Marine Lingo For Poolees

[jinelson]

Have any of you poolees and wannabes ever seen terms and expresisons on the main board and wondered what they meant? Things like cumshaw, CUPP, field day, FIIGMO, Maggies drawers, P-38, FUBAR, pinning, wet down, POTUS and CMC. Well the old SSgt is gonna share a resource with you, I have it in hard copy and in a binder but just to let you know its 89 and 98 pages. Take a gander at this link and learn how you will be speaking soon;

http://4mermarine.com/USMC/dictionary.html

carstairs 35 Alpha out

[fallafel]

i love talking like sailors

[Osotogary]

How come it doesn't show Sh*tbird? LOL. Good stuff. Thanks.

[A.P]

well, i certaintly know what field day is, we seem to have them every day here in virginia beach.

[LivinSoFree]

I definitely learned some new stuff reading through that one...

[jinelson]

Yeah Meyer how about Basket Leave that was always my favorite, of course it was only a theory and never practiced. hehehehehe

[yellowwing]

Field Day! Sh*tty but very necessary. Ask any health professional. You get 30-60 people living in a common area. If it's not constantly sanitized, people will eventually get sick.

If they are sick, they are temporarily off the team. Can't have that. I know that bit of wisdom is small consolation if your the one stuck scuzzing out a nasty toilet!

[hrscowboy]

field days HAHA what do you poolies know about a field day most of the newer Marines have no idea what the real field days where all about. Try living in a squad bay and having to field day that sucker every morning plus buffing the floors with a buffer so much that you could eat off the floors. waxing the floors and buffing so that you could actually see yourself in the floor standing there. White cloves on and in wall lockers.. now you all live in apartment type barracks have carpeting on the floors hell 2 or 4 men to a room. how about moving wall lockers making a cubicle so you could have some type of privacy.

[HardJedi]

we didn't have no stinking carpet!

[jinelson]

We lived in quonset huts, tents, hootchs, and barracks but nothing close to what BEQ's offer today. Field day every thursday evening, and the OD would come by for a white glove inspection around 9 PM and God help us if he didnt think we were squared away.

[iceman7570]

right on jinelson i remember all the open squad bays and diving under the bunks with a wet towel to get all them damn floaters, crawling from one end to the other. them were the fun days before BEQ's.

[greensideout]

Quonset huts, tents and squad bays. Wall lockers and foot lockers. Rifle racks and lights out. A bugle call for reveille, chow and taps.

I felt like I died and went to heaven when I hit a duty station as an NCO and had a four man cube at the end of the squad bay.

Once on a field day the OD opened my wall locker and there hung a center fold from playboy. I was thinking I'm in deep doo now! He simply ask, "Is that your girl friend?" I replied, "No Sir, but I wish she was." He said, "Me too."

[jinelson]

You reminded me of a funny thing that happened to me when the OD opened my wall locker one time. My Brother was visiting me and I had brought his Class A uniform on base at MCAS El Toro to get it cleaned and pressed at the base cleaners. I had hung it in my locker to take in, in the morning. My Brother was in the army and man did the OD make a scene. I quess he thought that I was posing as a doggie off base.

[greensideout]

Oh yes, nothing went unnoticed. "Posing as a doggie off base", lol! I'm trying to think how that would give you a date getting advantage---you might end up with leftovers from the Marines---LOL.

[jinelson]

I resurected this for the 2006 Class of Poolee's as many 2005 Poolee's told me they learned much from it. Its entertaining to us older Marines as well, its like a walk down memory lane lol.

Marine Lingo For Poolees
Have any of you poolees and wannabes ever seen terms and expresisons on the main board and wondered what they meant? Things like cumshaw, CUPP, field day, FIIGMO, Maggies drawers, P-38, FUBAR, pinning, wet down, POTUS and CMC. Well the old SSgt is gonna share a resource with you, I have it in hard copy and in a binder but just to let you know its 89 and 98 pages. Take a gander at this link and learn how you will be speaking soon;

http://www.4mermarine.com/USMC/dictionary.html

carstairs 35 Alpha out


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