Christmas, New Year's Day, Easter, etc. Donut: A floating device used to store oily waste pumped out of the bilges in port. NMOP: (common on Boomer Subs) No More Patrols Ever. USS Oriskany CVA34, Carriers today are designated as CV, During the VietNam error the A added to CV stood for attack carrier. Many LDOs and CWOs only consider their programs to count as "mustangs", although there are many other programs that lead to enlisted personnel getting a commission. Officer's Country: The area of the ship where the Officer's berthing area and Wardroom are located; Enlisted men are not allowed into Officer's Country without permission, with certain rating exceptions. The beak of the eagle can be used as an emergency bottle opener. Pictures of bare-assed drunken aviators standing on the blue tile during port calls are highly prized keepsakes. "Get your dick skinners off my white hat." Grip and grin: A public affairs or awards event in which some member of the command must shake hands, smile, and have their photo taken. The similar silver clouds and lightning bolts addition to an Air Force Major's/Colonel's hat is called Farts and Darts. It consists of a noise-generating body ("fish") towed behind Eternal Patrol: The last and still on-going patrol of a submarine lost at sea. DD: Destroyer, class of ship. (USMC) A 50/50 solution of Skin-So-Soft & alcohol used during drill to repel sand fleas at Paris Island. HT Punch: A mythical tool newbies are asked to fetch from the engineering spaces. Bells will only be rung as a single strike, or a closely spaced double strike, with a maximum of eight bells (4 sets of 2). EIDWS: Enlisted Information Dominance Warfare Specialist. (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); The rank Ring Knocker: A graduate of the U.S. Chokers: Service Dress White Uniform worn by Officers and Chiefs. VERTREP: Vertical Replenishment: The taking of supplies (resupply) from a supply ship via helo pick-up and drop-off. : (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again). VFA: Fixed Wing Strike Fighter Squadron, made up of Legacy F/A-18C or D model Hornets or F/A-18E,F or G model Super Hornets. Oil King - An enlisted engineer responsible for fuel, lube oil, boilerwater and feedwater testing and also their quality, quantity, and transfers around the ship. Joe Navy: Another term for a lifer with no life outside the Navy. Roach Coach: A snack or lunch truck that stops at each pier where the ships are berthed. LES: Leave and Earning Statement. Used to be called "Company Commander.". Due to the [more] lax treatment of officers, termed a jungle because of their constant disarray. On an aircraft carrier, this consists of 5 divisions: IM1 - AIMD Admin, IM2 - Airframes and Power Plants, IM3 - Avionics, IM4 - Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and Aviation Ordnance, IM5 - IMRL. NAMI Whammy: Slang for the incredibly in-depth two-day flight physical given to all prospective aviators at the Naval Aeromedical Institute at NAS Pensacola. More recently referred to as a Carrier Strike Group (CSG). Originally, "pogue". OSs, STs and other Twidgets that don't, for example, stand any rate-related watches in port (in the days of steam ships especially) get even less respect. Hot Footed: Carefully placing matches under the toenails of a sleeping shipmate and then lighting them all at the same time, after which the perpetrator(s) immediately hide or attempt to look innocent, leaving the victim to wonder what asshole did this to him. Fourballs: Midnight, entered as 0000 when writing logs; The "Fourballs watch" is midnight to 0600 when underway on a submarine, using a 3 person x 6 hour shift, 18 hour rotation "day" for each watchstation. ", Grab-ass: Any kind of unstructured group socialization or horse-play, usually during working hours. : "Pussy Cut Off Day": The last day of a long deployment on which male sailors can get laid and still obtain Venereal Disease cures from the Hospital Corpsman, and have those cures be effective, before returning to their partners at home. Spudlocker: Area below the ramp of an aircraft carrier. Generally not considered to be a good situation. Wrinkle Bomb: A uniform worn by a sailor that is wrinkled so badly that it looks like the sailor slept in it. COMMO: Communications Officer: The officer in charge of the Communications Division. Brown Shoe: Term used to describe aviation community officers and senior enlisted members, due to the dark brown footwear worn with khaki uniforms and aviation winter working green uniforms. This Ensign is charge of various wardroom duties, often including mentoring the juniormost Ensign (see "George") and setting up the wardroom's movie night while at sea. (2) Any time late at night that doesn't qualify for Oh Dark Thirty. AOCS: Aviation Officer Candidate School; since discontinued pre-commissioning programs at NAS Pensacola, FL and Bremerton, WA that trained both prior service and non-prior service college graduates to become naval officers and to subsequently qualify as either Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers, Air Intelligence Officers, or Aircraft Maintenance Duty Officers - program merged into with Officer Candidate School from Newport, RI in late 1990s and then in the late 2000s moved to NETC Newport, RI. A special show put on for inspecting senior officers. Also called the "high seas." Mess Decks: Chow Hall or Eating Establishment on board ship. Named for the Magnetic Anomaly Detector that sticks out from the tail of the aircraft. Even (especially) the ones that pick on sailors. "Schmuckatelli is a Limp Dick." Only used Chief to Chief. MAD Boom surfing: Struggling to complete or barely passing required evolutions in training on the P-3 Orion Patrol Aircraft. Soup Sandwich: Any situation or individual that is FUBAR. This whole campus is populated by squids and nerds. She is usually worried about unsafe flight conditions or an enemy threat (e.g. ", FOD Walk Down: A periodic, organized search on an aircraft carrier flight deck or hangar deck looking for debris that a jet engine might ingest. They are more often than not quite beautiful and are often sought after by nave junior sailors who neglect to check the downstairs plumbing until its too late. O-N-O-F-F actuator (or switch): The on/off button or switch on any device, usually used in the context of a subordinate not grasping how to power a device up or down. 1MC: The General Announcing system on a ship. Non-Useful Dody) A sailor who has not completed any qualifications and is therefore of no use to their division. Cunt Hair: A very small unit of measurement, used when eyeballing something. Chuck Wagon: (yet another name for) the USS Carl Vinson. Lifer: A name given to both officers and enlisted men who love the Navy and make it clear they want to be in for 20 or more years; lifers will try to convince others to re-enlist. Or jump out of your rack and make it. On a "small boy," the LSO sits under a bubble on the flight deck and talks to helo pilots as they attempt to land in the Rapid Securing Device, or "trap." A department on aircraft carriers and Naval Air Stations responsible for maintaining aircraft sub assemblies. "Taps" is a musical piece sounded at dusk, and at funerals, particularly by the U.S. military. Benny Suggs: The Navy's Beneficial Suggestions program, a method where DON employees, and Navy and Marine personnel can make suggestions to improve various programs and operations. Goatrope: A confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by human error. Titless Wave: Male clerical personnel such as yeomen, storekeepers, personnelmen, and other desk jockeys, pencil pushers, etc. (hence nickname). Cock-ologist: Corpsman (derived from a 1980s Coca Cola commercial having a Coke-ologist). (Originally referred to hammocks, in days of yore before berthing spaces.). Air Force Gloves: Pockets. Bravo Zulu: Originally, "BZ" was a signal meaning "Well Done." Sabredog- A.K.A. Dining-in/Dining-out: Social functions, usually for officers and chiefs, where dinner dress is worn and certain "rules of the mess" are followed. Strikers are sailors that enlist without a guaranteed rate (job), with the intention of floating around until they find a department where they fit in. Skidmark: The shit stains that one gets in one's underwear (see Skivvies) that are the result of wiping with cheap government toilet paper. For instance, pull-tab sodas are referred to as "Haji Sodas" due to their ubiquitous presence in the Fifth Fleet AOR. It is usually kept under the mattress and can stand up on its own by the end of cruise. AWOL: Absent Without Official Leave; this is a US Army and USAF term, not a Navy term, see UA. Humped the bunk: Screwed up. Pronounced "See Whiz.". Snake Eaters: Special Forces personnel such as Navy SEALs, Green Berets, etc Snipes: Sailors assigned to the Engineering rates, i.e. Wizzard: Topsider insult for a nuc. Back when there existed a rating called Boiler Technician (BT), they most commonly were the Oil Kings. Budweiser: Nickname for the SEAL Trident insignia. Portable Pad Eye. Porcupine Balls: Beef Porcupines. Checks Five-Oh: Excellent, in proper working order. Stands for either "Simple Minded Ass Grabbers" or "Sometimes Mechanic, Always Gay." Cracker Jacks: The dress blue uniforms worn by sailors below the rank of E-7. Sea chest: A trunk or storage container used for a sailor's personal property. Also termed as Smokin' and Jokin'. Can also be said to an officer, but beware of over-usage. Ed's Motel: Navy filmmakers' acronym for Editorials, Motion Picture and Television Department. A Golden Screwjob is never spoken of when the sailor in question is within hearing range. B1RD: Pronounced: Bravo One Romeo Delta. Joe Shit-in-the-rag Man / Joe Shit the Rag man / Joe Shit Charlie the Rag Man: An under-performing sailor. Preferred term by Amphib sailors for LCM-8 or LCM-6 boats, as opposed to "Mike" boat. Box of Rocks: Derogatory term for more than one sailor that has performed their work in an unsatisfactory manner. This is almost always used when ashore. B.O.S.N.I.A. Now, to answer your question. TSC: Tactical Support Center, shore-based briefing/debriefing/analysis and operational control center for VP (patrol aviation) missions. Training Aids: Logically, these are items used to assist by demonstration some point in a training lecture. Enlisting at 17. Polish a Turd: Make the most of a bad situation. Generally a lazy navy cook phones it in by opening an industrial size can of ravioli and dumps out a couple loaves of white bread and calls it good. Squid. With the retirement of the S-3B Viking all VS squadrons have been decommissioned. OOC: Pronounced "oh oh see." See also "NoFuck, Vagina. One who does not pull his share of the load. Water Wings: Derogatory term used (usually by Naval Aviators), for the Surface Warfare Officer qualification badge. Pushbutton: Term applied to a 6 year enlistee with advanced schooling. Generally refers to the ship's engineering plant being online, e.g. Queer: Nickname for the EA-6B Prowler. No-Ps are pilots who have not qualified for 3P. Head call means to use the head. Usually the senior pilot on a patrol aircraft, having been previously designated a 2P (second pilot). ( mildly, pejorative) A sailor in the Navy. "I could have fixed it but I don't have a key to the Gold Locker.". YARFO: "You Ain't Reactor? In the navy warrants are generally older and more experienced in a particular area of expertise than a commissioned line officer, much like an "LDO." AOM: All Officers Meeting, held for a variety of reasons like training, port calls, mess issues, etc. Pier 20: Derogatory term used to describe the U.S.S. Marines have an equivalent "tack" on each side. EMO: Electronic Materiel Officer, line officer or electronics CWO or LDO responsible for maintenance of the unit's radar, radio, and command and control equipment. The Commanding Officer usually wears a special pin on his pocket designating him Command Afloat, or Command Ashore. one that is given one hour before shift change and will require at least 3 hours to complete. On a carrier, this officer stands just to the port side of the landing area and talks to each pilot as he makes his approach for an arrested landing. NON: "Needs of the Navy" a priority over anything to do with one's family or person; as in God, Country, Family. So named due to the different colored jerseys they wear. Your email address will not be sold or shared with anyone else. These are heavy duty paper towels purchased in bulk, and are used in every cleaning situation imaginable. To as a carrier Strike Group ( CSG ) a musical piece sounded at dusk, and funerals. Ht Punch: a confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by error. ' acronym for Editorials, Motion Picture and Television department Dark Thirty Establishment on board ship truck stops. 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