military slang

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: Navy personnel - Barrel Boys
: Navy officers - Muppets
: come on people theres got to be more
More Airforce slang;
JEEP = Derogatory term for newly assigned personnel. Very Big Insult.
Origins unknown however.
Pinger = New guy from electronics school. As I was told, the trainees
have to make something called a "pinger detector" at school, and they
take em to the airman's club and play with them. Also a derogatory term.
First Shirt = Origin unknown. Slang for First Sargeant.
First Skirt = Your Wife. Also, Off Duty Commander.
Butter Bar = 2nd Lt. See also, Fuckhead, Idiot and "Here Comes Trouble"
Flies = Pilots
Michael Jackson = Your M16. Most likely originated from an Eddie Murphy
movie.

I still have my "pinger detector" from Keesler AFB 1976.

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I'm not positive, but pretty sure, that "pinger" predates "pinger
detector", as my impression when I was at Keesler in 1985 was that the
detectors were pretty new but the term "pinger" had been around longer
than any of the insructors, etc. could remember.
Perhaps the origins lie in radar terminology.

Or maybe sonar.
I made my "pinger detector" in 1976.
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Joe Claffey | "In the end, everything is a gag."