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REDCON-1: Full alert; unit ready to move and fight. WMD alarms and hot loop equipment [2] stowed; OPs pulled in. (A hot loop is a field telephone circuit between the subunits of a company.) All personnel alert and mounted on vehicles; weapons manned. Engines started. Company team is ready to move immediately. REDCON-1.5
Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and late 2000s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
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.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 [clarification needed]).
Cap, cooked, yap: The Gen Z slang guide to the 2024 presidential election. Michelle Del Rey. July 23, 2024 at 12:45 PM.
Hors de combat: a unit out of the fight, surrendered, wounded (when incapacitated), and so on. Infantry square, pike square, or schiltron; Infiltration; Intent; Interdiction: to attack and disrupt enemy supply lines. Killing field; Lodgement: an enclave made by increasing the size of a bridgehead. Mission-type tactics
The five-year, 11-fight deal is the richest in sports history: Alvarez is owed a minimum of $365 million. And Buffer signed an exclusive deal to be the ring announcer for Alvarez’s fights on DAZN.
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
War Slang: American Fighting Words & Phrases Since the Civil War. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486797168. Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6. Jacobson, Gary (August 14, 1994). "Humor best way to remove last of 'Bohicans' resistance". The Dallas Morning News. p. 7H