Smoke Check: What results from wiring something incorrectly. AOM: All Officers Meeting, held for a variety of reasons like training, port calls, mess issues, etc. a Seaman/Airman/Fireman, getting out of line with a Chief Petty Officer. Pushbutton: Term applied to a 6 year enlistee with advanced schooling. Originally a Torpedo Boat Destroyer, then later, just Destroyer. Masagi Girl: A prostitute (typically Chinese) found in the Honch. Ill think of as many as I can, elaborate on their origins and causes as well as I can, and you guys can feel free to add to it in the comments below. Joe Shit-in-the-rag Man / Joe Shit the Rag man / Joe Shit Charlie the Rag Man: An under-performing sailor. )See Fast Cruise. Basically, they taught the PO2 exam for 6 months. Can also refer to a green or inexperienced sailor, officer or enlisted person, e.g. Admirals have Double Eggs. This is especially true if the paint being requested is classified as hazardous material, requiring special ventilation and lockouts. Whitney (LCC-20), as it rarely goes to sea. VBSS: Visit, Board, Search, Seizure: Marinetime boarding actions and tactics. Fried Calamari: A sailor who has been electrocuted. Sticks: The levers in the Maneuvering Room of a diesel submarine that are used to change the settings for the main propuslion motors. ".then you smash his fucking grape! "Wrong answer, RPOC! Socked-in: When the ceiling and visibility at an airfield or over an air-capable ship are below minimums for takeoff and landing. Also the name of the current submarine-launched nuclear missile and its systems. War Chicken: A derogatory term for the Special Warfare Insignia earned by Navy SEALS. John Wayne toilet paper: Toilet paper that is rough, tough, and takes shit from no one. Can be used with varying inflection and tone without consequence to signify enthusiasm or disgruntlement without stepping outside the bounds of professionalism. Savy Sue: The nickname of the USS Savannah AOR4, given by her ships' company. Double Nuts: Aircraft flown by the squadron or air wing commander, typically has "00" (zero zero) painted on the nose and also printed on routing slips for correspondence. Triced Up: Trapped in a rack more cramped then usual, as a result of shipmates opening one's rack while one is sleeping in it (after they discover one forgot to secure it shut before getting in). Helo Dunker: Dreaded training device that all naval aircrew and pilots must endure every few years when they complete water survival training, or swims. Designed to simulate crashing a helo at sea, it is basically a huge metal drum with seats and windows that is lowered into a pool and then flipped upside down with the passengers strapped into it. The closest civilian equivalent is BMOC (Big Man On Campus). (1974), Boot Camp: Term used to refer to the eight week basic training course held at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois. NON: "Needs of the Navy" a priority over anything to do with one's family or person; as in God, Country, Family. Horse Cock sandwich is one of the least favorite boxed lunches served to helo crews when visiting other ships. Pass in Review ceremonies are always held on a Friday, meaning that there is a Pass in Review held every week, except during federal holidays i.e. "She was a 2 before going to sea, a 10 out at sea, and back to a 2 when she returned.". Example: 100007 would be read aloud as "one quadzip seven." Cruise boo: A sailor's underway spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend. Derived from an arcane method of reading signal strength. The term refers to the aquatic animal and how it can swim fast in a straight line but similar to inexperienced motorcyclists, have trouble quickly changing directions. Pigs in a Bucket, Fuck it: Colorful rhyming term used when a sailor wants to forget what they have heard, seen, or done. Often seen entering and exiting helos that are providing SAR services. AX: The enlisted rating Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Technician; since merged into AT rating. Knee-knockers: A passageway opening through a bulkhead. Growler: A sound-powered phone, which is used like a telephone to call specific dialed in stations. See FAG. PIERPAC: Pretending to be on deployment while moored to a pier. Marines have an equivalent "tack" on each side. Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Those elements of the Pacific Fleet which operated in the referenced waters 1965-1975. Lifer cup: A coffee cup stained brown by repeated use. There is a long list of slang that different branches of service used to name members of other branches of the service. Squids, Jarheads, Grunts, a The OIC of this evolution is sometimes referred to as "the FOD-father.". Cunt: A tear drop shaped piece of metal placed in the bottom loop of sail rigging to keep the rope from chaff wear during tie-down of open sails. Blue Shirt: Aviation Boatswain's mate, usually seen chocking and chaining birds to the deck. Often placed off limits by the captain. Golden Dragon: A sailor who has crossed the Prime Meridian or the International Date Line into the Eastern Hemisphere. CHT Tank/Shit Tank/Chit Tank: Collection, Holding and Transfer system, which collects all ship's shower and toilet runoff/sewage until such time as it can be pumped or dumped. : Big Ol' Standard Navy-Issue Ass (from the apparent widening of the hips due in part to the cut of the working uniforms), Bosun's Punch: New sailors on ship are sometimes assigned to find this mythical tool in the office of one of the ship's Bosuns (. Training Aids: Logically, these are items used to assist by demonstration some point in a training lecture. Puddle Jumper, Puddle Pirate another Coast Guard reference, because they stick comparatively close to shore. Such a sailor will likely be restricted to the ship at the next liberty port. Clobbered: of a landing pattern or comms frequency at a field or ship: filled to capacity, such that one can't get an aircraft or a word in edgewise. NMOP: (common on Boomer Subs) No More Patrols Ever. Pri-Fly: Primary Flight Control. Also a man who stares at or is perceived to stare at another man's genitals in a communal shower. A frame on a ship is its ribs and they are set a certain distance apart so if your ships frames are 3 apart the rule is 9. 1D10T or ID10T: A mythical substance that new Sailors are sent in search of as a joke. Action Guy: A SEAL, SWCC, EOD, Diver or Recon Corpsman type. River Rat: Crew member of a brown water boat or patrol craft. Grip and grin: A public affairs or awards event in which some member of the command must shake hands, smile, and have their photo taken. Single up: To remove one 'loop' line of a doubled-up line, so that only a single line remains. ", USMC: A person's head. Double Digit Midget: A short-timer, someone who is less than 100 days from retirement, EAOS, or being discharged to civilian life. (This is a holdover from when all climbing was done by ladders.). Strikers are sailors that enlist without a guaranteed rate (job), with the intention of floating around until they find a department where they fit in. (Refers to improperly securing the "dogs" on a watertight hatch when passing through. Bitching Betty: The recorded or computer generated female voice heard in an aviator's headset when something is not as it should be. Watch: A period of duty, usually of four-hours duration, six-hours on submarines. Liberty: Free time away from work or the ship, usually after working hours or in port. Shit Suit: Aka "Poopy Suit" A white disposable set of coveralls used mainly for sewage use, painting, bilge diving, or void inspections. Also referred to "Monkey Rapers". Also refers to sailors who have yet to attend any schools that assign NEC (Navy Enlisted Classification) codes upon graduation. Therefore, his left sleeve is "slick", or has no rate or rating insignia at all. Stand By: To wait, can also be to foreshadow chastisement or punishment from a superior. METOC), UNREP: Underway Replenishment: The taking of supplies from a supply ship by maneuvering alongside it and passing lines between it and one's own vessel. Sliders: Mess deck/chow hall hamburgers/cheeseburgers, so named for their high grease content and purported ability to 'slide' through the alimentary canal. It is considered by the Navy as sacred waters, and, every year during the commeration of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a ship in the area will put out to sea, and drop a wreath in the area to honor the dead. Best used with higher voltage drills. Pencil whip: (1) Filling out a form with mostly imaginary data or fluff. I dont want to die.. Shit Can, Shitcan: Either the name for a trash can, or the act of throwing something into the trash. Stupid-: Adjective for remedial training. Down: Not working, out of commission, broken, "broke-dick." So called in reference to her collision with the USS Kennedy in 1975. Service Dress Bozo: Service Dress Blue uniform with a bow tie worn by a junior officer to a formal event for which he was too cheap to buy a formal mess dress jacket. Chief Warrant Officer (W1W5): A "Super Goat," a highly qualified senior enlisted (E-7/E-8) person who has earned a commission through a competitive process and continues to work in their technical field. Usually speaks in unintelligible english with a heavy New England or southern accent. Similar to the code for "bulkhead remover." Gigged: Having suffered a point deduction in Boot Camp for an unsatisfactory personal, uniform, or bunk or locker inspection. Extra Man Onboard, Enlisted Puke: Derogatory term used sparingly and very privately among junior officers to describe a particularly worthless and disliked enlisted subordinate. CGU-11: Nomenclature for a Seagull to boot sailors. OSs, STs and other Twidgets that don't, for example, stand any rate-related watches in port (in the days of steam ships especially) get even less respect. They have small, useless metal handles on the side, and are perfectly sized so that one has to turn them at an angle to get through a knee knocker without grazing one's knuckles. "first-termers"). Blowing Shitters: An act by which an HT uses straight firemain pressure on a clog in the sewage line (CHT/VCHT) that cannot be removed by ordinary means. Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Adios, motherfuckers. Haole: Pronounced "How-Lee" Hawaiian term for non-native. for emergency leave, or to move off base to civilian housing). Also possibly named to represent a generator that is providing no power to the system and therefore not taking on its share of the load. The CAG, ship's CO, and battle group admiral are also usually invited and present. Buddy Fucker: Someone who fucks over their shipmates, and who is not to be trusted with any information or watch swap. Kiddy cruise: officially a 'minority enlistment'. Once it reaches a high enough speed, the rod is turned so that the steam blows the object completely off the rod and likely at another sailor, who then has to dodge the "danger nut.". Safety system where sailors can drop an anonymous recommendation into a locked box. Oil King - An enlisted engineer responsible for fuel, lube oil, boilerwater and feedwater testing and also their quality, quantity, and transfers around the ship. LST: Tank landing ship, or Large Slow Target, a now disused type of. EIDWS: Enlisted Information Dominance Warfare Specialist. ", CAG: Title used when addressing the carrier air wing commander. Battle Group (BG): A group of warships and supply ships centered around a large deck aircraft carrier and that carrier's airwing. Poopysuit: Blue overalls worn when deployed out to sea. VAW: Fixed Wing Carrier Airborne Early Warning aircraft Squadrons. "Whatever happens on WESTPAC stays on WESTPAC.". Fun Boss: Morale, Welfare and Recreation Officer. It is sounded during flag ceremonies and funerals, generally on bugle or trumpet. Originally used in reference to the daily order for a ship underway to go out past the 50-mile-from-shore line in order to legally pump oily water from bilges and dump trash, this can no longer be done. Spudlocker: Area below the ramp of an aircraft carrier. (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery). 90 Day Wonder, 90 Day Miracle: OCS graduate (as opposed to a graduate of four-year Naval Academy or ROTC training). P.A.P.E.R.C.L.I.P. F.U.B.I.S. Also called drift-pack, or in the very extreme case "COMNAVDRIFTLANT/PAC", a parody of COMNAVSURFLANT/PAC. "DD 214" is the form that must be filled out before a member of the military may be discharged. A "My Wife Chit" is a special request that uses one's wife as an excuse/justification for needing to be absent. During the act of getting underway, an order to ", Sinker: Loss of contact with a submarine being tracked by a surface ship when the submarine submerges. : Make A Sailor Hurt: (used in boot camp to describe) any physical training on the time of the Company Commander. Ricky Ninja: Within minutes of lights out, the entire division is asleep, except for the Ricky Ninjas, dressed in their ski masks and sweaters, sliding from rack to rack, Gullivering, dirty-dicking, and spitting in the RPOC's canteen. Cadillac: A mop bucket, usually with wheels and a wringer. Grotopotamus: The rather large ladies that graze around the Groton, CT area. Generally X(X-ray): always closed, Y(Yoke): closed while underway, Z(Zebra): closed while at GQ. Similar to "bulkhead remover," an inexpensive way to derive enjoyment from inexperienced personnel. 2MC: Engineering loudspeaker circuit. : Head Mother Fucker In Charge. HACQ: (pronounced "hack") House Arrest, Confinement to Quarters: Unofficial punishment where an officer is confined to his stateroom, usually during a port call. Refers to anything impressive or greatly exceeding what is required. Ricky Crud: (1) A one-night sickness which sailors acquire in bootcamp after receiving their smallpox vaccinations. His assistant is the "Mini Boss.". Aviation Queer: The enlisted rating AQ, Aviation Fire Control Technician; since merged into Aviation Electronics Technician (AT). Lifer: A name given to both officers and enlisted men who love the Navy and make it clear they want to be in for 20 or more years; lifers will try to convince others to re-enlist. Comes from the Powertrol valve used in AFFF firefighting systems. AFRTB: (Airframes runs this bitch) Term commonly used among AM's. Note: Reactor department is well aware that both phrases are dumb, but it is highly effective at trolling. Trap: A fixed-wing arrested landing on an aircraft carrier. 1. Derives from Bremerton, Washington, where there is a base at and around which such females are common. FFG: Frigate, Guided Missile, class of ship. (pronounced "foop-uh"): Fat Upper Pelvic Area: The buldge that protrudes from ill-fitting pants worn by an overweight sailor, or by extension, the sailor him- or herself. Goes from lower ranking (Seaman, Fireman, Airman) to higher ranking (LPO, LCPO) up the chain of command. Also called Fast Attack boats, also Saturdays, Sundays, and Nights, for their operating schedule. Frocked: Advanced in rank or rate with no pay increase. Limp Dick: A sailor who can't do the simplest job. Tweek and Peak: To fine tune something (uniform, rack, hair, etc); usually for inspection preparation. "Take that and give it the float test". The name comes from "rveill" (or "rveil"), the French word for "wake up.". Stroked Chit: Refers to a form of point deduction during boot camp, a stroked chit is a loss of five points to the company per grading period (one week) until Pass in Review. It is a combination of a rank (Hospital Recruit, the most junior. Note that in the Navy, many ships and units have nicknames; these are listed separately, in Appendix:Glossary of U.S. Navy slang/Unit nicknames. Fuckface: Any person or thing which has a face. R2D2: Dome-shaped Phalanx CIWS system, after the visually similar. MARINE: Acronym for Marines Always Ride in Navy Equipmentor Muscles are Required Intelligence Not Essential or My Ass Really Is Navy Equipment..or My Ass Rides In Navy Equipmentor Muscles are Required Intelligence Not Expected. Examples: Morale Officer, Mess Officer. Blue Water: Deep water far from land. Tube steak: Hot dogs (also, called "dangling sirloin"). See also TSC. Tin Chicken: US Merchant Marine Officer Insignia on a US Naval Officers uniform, often worn above the SWO pin. ZUG: Negative. Bilge Turd: Derogatory term for "Boiler Technician", typically from jealous Machinist Mates who wish they could be as badass as the now extinct Boiler Technicians were. By definition, a technical specialist. HT Punch: A mythical tool newbies are asked to fetch from the engineering spaces. O-N-O-F-F actuator (or switch): The on/off button or switch on any device, usually used in the context of a subordinate not grasping how to power a device up or down. ADCAP Advanced Capability Torpedo that began life as the Mk 48 torpedo (21 inch diameter) launched primarily by submarine platforms. Also called "Four fans of freedom," a desirable platform for airedales who have no wish to spend any time whatsoever at sea. Usually used by seasoned boots to refer to sailors with one or more weeks less time in service. 2JV: Engineering sound-powered circuit. A submarine (submarines are called boats, with only limited exceptions). Bluenose: An individual who has crossed the, Blue Dick: The Navy, AKA (I've been f-ed by the Blue Dick again), Blue on Blue: (1) Fratricide, friendly fire, so called because blue is the color associated with friendly forces during "workups" and exercises, while the fictional enemy country is usually orange. Humped the bunk: Screwed up. becomes "You are a shitbag, dammit. Green felt is usually abundant. RAS: Replenishment At Sea: The act or process of moving cargo and fuel from a supply ship to a warship via cable while underway. Shit Can Liner: Plastic bag to put in a shitcan. The near universal habit of repeating the last word in an acronym, e.g. JO Jungle: Pronounced "J-O Jungle; term for the berthing assignments of Junior Officers which consist up eight racks and associated berthing facilities. When the ceiling and visibility at an airfield or over an air-capable ship below. 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