dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I believe Snafu was first and came out of WWII while Fubar from Korea or Vietnam War. I'll have to check this.

Smedley_buzkill

There is also :TARFU. This has it's proper place somewhere in between SNAFU and FUBAR.

okie don

"Fouled Up
Beyond All Recognition" = FUBAR
🤔 Let's leave it there.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I was just thinking that.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Good call.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I believe they used the term FUBAR in the WWII movie 'Saving Private Ryan,' although that doesn't necessarily make it historically accurate.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I think you are right about it in Saving Private Ryan. For some reason, I thought fubar (as in foobar) originated with the Germans. Then there is also JANFU (Joint Army Navy Foul-Up).

This is the reason I got out of the military. I couldn't remember all the acronyms and abbreviations. And we haven't even looked at DoD yet.

ARMY: Air Force Rejected Me Yesterday
ARMY: Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet
CYA: Cover Your Ass
DEH: Don't Expect Help
DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give a ****
FIDO: **** It, Drive On
FIFO: Fit In or **** Off
FIGMO: **** It, Got My Orders
FILTAB: **** it, let's take a break
FNG: ******* New Guy
FRED: ******* ****** Extra Dumb
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond All Repair
FUBAR: ****** Up Beyond Any Recognition
FUMTU: ****** Up More Than Usual
G2G: Good To Go
I&I: Intoxication and Intercourse
LGH: Let's Go Home
LOST: Looking Over Strange Terrain
MARINE: Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential
MARINES: My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment
MRE: Meals Rejected by the Enemy
Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
NBC: No Body Cares
OMGIF: Oh My God, I'm ******
****: Special High-Intensity Training
SNAFU: Situation Normal All ****** Up
SPFO: Some Place ******* Off
SWAG: Scientific Wild Ass Guess
TACFUBAR: Totally and Completely ****** up Beyond All Repair.
TARFU: Things Are Really ****** Up
TURD: Trainee Under Rigid Discipline
USAF: Uncle Sam's Aerial Fairies
USARMY: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet
USARMY: Used, Screwed, And Released My Ass, Yep
USCG: Uncle Sam's Confused Group
USMC: U Suckers Missed Christmas
USMC: Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
USMC: U Signed the Mothf*cking Contract
YMRASU (U.S. Army spelled backwards): Yes My ******** Ass Signed Up

Mostly British Military Specific

REMF - Rear Echelon Mother****er
CCP - Casualty Collecting Point
GPMG - General Purpose Machine Gun (also affectionately known as a gimpy pronounced with a J)
KFS – Knife, Fork and Spoon
OBE - Other Buggers' Efforts (Officer of the British Empire Medal)
ODTF - Operation Doomed To Failure
OGDW - Operation Gone Disastrously Wrong
SIB - Special Investigation Branch (branch of the Royal Military Police not so affectionately known as Stab In Back)
BFOT - Big **** Off Tent
BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
CTF - Chuffed To **** (Happy for the americanese speakers P)
NEWD - Night Exercise Without Darkness
CHIPS - Causing Havoc In Public Spaces, or Creating Havoc in Peoples' Streets
DSO - Did Something Outstanding (Distinguished Service Order medal)
FIBUA - Fighting In Built up Areas
FIPAC - Fighting In Pubs And Clubs
FISH - Fighting In Someone's House
FIWAF - Fighting In Woods and Forests
U3 - Utterly Utterly Useless
FUB - ****ing Ugly Bastard (as in: "that man's a FUB")
SAS - State Authorised Slaughter
GIFA - Great Iraqi **** All
JAFFA - Just Another Fat ****ing Administrator
JANFU - Joint Army Navy **** Up
JEWT - Jungle Exercise Without Trees
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
UMIN - Ugliest Man In NATO
TEWT - Tactical Exercise Without Troops
MBE - My Bloody Efforts (Member of the British Empire medal)
MPI - Mean Point of Impact
MUPPET - Most Useless Person Pirbright Ever Trained (Pirbright is the army training centre)
WOFTEX - Waste Of ****ing Time Exercise
STABS = Stupid Territorial Army Bastards. (TA is our version of the National Guard... only with less student murdering)
WRAC = Weekly Ration of Army ****. I believe that the Women's Royal Army Corps is no more, but my grandad always used to refer to them as that.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

https://charliecompany.org/2012/11/26/military-slang-terms/

CHARLIE COMPANY VIETNAM 1966-1972
1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
Military Slang Terms
November 26, 2012 Sniper Ghost PostsMilitary Slang, Vietnam War
Military slang is colloquial language used by and associated with members of various military forces. This page lists slang words or phrases that originate with military forces, are used exclusively by military personnel, or are strongly associated with military organizations.
A number of military slang terms are acronyms. These include SNAFU, SUSFU, FUBAR and similar terms used by various branches of the United States military during World War II and beyond.

SNAFU

SNAFU, which stands for the sarcastic expression “Situation Normal: All F****d Up,” is a well-known example of military acronym slang. It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs. It is typically used in a joking manner to describe something that’s working as intended. The acronym is believed to have originated in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

Time magazine used the term in their June 16, 1942 issue: “Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu.” Most reference works, including the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940-1944, generally attributing it to the U.S. Army.

In modern usage, SNAFU is sometimes used as an interjection, though it is mostly now used as a noun. SNAFU also sometimes refers to a bad situation, mistake, or cause of trouble. It is more commonly used in modern vernacular to describe running into an error or problem that is large and unexpected. For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled “Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu”.

The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British, although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as US military.

In a wider study of military slang, Frederick Elkin noted in 1946 that there “are a few acceptable substitutes such as ‘screw up’ or ‘mess up,’ but these do not have the emphasis value of the obscene equivalent.” He considered the expression SNAFU to be “a caricature of Army direction. The soldier resignedly accepts his own less responsible position and expresses his cynicism at the inefficiency of Army authority.” He also noted that “the expression … is coming into general civilian use.”

SUSFU

SUSFU (Situation Unchanged: Still F****d Up) is closely related to SNAFU.

SNAFU and SUSFU were first recorded in American Notes and Queries in their September 1941 issue.

FUBAR

FUBAR (F****d Up Beyond All Recognition/any repair/all reason), like SNAFU and SUSFU, dates from World War II. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: “The FUBAR squadron. ‥ FUBAR? It means ‘Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.”

TARFU

TARFU (Totally And Royally F****d Up or things are really f****d up) was also used during World War II.

The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu.

BOHICA

BOHICA (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again) is an item of acronym slang which grew to regular use amongst the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War. It is used colloquially to indicate that an adverse situation is about to repeat itself, and that acquiescence is the wisest course of action. It is commonly understood as a reference to being sodomized. An alternative etymology relates the expression to the days of sail and avoiding being struck by the boom, which would swing around the mast due to shifts in wind or the vessel’s course. Although it originated in the US military forces, and is still commonly used by USAF fighter crew chiefs, its usage has spread to civilian environments, used to describe unavoidable, unpleasant situations that have inconvenienced one before and are about to yet again.

SOURCE: wikipedia

And one other addition:

REMF (Rear Echelon Mother F**ker) was never a term of endearment in Vietnam. Agreement on what was and who was a REMF is still being debated today. Those who used the term always set the dividing line as being short of where they stood. Grunts, without question, stood short of the line. For a grunt, the distinction was an easy one: if you lived behind wire, you were in the rear echelon. If you slept in a bed, ate hot food, took hot showers, used a flush toilet, and got laid regularly, you were a Mother F**ker.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_slang

This is the reason I got out of the military. I couldn't remember all the acronyms and abbreviations. And we haven't even looked at DoD yet.

rjoeholl

It's Army.

bahmer

All very interesting there Slatten thanks for the slang military jargon. By the way did you enjoy the Packer Sea Hawks game?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

As is usual with any game, there were some questionable refereeing...but, overall, I enjoyed the game. The Texan/Chiefs game blew me away with the dramatic swing after the first quarter.

The Titans are the only really surprise in the conference finals.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Did you know that many on the Titan roster are eating vegan? I don't suppose that had anything to do with it.

I'm sticking with Green Bay to beat San Francisco even though they are the underdog. I'm really impressed with the Titans who seem to be peaking at the right moment but after the way Kansas City came back and beat Houston yesterday, I think the Titans will have a tough go of it. I always love an underdog but KC looks like this could be their year.

Of course, what do I know? Nothing! I thought Baltimore would steamroll right on through to the Super Bowl. And my win ratio this season was only 66%.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I hear ya', Tuck. Being a native Houstonian plus living a number of years there, I was in heavenly bliss after the 1st quarter with a lead of 24-0. Yet, after going through the Hell of the second quarter and then second half being outscored 51-7, I was a state of shock. I have not yet fully recovered.

Still, being both a Marine and Texan...there's always next year. SEMPER FI

Green Bay & the 49ers are my two favorite NFC teams. I'll be happy with either of them winning. Though, as you say, the Chiefs are looking pretty damn good right now. I don't think the Titans can go hold them off. But, I didn't pick them to topple the Patriots or the Ravens, either.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I never expected the Titan either.

Yeah, The Houston game was a shocker for me. I really thought that after they put Buffalo away they had real momentum. And I guess they did for the first 20 minutes of the game with KC. I really thought Houston had a better than average chance to make it to the Super Bowl.

I had a terrible time predicting games this year. I was correct only 66%. Lots of teams had a real spark of greatness at times.

Maybe next year. The Titans v Chiefs game might just surpass the Super Bowl for excitement as so often happens in Conference Championships. Packers and Niners won't be a slouch game either. I think whoever emerges from these four will make an excellent Super Bowl. As much as I now would like to see the Titans win, I don't think they can do it. This is my favorite weekend coming up; the conference championships. I no longer have a vested interest in these games. Except for a random Super Bowl Pool.