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18 terms only soldiers will understand

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Soldier lingo has a tendency to reference things that only exist in the Army. Here are some terms outsiders probably don’t know.

1. Private News Network: The rumor mill or soldier gossip.

23 terms only Marines will understand

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Marines speak a slightly-different language than the rest of the United States.

While everyone in the Corps speaks and uses English most of the time, there’s another layer of terminology added on top which is uniquely Marine. If you are a…

10 silly terms you’ll only hear on submarines

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Submarines are a little world of their own. With little more than 100 people aboard and submerged, running silent for months at a time, the crews of these nuclear powered undersea monsters begin to develop an entirely new culture of their own. Even …

32 terms only airmen will understand

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As the youngest member of the U.S. armed forces, the Air Force gets a lot of flak from other branches, despite having the capacity to (

Here’s where the term Bravo Zulu comes from

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Everyone’s a critic. After you complete a job, someone is going to tell you how you did. If you messed up, you’re gonna hear about it.

In the military, if you did good work, you may have heard the term “Bravo Zulu,” which means “well…

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