Favorite Military "sayings"

[Christian]

One of the drills addressing someone who just couldn't shut up and always had to have the last word.

"SHUT YOUR F***IN' COCK HOLSTER!!!!"

Infantry drills were so much more comical than regular drills.

 

[Matt_SERE]

So list up your favorite sayings and leave off any explanations as "those who know, know. and those who don't..."

Just like us soldiers, Marines, airmen and coasties. We can't follow directions.

"you are about to have a significant emotional event"

 

[kingfisher]

My Senior Drill Instructor, while tapping his foot with a stern face and his arms crossed:

"Pack your trash!"

 

[TJRaccoon]

Get into the front leaning rest and do push up until I get tired
Go Police the company area. All I want to see is Elbows and /\$$ - holes

Put your left hand on your right shoulder
Put your right hand on your left shoulder
Pull down real hard......That pop
It's your head coming out of your 4th point on contact

Legs may not get that Last one

 

[grizquad]

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

Its "7 Ps". You left off "Perhaps"
My ROTC Sergeant pounded that into our heads

 

[Rockrivr1]

“Make a hole and make it wide” as a chief went by.

My least favorite was at boot when the Company Commander would yell to get into formation and scream “nuts to butts you homos”. Doubt that would fly today but that was every day back in the day.

 

[Picton]

I loved all the army terms for "head."

Noggin. Grape. Melon. Dome. Tracer (for us redheads).

...I mean the real head, you Navy people. Not the latrine.

 

[knoxy]

Drop! Start pushin!

Or fkin jumping jacks:
1, 2, 3, ONE!
1, 2, 3, TWO!
......
1, 2, 3, ONE THOUSAND!
...
GET IN YOUR HOLES!

We stopped at 1000 since I was the only one left and Sgt. Jamieson had had enough

 

[Andy in NH]

Go Police the company area. All I want to see is Elbows and /\$$ - holes

"If it doesn't grow, it goes!"

 

[TG Pioneer]

Does anyone else remember how it was always “MY” something or other? When I was an NCO I tried not to do it but “police up my quad” and “do not f@ck up my latrine” would occasionally slip out.

 

[Andy in NH]

"Day on, stay on. Stick around, stand by."

(The inevitable wait for information to flow down from higher - usually when waiting for liberty call [off-duty time] to be sounded.)

 

[timbo]

"That's as f***ed up as Hogan's Goat" or related, "That's as f***ed up as a wooden watch".

Sign on one of my advanced avionics class walls "Don't say you can't because you WILL"!

 

[fencer]

"Shitified" and "Motard" were favorites of one particular Gunny that stuck with me.

 

[rep308]

2022 Boot Camp Edition:

What are your Preferred Pronouns Maggot!?

 

[fencer]

Booger hook
Dick beaters
Go Fasters
Fart locker

 

[SgtHal75]

I may or may not have been told this in the past. "Good initiative, poor judgement"

Ive certainly been told that…Almost every Monday morning formation

 

[SgtHal75]

Booger hook
Dick beaters
Go Fasters
Fart locker

And…
Soup cooler
Suck hole
Moon beam
Ink stick
Go fasters
Cock holster
Smoking and joking

 

[SgtHal75]

I really hate “Conduct Unbecoming”!!!!!! God is that saying used WAY TOO MUCH!

 

[Boghog1]

Hurry up and wait

 

[tuna]

If you're thinking, you're wrong.

Roger that

 

[Sterg]

My Company Commander in Great Lakes……
Going through the chow line. “Let’s go!!! Nut to butt!!!”

In quarters…..,
“What are you looking at? Do you want to fvck me??”

One of the guys answered him. The company commander walked out without saying a word. Comes back with 2 shore patrol and they drag him away. Set back, we would see him marching with the new recruits. He was a hero.

 

[Skysoldier]

Outstanding!

 

[kingfisher]

"Get in the sand pit. Now, Bend-and-Motherfvckers!"

(Which was Bend-and-Thrusts, but each time you stood up you were to throw two handfuls of sand straight up above your head, ensuring your sweaty skin got covered with grit and nasty biting sand fleas.)

 

[Rockrivr1]

Flight deck message drilled into you over and over again was to "Keep your head on a swivel" and "Eye's open in every direction" Basically getting hit by a rotor, suck into an intake or blown down the deck will kill you.

 

[garandman]

Flight deck message drilled into you over and over again was to "Keep your head on a swivel" and "Eye's open in every direction" Basically getting hit by a rotor, suck into an intake or blown down the deck will kill you.

Our Safety Briefing at the Armor School:

Gentlemen, a tank is designed to do one thing: kill. And it does not care who it kills.

 

[Skysoldier]

What the F**K, Over!

 

[Artie]

"If you're not early, then you're late"

In Navy bootcamp when learning to fold clothes or tie your neckerchief, the fold was called a pussy. "Pussy to the left because you left it at home"

 

[Matt_SERE]

Outstanding!

Switch out 'forget about it' with 'outstanding'.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6zJ7IsJkM&t=4s

 

[CoastieRon]

Stand by for heavy rollers

Your other port side

Behold, the song of my people (as you're firing up a paint chipper)

You paint like old people f***

Devoe 150 covers all sins

Red Dog and Blue Glow white do mix after all!

 

[fencer]

Let us not forget... Jody.
And Mary Jane Rottencrotch