Ghetto: Open-bay barracks, usually reserved for single sailors who are in transit or otherwise temporarily assigned there. Steel Beach Picnic: Celebration on the weather decks of a ship. Crow happy: Newly appointed petty officers that are drunk with rank, think they are in charge, and can order subordinates around. Joe (Cup of Joe): (A cup of) coffee. The most junior officer aboard ship, who has to handle the most demeaning or illegal duties demanded by HQ. Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Those elements of the Pacific Fleet which operated in the referenced waters 1965-1975. See "Rumor Control" or "Scuttlebutt.". Often fatal for the aircrew if they do not eject in time. [8] Grose's book was eventually superseded by John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary in 1859. Used in slang expressions such as "Talk to me when you've got some Time On The Pond.". Depending on the wardroom and in particular on the person preparing the grog, it may be pleasant and delicious or one of the most foul and disgusting beverages ever conceived. Also known as a "shit bag.". Officers are O-Gangers. "Just press the 'I believe' button for now and we'll talk about it later.". 1. Blanket Party: A beating administered to someone whose head has been covered with a blanket (to prevent that person from identifying the attackers), in boot camp (and usually at night), because the individual is perceived to have harmed the group by not being squared away. "DD 214" is the form that must be filled out before a member of the military may be discharged. VERTREP: Vertical Replenishment: The taking of supplies (resupply) from a supply ship via helo pick-up and drop-off. Happy Sock: A sock used for masturbation. (2) Editing a poorly worded memo or document for clarity. Wings: Naval Aviator or Naval Flight Officer breast insignia. Bar fine: Fee paid to the manager ("mamasan") of a bar (generally adjacent to the former Naval Base Subic, former Naval Air Station Cubi Point, or former Clark Air Base in the Philippines) for letting a "hostess" take the night off. Missile Sponge: Usually a frigate or destroyer with limited air defense capability stationed on the outer ring of a battlegroup, as they are the ships most likely to be hit in a convoy. See also "Swab. Roll-em's: Movie night, usually shown in the ready room or the wardroom. Also called Boomers. Airwing only workups include trips to NAS Fallon and NAS Key West. Bitching Betty: The recorded or computer generated female voice heard in an aviator's headset when something is not as it should be. Three Frame Rule: Refers to a sailor or situation that is inherently dangerous. Right side of an aircraft when facing the nose. Transistor Theory: Naval explanation for how electrons travel backwards and holes actually carry electrical current. ", EAWS: Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist. One-eyed Jack: See "Barney Clark" A. tasty treat served at midrats consisting of a slider topped with a fried egg. The nickname is based on its color and flavor. squared away" above. Such a sailor will likely be restricted to the ship at the next liberty port. LDOs need their Good Conduct ribbons every bit as much as Linus needs his security blanket. They usually return with a sore arm, courtesy of a Hull Technician who is in on the joke. Kamikaze: A hetero male Marine who is so gung-ho that he can only be sexually satisfied by another male Marine. ". Derived from "sukoshi," the Japanese word for "a little.". Zero: Officer. Flux capacitor: New members of a CVN's MMR will be sent to retrieve the "flux capacitor" from the OOW in the reactor control room. RATT Shop: Place for flight deck personnel to cool off in the AC and take a nap while they get their "RATT" fixed. Used to motivate someone who is not pulling their weight. ID10T: Idiot, pronounced "Eye-Dee-Ten-Tango." Named, due to its apparent high cholesterol content, for Mr. Barney Clark, who in 1982 received a "Jarvik" artificial heart. Port Orca: A husky (large) female. "Sir, if we do this thing now I can go home as soon as it's done." Dog zebra: Closing fittings or doors for light discipline at night. Burn Run: An organized evolution to dispose of the material stored in burn bags. 3Ps are relatively new pilots in a patrol aircraft. SSN: Submarine, Nuclear, class of ship. Diddy Bopping: Walking around with no particular purpose. Veal Wheels: Veal Parmesan. Also called a "One-Eyed Jack." CGN: Cruiser, Guided Missile, Nuclear, class of ship. Chief Warrant Officer (W1–W5): A "Super Goat," a highly qualified senior enlisted (E-7/E-8) person who has earned a commission through a competitive process and continues to work in their technical field. A "red cunt hair" is a slightly smaller unit of measurement. LOST: Line Of Sight Tasking: when a senior officer, usually the XO, tasks the first poor bastard JO who walks across his path with some time-consuming, inane project that he knows absolutely nothing about. Deck Ape: Non-designated enlisted person serving on the deck force. Fulmer: A sailor that desperately tries to win various games (ping pong, pool, etc. Stacking: The act of crapping on top of some one elses crap when the toilets are secured. Balls Thirty: (1) The time 00:30, when there is a security sweep on some bases. See "Brown Water.". RPOC: Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO or RPOC). London slang has many varieties, the best known of which is rhyming slang.[2]. Baby Killer: An obscenely large wrench/screwdriver. See "XO's Happy Hour.". Self-explanatory. Also lifers say things like "there is nothing a sailor needs that is not in his sea-bag"; this usually is a comment implying a sailor does not need to see his spouse or children, more rarely acronym associated with people coasting through their Navy career, stands for "Lazy Incompetent Fuck Expecting Retirement", or "Lowly Indignant Fuck Evading Reality" see also "The ROAD program.". Derives from Bremerton, Washington, where there is a base at and around which such females are common. Big Chicken Dinner: Slang for a Bad Conduct Discharge, a punishment awarded to a sailor who has committed a serious infraction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Green Scrubby: Mildly abrasive scouring pad. Chokers: Service Dress White Uniform worn by Officers and Chiefs. Also contains the Uniform of the Day. All Family Grams were screened by the CO/XO upon receipt, prior to distribution to the individual. NEC: The Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) system, of which the NEC coding system is a part, supplements the enlisted rating structure in identifying personnel on active or inactive duty and billets in manpower authorizations. Worn by nukes and submarine crewmembers to measure radiation received over time. USS Oriskany CVA34, Carriers today are designated as CV, During the VietNam error the A added to CV stood for attack carrier. Squat to Pee: An ELT (Engineering Laboratory Technician, a water chemistry and radiation monitor on a nuclear powered vessel) or (. Many of the words and phrases listed in this article are no longer in current use. Building 20: Derogatory term used to describe the U.S.S. Sierra Hotel: Phonetic letters for SH, which stands for "Shit Hot." The Chief is going to his rack for an hour or so after chow, sometimes includes a "drink.". See Broke Dick. By the time slang has been written down, it has been in use some time and has, in some cases, become almost mainstream. Shallow Water Surface Pukes: members of the Coast Guard, from the viewpoint of a bubblehead. See "air wing.". Ramp Strike: When an aircraft gets drastically low while attempting to land on a carrier and strikes the "round down," or stern of the ship, with devastating results. Big O boat, USS Oriskany CVA34, Also called the Mighty O boat, After the fire of 10/26,1966 she was called the USS Zippo by some. Golden rivet: The rivet, made of gold, which according to folklore every ship is built containing one of. Monkey cum: White scrubbing liquid used to clean grease pencil from status boards. Mostly issued in boot camp to set a recruit back in training due to poor performance. The term is used in boot camp to refer to male masturbation. old man - (slang) boss jargon , lingo , patois , argot , vernacular , slang , cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" Quarter Mile Island: CVN-65, USS Enterprise, and all eight of her reactors. Usually done to avoid getting in trouble at the expense of someone else. Generally a lazy navy cook phones it in by opening an industrial size can of ravioli and dumps out a couple loaves of white bread and calls it good. Zippo: (1) A flame thrower attached to a small boat, or a boat so equipped. Midnight Ops: The best time to get something done when there are not as many witnesses around. Vampire Liberty: A day off one gets for donating a pint of blood. Note: Possibly very localised slang from the Pica area. "A grain of sand on the beach of reasons to get out of the Navy. Plank Owner: Term used for original crew personnel assigned to ships company during commissioning. It also recognises that some service slang has made its way into civilian use. company director, juryman, deputy clergyman, officer on special duty GUMMER A workman whose business it is to use the gummer in widening the spaces between the teeth of a saw. USS Belcrash: The USS Belknap (CG-26). DerbyVille.com - Horse Racing Nation - Online Racing - The original large scale horse racing simulation game and management game C-GU11 (pronounced "See-Gee-You-Eleven"): Seagull. (Refers to improperly securing the "dogs" on a watertight hatch when passing through. コトバイウ +cotobaiu+ 正しさと易しさを両立させた唯一の日本人用英語発音言語がここにあります。エイトウ小大式呵名発音記号システムで、世界で最も英語の苦手な日本人から、最も英語の得意な日本人へ。 Oxford University Press (1995). Comes from the Powertrol valve used in AFFF firefighting systems. Air Force Salute, Airman Salute, Airedale Salute: An "I don't know" shrug of the shoulders. Hamster: Chicken cordon bleu, a common chow entree. Pillows of Death: Canned ravioli, usually burned, served for midrats. (Term endures within CG.). Sigs: A Signalman (SM); a former rating, now merged with Quartermaster. (2) A large freezer of the type found on most ships, usually in auxiliary spaces. Bitchbox: Intercom or amplified circuit used to communicate between spaces of a ship. Air Boss: Air Officer. (2) The constant cold that sailors suffer from in bootcamp because they spend 8 weeks confined with 80 people from all walks of life. Square Circles: Surface ship operating within an assigned a patrol box. Usually takes the form of "Hey, did you hear (insert ship name here) had a fire in their main machinery room and can't get underway so our cruise got extended by a month?" The most enjoyable parts are the "roll calls" from each squadron, and the skits that two or three of the squadrons perform. Splice the Main Brace: A party; generally involving alcohol. Naval method of indicating the time of day aboard ship, usually over the 1MC. SEAL: The United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams, commonly known as the Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command and United States Special Operations Command. Can also have a second F added to the end, when used in this context it means ", Dimed/Diming out/Dropping dimes: Comes from dropping a dime in a pay phone to make a call. Officially no longer named the 43P-1, the fleet continues to name and refer to their work center maintenance manual as the 43P-1. Barely Trainable: Derogatory term for a Boiler Technician (BT). Also, a joke played on new sailors, who are told to obtain a coil of it (line being the Navy word for rope). USS Loungechair: The fictional ship sailors serve on when they retire. Usually consists of one cruiser, one supply ship, and one or two destroyers, frigates, and submarines. Generally presided over by the Executive Officer (XO) and run by a Chief or Junior Officer (JO) called "Mr. Vice," these events can become quite rowdy and raucous. also used as Civilian Life Incentive Program. knackered, meaning "exhausted"), others are restricted to smaller regions, even to small geographical areas. Scullery: The washroom on board a ship for eating implements such as knives, forks, trays, and cups. Balls to Two: A short watch stood from 0000-0200. Clobbered: of a landing pattern or comms frequency at a field or ship: filled to capacity, such that one can't get an aircraft or a word in edgewise. TWT: Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier : A component used in DECM/ECM equipment. F.I.I.G.M.O. Stroked Chit: Refers to a form of point deduction during boot camp, a stroked chit is a loss of five points to the company per grading period (one week) until Pass in Review. Sailors tend to call doors "hatches," but the term actually only refers to openings in the deck. So called due to time spent in port after running aground near entrance to Pearl Harbor. DLG: Destroyer, Leader, Guided Missile, class of ship. WESTPAC: While this usually refers to the western Pacific area of operations, it can also refer to a type of deployment in which a unit heads to multiple locations throughout said area. clout 1.(verb. )"Have a great day"! Read as "If you ain't ordnance, you ain't shit" Pronounced "eye-OH-yahs" and yelled out during ceremonies; also known as "If you're ordnance, your ASVAB sucked.". See also "Love Boat." Jack Off Curtain: The small privacy curtain hanging on the outside of a rack. "Being a Monkey Mate is a lot easier than being a BT.". Add some contemporary details and those youngsters are mesmerized, as they should be. Oscar: The buoyant dummy used during man-overboard drills. Shellback: An individual who has crossed the Line/, Shitbag (also Shitbird, Shitbrick, Shithead, Shitstain, Shitstick, Shitrat, Shitweed): (1) (. Lifer cup: A coffee cup stained brown by repeated use. Ahead Flank Liberty: The fictitious speed at which a ship travels after a mission or patrol is completed with high marks and the ship is headed into very nice foreign ports that cater to visiting US Forces. Constipation: Derogatory name for USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64). Trips back to the ship in the wee hours of the night are usually very entertaining. Service Slang. Fleet Tug-Nuclear, Fire Technician-Nuclear). Typically not the same person as the sailor's ashore spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend (i.e. Family Gram: A 40-word personal communication from the family members of an Officer or Sailor on a Strategic Deterrent Patrol assigned to a Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine. Origins in the P-3 Orion Sub Hunter/Killer community. Also called "Charlie" from phoenetic "Victor Charlie.". Crack House: A designated smoking area aboard ship that is not a. Crapper: A toilet, see also shitter and pisser. CASREP: Casualty Report: Report to higher authority something which is inoperative, OOC (out of commission), and the impact on readiness. On submarines, the term "Battle Stations" is used. Term used by Nukes to describe a method of estimation to arrive at an answer. Blue Water: Deep water far from land. Ricky Heaven: A number of restaurants and entertainment venues found in a single building at boot camp, so called because only graduates of boot camp may go there. Also called a "Greeny Weeny." See also SERP. VBSS: Visit, Board, Search, Seizure: Marinetime boarding actions and tactics. These are heavy duty paper towels purchased in bulk, and are used in every cleaning situation imaginable. VFA: Fixed Wing Strike Fighter Squadron, made up of Legacy F/A-18C or D model Hornets or F/A-18E,F or G model Super Hornets. Marine Dinner Tray: Derogatory description (to the "eldest service branch") of an enlisted sailor's 13 button flap on the front of his dress blue uniform trousers. Home ported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, she left port only on rare occasions (so her crew could collect sea pay); when she did, she had to be towed back in. Also called. PRT: Physical Readiness Test. Freeboard: On a ship or boat, this is the vertical distance between the waterline and the "gunwale" (see below). : (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again). "Boot ensign.". The utterly ridiculous, vindictive, trumped-up charges against Mark Hirst have failed. Quarters can be for the entire command, or just the department, division, or branch. Punching Holes: When a submarine is underway submerged, as in "Punching Holes in the Ocean". (Originally referred to hammocks, in days of yore before berthing spaces.). John Wayne: (1) A can opener supplied with "C" rations. Mandatory physical training regimen designed to return sailors to within physical readiness standards. Most schedule writers will have a "snivel log" for such requests, which may or may not be granted based on the needs of the unit and the sniveler's standing with the schedules officer (Skeds-O). Deck Plate Leadership: That level of leadership greatly appreciated by commanding officers and the ward room: Enlisted personnel who know what needs to be done, how to do it well and right, and who are able to lead the people working for them to get the job done. L.T.D.B: "Living the Dream, Baby." Strikers are sailors that enlist without a guaranteed rate (job), with the intention of floating around until they find a department where they fit in. : Diesel Boats Forever: (marking on an) unauthorized pin showing a non-nuclear submarine. The rating badge icon looked like a bar stool. A prankster who defecates in public areas of a ship. Butt Shark: A Sailor who is obviously brown-nosing in hope of receiving favorable evaluations. Mail Buoy: A fictitious bouy that mail for a ship is left on. 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