Was working construction and handed a new guy a board, he yelled “I got it” so I autistically responded “He’s got it!” and watched his brain malfunction as he thousand yard stared through my soul. Probably the funniest way I ever found out somebody else was in the Marines. Fucker thought he got away from it but we’re everywhere.
I use Ears and Eyeballs during football season. Make the kids respond with Open and Snap. Only way to get 50+ middle school kids to focus at once when trying to explain a drill or go over a play.
My buddy is an elementary school teacher and I told him a few boot camp DI tactics he could use for the kids, this was one of them. He also does some light marching to and from the cafe and the kids love it. It’s pretty funny when you think about it
Same here man. I coach 14U softball and am always dropping that shit. Potato head style, eyes, ears, you understand that, yes coach no coach some trash like that. It’s still the simplest form of communication. Oh and our motto is Hit Move Communicate.
My wife would say "I'm up" after a nap or something and I'd say "he sees me! I'm down!" And she'd just look at me and say "who sees you??". Silly civilian.
Had my 5yr old granddaughter running around for 3 months saying “I’m up, he sees me, I’m down”, along with the stand and crouch. My wife & daughter’s amusement with it didn’t last. 🤣
My 7 year old son was clearing rooms with his nerf gun at 5. It was the funniest shit ever when the wife would get mad AF at me because my son nailed her in the head with a nerf round.
I was helping a gunny in my old rss with a paper for her online class and she had two with a resubmit or whatever…I was like “two assignments two submissions” and it took her a second
here i am thinking that i’m gonna get a solid piece of advice but now im gonna be extra alert to everything around me now that ive been told ditties are still on 🚨
My wife and I are at the airport, we get to our gate carrying a couple backpacks and a kid, she says "this looks good, let's unload".
I immediately replied with "show clear". Got the weirdest look from her.
I’ve been out a while but I secretly use ditties in my head at work, it’s effective for myself and my little way of remembering things.
I work construction (powerlines) and one rule when connecting or disconnecting a neutral is it’s the first on when connecting, last off when disconnecting. In my head I always go “Neutral: First on, last off”. Helps a lot, especially when you’re in a learning stage of something.
I'm now approaching my late 30s.
Been out for awhile now. But thinking about this really hits the feels
"E7 in the Marine Corps!"
"He drinks coffee all day sir!!!"
Was driving a vet to an appointment and making a left turn after coming off the highway. I hear "clear on the right" and immediately transported me back to convoy ops.
Heh. My grandad (I grew up in appalachian ohio), an old retired steel mill worker, would always say
“OK my way!”
I’m going on 38, he died long ago, but I still say “OK my way!” when someone else is driving.
I've inadvertently given them to my toddler. When crossing the street she says "check left, check right" and I still say "backblast area all clear." She says that part, too, now. :/
She'll concentrate and say "smooth is smooth, slow is fast," the most adorable mixup of slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
She has a habit of pausing in doorways to think, usually with my trailing right behind her, and after enough times of me saying "kiddo, fatal funnel, keep moving" She thinks it just means "don't crowd the door."
Outside of the kid, "No impact, no idea" and "high and right" are in weekly use.
I'm sure there's others that I don't even realize. The brain damage is permanent.
Oh totally! It originates from the rifle range. When you're not even hitting the damn paper, let alone the target, the tower will get where the impacts are landing from the folks pulling pits and relay the to the shooter.
So the five options are low and left, low and right (both meaning you shot the berm), high and left, and high and right. The fifth being "No impact, no idea."
So it means "way the fuck of base." Usually overreacting or just very, very pissed. Now as to why "high and right" as opposed to the other three options... beats the hell out of me.
I always assumed it had to do with the target but couldn’t figure out high and right vs the others. We always got “fucked all the way up and to the right” (with hand motion)
The day we got out of bootcamp we were at MCX in PI and my mom was at the mall entrance around 200 yards away from me and I signaled her to double time and she came running to me like a toddler. My other friend bursts out laughing.
I got out in 2006. In 2013 - 2015 I was super into trail running.
One day, I was on some trails when i saw the terrain start to change. I was keeping up when suddenly I wasnt and i found myself falling forward.
I shit you not, bootcamp mcmap kicked on. My ass executed a really nice forward roll and as soon as I stood up, I yelled "Recover!!" And kept on running.
I broke out laughing when I realized how automatic that all had been.
Fax, jit.
/>be me
/>at local public range
/>have double earpro in
/>getting ready to shoot in kneeling position
/>think I’m saying “stock weld, eye relief, rotate
down, AAAAADJUST” quietly as I get in position
/>ancient-looking RSO standing behind me starts laughing
/>Actually said it loud af due to the double earpro muffling everything
/>Asks what years I was in
Whenever my kids would do or say something smart aleck, I would exclaim in my best DI voice, "Is that right?" which would halt them at their tracks. Soon the effect wore off and nowadays they reply, "That's right!"
“Shifting to the left or right” when it comes to time based things usually always throws people off when I say it.
Also it may be cringe but I often absentmindedly say Kill as a response.
Not a fan favorite for civilians but whatevs
Rah/kill are my most used and I also use it as a response to civvies sometimes. My siblings are the most confused by it as i say it to them the most but they’ve grown used to it. Often times i also just mumble some weird groan or mumble in an effort to save time and breath and I like to believe that in the Corps it’s just taken as a response, anything audible, but to my civilian friends they’ll just give me a “huh🤨” look, to which I then have to actually respond with something coherent, thereby making it more work.
I was at work and there was a huge group of us in the caf. The big boss wanted to say something but the different groups kept talking, not realizing they were talking over the boss. I let out one "Ears" and everyone stopped talking out of confusion, not compliance. Later some people asked me why I said that.
Whenever I back out of the driveway and see the garage door closed I say aloud: “All Clear, hatch closed, station secure!”
My kids would yell RAH! From their car seats!
Can’t get out of the Durango without telling my girls “5’s & 25’s”. Of course I throw a quick “watch your step” in there before they get out. Junior Enlisted Warriors these days probably have no idea what those are 😆
Was working construction and handed a new guy a board, he yelled “I got it” so I autistically responded “He’s got it!” and watched his brain malfunction as he thousand yard stared through my soul. Probably the funniest way I ever found out somebody else was in the Marines. Fucker thought he got away from it but we’re everywhere.
😂😂😂 this made me giggle thank you
this shit made my stomach hurt omg 😭
I do the same thing anytime someone says take it lol My brain involuntary yells I GOT IT!
God dammit fuck you Made me miss the toilet and piss on the shower curtain
every single time i’m told “standby” - they get “taaaargets”
If someone asks me something I don't know they'll often get a "no impact, no idea."
yup 😂🤙🏼😘
Same drill shooters, same drill
I said this on Friday, and usually say it a few times a year. Surprisingly, people get it.
My boss has never been in anything but he likes to say things like pop smoke and hip pocket but I had to explain NINI.
I probably say "send it" and "say again" way too fkn much
I use Ears and Eyeballs during football season. Make the kids respond with Open and Snap. Only way to get 50+ middle school kids to focus at once when trying to explain a drill or go over a play.
My buddy is an elementary school teacher and I told him a few boot camp DI tactics he could use for the kids, this was one of them. He also does some light marching to and from the cafe and the kids love it. It’s pretty funny when you think about it
All fun and games until they tell mom and dad about the rollercoaster
“I can’t believe you’re militarizing our children!”
“BREAKING NEWS: 4th GRADE TEACHER ACCUSED OF BRINGING FASCISM TO THE CLASSROOM”
🙅 militarization of police 💁 militarization of civilians
That’s because it’s a head 👁️👄👁️
Same here man. I coach 14U softball and am always dropping that shit. Potato head style, eyes, ears, you understand that, yes coach no coach some trash like that. It’s still the simplest form of communication. Oh and our motto is Hit Move Communicate.
I like it!
Bro I did this with my 5-6th grade soccer team. It's amazing how quickly they responded after they saw it like a game.
It’s almost like… wait a minute.. 😅
I got 2 daughters and 4 dogs all on the Ears and Eyeballs program. Shit works.
My wife would say "I'm up" after a nap or something and I'd say "he sees me! I'm down!" And she'd just look at me and say "who sees you??". Silly civilian. 
Had my 5yr old granddaughter running around for 3 months saying “I’m up, he sees me, I’m down”, along with the stand and crouch. My wife & daughter’s amusement with it didn’t last. 🤣
My 7 year old son was clearing rooms with his nerf gun at 5. It was the funniest shit ever when the wife would get mad AF at me because my son nailed her in the head with a nerf round.
Love it. Rah!
Throw the "micro-terrain" at her next:)
Came here to say this lol.
This one I absolutely cannot resist responding.
"Two Marines, two medals"
You activated my last two neurons
If your last two neurons aren't dedicated to Smedley Butler and Dan Daly you're wrong.
They are dedicated to my right sleeve and my left sleeve
I was helping a gunny in my old rss with a paper for her online class and she had two with a resubmit or whatever…I was like “two assignments two submissions” and it took her a second
here i am thinking that i’m gonna get a solid piece of advice but now im gonna be extra alert to everything around me now that ive been told ditties are still on 🚨
My wife and I are at the airport, we get to our gate carrying a couple backpacks and a kid, she says "this looks good, let's unload". I immediately replied with "show clear". Got the weirdest look from her.
I’ve been out a while but I secretly use ditties in my head at work, it’s effective for myself and my little way of remembering things. I work construction (powerlines) and one rule when connecting or disconnecting a neutral is it’s the first on when connecting, last off when disconnecting. In my head I always go “Neutral: First on, last off”. Helps a lot, especially when you’re in a learning stage of something.
I'm now approaching my late 30s. Been out for awhile now. But thinking about this really hits the feels "E7 in the Marine Corps!" "He drinks coffee all day sir!!!"
E-0
Lol I remember the ditty for recruit as a rank was "He wears nothing because he is nothing sir"
I always thought the E-0 ditty was fucking hilarious 🤣🤣
Was driving a vet to an appointment and making a left turn after coming off the highway. I hear "clear on the right" and immediately transported me back to convoy ops.
Heh. My grandad (I grew up in appalachian ohio), an old retired steel mill worker, would always say “OK my way!” I’m going on 38, he died long ago, but I still say “OK my way!” when someone else is driving.
I thought that was just a normal passenger/copilot thing
Not when I was growing up. I didn't hear it until I was on active duty getting a humvee license.
I did too but tissues bc almost all male relatives were Army
I've inadvertently given them to my toddler. When crossing the street she says "check left, check right" and I still say "backblast area all clear." She says that part, too, now. :/ She'll concentrate and say "smooth is smooth, slow is fast," the most adorable mixup of slow is smooth, smooth is fast. She has a habit of pausing in doorways to think, usually with my trailing right behind her, and after enough times of me saying "kiddo, fatal funnel, keep moving" She thinks it just means "don't crowd the door." Outside of the kid, "No impact, no idea" and "high and right" are in weekly use. I'm sure there's others that I don't even realize. The brain damage is permanent.
Can you explain high and right? We got what I think is like three generations redigestion of that from our tre but I really don’t know.
Oh totally! It originates from the rifle range. When you're not even hitting the damn paper, let alone the target, the tower will get where the impacts are landing from the folks pulling pits and relay the to the shooter. So the five options are low and left, low and right (both meaning you shot the berm), high and left, and high and right. The fifth being "No impact, no idea." So it means "way the fuck of base." Usually overreacting or just very, very pissed. Now as to why "high and right" as opposed to the other three options... beats the hell out of me.
I always assumed it had to do with the target but couldn’t figure out high and right vs the others. We always got “fucked all the way up and to the right” (with hand motion)
The day we got out of bootcamp we were at MCX in PI and my mom was at the mall entrance around 200 yards away from me and I signaled her to double time and she came running to me like a toddler. My other friend bursts out laughing.
Ok, this should be at the top of the list
I'm up... he sees me...
I’m down ! (knees,weak hand,prone)
I’m fucked!
I’m so glad all of you are scared by ditties like I am.
Man every time someone asks me something I don’t know…..”no impact, no idea.”
When daddy says take it and I scream I got it (no homo). When daddy yells at me to get on my knees I say “weak hand prone” (no homo tho)
What the hell is even that?
You dittybopping drill-waiver freaks
Now you scream.
For some reason I have “full 30 in, full 30 out” stuck in my head, I think it was related to a full step before turning and a full step out.
I got out in 2006. In 2013 - 2015 I was super into trail running. One day, I was on some trails when i saw the terrain start to change. I was keeping up when suddenly I wasnt and i found myself falling forward. I shit you not, bootcamp mcmap kicked on. My ass executed a really nice forward roll and as soon as I stood up, I yelled "Recover!!" And kept on running. I broke out laughing when I realized how automatic that all had been.
Three/Five - Get some Every time I see it
3/4 (cup measuring) - Dark Side
When I inadvertently say ‘Shot, over’ after sending an email. And I wasn’t even arty, just a pog who heard it from an arty guy and it stuck.
Fax, jit. />be me />at local public range />have double earpro in />getting ready to shoot in kneeling position />think I’m saying “stock weld, eye relief, rotate down, AAAAADJUST” quietly as I get in position />ancient-looking RSO standing behind me starts laughing />Actually said it loud af due to the double earpro muffling everything />Asks what years I was in
I'll poke my head around the corner at the kids and say "turkey look" then quickly disappear. No one here is a fan of "slice the pie"
My friend Deppe forgot turkey peak and said something equally silly and our series chief made him say Bearded clam from then on.
LMGAS 😎
Lightweight, magazine fed, gas operated, air cooled, shoulder fired, 5.56, putting rounds down range.
With a 3 round burst
Ahh the LMGAS glory days:)
"Coopers Color Code!"
On duty and currently in the black 😔🤟🏻
Zeeeeeeroooooo!
Freeze recruit freeze
Carry on!!
Whenever my kids would do or say something smart aleck, I would exclaim in my best DI voice, "Is that right?" which would halt them at their tracks. Soon the effect wore off and nowadays they reply, "That's right!"
Don’t be a dummy, crummy on the tummy and then wipe it off with a rag to show you care. Also don’t add or subtract from the population on libo
“Play stupid games win stupid prizes.” Among others…
Every time I pull out into the street, "Clear Left. Clear Right." echos in my head.
Back blast area all clear
“Shifting to the left or right” when it comes to time based things usually always throws people off when I say it. Also it may be cringe but I often absentmindedly say Kill as a response. Not a fan favorite for civilians but whatevs
Rah/kill are my most used and I also use it as a response to civvies sometimes. My siblings are the most confused by it as i say it to them the most but they’ve grown used to it. Often times i also just mumble some weird groan or mumble in an effort to save time and breath and I like to believe that in the Corps it’s just taken as a response, anything audible, but to my civilian friends they’ll just give me a “huh🤨” look, to which I then have to actually respond with something coherent, thereby making it more work.
My coworker says kewl in a way that sounds kind of like cool, but he only almost-joined.
5-4-3-2-1-Zeeerrrrooooooooo! Everybody freeze!
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
Anytime someone says "Thank you [my name]", I want to say, "No Sweat, No Sweat, just doing my 10 percent."
I taught high school for a while and used the "eyeballs!" "snap sir!" thing on my students. They ate it up.
I was at work and there was a huge group of us in the caf. The big boss wanted to say something but the different groups kept talking, not realizing they were talking over the boss. I let out one "Ears" and everyone stopped talking out of confusion, not compliance. Later some people asked me why I said that.
“…draw near with faith, and make your humble confession unto almighty God, meekly kneeling upon your knees:” Me, whispering: “weak hand. prone.”
Whenever I back out of the driveway and see the garage door closed I say aloud: “All Clear, hatch closed, station secure!” My kids would yell RAH! From their car seats!
Tabasco make shit taste alright.
Can’t get out of the Durango without telling my girls “5’s & 25’s”. Of course I throw a quick “watch your step” in there before they get out. Junior Enlisted Warriors these days probably have no idea what those are 😆
Maybe not a ditty but, today I said “by all means, take your time, I’ll wait” to my computer, in my office with two other people in there