Alpha...Tango...Charlie!!!

I’ve had this old & kinda historic fascination with all the slangs used by the US military guys. Ever since I started playin Counter-Strike or Medal of Honour or in recent times Call of Duty: Modern Warfare & MW2 I’ve always sought these slangs in the dialogues of the animated characters in the game. Even in the movies these slangs are so often used that one can not miss them. One must have quite frequently heard these sentences “Two Tangos at 3’o Clock” wherein a guy refers to 2 targets standing at the right. Similarly bird is referred to any flying object such as a helicopter or a flying jet. The instances just quoted by me were two of the very simple and popular ones. I went deep and dug out some of the not-so-popular ones but are certainly tricky and it was a lot fun figuring out what it meant. The more I racked my brains on them the more fun it turned out to be.

Before I go on mentioning those on my blog lemme remind you that the military guys are very decent & at the same time very indecent. Decent ‘coz they refrain themselves from using words like f***, instead they use Foxtrot. Indecent ‘coz d**k is always used as d**k. So here’s a sneak peak into the domain of Military Slangs.

Note: Check for answers below. Try figuring it yourself and it’ll be fun. Trust me. I’ll start with some easy ones

1) Meals on wheels
2) Pineapple
3) Pocket Billiards
4) Powerpoint Commando
5) Red-light ranger
6) Semper Fi is the motto of US Marine Corps & means “Always Faithful” now what does Semper Fu means hint…it’s a combination of Semper Fi & Kung-Fu
7) My fav: Armored Cow
8) Blanket Party
9) Camel Jockey
10) Eating Irons

Now comes the tough ones
1) Left handed salute: Showing disrespect. It’s actually a punishable offence if you do this in army to a senior
2) Shamurai: Person really gud as an imposter (comes from Shamming or faking)
3) Shit-hot: outstanding or AWESOME
4) Shiney-arse: officer with desk-job….kinda apt
5) Shit-patrol: an officer designated for latrine duty and burning shit buckets using diesel while on field
6) Cluster Foxtrot (polite way of saying Charlie Foxtrot or Cluster F**k) : Disaster resulting from many errors
7) Bunny Suit: Chemical/Biological suit
8) Indecent synonyms for mouth: Cum dumpster & Dick holster ;)
9) Suck Thumb: Shut up & stop complaining
10) The day the eagle shits: Payday
11) Tits-up: Dead (4 d obvious reasons)
12) Un-ass: Get up
13) Walking mattress: Promiscuous woman
14) 0-3: Marine haircut (zero inches on sides & 3 inches on top)
15) Zoom bag: Flight suit
16) Ali Baba: Local thieves in Iraq
17) Alpha, Mike Foxtrot: Adios Mother F****r (used in the movie A-Team twice)
18) Balls: 12 midnight ‘coz it is represented by 0000 hrs which luks like 4 balls
19) Beat ur face: Push ups
20) Big D**k Contest: Combat competition
21) Bravo Foxtrot or Blue falcon (buddy f****r): Unhelpful fellow soldier
22) Brass: power/top-rank officer
23) Broke-d**k: Handicapped soldier
24) Bullet sponge/Bullet stopper: the infantry guy at the front in a war
25) CAT Fooed: Completely & Totatally Foxtroted
26) Desert Queen: Promiscuous unattractive lady officer
27) Desert dairy: Promiscuous overweight lady officer
28) Guardian Angel: A soldier who provides cover and overwatch from an elevated position
29) Hit the silk: Eject from an aircraft with a parachute
30) Sheep: Civilians

Will keep updating these at regular intervals. Till then Over n Out.
Answers:
1) Mobile kitchen
2) Hand-grenade 'coz of its shape
3) Hands in pockets
4) A soldier always explaining things with useless high tech presentations
5) Army men who spend most of their times at the red light areas
6) Combat style
7) Canned milk
8) Kumbal kutayi (in Hindi)
9) Arabs
10) Cutlery