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British Army Term‘s

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Spr Earl

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Green Maggot - Our friend the sleeping bag

R.A.O.C - Rag and Oil Company

R.A.O.C - Recruit Any Old C%$^

Dog Wanker - Dog Handler

DHOBI - The ancient art of washing!

Dhobi Dust - Washing powder

R.C.T- Rickshaw, Cabs and Taxi‘s

Field Mice - Royal Engineer‘s Field Squadron Variety

Armoured Farmers - Sapper‘s in Tanks

Yellow Handbag - 10 pack of Herfys

Can Spanner - Tin Opener

CRAB AIR- RAF‘s Mode of transport for sending troops around the world with its modern VC10 Aircraft

Fighting Order - Another name for a set of Knife , Fork & Spoon

58 Pattern - No its not the issued stuff, Upon returning from the long detachment/field exercise this is what any blue blooded Squaddie would expect his long suffering wife to be wearing to greet him at the door of his Pad, i.e.Basque Suspenders and Stockings

R.E.M.E - Rough Engineering Made Easy

R.E.M.E - (W)reck Everything Mechanical Eventually

R.E.M.E - Royal Engineer Minus Education

Q.L.R - Queer‘s Lesbians Rejects

Q.L.R- Queens Last Resort

Norman - Storeman of any type

Cabbage Head - Any Marine

A.C.C - Aldershot Concrete Company

Egg Op - The Very Rare Member of the A.C.C that can fry an egg without breaking the yoke

Gopper - A Term to describe an extremely ugly woman

Bike - Well it‘s not the 2 wheeled Variety, but the easiest woman in the local dive bar that let‘s everybody RIDE her

Christmas Shopper - see Gopper Topo

Green fleet - draughty transport

Buckshee - freebies Shiny object anything that can‘t be left unattended for more than 30sec‘s,without it sprouting legs!

Smoker - quiet get together of like minded soldiers to discuss issues of the day..a little alcohol may sometimes be imbibed

Minging - something far from clean

Rupert - An officer who‘s dad bought him a commission

Rodney - An officer who earned his commission

R.A.M.C.- Rob All Mates and Comrades

A.C.C.- Andy Capp‘s Commandos

The Factory - Training Depot

The God Squad - Army Chaplins department

Pink Death - luncheon meat

Jack - to do something for oneself

Jack ******* - the individual doing something for themselves

Babies Heads steak & kidney pud

Screech - The powdered fruit juice that cleaned your mouth better than any toothpaste

Monkey - Military Police

Bird S**t - Para

Sky Pilot - Padre

Wedgehead - Term used for Armoured engineers to describe how the bridgelayers were chocked overnight.


And there is a lot more.
 
Some great ones there, still chuckling... thanks.


I‘ve also seen these few, mostly in books by a certain former SAS Sgt...

Head shed - Officer or person in charge of something

Squaddy - A lowly soldier

Jundie - An Iraqi soldier

REMF - (not really British exclusively) Rear Echelon Mother F***er

Demobbed - Demobilised or discharged from the army
 
Head Shed - HQ building, where the upper echelons(CO, OC‘s, RSM, etc) have their offices and where most of the clerks hang out in their various duties.
 
MESS TIN ORDER- AS IN 30 SECOND CHANGE PARADES AND NEXT DRESS IS!

SLACK BLADDER - LAZY GIT

GRUNTER - ANYONE IN THE ARMY NOT ROYAL MILITARY POLICE!

SCAB LIFTER - OUR HIGHLY TRAINED MEDICAL CORP

GREEN SLIME - OUR FRIENDS IN THE INT CORP

Death stag - Death stag meaning 2-4 shift on guard duty aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Spam - being volunteered

NAAFI - no ambition and **** all interest

RAMC- Run away mothers coming

RAMC - Backwards can’t manage a rifle

Panzer - AFV 432

Giz it party - pre posting getting rid of all the buckshee

STABS Stupid TA *******s

ARABS - Arrogant regular Army *******s

Single bagger- A dog so ugly she needs a bag on the head

Bennies - Falkland islanders

Stills - there still bennies

Pads - married squaddies

Pads Brats - Squaddies kids

Bean Stealers Pads in the cookhouse

FREDS - Junior leaders (from WW1 Fit for Royal Engineers Duties)

RSM Waving - your in the **** again

Wooden - Top Guardsman of any variety

Plank - Artilleryman (from the Crimean War when (allegedly) their bodies were used instead of sleepers so that the guns could cross mud

Bullet Mechanic - Ammo Technician.


So afew more to chuckle over I hope I havn‘t offended any one out there. ;)
 
"CRAB AIR- RAF‘s Mode of transport for sending troops around the world with its modern VC10 Aircraft "

CAN = White Knuckle Airline (for those remember when we had one.)

"SCAB LIFTER - OUR HIGHLY TRAINED MEDICAL CORP "

CAN = Peckerchecker
 
I got one, its well known, not really british

MIR Commando - Someone whos sick and goes to MIR...ALOT

- q_1966
 
RAMC in the Great War was Rob All My Comrades - for the number of Tommies who awoke in hospital to find their watch gone - but the orderly's wallet fatter...
 
don't forget s**t eaters,that what we call the brit's. :-X
 
What's so subtle?  Have you eaten in one of their messhalls?

That is where the term comes from.

GW
 
Nope, it comes literally if you've ever been in a "gross-out" contest with them.

Their mess food isn't so bad if one can get past breakfast. Try Belgian rations (or German, or French).

Acorn
 
We had some Brits from our sister regiment stay with us. We Had a FIBUA ex.
FIBUA? Fighting In Built............... I went on. No its called FISH they said.
FISH?
Fighting
In
Somebody's"s
House.



































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We had some Brits from our sister regiment stay with us. We Had a FIBUA ex.
FIBUA? Fighting In Built............... I went on. No its called FISH they said.
FISH?
Fighting
In
Somebody's"s
House.

Hehe I heard the same thing, under similar cirumstances...  Which regiment were they from?  Our guests were from the Vikings in RAR...
 
The God Squad...hahaha, that one made me laugh the most
 
Sling yer ruck - Move along, when you have said all that needs to be  heard.

On his chin strap -  The guys is knackered or on his last stirng.

tess
 
Spr Earl said:
SCAB LIFTER - OUR HIGHLY TRAINED MEDICAL CORP

Personally, i prefer "Pecker Checkers", but everyone to their own i guess.  ;)
 
The Brit version of a TEWT...

Pointless
Exercise
Not
Including
Soldier
 
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