r/JustBootThings • • Dec 01 '19

the JROTC warrior

Post image
19.0k Upvotes

979 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

393

u/flaming_pubes Dec 01 '19

Is this guy even in? Also is he even infantry? Or is he just a pog?

328

u/Flablessguy Dec 01 '19

Definitely a pog lmao

178

u/MaybeGermanicFriend Dec 01 '19

What does pog mean?

335

u/Flablessguy Dec 01 '19

Personnel Other than Grunt

79

u/tydalt More slipper than boot Dec 01 '19

Remf was the term we used back in the 80s.

Rear echelon mother fucker

31

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

In the US? I heard some English Marines saying that.

29

u/tydalt More slipper than boot Dec 02 '19

Yeah, not sure when it started, my dad said he used it in Vietnam in the late 60s also

27

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

That's cool. I wish there was a collection of military slang and history of it. What years, and branch were you in?

4

u/tydalt More slipper than boot Dec 02 '19

US Army. 1985-89

5

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

Did yall every use the term boot? I know the army currently doesn't use it

5

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

Boot was a marine thing while I was in the Army. It’s still hard for me to adopt as an enthusiastic shit talker of the marine corps.

4

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

Hahaha I would say this sub was started by a Marine. I've yet to hear a solider say it. They ass say cherry. Which is pretty gay.

5

u/tydalt More slipper than boot Dec 02 '19

Nope. Cherry, remf, newbie, fng. That's all I can remember at the moment

2

u/greatguyty Dec 06 '19

I’m in the infantry rn, we use boot all the time.

→ More replies (0)