spent a week at the Naval Acad in HS. (Part of a recruiting effort)
There were also a bunch of Junior ROTC types around and the Mid who was our
group leader refered to them as "Junior Nazis" They were just a bit TOO
gung ho.
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Seth Chazanoff
Back 20 years ago when I was in AFROTC we occasionally, would call it:
Afro Teachers College
Seth
Sean Malloy
Scott Burris <c58...@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>>What are some of the memorable carrier nicknames?
>
>Without putting much thought to this, the ones that stand out are:
>
>Sorry Sara (Saratoga), Forest Fire (Forrestal), Miserable Midway
>(Midway), Kitty cock (Kitty Hawk), Danger Ranger (Ranger),....dang! I
>just looked at that list and realize how many of those aren't in service
>anymore <sigh>.
I never heard "Kitty Cock", and my father served aboard her for a year and
a half, and another year and a half on the Bonny Dick [Bonhomme Richard],
both based out of North Island here in San Diego; the one I always heard
used to refer to her was the "Shitty Kitty".
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: In article <2rqnbu$u...@clarknet.clark.net> dco...@clark.net (David Conner) writes:
: >From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
: >Subject: Interservice derogatory nicknames
: >Date: 23 May 1994 16:58:38 GMT
: Cannon fodder & grunts for Marines or Army, jy-rene (sp?) from jarhead, Air
: Farce, Air Heads, zoomie, or just plain "civilian" for the Air Force.
: Targets for the surface navy, glow worms, bubble-heads for the submariners.
Let's not forget my favorite from Vietnam for anyone not actually in the
field:
REMF: Rear Echelon (Well, you can guess the rest)
Air Force enlisted: wing nuts
Enlisted Men's Club (Navy): animal locker, zoo
A female ET I knew in Hawaii was dating a Marine aviator. After hearing
her refer to him as her favorite juggie, I asked her what she thought the
difference was between a jarhead and a grunt. She said, "That's easy.
The jugheads are smart enough to avoid being a bulletstopper!"
My only comment was to ask her boyfriend if his sharpshooter quals were
still up to date.....
George Blair
>>From: dco...@clark.net (David Conner)
>>Subject: Re: Interservice derogatory nicknames
>>Date: 24 May 1994 14:23:47 GMT
>
>>Scott Burris (c58...@showme.missouri.edu) wrote:
>>: And there are tons of nicknames for all the carriers, or I guess just about
>>: any unit in the various services.
>
>>What are some of the memorable carrier nicknames?
>
Not a carrier but a Tin Can. Take Brickley Bass and drop the B's and you
get the rickley ass (wrinkley). She steamed into Hong Kong in the late 60's
or early 70's with the B's on her fantail painted over. Had to be a snipe
job.
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Army: cannon fodder, grunts
Tankers: DAT (dumb assed tanker), tread heads
Chemical Corps Personnel: Retort Rangers
Any Combat Service Support Personnel: REMFs (Rear Echelon Mother F*****),
Chairborne Rangers
Infantry: Grunt, Groundpounder
Non-Airborne Personnel: Leg
Air Assault Personnel: Dope on a rope
Army Infantry: 11 Bang-Bang, 11 Bulletstopper (comes from the Military
Occupational Specialty (MOS) for infantry of 11-B or 11
Bravo)
Navy: squids, Guppies (usually reserved for low ranking officers)
Surface Navy: skimmer pukes, skimmer navy, targets
Submariners: glow-worms, bubbleheads
Enlisted Men's Club: animal locker, zoo
Marines: jarheads, jy-rene, cannon fodder, grunts, Neanderthals,
men's division of the navy, Bullet Sponges
USAF: Air Farce, Bus Drivers, zoomie, air heads, civilian,
wing nuts (enlisted), wing zippers
civilian refit crews: Yard Birds
Air Force ROTC members: "Postal ROTC"
the Voting Member in the chair of an F-16
Military Police: Mop Pushers, Multi-Purpose, Military Pricks,
Mud Puppies, Assholes.
Coast Guard: Puddle Pirates
Midway = Miserable Midway
Forrestal = Forest Fire (bad flight deck fire in !60!s)
Independence = End of Penis
Saratoga = Sorry Sara
Kitty Hawk = Kitty cock, Shitty Kitty
Ranger = Danger Ranger
Coral Sea = The Oral Sea
Bonhomme Richard = Bonny Dick
the Happy Jose (San Jose AFS-7), named after a rather unfortunate
episode involving several sailors of "alternate" lifestyles and their Lt.
Not a carrier but a Tin Can. Take Brickley Bass and drop the B's and you
get the rickley ass (wrinkley). She steamed into Hong Kong in the late
60's or early 70's with the B's on her fantail painted over. Had to be a
snipe job.
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Richard A. De Castro
>Coast Guard: Puddle Pirates
Abraham Lincoln - Stinkin' Lincoln
Theodore Rosevelt - The big stick
Attack Subs - Bottom Gun
>the Happy Jose (San Jose AFS-7), named after a rather unfortunate
>episode involving several sailors of "alternate" lifestyles and their Lt.
>Not a carrier but a Tin Can. Take Brickley Bass and drop the B's and you
>get the rickley ass (wrinkley). She steamed into Hong Kong in the late
>60's or early 70's with the B's on her fantail painted over. Had to be a
>snipe job.
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> Tom Strong N3NBB ts...@andrew.cmu.edu
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: Here's a summary of what's been posted so far:
[snip]
: Marines: jarheads, jy-rene, cannon fodder, grunts, Neanderthals,
: men's division of the navy, Bullet Sponges
how 'bout "self-propelled sand bags" or "bullet stoppers"
[snip]
: Military Police: Mop Pushers, Multi-Purpose, Military Pricks,
: Mud Puppies, Assholes.
also "Mouse Patrol"
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: Midway = Miserable Midway
You forgot "Midway Magnet". This came from the 1980 collision with the
Cactus. (The same freighter also hit the Ranger.) I was stationed
aboard the Midway at this time, and if anyone would like to hear the
story, let me know.
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> >Forrestal = Forest Fire (bad flight deck fire in !60!s)
> >Independence = End of Penis
> >Saratoga = Sorry Sara
> >Coral Sea = ?
> >America = ?
>
>
>
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Oriscany (I know it's spelled wrong) = Toasty O (bad flight deck fire...)
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> Oriscany (I know it's spelled wrong) = Toasty O (bad flight deck fire...)
>
> gr...@microsoft.com I don't speak for Microsoft, blah, blah, blah...
Willamette (sp?) = Will Ram It (accident with the Jason during games or
some such. At least that's what Dad said)
rgord...@gmail.com
> Does anybody have a list of derogatory nicknames used by members of
> different services to describe the others? I know Marines are "jarheads,"
> Navy personnel are "squids," are there any other memorable ones? I like
> the way submariners refer to the rest of the Navy as the "skimmer Navy."
Robertw...@live.com
Infantry. Legs, grunts, ground pounders.
Artillery. Gun bunnies
Green berets. Sir.
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> Does anybody have a list of derogatory nicknames used by members of
> different services to describe the others? I know Marines are "jarheads,"
> Navy personnel are "squids," are there any other memorable ones? I like
> the way submariners refer to the rest of the Navy as the "skimmer Navy."