What is your favorite military acronym/Dumb cherry story?

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Posted: 8/26/2004 7:46:38 AM EDT

All the ARFCOM acronyms got me thinking back to my military days. You couldn't say a sentence without using an acronym...What was your favorite?

Mine by a longshot was BOHICA (bend over, here it comes again)

ETA: good cherry stories!

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:49:59 AM EDT

[#1]

Tango Uniform
Alpha Mike Foxtrot

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:50:29 AM EDT

[#2]

FUBAR, seems to fit alot of things these days.LOL Also, SNAFU seems to work good too.

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:51:24 AM EDT

[#3]

FTA

lima lima mike foxtrot

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:51:46 AM EDT

[#4]

Mine's - WTFO - used it in the army and still use it today

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:53:06 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
FUBAR, seems to fit alot of things these days.LOL Also, SNAFU seems to work good too.

A big +1

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:54:18 AM EDT

[#6]

BOHICA

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:54:45 AM EDT

[#7]

Also, not sure if it's "military" or not but the term "Culster Fuck" seems to come up when we take a drive just about anywhere in Tennessee. Seems like we're always getting into a CF somewhere.LOL

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:56:34 AM EDT

[#8]

POGI

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:56:55 AM EDT

[#9]

FUBAR

I learned one from the Air Force - NRTS pronounced "nerts". Not Repairable This Station used to pass on a broken piece of equipment to a higher level of repair. I started using it to describe some of the kids working for me. I knew I couldn't repair 18 years worth of life experences but I always did my best. I figure the it would take God himself to fix some of the kids I got ... "nerts"!

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:58:17 AM EDT

[#10]

POSAR

Posted: 8/26/2004 8:03:21 AM EDT

[#11]

FIIGMO

Posted: 8/26/2004 8:08:47 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
FUBAR, seems to fit alot of things these days.LOL Also, SNAFU seems to work good too.

A big +1

Posted: 8/26/2004 10:42:19 AM EDT

[#13]

SAC = Stupid Air Command

USAF = U sure are f*cked

Posted: 8/26/2004 10:47:17 AM EDT

[#14]

BIP = Blow in Place

Posted: 8/26/2004 10:49:26 AM EDT

[#15]

FIGMO...!

Posted: 8/26/2004 10:49:49 AM EDT

[#16]

REMF

Rear Echelon Mother F**ker

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:04:05 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
BOHICA

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:09:31 AM EDT

[#18]

Charlie Foxtrot = Cluster Fuck

I guess it is more military slang then acronym.

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:10:42 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
FIGMO...!

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:12:36 AM EDT

[#20]

MOAB

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:13:08 AM EDT

[#21]

ETS

CHRIS

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:15:09 AM EDT

[#22]

SNAFU....it pretty well sums up my life.

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:18:35 AM EDT

[#23]

FNAFGG

Fast Neat Average Friendly Good Good

If you know that one, I know where you are from!

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:19:17 AM EDT

[#24]

HMFIC

(Head Mother Fucker In Charge)

and a couple medical ones, that the military might actually use, too:

CTD

(Circling The Drain)

GPO

(Good for Parts Only)

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:22:01 AM EDT

[#25]

ID10T

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:24:40 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
ID10T

That's a COMPUTER one... but a good one! Like PICNIC...

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:26:04 AM EDT

[#27]

MC
SH
REMF

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:27:42 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
FNAFGG

Fast Neat Average Friendly Good Good

If you know that one, I know where you are from!

You probably heard about the guy who wrote that on a napkin, and asked the flight attendant to give it to the pilot. It was within the last few months or year. Big mistake.

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:31:09 AM EDT

[#29]

YKWWBA-TYR*

*You Know What Would Be Awesome - Translations You Retards

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:38:48 AM EDT

[#30]

DDOJSIOC

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:44:05 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
BOHICA

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:48:00 AM EDT

[#32]

Posted: 8/26/2004 11:48:55 AM EDT

[#33]

MFWIC......(miff...wick)...................mother fucker who's in charge

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:00:20 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Quoted:
BOHICA
+1

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:02:10 PM EDT

[#35]

SNAFU

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:04:36 PM EDT

[#36]

PFC

Proud Fucking Civilian

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:10:45 PM EDT

[#37]

FUBAR

FNG

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:18:11 PM EDT

[#38]

RLTW

Bravo Foxtrot = Buddy F**ker

Posted: 8/26/2004 1:45:26 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Quoted:
ID10T

That's a COMPUTER one... but a good one! Like PICNIC...

we used to send privates looking for "I D ten tango" wire

Posted: 8/26/2004 1:47:37 PM EDT

[#40]

IHTFP

"I Hate This Fucking Place"

"I Have Truly Found Paradise"

"I Hope There's a Friday Parade"

etc....

Posted: 8/26/2004 1:55:03 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
FIGMO...!

I just seperated last week but I'd been saying that for about 2 months prior though!

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:09:11 PM EDT

[#42]

LLMF = Lost Like a Mother Fucker

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:15:27 PM EDT

[#43]

AFU = All F'ed Up. Seen that one on some maintenance forms for the fuel trucks before, i.e., "Hose Reel AFU."

I hate it when people use snafu in the wrong way. Heck, I even heard a news reporter on the radio say, "...and the guy made a snafu." Thought to myself, that reporter doesn't know what snafu means.

Situation Normal All F'ed Up.

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:27:32 PM EDT

[#44]

MMFD Miles and Miles of F*****g Desert

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:37:02 PM EDT

[#45]

Actually someone on this board uses my favorite as either a screen or sig (can'r remember).

DILLIGAF

Do I Look Like I Give A F**k?

OFS

Out-F'n-Standing

METT-T

This is an actual usage acronym, but we integrated it into our everyday lives. For instance: End of the night at the bar, only the uglies are left.... well...METT-T...go getcha one!

Mission, Enemy, Time, Terrain - Troops available.

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:52:36 PM EDT

[#46]

I can't even figure out what is being said these days without this

www.acronymfinder.com/

GM

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:55:58 PM EDT

[#47]

LBFM-PBR

HMFIC

Posted: 8/26/2004 2:57:21 PM EDT

[#48]

LBFM

edit: PPPPPPP is another favorite, pronounced by compressing the lips and exhaling rapidly to produce a fart sound

edit again for the guy requesting explanations:

Little Brown Fucking Machine

Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

Posted: 8/26/2004 3:03:41 PM EDT

[#49]

I was a member of the

[size=5]mvtdccu

motor vehicle, track drivers (and) crew commanders union

FIGJAM was a good one to

F**k I'm Good Just Ask Me

Posted: 8/26/2004 3:07:38 PM EDT

[#50]

FUBAR

TARFU

SNAFU

Blue Falcon

REMF

And my personal favorite:

PUNTS (People of Utterly No Tactical Significance)

On a sidenote.. I said "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" in front of the two ladies in HR the other. I thought they were both going to die laughing. That's all I've heard from them since.. "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!"

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