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adios, mother fucker

AFKN Armed Forces Korean Network

all fucked up

E1 - Private
E2 - Private
E3 - Private First Class
E4 - Specialist
E5 - Buck Sergeant
E6 - Staff Sergeant
E7 - Sergeant First Class
E8 - Master Sergeant - usually a unit’s first sergeant
E9 - Sergeant Major (also Command Sergeant Major)

01 - 2^nd LT - second Lieutenant
02 - 1^st LT - First Lieutenant
03 - Captain
04 - Major
05 - Lt. Colonel
06 - Full Colonel or Bird Colonel
07 - Brigadier General - one star
08 - Major Gen. - 2 stars
09 - Lieutenant Gen. - 3 stars
10 - General - four stars

acronym for Army Support COMmand. Military installation dating back to the 1930s when developed by the Japanese. Currently, only Camp Market remains as the U.S. presence at Ascom. Also, known as Ashcan City.

asshole behavior scale

asshole tolerance factor

as soon as possible

GI slang from the Korean pyonso, which literally means “excrement place” or “shit house” and close to the Japanese word benjo, a word for toilet or rest room
banjo ditchsewer ditch where villagers would throw garbage and also used as drainage for rain water, interesting mix during monsoon season

an abundance; a lot. In abundance; galore, “I like that beau coup,” or “that guys a beaucoup crazy motherfucker,” borrowed from the French

C-ration beans and hot dogs

big ignorant fat fucker

name black Americans used for one another,
could be used individually or collectively

bend over, here it comes again

sex, the act of...

term coined in Korea during Korean War when troops had to pickup quickly and get the hell out of wherever they were due to enemy troops who would soon be at their position

lament for something bad that has occurred

term for adultery between a GI and a business girl

Korean prostitutes

Calley (William), Lt.Lieutenant in the U.S. convicted of war crimes because of his leadership position at My Lai, Viet Nam

nickname for Korea village environment

Chapter 13administrative discharge from the military, less than Honorable Discharge

nickname given to GIs for their spend thrift ways

cherry motherfuckernewbie

chop chop slang for food

Criminal Investigation Department

cluster fuck

Commanding Officer

Impact on Americans displaced into foreign culture

dress military folding headgear, nickname for garrison cap

walking carelessly, carefree

slang Vietnamese for "go quickly"

Does It Look Like I Give A Flying Fuck

slang for an Asian

Vietnamese for “to be crazy”

Demilitarized Zone. The strip of land separating the North from the South, as agreed upon at the Cease-fire
of 1953. Highly tense region with two massive armies facing each other across a no-man’s land.

Department of Defense

enlisted man, as in Enlisted Man’s Club

Estimated Time in Service, or the date you were released from military service.

slang for evacuation hospital

fuck it, got my orders

fuck

reaffirmation of something, like AFucking A, man”

Fucked up beyond all recognition

Fuck The Army

slang for Korean currency or MPC

Ground Infantry, eventually a nickname for all troops

...most authoritative studies indicate that the origin of this racial slur was the Korean War. Mee hap joon Guk is the United States of America, and is usually shortened to Mikuk. Korea is referred to as Hanguk. Guk means people of... Popularly used during the Korean War to ID Chinese or North Koreans, the use of the word “gook” soon became a popular GI term for all Asians. During the Viet Nam War the term became deeply imbedded in our language

nickname for infantryman

counting of prisoner heads to verify the prisoner count, occurs several times a day.

historical nickname for Korea

from the Japanese for house - uchi

name of Chinese coolie on the T.V. show Ponderosa, and used as a derogatory remark toward Asians.

Korean man to take after you on the compound

Korean woman, usually young, that worked as a servant in a Korean home, also used in the narrative as housegurl when in dialogue

Inspector General

slang for saying remaining in Viet Nam or Korea

Korean Augmentation of the United States Army

GI nickname for the small cabs

kitchen police, GI’s responsible for helping Mess Sergeant prepare meals and to clean the kitchen after each mess call. In the stockade, both Korean civilian contract workers, and prisoners performed KP duty.

Military Airlift Command

GI nickname for older women, from the Japanese mama-san referring to the woman operating a club or brothel

mobile army surgical hospital, as in the film and TV series

name for the bus used on larger posts to transport business girls to EM and NCO clubs for entertainment

Japanese origin for girl musume and used by the Japanese for their Korean servants. GIs commonly called their girlfriends “moose” in Korean and in Viet Nam.

Military Operating Specialty

immediately, if not sooner

Military Police

Military Police Currency, printed just for U.S. GI usage in Korea. Used in an attempt to stem the black-market of U.S. currency, which was not used in Korea at that time.

M60s - machine gun
M50 - caliber - machine gun
45s - standard sidearm
M16s - U.S. military rifle

Non-Commissioned Officer

newbie label for any new GI in-country

Korean beer

Officer Candidate School, graduates called a “90 day wonders.”

junior officer assigned command when CO not available.

on the job training

CO, commanding officer

Air Force Base south of Suwon

pink alcoholic beverage served in bars, usually in a 1.5 liter bottle.

general slang for Korean man

slang for female genitals, as in getting some poontang.

chief Military Police Officer, either on base, or in country

physical training

Post Exchange, on airbases known as a BX, Base Exchange.

term coined to describe U.S. prisoner in the stockade.

read the fucking manual

read the fucking manual again

Republic of Korea

term coined for the transfer to the U.S.

euphemism for non-Asian female

(Rape) and Relaxation

entrance into a confinement facility

a calendar, usually of one year in length, on which a GI could cross off each day until his ETS

first camptown in Korea

an Asian person

all GIs carried this card that referenced SOFA laws between ROK and U.S.

standard operating procedure

name used by prisoners for guards

terminal dumb shit

Temporary Duty

nickname for first sergeant

nickname for compound guard or guards in general

Korean cemetery

someone with less then 100 days left on their tour or in the service

prostitutes near UN compounds

slang Korean for I’ve got V.D.

short for village

Volunteer Army, employed by the DOD toward the end of the war to replace the draft army of the 1960s and early 1970s. VOLAR failed.

waste of fucking time and money

what’s the matter with you, a bastardization

the USA

District of Seoul, once used by Japanese military, developed by U.S. after Korean war as the Center of Eighth Army Command

Vietnamese person, or general derogatory comment about any Asian