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The oft-used acronym "POG," standing for "Person Other than Grunt," may have originated as a backronym for "pogue." [8] Gay culture
Due to having lost contact with its linguistic source, the modern military vernacular has turned "pogue" into a retronym/backronym. "Pogue" is now sometimes incorrectly described as the pronunciation of the acronym POG, or Person Other than Grunt, or Posted On Garrison.[2]
Homeslice – Person, often a sarcastic overture to civilians from a drill instructor; from the terms homie and homeboy. Homesteading – Remaining at one duty station for an extended tour or consecutive tours. Honcho or Head Honcho – Person in charge, from the Japanese word for "boss', "hanchÅ"; also a nickname for Okinawan taxi drivers.
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
The term, other than being ageist, has misandrist connotations in the West. Dotard: A weak older person with limited mental faculties, or a mentally disabled older person. Dried up: [2] Slang for a sexually-inactive older person, often used to refer to post-menopausal women.
It was the piece of fiction heard round the net. This October, it jumped off the medium-sized screens and headed to the big screen. "Cat Person," the new film based on the short story by Kristen ...
"The difference between him and other officers, and there's very few of them that treat other people, meaning the enlisted soldiers, as, not saying equal, but they will look at you as an equal ...
Grunt (Halo), an alien in the game Halo; Grunt (Mass Effect), Krogan squadmate in Mass Effect 2; A low-ranking member of a crime syndicate in the Pokémon games; The name of a perk in Fallout: New Vegas; A low ranking solider in the IMC and Militia found in the campaign and the multiplayer Titanfall 2