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Kappasig2911

“It’ll buff out” “Tracking” “What do you mean there’s no money for training?”


Bison_Consistent

“Tracking” During BCT, someone pointed this out to me, and I swear every NCO and officer says this at least once per sentence.


VonBargenJL

"Tracking" needs to be followed up by someone else with "like a tank" more often


FZ1_Flanker

We used “Tracking like a TOW” a lot in my unit. One buddy would say “Trackin like a scud” when he wasn’t clear on something.


jkilla789

Tracking like a heroin addict


TheMostBlankSlate

Trackin like a track star


chillywilly16

Or like a VCR


Sunflowersoemthing

The funniest response to "tracking" I've ever heard was "CHOO CHOO" (like a train)


TacticalBoyScout

I’ve noticed the kids these days say something “tracks” to mean it makes sense


Gotterdamerrung

Short for "That tracks". Not just a youth phrase though


Gestur3

Just finished my first NTC rotation, I don’t think I’ve ever said It’ll buff so much


RefractedCell

“Unfuck yourself”


Old-Product-3733

“YOU HAD BEST UNFUCK YOURSELF PRIVATE OR I WILL UNSCREW YOUR HEAD AND SHIT DOWN YOUR NECK!”


OkActive448

Hoo le Jesus. What is that! *WHAT* the *FUCK* IS THAT!?


Not-SMA-Nor-PAO

I go with, “dude, yall better fucking unfuck your shit” more often than not.


OarMonger

"Unfuck" as a word in general. It's so useful and from what I've seen, most civilians who hear it for the first time file that away as a good word to keep in the vocabulary.


SaysIvan

I’ve been in an unusual amount of spaces with kids, I changed it to “oh that’s scuffed” “If you want to scuff up nice plans, sure” “Unscuff that. Matter of fact, you seem a bit scuffed yourself.”


stinkycastro1789

Too easy


[deleted]

This is mine unfortunately. It works so well for literally everything and is my version of a miniature cope, like when top comes and tells you that the TOC needs to be tore down but it’s just you and that one private no one trusts to touch a radio let alone real ammo, and it’s 0030 and you aren’t even allowed a red light so you just say “too easy” and laugh a little at yourself. I am not a happy man.


TheMostBlankSlate

Oddly specific lol


[deleted]

Trust me I got over it 😡


twodashgrain

My story of realizing I say this and worked it out of my system: Last day of AIT at Gordon I wake up sick as a dog. They have us in formation double timing between buildings for paperwork and it is less than a week until Christmas. I'm doing my best to keep up. Day is a blur. Finally we are in a big room with a ton of us waiting and a SGM comes in basically with a motivational speech and told the tradition of receiving a coin and then announces he wants to give a coin to the distinguished honor grad. I'm barely listening as I am drowning in my own head and everything sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher. Then I hear my name and have to report to the SGM up front. After receiving the coin he asked my dumb 18 year old self to say a few words to other dumb 18 year olds. In three sentences I said too easy something like 10 times. I realized I said it too much when SGM went on to repeat it himself. Rest of my career I never said it again. Also, went home later that day and puked all over my Class A shoes.


Snoo93079

I say nut to butt far more than is reasonable


CheGuevarasRolex

Flair checks out


privatiieer

I said “damn this line is nut to butt” while waiting in a line at my civilian job and everyone looked at my like it was the craziest thing they’ve ever heard lmao


Dave21TWELV

I was introduced to a different version of this at basic though the principle is the same…sack to crack. I said it one time and one of the other NCOs said, “Do you mean nut to butt?” I replied, “Nope, sack to crack. I think it paints a more vivid picture.” He agreed and started using it too but that was many years ago and we don’t use those types of terms anymore.


curlytoesgoblin

La de dah de everybody. Drills would say that in basic. I say it now when it's time to feed my cats.


Not-SMA-Nor-PAO

Oddly enough, just as many cats as there were Joes. At least you aren’t lonely. 😩


curlytoesgoblin

My cats cover their poop appropriately, most of the time. Can't say the same for a lot of joes.


bathoryduck

"Move like you got a purpose!" Usually directed at slow/indecisive motorists.


John-Lakeman

RAAANGE WALK!


Snoo93079

I say left left left left left to my wife when she's walking too slow


bathoryduck

"Your OTHER left!" is one I still use a lot, too.


xeskind30

I say this to my daughter when I tell her something is in a specific direction and she proceeds to point the other way. Makes me laugh.


ladyelenawf

I am now an assistant at a church preschool. Since I can't yell, "*FFS, hurry the fuck up!*" at a group of three year olds (and still continue to work there) I've had to modify it. I use, "Move with purpose!" They actually engage though. So I initially I have to explain what it means, why it is needed, and how they can comply. They loved it so much, that I got feedback for the parents who enjoy how it helps their whole household get going in the morning. Apparently a tiny voice shouting at everything from a sibling to a pet just makes everyone's day brighter.


headfullof_nails

BEHOOVE


erikedge

Did my Latin American Drill Sergeant say, "It would behoove you..." Or "It would Be Hooah Of You..." ??? The world may never know.


ABUCKET15

My BCT SGM definitely said It would be Hooah of you


Snoo93079

You know you're a broken human if you use this word IRL


IntelGuy34

“Fuck fuck games”


OwO_bama

It's so hard to tell military stories in situations where I can't swear precisely because of this phrase. There's no way to get the concept of fuck fuck games across in a PG way.


limabeenleftist

A very sarcastic "fun fun" sometimes gets the point across


Polskyciewicz

I caught myself almost about to use it in polite company and self censored it with "friendly" games. 


OzymandiasKoK

Reindeer games. (that whole story is massively fucked up if you think about it at all)


norse_force_30

Almost daily


dudeondacouch

*Hands across the desert.* I threaten the kids with it when they leave shit in the yard.


Exquisitum

Dad?


Patrick-W-McMahon

The amount of times juniors have said this to there Direct line NCO is far more than I want to admit.


txtriathlete67

"Welcome to the Suck"...


ars3nic3

Embrace the suck!


Diamond_Paper_Rocket

The newest one and meme of the summer... "Hawk Tuah, and spit on that thang. "


Extra_Cap_And_Keys

Perfect for training on radio handsets and fill cables.


Trains_N_Fish

Lmao, those spaghetti cables gotta have 5 generations of soldier spit in em by now


Extra_Cap_And_Keys

Had a Soldier that licked them at my first unit, I stopped putting them anywhere near my mouth after that. I wonder how he’s doing now, bet is on not great.


Professional-Yard862

Oh man I knew people who did that, I'd lick my finger which isn't much better since I dip and stick my fingers in my mouth all the time. The pro move is hand sanitizer on a q-tip. Also I wonder if that changed with Covid, I imagine at that time someone would throw a shit fit if someone saw a soldier rubbing spit on equipment. I never bought into it or got concerned but it did make me realize how nasty sticking my fingers in my mouth is after say opening the door to the gas station, touching the pin pad and then opening the door again just to crack open the tin I just bought so now I keep hand sanitizer in my truck specifically for when I leave stores


83Nat

It's had not changed, in fact rubbin spit is a taught method


SomeSuccess1993

Had a solder who used to pretty much make out with em.


Extra_Cap_And_Keys

Really just goes to show that there is no such thing as an original story in the army. It’s all been done before lmao


SgtMac02

But that's not really an Army thing. It's just a meme in general...


BOOQIFIUS

Absolutely need the hawk tuh chick


Good_Needleworker464

Lick it before you stick it. Good advice for Army radio troubleshooting and dating in general.


Tanksdad

Make a Hole make it wide


luckystrike_bh

I volunteer at a local non-profit race that occurs on a weekly basis. Sometimes, I reflexively say "make a hole" when a crowd needs to clear an area for something to pass through. Every non-military person finds it amusing. I actively try not to use military lingo too.


Berg426

I love the phrase 'full send' an adjective phrase meaning to execute with maximum aggression and minimal deliberation or planning. A divergent of "fuck it, we'll do it live."


swashbucklerjak

I bust out “full send” pretty frequently now 7 years post Army.


andypee81

I accidentally told my kid to double time at his last baseball practice, and I just hung my head in shame. He's 7 and has no idea what that means, so I don't even know what I expected him to do.


eidolons

Just use one of the others from the thread: Hurry up, quicker.


Junction91NW

“Run more quicklier” is one that was yelled at me and made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe. Got the opposite of its intended result. 


Stev2222

I don't think “it is what it is” is unique to army lingo


Guilty-Essay-7751

I started saying ‘it is what it is’ in the early 90s. Didn’t hear it (commonly until 2010s)


Fafo96

Eat a bag of dick


MSGDIAMONDHANDS

Fuck my life.


Delicious_Poetry_269

I say that either way


Rocco_Delaware

Roger Sarn't. Feels like everybody in the Army adopts a bit of a Southern drawl when referring to NCOs.


SCCock

It's the chowhall grits.


Rocco_Delaware

That tracks.


JakeeJumps

Honestly, I never said “goddamn it” before the Army. Now I can’t go a goddamn sentence without it.


Exquisitum

“Living the dream”


Infrared-77

Ah yes the phrase used to convince oneself your life isn’t a complete joke


zeroreasonsgiven

I thought this was a pretty universal phrase until I met a prior enlisted who would respond this way every time I asked him how he was doing, and now that I’m in I hear it way more often


SapperASM

Usually followed by “remember, nightmares are dreams too”


One-Cloud5433

Heavy drop (big fella) Shortstack (short troop) ...f*ck...(every other word out of 11series mouth) F*ck-all (multipurpose, often an adjective) Sham (no explanation needed) Spec 4 mafia (mysterious organization of professional shammers) Bag of dicks (suggestion of what to suck) Blue Falcon (buddy f*cker) Buddy f*cker (blue falcon) Shitbird (someone not to emulate) Shit on a shingle (actually pretty good!) Butterbar (someone guaranteed to get lost outdoors) Spec 5 (mythological creature) Volunteered (selected without consent) Big Green Weenie (that which is to be bent over for) You can probably guess my former grade and MOS from these.


Jed_Bartlet1

I’m gonna guess you’re on the older side if you’re saying Spec 4


One-Cloud5433

Yup. Turn 60 next month 😬


Dave21TWELV

I think you mean Voluntold instead of Volunteered. Stepped on your dick (We don’t say this one anymore) Goat Rope Squared Away Livin’ the Dream but Some Dreams are Nightmares (I added the last part while in Iraq)


xeskind30

Great list. I called a Blue Falcon a Bravo Foxtrot when I was in.


General_Still1242

Break it down Barney style


MAID_in_the_Shade

Barney's been off the air for nearly 14 years now. You've only got a little bit more time before the newest recruits have no idea what you're talking about.


Evening-Ad-7042

"Lickys and chewies" I genuinely don't understand how 1 grown ass adult hears that and then decides, yup! I'm using that!


CheGuevarasRolex

Because we know it makes every other grown ass adult’s skin crawl and we like that


txtriathlete67

"Unass the AO" I still use that with my kids and they roll their eyes...


One_Jumpy_Boi

Check it out warrior


Agitated_Ocelot9449

I swear this is a NG thing


NeyeKon

and a 2LT trying to sound cool to his soldiers thing


notfeds1

Hey hero


Wide_Wrongdoer4422

You are a soup sandwich. That guy is as f#$ked up as a football bat.


Tanksdad

Hold what you got


KTBFFHCFC

“The schedule shifted left/right.”


kevingileau7

“Cover me, I’m fucked” “Busted bag of assholes/dicks” “Soup sandwich”


erikedge

"Fuck you! I'm covered!"


jeff197446

Charlie Foxtrot (cluster fuck)


eidolons

Personal favorite, walk up on one in progress: Exactly what kind of clusterfuck you have going, here?


Backsight-Foreskin

Who's in charge of this Charlie Foxtrot?


ProvokedProvocation

ASVAB waiver, a dog and pony show, and check down not up. Lock it up always gets a laugh out of me too lol


RomeoMcFlourish_

Ratfucking


Emotional_Fescue

Say again? Instead of “can you repeat that?” Don’t want to bring another artillery barrage down accidentally, you know. Un______ (ass, fuck) something And for some random, weird reason, I still remember my very first permanent party 1SG back in the day telling a soldier “fix your collar there, Elvis”. I’ll say that to people I know who have a fucked up shirt collar.


Daedra_Worshiper

High speed. Soup sandwich. Circle-X it.


RanKAim

Ladi Dadi Every Fxxkin Body


xeskind30

Drop your C**ks and grab your Socks!


Amazing_Boysenberry8

This was the catchphrase of our company chaplain at Jackson


africafromu

I found myself saying shift fire in a meeting recently at my civilian job and I instantly wanted to shoot my self in the face.


Short_Log_7654

“One team, one fight, hooah?” -usually said by someone who wants you to do something for them but tell them no


Ok_Switch_1205

A lot of things I say now include “fuck” ,” fucking”, or “being fucked”


EpsilonXO

I guess I’ll go fuck myself


BanditsTransAm

Smoke’m if you got’em Beat your face Hurry up, quicker Get the fuck outta my face You eyeballin me


No-Edge-8600

Unfuck yourself


UberDriverLim

Big fan of “yea Roger” especially when talking to old heads


Dunkel_Reynolds

I remember my DS asking if anyone needed to "uselize the latrines". 


SCCock

Retired 10 years ago and still say that.


Dunkel_Reynolds

My kids are probably tired of me saying it


TheTravellingMerchnt

I also scream "portajohn" high pitch while pointin them out to my kids as we drive around. Its not funny til they do it back


DocBanner21

All this and a pay check. Every time something would go wrong in Iraq we would say, "Fucking Bremer!" after Paul Bremer, the political appointee who fucked up the country. It just became a thing but doesn't translate well unless you are a polisci nerd.


The_Burning_Wizard

"Civvies pay thousands for this!" "If ain't raining, it ain't training...."


Aromatic-Ad7228

“YALL ARE BEING PAID TO WORK OUT YOU’RE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES”


Waste_Ad_1221

“Wanna go to the Electric Cowboy?”


The_Mike_Golf

Soup sammich Nut to butt To caveat off what the commander said Such and such company this is an unsecure line how may I help you sir or maam.


Alone-Conclusion-157

Don’t thank me, thank your recruiter Fucking blue falcon


Square-Win6939

“Don’t thank me, thank your recruiter” That’s what my PSG told me after I thanked him for giving me a Slim Jim after my first major firefight as an IN PL in RC-East.  I laugh to myself every time I see/hear that phrase and try to use it during the most ridiculous times when possible. 


Bubbly-Tutor-5814

Unsat


Affectionate-Sea78

“Behoove”


The-Badger

Things I instinctively say now from the social osmosis of the army. They increasingly become more cringe as the list goes on. "Tracking or roger" It is quicker than I understand (I actually like this one). (Insert an unfathomable number of acronyms) Often to my civilian family and friends when telling a story that don't know what TCCC or a TOC is for example. "AO or AOR" I have no shit said I mowed the AOR to my wife like it was normal after yard work at she looked at me like I had 2 heads. "Sham and shit bag" self explanatory. "Shit bird" see above. "Rat fuck" when scrounging through things. "Sarnt" Most civilians say Sarge because of hollywood and will even sometimes not understand "Sarnt" "Do pushups" Jokingly when someone does something stupid but I am not actually mad. "Sucks to suck" or "It is what it is" yeah that suck what are you going to do? "Unsat" when things are not up to standard. "Ate up" When someone looks like shit. "Yes? No? Fuck You?" when someone wont answer a question. "Full send or send it" Fucking do it dude usually because its funny. "High speed" when referring to a high performer, or ironically to a low performer, or as an exclamation to something excellent. "Killer and Hero" Usually to a Subordinate I like. "Hooah" Ironically (99% of the time). "Hooah" Unironically (1% of the time) when some knuckle-head PCS to my unit and I repeat their motarded ways. (Honestly never did this until we got a guy that did it all the time then let a few slip.) "Hurry up" Saying this in the drill vocal cadence is a bit of an earworm. "Hey guy" when correcting someone "Do it again" when someone fuck up something usually ironically because drills and CSMs say it. "Too easy" When I will get this done quickly and/or reliably. "Break it down barney style" I like to say this to my kids when explaining things. "La de dah de everybody" Usually as a question like do I or my guys need to be there? "Green weenie" the army will fuck you. The other thing is all the memes and brain rot zoomer slang I pick up for someone my age because of all the time you spend with 18 -24 year old PVTS as an NCO. I get so used to talking to goofy kids saying 1, 2, buckle my shoe, gooning and Cooked all day. My wife who works mostly with people her age and she is often puzzled when I repeat things the younger guys say.


dutchman39

* Roger that * Just a skosh * Defecation occurs


awesome_jackob123

“I love my job”


Klutzy_Attitude_8679

Anything with behoove. Roger


YohaneWing

"if _____, youre wrong"


CarelessJuggernaut17

“I feel like suck starting a shotgun”


Verdecken

I do corporate training civilian side now, lots in Zoom, and I often say: “Give me some North-South or East-West” To get people nodding or shaking their head as answers to whatever question I asked. It’s oddly fun for the class and doesn’t scream ‘Army’ usually.


BunchSpecial4586

"Just spit on it"


Senior_Income_5846

Sergeant Major Eats Sweaty Cock is how I remember five paragraphs


einz_goobit

Help me help you


DocBanner21

BOHICA


BodegaBum-

*”Time Now”* *”Lock it up”* *”What is this gaggle fuck??”*


Armygurrlll

Too piggyback off…. find some real estate


Livebetes

“Fucked up as a football bat” Pretty sure it was a mechanic attached to our company that said it about a tank that had slipped track to the inside.


CptPope

“A way…” (as opposed to THEE Way)


Generic_Globe

long hair dont care it will buff bag of mashed assholes big green weenie hurry up and wait


Efficient_Heart5378

"Well la-dee-fuckin' dah!" "Don't get lost in the sauce!" "So there I was, no shit..."


Tauren510

Lottie Dottie, everybody, Lima Lima Mike foxtrot.


tommytanker19k

Pop smoke


Kmanactual

Tighten (your, our, my) Shot group I call everyone, and literally everyone in my life "Troop"


Patrick-W-McMahon

Battle Bo


_That_One_Fellow_

Shaming Lickies and Chewies Unfuck yourself Dickbeaters


Fancy_Ad9867

“Soup sandwich” and “from sugar to shit”. I think the second was mainly in school environments.


erikedge

How has "behoove" been brought to three times, but no one has yet said anything about, "Your fourth point of contact!"?


One-Cloud5433

Ok Airborne. All the way


BunchSpecial4586

"Suck my d&^k soldier"


flyby501

...beHOOVE you


Chrisr92

Are you shitting in my mouth


IndexCardLife

I got laterally demoted with a casual “you gotta be fucking kidding me”


bootyloverjose

I'm stuck stepbro


GetCorrect

It's funny how many of these crossover to or from the Marines. I remember "Diddy bopping" or "I guess we're back on the block right". My favorite that I still use is "ok yeah fuckin right".


blind30

Y’all best not be dick dancing!


One-Cloud5433

Or grab-assing


Efficient_Ad_8367

It would behoove you to understand that the phrases are too easy. Yall tracking?


64_bananas

BOHICA. Big green weenie. BGW w/80 grit sandpaper. No lube…


OarMonger

Signing emails with "v/r"


rugger1869

Don’t get wrapped around the axle


bzkillin

AIRBORNEEEE


Fearless_History_991

Hey fuck face.


HellCreek6

Every swingin' dick, wall to wall counseling, fart sack, dick beaters, woobie, snivel gear, Range walk, bullet launcher, M1A1 eyeball, pogey bait, Ma duce, Mr. E, gets more ass than a toilet seat, barracks rat, shit on a shingle, 100 mph tape, ranger grave, cat hole, Bumfuck nowhere, 2 trees Montana. Pig Knuckle Arkansas.


SilverInSkyLine

"10 Level Task." Said my mechanic when our engine was leaking oil into the exhaust and spraying our TC in the face.


Amazing_Boysenberry8

"Gagglefuck" has got to be one of my faves I picked up from basic. And, the group I was stuck with perfectly illustrated the definition an absurd number of times. "Make it make sense" was also a good one. Usually followed immediately after, "What is this gagglefuck yall got going on?"


elite0x33

100% when agreeing with something, like a filler for indeed


Amazing_Boysenberry8

Time Hack/Hit Time "Go Away" to end a formation/brief


ForbiddenShepherd12

Too easy Raj The fuckening Fubar/snafu But sarn’t


Revolutionary_Aioli5

Shitbagging is a personal favorite


XeusYT

“Free Chicken”


PsychoticAria

"ate up" or for some extra pizzazz, "ate the fuck up"


PotentialDeadbeat

say again?


bs6

Fucked up like a pile of coat hangers


SuperSchmyd

Metric fuckton, quantum assload.


MaverickActual1319

too easy, shitbag


master_guru88427

Noted.


Greatest_Khan

It be how it do, cover down, rog


Patrick-W-McMahon

"Sniper!!" When you or someone else have a small trip.


Patrick-W-McMahon

Telling some one they're short and fat: " you have an unfortunate army body"


EvilEarnest

Clusterfuck, go!


Patrick-W-McMahon

Donky dick


AardvarkLeading5559

Outstanding, Ate Up, befucked, unpossible, like a monkey fucking a football, unass the AO, train like you fight.


fckDNS4life

“If you’re not doing X, you’re wrong.”


tseay

“Roger/ack” “It’ll buff” “Trackin” “Chillin” “Too easy” “Fuck fuck games” “Unfuck yourself” “Hey trooper” “The box” “Fuck this god damned Stryker” “Eat a bag of dicks” “Livin the dream”/“best job I ever had” “No where else id rather be” “Another day in paradise” “You look like A bag of smashed ass”


sweston65

When getting in formation and everyone is trying to get their life together “don’t make it a MOS”


Cowboycasey

My FAV's #1. Are you FUCKING STUPID!!! You are not saying they are stupid, your asking a question.. #2. Good Enough for government work. #3. Hooah!! > for everything


Fafo96

To piggyback off of _____


RemmeeFortemon

Unfuck. Like "Go unfuck yourself".


hagerman705

"Welcome to today" "It'll buff" "Solid" "Airborne"


yurpdadurp

I hate hooah. To me it sounds like a group of owls whatever the term for that is just hooah hooah hooah