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Re: Jargon
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2017, 12:25:19 AM »
After I posted that I realized it was incomplete.

This REMF learned MOS 45B in AIT at USAOC&S APG.

But I thought it used to be USAO&CC&S or something a little bit longer like that. The first "&" probably didn't belong there. USAOCC&S maybe.
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2017, 06:10:47 AM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on March 30, 2017, 10:22:20 PM
And let's not forget the always popular FUBAR.

My AIT was at USAOC&S.

PS: I was a REMF and liked it.  :D
 


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Re: Jargon
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2017, 08:12:28 AM »
as Timothy commented, we used to get messages to and from SIGINT (signals intelligence) capable ships (I was USAFSS) from the Navy... with address groups like

Fm  COMPACNAVSECGRU
To   NAVSECGRUDETSTAPHIL
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2017, 09:01:31 AM »
I remember seeing a DICNAVAB (dictionary of Naval abbreviations) in the commissary in a previous lifetime.  It even had the term "WestPac widow" in it.
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2017, 11:28:52 AM »
While we're ranting about jargon, one overused term that peeves me to no end is "platform" to refer to a weapon, as in, "This is the new Ruger Scout Rifle platform."
It's just a rifle.....call it a rifle.
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Re: Jargon
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2017, 01:01:02 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on March 31, 2017, 11:28:52 AM
While we're ranting about jargon, one overused term that peeves me to no end is "platform" to refer to a weapon, as in, "This is the new Ruger Scout Rifle platform."
It's just a rifle.....call it a rifle.

Considering all the crap they hang on guns nowadays they are less "platforms" Nd more like "pallet's" or "loading docks".
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2017, 01:35:01 PM »
I've been thinking about it a lot since last night and when I was at APG I remember people calling it the US army ordnance and chemical center and school. I could swear it was USAOCC&S but when I searched online I could only find USAOC&S with one "C", not two. Tomorrow is 37 years to the day I got my diploma for small arms repair and it says on it US Army Ordnance Center & School. I just can't believe I was wrong about the name of the place for so many years. Somewhere in my "office" I have a picture of me sitting on the hood of my SUV wearing a school T-shirt but don't think it would have enough resolution to see what it says.

I also looked up some of the MOS's we had in the armament section. If I can remember right from last night 45K which was tank turret repair is something else now and 45L which was artillery repair no longer exists and part of it is now included with 45B. I can't remember what the MOS code for fire control instrument repair or laser/TTS repair were.

MOS 45B AIT USAOC&S APG, MD USA.  ;D
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Re: Jargon
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2017, 02:22:46 PM »
One that stuck with me was NRTS  (Not Repairable This Station).   

We of course used a "U" instead of an "R"  most of the time.



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Re: Jargon
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2017, 12:31:11 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on March 31, 2017, 01:35:01 PM
I've been thinking about it a lot since last night and when I was at APG I remember people calling it the US army ordnance and chemical center and school. I could swear it was USAOCC&S but when I searched online I could only find USAOC&S with one "C", not two. Tomorrow is 37 years to the day I got my diploma for small arms repair and it says on it US Army Ordnance Center & School. I just can't believe I was wrong about the name of the place for so many years. Somewhere in my "office" I have a picture of me sitting on the hood of my SUV wearing a school T-shirt but don't think it would have enough resolution to see what it says.

I also looked up some of the MOS's we had in the armament section. If I can remember right from last night 45K which was tank turret repair is something else now and 45L which was artillery repair no longer exists and part of it is now included with 45B. I can't remember what the MOS code for fire control instrument repair or laser/TTS repair were.

MOS 45B AIT USAOC&S APG, MD USA.  ;D


No body talks about chemical any more.
Because chemical weapons, unlike 1000 pound bombs, do terrible things to anybody in the area
A Hellfire missile from several thousand feet is much more humane.
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