AO– Area of Operations during a deployment.Ant Farm – Area of an encampment where the radio antennae are emplaced.ANGLICO – Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company.AMTRAC – Portmanteau for amphibious tractor not to be confused with the railroad company Amtrak.Alphas or Class As – Service Alpha uniform from the phonetic letter A.All Hands – entire ship's company or unit personnel, including all officers and enlisted personnel also, the official Navy magazine.ALICE – All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment, a form of combat gear still in occasional use in some Marine activities, replaced by MOLLE and ILBE.Air Force pockets or Army gloves – An individual's hands being inside his or her pockets.UH-1, CH-46, CH-53, V-22, etc.), and are normally charged with loading gear, passengers, and manning the door/ tail guns. Air Crew – Personnel that work on board any aircraft that can carry a crew (i.e.Acquire(d)/Tactically Acquire(d) – euphemism implying the item(s) in question were obtained either by theft or by otherwise non-traditional or creative methods.Above my/your pay grade – Expression denying responsibility or authority (indicating that the issue should be brought to higher-ranking officials) alternatively, a semi-sarcastic way of telling someone that they're not authorized to receive certain information.Aboard – All personnel being accounted for in a building, such as a classroom.so named from its street address at the corner of 8th and I Streets SE. 8th & I – Nickname for Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.8 bells – Signal for the end of a four-hour watch, so named for the increase in bell strike each half-hour of the watch.So called because the Group section of the National Stock Number for personal field equipment is 782. 782 Gear – Standard issue web gear such as ALICE, MOLLE, or ILBE.7 Day Store/Troop Store/Mini P – Convenience store (Mini-P denotes a 'mini' or smaller sized version of the PX, or Post-Exchange).5.56 hickey – A scar or blister resulting from a burn suffered (usually on the neck) due to hot brass.4th Marine Dimension – Derogatory term for the 4th Marine Division, the division to which the ground combat element of the Marine Forces Reserve is assigned used by active duty Marines to denote displeasure with the difference in culture and operating procedures within the division as opposed to active duty units.Derived from the 4th Battalion of the Recruit Training Regiment at MCRD Parris Island, which trains female enlisted Marines. 4th Battalion – Pejorative for individual or unit lacking toughness as in 'He was trained in 4th Battalion'.48, 72, 96 – In hours, the standard liberty periods of two, three, four days.360 – Forming a complete circle (as in on a compass (360°)) to put protection all around.1st Civ Div, Camp Living Room, Zenith Remote Operator (new primary MOS). As in 'getting assigned to 1st Civ Div.' Also occasionally referred to as '1st Couch Company.' Also referred to as 'Camp Living Room' a play on Camp Lejeune, NC. Civilian life, usually applied to Marines facing discharge or retirement.

03 Hump-A-Lot – Pejorative used by combat support Marines to refer to Infantry Marines.Recent joint operations have allowed terms from other military services to leak into the USMC lexicon, but can be found with their originating service's slang list, see the 'See also' section. The scope of this list is to include words and phrases that are unique to or predominantly used by the Marine Corps or the United States Naval Service. Most vehicles and aircraft have a formal acronym or an informal nickname those are detailed in their own articles. Many are or derive from nautical terms and other naval terminology. Many acronyms and terms have come into common use from voice procedure use over communication channels, translated into the phonetic alphabet, or both. Many terms also have equivalents among other service branches that are not acceptable among Marines, but are comparable in meaning. Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank). This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps. JSTOR ( October 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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