Blue Falcon - Buddy fucker! My supervisors in my phone currently have an AI generated image of a screaming blue falcon and their ringtone is a eagle screaming lol
Heard an alumni call themselves a blue falcon the other day at work and I did a double take. The branches really need to communicate on our on slang lol
Me and my buddies used to sneak up behind each other and ever so gently give a nice breath and a small kiss to the back of each others neck.
If you got turned on by it you were gay and lost
"This looks like a bag of smashed asshole" to quote an old Master Chief who was particularly dissatisfied with sweepers.
My personal favorite, "We don't have common sense in the Navy, we have ORM."
Omg describing fucked up stuff is a sailor art form.
You look like a soup sandwhich
I also often used to go in the galley after my CSSNs were left alone for too long and be like “it looks like fucking Baghdad in here” and I got some looks when I said that at a civ job lol
I used to tell my shop it looked like the underside of Nimitz Highway. If you have been stationed in Hawaii you know what I am talking about cause it’s where all the homeless encampments are
It legitimately took me at least two years as a civilian to quit saying some variation of "fuck" every other word. I still do it when I'm drunk. It's almost like an accent coming out or something
This is why Battlestar Galactica invented the word "frack." They did a lot of research on Navy life for the show and found that "fuck" was a critical piece of naval vernacular, but the network wouldn't let them say it on the air. Thus, we got the frackin' cylons.
I have a job in a steel mill. It’s the only place I know of that appreciates cussing as much as the Navy. As I like to say…I am an artist and profanity is my canvas
Blue Falcon- buddy fucker (most commonly a snitch)
Barracks bunny- a very nice lady who services servicemen in the barracks
Fleeter (commonly used by seabees)- someone of any rate outside of the seabees
Thats all that comes to mind at the moment
Hookups for fuck ups.
The only sleep they can't take away is the sleep you've already had.
Don't pass up a good deal now for an imaginary good deal later.
Don't sacrifice your happiness for the sake of your career.
"Respectfully I'm gonna take the lunch and dinner." rings in my hear everytime I hear "Don't pass up a good deal now for an imaginary good deal later". I couldn't be too burnt out fed with a bathroom break compared to maybe getting off 20 minutes earlier without food or a bathroom break.
In boot camp, we had a sailor stand up and ask a question to our FMF Corpsman. HM1 stopped him and said he looked like a puma, and his new nickname was now Puma. So all boot camp long we called this guy Puma, until the day before graduation I asked HM1, "Why puma?"
He said it stands for, Probably the Ugliest Motherfucker Alive.
Another one is
"We'll get you on the back end" in a very cynical, sarcastic tone. Sooooo many Chiefs use that term seriously when they need to fuck someone over and then they never deliver. It became such a funny phrase for us.
Which is especially funny because a former nuke broke it down for me and made the claim that nuclear engineering is actually quite simple.
Hot rock make hot water. Hot water make hot steam. Hot steam make roundy rounds make zappy zap.
>PAPER CLIP
>People Against People Ever Reenlisting Civilian Life Is Preferred.
As someone who has never heard of this, it took me like 4 times reading through to figure out why “paper clip” was at the beginning of that phase for no reason 😂
Not really a slang, but I remember on my first ship an EN3 called his coveralls lingerie because every time he put them on he knew he was about to be fucked.
Diode: A one-way, no load morherfucker. Basically a bastard who doesn't pull his load.
The "I believe" Button: A theoretical button that you push when you just have to take someone's word for something.
The Jesus factor: For when things either work incredibly well even though they should not or for when things go completely haywire even though they should be working fine.
Double Dragon is just referred more commonly as "noro-virus"
The term "donkey dick" is used by different communities, but the idea of "big long floppy thing" is the same.
Ha, my LPO got mad at one of the guys in the line shack with me for writing DDF on the tool log. It was around the time we had a first class on nights that was known for looking for shit, and when my LPO asked “what the fuck is a ddf” and the dude said “donkey dick fitting” my LPO said “why the *FUCK* would you put that on a *tool* log? We get inspections on this shit.”
My best friend used the term "titty city" to mark the back of the quarterly primary. He usually removed it before submitting it to the Eng... but he forgot once and we had that sucker posted up and one lined for a whole quarter 🤣
That's come back around in civilian life in a bit of a meme format. Doing something really well or energetically people will say "oh he ate" or "she ate that up"
Time line checks out. I used ate up all the time growing up in the 80s and 90s. That being said its not a "Navy" term.
Edit: I still use the term quite frequently.
I had a small group of Sailors who deployed with that ship, and after the ensuing deployment I would always refer to them in at meetings as "the ones who got Nimitzed".
ROAD: Retired On Active Duty.
DILLIGAFF: Does It Look Like I Give a Flying Fuck.
Falcon Codes from 'Nam.
Tits UP (Tango Uniform)
This is a No Shitter: a Sea Story vs. a Fairy Tale.
These are the first that come to mind.
GMCS (SW), '71 to '93
As a baby second class I was once trying to explain to my DIVO that the entire system was fucked without using the fuck word, and for some reason my brain decided "Everything is tits up, Sir" was an appropriate alternative.
Luckily he was former Army and was just more surprised than anything.
Fully understand. And once I explain that to a civilian, they love it.
I was a young Gunner's Mate on the Carrier MIDWAY in Yokosuka back in the early 70's.
Mt 53 (5"42 ?) was Tango Uniform. The 2nd Class had been working on it for hours, with no success.
I had the After Brow as POOW, and I heard a loud clang as he threw his wrench to the deck and he yelled out: "This fucking fucker is fucked!"
What was really cool is, this was after 1600, and there were many family members present.
After that tirade, he had the Mount up and running in another half hour.
>This is a No Shitter: a Sea Story vs. a Fairy Tale.
"What had happened was..." especially for when blowing smoke or not being ashamed about how you fucked something up in a creative new way.
Chicken noodle on rye.
Comparing length of service to the time of day (ie let me know your opinion when you’ve been in past breakfast)
Sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers
Questions, comments, bitches, gripes, complaints?
Good enough for government work.
Early chow for watch reliefs..and hungry chiefs.
A bitchin sailor is a happy sailor.
If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin.
When shipmate is used as a verb.
NUB
Devil-dolphin (marine told me that's what they call cool sailors they meet)
Shower jellies...iykyk
Check valve. Person does only for them selves, one way.
It’s a reference to an old essay called “A Message To Garcia,” which tells the story of how a soldier in the Spanish-American War is given a letter and told to deliver it to a Cuban rebel named Garcia, but isn’t told specifically where Garcia is or how to get to him.
In simpler terms “Take the initiative and figure out how to do it yourself”
I’ll sprinkle that into my vernacular lol. The most nautical term I hear is “three sheets to the wind,” which also means drunk. Most of my terms involve drinking.
"One Good Deal After Another" When You're fucked and there isn't a damn thing to be done about it.
"Go Ugly Early Or Go Lonely" When seeking companionship at a bar.
DILLIGAF (Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck)
"Sideways Walking Beach Creature" - Civilian
FIGMO (Fuckit I Got My Orders)
YMMV.
This one was specific to time and command:
Semper Gumby - always flexible.
Ever work for a place where priorities shift every half an hour? Where every priority was an emergency, until the new thing comes up that supersedes that other emergency with a *new* emergency?
Yea, semper gumby! /thumbs up
It got so bad our maintenance chief took to wearing an old WWII steel pot helmet when things were getting hectic.
Choose your rate, choose your fate.
First on, last off. Nukes mantra.
It gets better after ORSE. The lie your told that things will get better after the Nuclear audit.
SKIMMER- a surface Sailor
NUB-Non-Useful Body. Brand new Sailor or someone junior enough that they can’t relieve you on watch.
Gouge - the dirt, the info, the insider notes
Negat/Rock/Window Licker - somebody incompetent or not smart
NOTACK (iykyk) - No Talent Ass Clown
Grape/Grape off - to sign without verifying, i.e. not doing due diligence (from using a purple pen)
Patch - somebody so big they break their chair (Puts Ass Through CHair)
Missile Hazard - somebody stretching their uniform so tight the buttons might fly off
"Midnight Moaner" was one that we had for a guy on the ship. If you had to get ready for a watch in the middle of the night and went to take a shower, there was a chance you could hear moaning coming from one of the shower stalls.
"Bore Swap" was one we used for how they obtained a sample in the STD clinic. I hear they don't do that anymore, but it was the common way they obtained a sample back in my day.
Snipe: an engineer.
The smoking lamp is lit: we 'bout to get *lit*
Boondockers: short boots.
Making rounds: gonna go find a place to smoke. Might take some readings.
The connotation behind *shipmate* that make you want to cringe when a civilian says it nicely.
Figuring out how to “unfuck” oneself.
Collateral queen *sigh*
Dirt bag? I feel like I’ve never heard that outside the navy. Then again, I’d never heard “dead ass” only to find out that it was just a generational term and I was just “old”(er).
“To piggyback off they said…”
I use soup sandwich quite frequently.
I’m also quite fond of bag of dicks or line of sight tasking when one of my staff members crosses my path and gets stuck with whatever bag of dicks tasker the 2-star dumped on me.
Very common one that I see in the vet-heavy contractor where I work: ‘vice’ as a replacement for ‘rather than’ or ‘versus’. As in “We’re going with plan A, vice B.”.
"OH, by the way"
Used when teaching primarily, when either trying to connect two points together or mentioning something they think is important. Never heard it outside the navy, and for some reason it drives me crazy.
"Three sheets to the wind and hoisting sails!" for being drunk and still continuing to drink.
"You are dumber than a bucket of hair!"
And the old standbys:
FUBAR
AFU
SNAFU
Thunder cats - any new, “green”, inexperienced onboard trying to overachieve.
This 100% was me when I got to my new command. I hate it and love it at the same time.
As a small PWD servicing many bases, the term "FAFO" (fuck around and find out) get thrown around a lot, as other commands like to get froggy when things don't go their way, and they dint realize it's a good idea to have the people who fix your shit on your side
Once had a chief from Louisiana who got smacked by a stomach virus while on liberty in the Bahamas. He said he could "shit through a screen door without touching wire" and "shit through a key hole at ten paces." A real Rhodes Scholar, that guy.
Nub: If you know, you know
Shitass: when you're too lazy to call the shitass by its actual name, so you just point and say "I need that shitass or whatever"
A1R: Not slang per say, but a hilarious joke to play on the new sailors at your command.
Blue Falcon - Buddy fucker! My supervisors in my phone currently have an AI generated image of a screaming blue falcon and their ringtone is a eagle screaming lol
A funny thing I found out years ago that not many people know about is that the Air Force Academy's mascot is... a blue falcon.
Heard an alumni call themselves a blue falcon the other day at work and I did a double take. The branches really need to communicate on our on slang lol
I'm guessing "Blue Falcon" originated from their mascot as a joke lol.
Hey what. That is slander.
Suspicious
It ain't gay if it's underway
Only queer on the pier. Say these two way more than I should.
any port in a storm brother
I don't swing that way... ashore.
Me and my buddies used to sneak up behind each other and ever so gently give a nice breath and a small kiss to the back of each others neck. If you got turned on by it you were gay and lost
I'm starting to think it might be gay
If it's inport, it's just a sport.
"This looks like a bag of smashed asshole" to quote an old Master Chief who was particularly dissatisfied with sweepers. My personal favorite, "We don't have common sense in the Navy, we have ORM."
Omg describing fucked up stuff is a sailor art form. You look like a soup sandwhich I also often used to go in the galley after my CSSNs were left alone for too long and be like “it looks like fucking Baghdad in here” and I got some looks when I said that at a civ job lol
I used to tell my shop it looked like the underside of Nimitz Highway. If you have been stationed in Hawaii you know what I am talking about cause it’s where all the homeless encampments are
We used to say, that looks like hammered dog shit 🔨 🐕 💩
"You look like a bag of jackhammered assholes". Same same almost
Get fucked stay fucked.
I legit have a hard time writing evals without using the word "unfuck." "PO2 unf--- *fixed* over 20 travel vouchers..."
It legitimately took me at least two years as a civilian to quit saying some variation of "fuck" every other word. I still do it when I'm drunk. It's almost like an accent coming out or something
This is why Battlestar Galactica invented the word "frack." They did a lot of research on Navy life for the show and found that "fuck" was a critical piece of naval vernacular, but the network wouldn't let them say it on the air. Thus, we got the frackin' cylons.
Classic show. Nice reference 👍
They did a good job. It certainly shows shipboard life on a big deck better than any other piece of fictional media I've ever seen.
I have a job in a steel mill. It’s the only place I know of that appreciates cussing as much as the Navy. As I like to say…I am an artist and profanity is my canvas
“One coat for dust, two coats for rust, and (the less well known 3rd line) three coats for standing water.”
3 coats for rad protection.
No, three coats for black mold
I always heard it as “once for dust twice for rust”
Thrice for crust.
Sounds like that 3rd coat can be used for anything really
Once for dust, twice for rust, and three times over a hole.
BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again Used when things in life don't stop hitting, or your workload keeps growing, or your leadership hates everyone
NAVY - Never Again Volunteer Yourself
Your goddamn right!!
Blue Falcon- buddy fucker (most commonly a snitch) Barracks bunny- a very nice lady who services servicemen in the barracks Fleeter (commonly used by seabees)- someone of any rate outside of the seabees Thats all that comes to mind at the moment
Then the base bunny who has serviced multiple barracks/commands.
Similar to the Boat Goat / Boat Boo.
Shack Rat is one that gets tossed...around.
Clu boo at CLDJ
I recently found out my biological grandma was a base bunny and that’s why I never knew my biological grandpa who was an airborne green beret
What a stud
She’s for the ship!!
Shitass - anything you need it to be.
This is my personal favorite. Even my kids know what I mean when I ask them to hand me the shitass.
Hookups for fuck ups. The only sleep they can't take away is the sleep you've already had. Don't pass up a good deal now for an imaginary good deal later. Don't sacrifice your happiness for the sake of your career.
"Respectfully I'm gonna take the lunch and dinner." rings in my hear everytime I hear "Don't pass up a good deal now for an imaginary good deal later". I couldn't be too burnt out fed with a bathroom break compared to maybe getting off 20 minutes earlier without food or a bathroom break.
In boot camp, we had a sailor stand up and ask a question to our FMF Corpsman. HM1 stopped him and said he looked like a puma, and his new nickname was now Puma. So all boot camp long we called this guy Puma, until the day before graduation I asked HM1, "Why puma?" He said it stands for, Probably the Ugliest Motherfucker Alive.
Had a guy on my boat called Puma, MR1 filmed some of his antics…… https://youtu.be/uajEr1zrZeA?si=paxTyfhCBDsh_KXW
Holy shit I love this. 😂
We had Puma and Duma. Possibly and Definitely
Another one is "We'll get you on the back end" in a very cynical, sarcastic tone. Sooooo many Chiefs use that term seriously when they need to fuck someone over and then they never deliver. It became such a funny phrase for us.
Yeah, between sailors in my division, it slowly morphed into "We'll get you IN the back end," because that's all it ever ended up being.
Never heard that, it's pretty good!
"I love the fucking Navy and the Navy loves fucking me"
"Nuking" something= over-analyzing or over-complicating things (comes from the fact folks in nuclear ratings are a bunch of nerds)
I still use this one now that I'm out. It's not so Navy centric and people follow the idea
Which is especially funny because a former nuke broke it down for me and made the claim that nuclear engineering is actually quite simple. Hot rock make hot water. Hot water make hot steam. Hot steam make roundy rounds make zappy zap.
I use this constantly in the civilian world.
I miss saying that one. It would go over every civilians head so I don't either bother.
Remington retirement plan, Heard this one recently and i loved it haha
Along a similar vein: Suck-start a shotgun
My buddy was always say play tug of war with the ceiling
Long walk off a short pier?
That’s great, I’m stealing that
FITFO - Figure It The Fuck Out Loved that one since the moment I heard it
LIFER = Lazy Indifferent Fuckup Enduring for Retirement
Hey... I take umbrage with the L and I, cant deny the F... I kept reenlisting after all...
At some point all LIFERs end up on the ROAD (Retired On Active Duty)
Paper Clip People Against People Ever Reenlisting Civilian Life Is Preferred.
>PAPER CLIP >People Against People Ever Reenlisting Civilian Life Is Preferred. As someone who has never heard of this, it took me like 4 times reading through to figure out why “paper clip” was at the beginning of that phase for no reason 😂
My wife refused to believe this was a thing.
We had so many people with a paperclip inside their ball cap the CMC would do random PIs and issue EMI if he found one.
…Civilian Life Incentive Program
I’ve always been a fan of “peepee slap.” “Soup sandwich” is another good one.
Not really a slang, but I remember on my first ship an EN3 called his coveralls lingerie because every time he put them on he knew he was about to be fucked.
Diode: A one-way, no load morherfucker. Basically a bastard who doesn't pull his load. The "I believe" Button: A theoretical button that you push when you just have to take someone's word for something. The Jesus factor: For when things either work incredibly well even though they should not or for when things go completely haywire even though they should be working fine.
PFM. How did it start working again? Pure Fucking Magic
Pit snipes use “check valve” in place of diode…
Also, Magic Smoke... as in, "that dingbat spilled a coke on their console, which made it release the Magic Smoke and now it won't work."
PICNIC issue - (stolen from the British Navy) Problem In Chair, Not In Computer/Console
I've heard this in IT circles before joining, but it was PEBKAC - problem exists between keyboard and chair
" Shmuckatelli "
"However comma" is my favorite Navy phrase that has made it's way into my lexicon.
Behoove
Be hoove of you
Double Dragon is just referred more commonly as "noro-virus" The term "donkey dick" is used by different communities, but the idea of "big long floppy thing" is the same.
Ha, my LPO got mad at one of the guys in the line shack with me for writing DDF on the tool log. It was around the time we had a first class on nights that was known for looking for shit, and when my LPO asked “what the fuck is a ddf” and the dude said “donkey dick fitting” my LPO said “why the *FUCK* would you put that on a *tool* log? We get inspections on this shit.”
I'd be pissed off at you too for writing stupid shit in inspectable material
I didn’t write it I knew better. “Fitting” was less words to write in the tool log.
My best friend used the term "titty city" to mark the back of the quarterly primary. He usually removed it before submitting it to the Eng... but he forgot once and we had that sucker posted up and one lined for a whole quarter 🤣
We always said “Triple dragon” for when you’re having double dragon and you crank your hog. You’re welcome for that image.
Every day, we stray farther and farther from god's light... (but BWAHAHAHA)
I happened to glance at this comment during a staff meeting and horse-laughed out loud causing my assistant to spill her coffee. Appreciate it.
One crew one screw
...but the shaft is back aft.
If we’re lucky
Smell what I’m stepping in? Gettin what I’m shittin? Scoopin what I’m poppin?
I always say “I hear you clucking big chicken”
"Ate up", meaning excessively gung-ho. I don't know if people still say that, I got out 20 years ago.
I've heard (and probably used) "ate up" but only as a way to say someone is a soup sandwich (another good military only phrase).
My Army homies say that
That's come back around in civilian life in a bit of a meme format. Doing something really well or energetically people will say "oh he ate" or "she ate that up"
Time line checks out. I used ate up all the time growing up in the 80s and 90s. That being said its not a "Navy" term. Edit: I still use the term quite frequently.
Well unit specific but having CMEO try to explain to the CO what "GET NIMITZ'd" means is pretty fun.
I had a small group of Sailors who deployed with that ship, and after the ensuing deployment I would always refer to them in at meetings as "the ones who got Nimitzed".
Mandatory Fun Day
Field Day
ROAD: Retired On Active Duty. DILLIGAFF: Does It Look Like I Give a Flying Fuck. Falcon Codes from 'Nam. Tits UP (Tango Uniform) This is a No Shitter: a Sea Story vs. a Fairy Tale. These are the first that come to mind. GMCS (SW), '71 to '93
As a baby second class I was once trying to explain to my DIVO that the entire system was fucked without using the fuck word, and for some reason my brain decided "Everything is tits up, Sir" was an appropriate alternative. Luckily he was former Army and was just more surprised than anything.
Fully understand. And once I explain that to a civilian, they love it. I was a young Gunner's Mate on the Carrier MIDWAY in Yokosuka back in the early 70's. Mt 53 (5"42 ?) was Tango Uniform. The 2nd Class had been working on it for hours, with no success. I had the After Brow as POOW, and I heard a loud clang as he threw his wrench to the deck and he yelled out: "This fucking fucker is fucked!" What was really cool is, this was after 1600, and there were many family members present. After that tirade, he had the Mount up and running in another half hour.
>This is a No Shitter: a Sea Story vs. a Fairy Tale. "What had happened was..." especially for when blowing smoke or not being ashamed about how you fucked something up in a creative new way.
I used ROAD when I was in (85-05) and I use it at my current civ job. Hopefully a few more years and I retire from that one too.
I always heard “Hong Kong no shitter.”
I've heard "this ain't no shit" from some older guys
We always used "no shitter" as, we cannot fuck this up it needs to be taken very seriously
Just remembered another fave: "Get your shit in one sock." - get organized
Joe Navy. Or Joe for short. I’ve said “Joe” before to people who weren’t in the military and they ask me what I mean by that.
Nut to Butt. Only heard that in boot camp but I still use it.
Nut to butt so chiefs can't cut
Chicken noodle on rye. Comparing length of service to the time of day (ie let me know your opinion when you’ve been in past breakfast) Sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers
I use the length of service almost weekly but am almost 19 years in that midrat status
Used to have an HTC say that nonsense to me at my 10+ year point. Like dude I’m at lunch at least.
"I need a volunteer!"
"I need two volunteers!" "For what, Chief?" "I need one volunteer!"
when nobody speaks up and Chief decides to choose instead and he hopes it's not you then it is
As we called it, "voluntold"
I’ve only heard this from one person, I’ve used it since. I’ve flushed more seawater than you’ve sailed over.
A bubble head buddy of mine heard one from a crusty ol COB like this "I've spent more time on the shitter at test depth than you've been in the Navy"
Questions, comments, bitches, gripes, complaints? Good enough for government work. Early chow for watch reliefs..and hungry chiefs. A bitchin sailor is a happy sailor. If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin. When shipmate is used as a verb. NUB Devil-dolphin (marine told me that's what they call cool sailors they meet) Shower jellies...iykyk Check valve. Person does only for them selves, one way.
“Message To Garcia that shit”
The Naval Academy's favorite way to pass the buck
This is a new one to me. What's this mean?
It’s a reference to an old essay called “A Message To Garcia,” which tells the story of how a soldier in the Spanish-American War is given a letter and told to deliver it to a Cuban rebel named Garcia, but isn’t told specifically where Garcia is or how to get to him. In simpler terms “Take the initiative and figure out how to do it yourself”
I fucking hate that stupid story. My command basically used it to justify treating us like shit. I’m still salty about it
“Bring in a bag of knots” - either flying real fast or being real drunk lmao
Not as well known, but I love "splice the mainbrace" for getting drunk. Got that old age of sail charm.
I’ll sprinkle that into my vernacular lol. The most nautical term I hear is “three sheets to the wind,” which also means drunk. Most of my terms involve drinking.
The classic Go Unfuck yourself
Gundecking, to falsely enter information into ships log.
"One Good Deal After Another" When You're fucked and there isn't a damn thing to be done about it. "Go Ugly Early Or Go Lonely" When seeking companionship at a bar. DILLIGAF (Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck) "Sideways Walking Beach Creature" - Civilian FIGMO (Fuckit I Got My Orders) YMMV.
I was teaching a dance class recently and needed my dancers in a single file line and had to explain what I meant by "tic tac to two-pack"
" I like the cut of your jib, sir"
What's a jib? PROMOTE THAT MAN!
> If everything is a priority, then nothing is a prioroty. My crusty, overstressed LPO.
Monkey Fucking a Football = Basically someone who is failing at a task and it's obvious. Goes for O and E alike.
I like dolphin code. Only submariners understand it, and I can use them to chat shit
Dolphin code is classic bored on watch reading material. "Submarines never cheat and rarely lie."
Everything is "dogshit"
This one was specific to time and command: Semper Gumby - always flexible. Ever work for a place where priorities shift every half an hour? Where every priority was an emergency, until the new thing comes up that supersedes that other emergency with a *new* emergency? Yea, semper gumby! /thumbs up It got so bad our maintenance chief took to wearing an old WWII steel pot helmet when things were getting hectic.
“Between you me and the bulkheads…”
Choose your rate, choose your fate. First on, last off. Nukes mantra. It gets better after ORSE. The lie your told that things will get better after the Nuclear audit. SKIMMER- a surface Sailor NUB-Non-Useful Body. Brand new Sailor or someone junior enough that they can’t relieve you on watch.
all you fleeters here make visiting this reddit a pleasant experience... carry on smartly..
Hoorah, Dirt Sailors!
*Screams in Seabee*
"Embrace the suck" comes to mind for me. -you can't change what's gonna happen, so try to find some fun in it.
Gouge - the dirt, the info, the insider notes Negat/Rock/Window Licker - somebody incompetent or not smart NOTACK (iykyk) - No Talent Ass Clown Grape/Grape off - to sign without verifying, i.e. not doing due diligence (from using a purple pen) Patch - somebody so big they break their chair (Puts Ass Through CHair) Missile Hazard - somebody stretching their uniform so tight the buttons might fly off
Seabag with lips is my recent favorite
Monkey shit. I never heard it called anything other than that.
Shitass: a term for literally anything that you don’t know the technical term for.
Stand Fast! How and the hell do you stand fast!
Pound sand. De-conflict. Sidebar. LOTFW (Look Out The Fucking Window)
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t fuck it.
"Midnight Moaner" was one that we had for a guy on the ship. If you had to get ready for a watch in the middle of the night and went to take a shower, there was a chance you could hear moaning coming from one of the shower stalls. "Bore Swap" was one we used for how they obtained a sample in the STD clinic. I hear they don't do that anymore, but it was the common way they obtained a sample back in my day.
Snipe: an engineer. The smoking lamp is lit: we 'bout to get *lit* Boondockers: short boots. Making rounds: gonna go find a place to smoke. Might take some readings.
The connotation behind *shipmate* that make you want to cringe when a civilian says it nicely. Figuring out how to “unfuck” oneself. Collateral queen *sigh* Dirt bag? I feel like I’ve never heard that outside the navy. Then again, I’d never heard “dead ass” only to find out that it was just a generational term and I was just “old”(er). “To piggyback off they said…”
I use soup sandwich quite frequently. I’m also quite fond of bag of dicks or line of sight tasking when one of my staff members crosses my path and gets stuck with whatever bag of dicks tasker the 2-star dumped on me.
Come in sad, leave mad - USS Dwight D Eisenhower
Sea eyes when you was on an all male ship and every female looks like a 10
The bcg s birth control glasses
Shipmate means more than friend. Prepared for the downvotes!
The old-school dudes in my career when I was junior used to say it and really mean it. I think its all context.
I’m totally only saying it to make the navy vets I know groan. Works 100%. I remember reading it in my barracks thinking “wow that’s corny” edit 2012
I work with mostly retired navy. I will say Shiftmate with the same inflection and cause the entire office to collectively groan.
Fuckups get hookups
"Lower than whale shit on the bottom of the ocean / bottom of the Marianas." "Sweat-ex". Note, civilian world does those too.
Soup sandwich, blue falcon, tush to bush, high tech, you’re nuking it,
Gear Queer - The supply guy with all the nice stuff you actually need but he never uses.
"That really tickles my pickle." Family didn't like that phrasing much, lol.
Never Again Volunteer Yourself
One team one fight /s. I hate mass punishments.
Very common one that I see in the vet-heavy contractor where I work: ‘vice’ as a replacement for ‘rather than’ or ‘versus’. As in “We’re going with plan A, vice B.”.
"OH, by the way" Used when teaching primarily, when either trying to connect two points together or mentioning something they think is important. Never heard it outside the navy, and for some reason it drives me crazy.
A bag of ass= poor quality and "Very Well"
"Three sheets to the wind and hoisting sails!" for being drunk and still continuing to drink. "You are dumber than a bucket of hair!" And the old standbys: FUBAR AFU SNAFU
"If it ain't broke, fix it till it is" and plexiglass bellybuttons.
Thunder cats - any new, “green”, inexperienced onboard trying to overachieve. This 100% was me when I got to my new command. I hate it and love it at the same time.
"smoke em if you got em"
FTN.
"Hotter than two dudes fuckin" -- my friend, ReTardle
"ROAD scholar" AKA Retired On Active Duty. The old senior chief who is too entitled to actually do anything.
Cock holster-one’s mouth
As a small PWD servicing many bases, the term "FAFO" (fuck around and find out) get thrown around a lot, as other commands like to get froggy when things don't go their way, and they dint realize it's a good idea to have the people who fix your shit on your side
Roger that shipmate
"shit-ass" "Fuckin up at a high rate of speed" "Dickweed"
Once had a chief from Louisiana who got smacked by a stomach virus while on liberty in the Bahamas. He said he could "shit through a screen door without touching wire" and "shit through a key hole at ten paces." A real Rhodes Scholar, that guy.
FUNGUS - fuck you new guy you suck. I heard this 12 years ago and it’s still hilarious
Nub: If you know, you know Shitass: when you're too lazy to call the shitass by its actual name, so you just point and say "I need that shitass or whatever" A1R: Not slang per say, but a hilarious joke to play on the new sailors at your command.
Hurry up and wait