Military Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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3,000-mile screwdriver n. We run largely a decentralized system, and it’s important that we continue to do that. I once worked with a person who talked about the 3,000-mile screwdriver making those fine adjustments. We trust our base commanders. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Well, we don’t know yet. I mean, that is—and again, we’re not going to apply the 6,000-mile screwdriver on that. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Military command-and-control systems are said to provide commanders with six-thousand-mile screwdrivers. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. Senior military officers referred to it as “the 7,000-mile screwdriver.“ That was their way of describing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s penchant for micromanaging aspects of the Iraq War that interested him. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. As I think most of you know from our efforts on the USS Cole, the chief of naval operations, secretary of the navy, both for good, legal reasons of not interfering with ongoing investigations from Washington, and for practical reasons of the difficulty of adjusting things with a 7,000-mile screwdriver, do not reach out into the midst of the investigation and pull back information prematurely. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

92-Mike n. The individuals who work at the depot are mortuary affairs specialists, referred to as “92-Mikes” in Army parlance. [English Military Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 23, 2006)

92Golf n. They are among 165 92Golfs—military slang for cooks, after their 92G designation in the personnel handbook. [English Food & Drink Military] [full cite] (Mar. 15, 2005)

A and A n. The other two A and As—U.S. Army slang for Afghan army soldiers—hit the deck directly in front of the Humvee and quickly bring their rifles up to the prone position. [English Military Slang Acronym] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2007)

AIF n. The 2- 7’s own briefing package for dignitaries and reporters describes Shalon al Boyisa as being “likely linked to AIF,“ the military’s acronym for “anti-Iraqi forces,“ or insurgents. [English Military Acronym] [full cite] (Jun. 14, 2005)

air breather n. Hundreds of American support personnel members on the ground in Colombia complemented these elite forces, in addition to a frenzied intelligence-gathering operation located in the United States Embassy here, drawing on intercepts of the rebel group’s radio systems, human intelligence, satellite imaging and “air breathers,” as piloted surveillance aircraft are called in military jargon. [English Aviation Military Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2008)

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