RAF terms?

[KDBANGLIA]

I remember hearing about airmen spending time in "jankers" (guard room) !

Where did the terms "jankers" come from ?

Richard.

[Ponce de Leon]

KDBANGLIA wrote in message

> I remember hearing about airmen spending time in "jankers" (guard room) !

> Where did the terms "jankers" come from ?
> Richard.

It is slang for making work, i.e.
Policing the area, painting or whitewashing rocks, KP, picking up trash,
butts.
Keeping the chaps busy when there isn't anything going on and you are
confined to base.
RAF slang.
Nothing to do with the guardhouse, per se.

[Ponce de Leon]

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> Where did the terms "jankers" come from ?
>
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> Richard.

JANKERS
A minor punishment, fatigues. Origin unknown, but may be related to jangle,
which had an archaic sense of 'to grumble'.

[Steve P]

In article <t2534op...@corp.supernews.com>, Ponce de Leon
<saa...@aug.com> writes

and a real pain in the A** reporting at 0700 - 1800 till 2000 and
finally in your best uniform at 2200. I know I did 14 days worth.

Steve P
Check Six Phantoms Phorever

[June Baker]

It's a bastardization of an Indian word meaing the same thing.
One of many Indian words incorperated into the British military slang.
Like Gharry. Garry, meaning a truck or vehicle.
Dhobi. Meaning washing.

[David Shaw]

In my dim and distant youth the term "jankers" didn't mean being in
the guardroom, it meant that you were undergoing a punishment known
euphemistically as "Restriction Of Privileges". Two of the privileges
being sleeping and eating, as you were either working at any and every
filthy job that could be found during your off duty hours or parading
at the guardroom every hour in best kit and continally having it
faulted. Most often it was a mixture of the two, and woe betide you if
you turned up from scrubbing greasy pots and pans with a trace of dirt
underneath your fingernails. Every minute of spare time was consumed
by the demands of jankers and once you were in the jankers squad it
was awfully easy to get some more punishment time added to your
original sentence. Of course this was in the old Army, when the Senior
NCO's had WWII medal ribbons up and anybody who answered back got
dropped. Nowadays I suppose that Restricted Privileges in the RAF
means your girl friend can't stay overnight.

Unfortunately, having said all that, I can't supply any answer on
where the word "jankers" came from. Perhaps somebody else knows.

On 27 Nov 2000 15:49:54 GMT, kdba...@aol.com (KDBANGLIA) wrote:

>I remember hearing about airmen spending time in "jankers" (guard room) !
>