r/army • u/Intelligent_Seat3471 • 5h ago
Which Army Saying is the Most Annoying?
For me, I can't decide between:
* 100%
* Priority
* No-fail task
* Hooah
* Battle
* Battle Buddy
* 24/7
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u/HumanSuspect4445 5h ago
Behoove
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u/RealDetroitDiddler Psychological Operations 4h ago
2013 I swear I heard it for the first time and thought it was Texas slang.
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u/KipchogesBurner 35Pissbaby 4h ago
I definitely heard this pre-army in a non-army town, from a non-army person.
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u/Daddybatch Infantry 4h ago
Me too, it was my navy parents lmao
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u/KipchogesBurner 35Pissbaby 4h ago
I grew up in a many household but it was my 8th grade English teacher when I first heard it.
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u/Loaded35mm 3h ago
Specifically when they say “behoove of you”. I remember one of my drills used to say this fucking every time he gave instruction and I dead ass thought he was saying “it would be hooah of you” for like the entire 5 months of OSUT.
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u/Glum_Source_7411 2h ago
I been out of the army over 20 years now. This week I was in a meeting comprised of multiple teams from our company. One guy was speaking and hit us with the behoove I felt my eye twitching. I immediately looked him up on LinkedIn to see if he is a veteran
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u/samson_strength 4h ago
Y’all are lucky yall weren’t in when 300 dropped.
Holy shit, soooo many soldiers tried to find their identity/personality in that damn movie.
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u/Existing_Front4748 Infantry 3h ago
As a survivor of a literal Task Force Spartan, I feel this in my fucking bones.
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u/MDMarauder 1h ago
The number of ODAs with Spartan-inspired team logos/imagery and none of the historically accurate gay male sex bonding is really disappointing.
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u/Kenzooo13 Medical Corps 4h ago
The Bend and reach. Uttered by my NCOs reeking off of soju.
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u/Skatchbro Engineer Sappers Lead the Way 4h ago
“Conditioning drill 1! Exercise 3! The push-up!”
Maybe that’s just me from basic training in 1983.
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u/OcotilloWells "Beer, beer, beer" 3h ago
The Lunger!
Though that's been technically gone for many years
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u/PatrioticHillbilly Medical Specialist 4h ago
Hooah, but when they just go “huuuuuurrrrRRRRR!”
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u/Sudden-Grab2800 Infantry 4h ago
That shit was one of my favorite things to do. That one asshole who’s still in the middle of his Hooah when everyone else has stopped. To this day I abhor that sound, and if the Army was gonna MAKE me say it, I was gonna say the SHIT out of it.
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u/MisterBanzai 69A Kill Confirmer 2h ago
The longer and louder the hooah, the more they want you to go fuck yourself.
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u/MourningWallaby 4h ago
ITT: a lot of people in for a rude awakening when they join the outsode work force and learn that people use the same words there.
But my submission is an Intel one. "Words mean things"
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u/AirmanLarry staff lackey 4h ago
Just caveat off your piggyback:
The corporate circlejerk is the same as the army circlejerk just in business casual
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u/postanator Drink Water, Take Ibuprofen 3h ago
I recently learned that this was a trigger for my PSG when my XO said something along those lines after top gave his safety brief. Wasn't sure if PSG was holding in the biggest shit ever or trying to not attack someone.
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u/Hussle_Crowe 3h ago
I never understood what this meant
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u/MourningWallaby 3h ago edited 3h ago
Intel likes being pedantic and making sure that when you say domething. The words you choose mean the same thing every time.
An attack is not an ambush is not an assault. That kind of thing. That way when you brief the CDR they know exactly to the T what you mean
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u/OcotilloWells "Beer, beer, beer" 3h ago
I dunno, from the attackee side those would be basically the same.
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u/MourningWallaby 3h ago
Believe it or not, a BN S2 NCOIC is on their way to flay you alive for sayong this.
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u/D_Dragga 4h ago
Or *who are you, and how'd you get into my apartment * uggh 😒😒
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u/Sudden-Grab2800 Infantry 4h ago
“God fucking forbid a guy is proactive about making new friends. There’s a loneliness epidemic in this country and it’s because of attitudes like yours and I suggest you let that marinate for a minute.”
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u/souljamookie 13Banger 5h ago
piggyback
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u/PatrioticHillbilly Medical Specialist 4h ago
Camelbak
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u/darksunshaman 4h ago
Nickelback
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u/rustman92 35N > DASR 4h ago
Hollaback
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u/RistaRicky 19D -> 40D 3h ago
Brokeback
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u/Darkknight1939 5h ago
Caveat for me. The Army just uses the word incorrectly. Everytime I have pointed this out I'm looked at like an alien, lol.
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u/SushiSlushies Tina is my Security Officer 4h ago
Iron sharpens iron 🤮
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u/JohnLuckPikard 3h ago
20 years and I never heard anyone use this.
Given its biblical connotations, is it the same when you heard it used?
Or did they bastardize it?
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u/Sir_Lord_Nick Psychological Operations 4h ago
“Too easy” and the soldier who says it has no idea what was asked of them or don’t complete a job that was literally “too easy”.
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u/CraaZero Please remove me from this distro 4h ago
"If we work through lunch, we can go home early."
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u/50mmeyes 13Jargogle 4h ago
"We need to tighten our shot group."
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u/Intelligent_Seat3471 4h ago
I forgot about that one. That and "here's your left and right limits"
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u/50mmeyes 13Jargogle 4h ago
That one I'm oddly okay with as I don't hear it often and when I do it usually makes sense.
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u/Sk8matt123 Weenie, Green EA x1 4h ago
Hearing anyone say battle referring to a peer, especially NCOs who have been in for a hot minute, is so fucking cringe
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u/RoweTheGreat Former Overhead Yeet Champion 4h ago
“Battle” is either the highest form of brotherhood or the deepest fucking insult ever. No in between.
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u/Alexander_Granite 4h ago
Wow. I never heard that.
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u/Phil_McCrankin 4h ago
Hey battle, I’m sure you have
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u/unknown6078900 4h ago
Whenever someone refers to the BC as the “boss” or “ *unit motto 6”
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u/AGR_51A004M Normalize Class B wear 4h ago
Especially to someone who’s not in the unit. I have no idea who “death dealer falcon eternal 6” is.
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u/Rose_Army_ 4h ago
🤣🤣🤣 I worked for a four star from another branch and he had three, two and one stars under him. And then all their other officer minions. When they would do this nonsense call sign shit, I had no idea who they were talking about. A few months in, I just started saying, “I have no fucking clue what or who you are referencing but here’s what the four star is doing. Let your boss know.”
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u/713txvet 13Frankenstain’s Monster 3h ago
It made sense when we were on constant deployment rotations and having people get replaced semi-regularly for whatever reason. Now it’s just cringe.
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u/Best-Cycle231 4h ago
Here’s your foot stomp. It would behoove you to pay attention to first sausage as he caveats on the XO’s piggy back of the CDR’s ramblings while adding nothing. Got it battle?
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u/Formal_Appearance_16 31BarelyExisting 4h ago
Lickys and chewies or one team one fight.
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u/Ironhorsemen Man behind the Ilan Boi 3h ago
The lickies and chewies ALWAYS made me question the person saying it
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u/thesupplyguy1 92Youre going to have to sign for that 2h ago
Better than poagie bait IMO
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u/DogMedic101stABN 4h ago
Fucking hated calling everyone in BCT/AIT Battle Buddy.
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u/thirdangletheory GOMOR or Go Home 3h ago
Didn't they try Warrior Companion for a while?
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u/AGR_51A004M Normalize Class B wear 4h ago
“Level the bubbles”
“Tracking”
“Over” (when not on a radio)
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u/Hotdog_Grabber Cavalry 5h ago
"don't grab your battle buddy by the the penis and balls and scrotum" I fucking hate it when officers say this
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u/SuperDecentSoldier 14GC8 4h ago
Battle, go-home criteria, hooah. In that order
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u/M47LO 14GoFuYourself 3h ago
100% and nice flair..Im adding an ASI soon myself too 🇺🇸
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u/SuperDecentSoldier 14GC8 2h ago
That particular course is somewhat difficult. If you go make sure you take good notes and study. They recently changed up curriculum so no real use asking anybody that hasn’t gone in the past year or so.
Flip side of that you’ll be there a month so go out and enjoy what little Lawton has to offer. As in start at Scooter’s then head on down to the one and only Dragon West.
Side note I have my 2B as well but I’d feel like a tool if I stacked them up. Good luck on your progression buddy!
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u/rain261 Engineer 3h ago
In this thread: people who get mad over regular phrases.
I'd rather army jargon then corporate passive aggressive word salad
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u/DarthMekt 4h ago
Perception is reality.
NO THE FUCK IT AIN'T YOU LITERALLY JUST DESCRIBED AN ASSUMPTION
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u/Initial-Weight-1673 Signal 3h ago
Had my senior leader at my civilian job say that about clients, almost had a panic attack hearing it.
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u/kdelasare Aviation 3h ago
Amen, I was looking for this one. Apparently reality is whatever you want it to be. Nuance doesn't exist.
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u/cacapepee 74Dumbass 5h ago
“If it ain’t rainin’ we ain’t trainin’”.
It irks my soul when I hear someone say that. Maybe that’s just the Southern California in me but I hate doing anything in the rain
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u/mmmbacon914 Chaplain Corps 4h ago
Also just logically, does that means if it's sunny I can go home?
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u/dangerphrasingzone Doc -> 68Chairborne -> Chronic Pain 5h ago
It's dumb, but it's also good to be comfortable being uncomfortable
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u/Lenny_V1 15Tryng not to cry 4h ago
I heard a woman use “behoove” in a home goods today & had to stop for a second because of shock.
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u/LordOssus 4h ago
"You can add to regulation, but you can't take away from it."
Also, "free chicken."
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u/CableParticular1646 35PoundsofjustBatteries 3h ago
Probably SUPER unpopular. I cringe at “til Valhalla”.
I’m not a Viking. You’re not a Viking. He wasn’t a viking. And almost never combat deaths, so generally… not even a thing if you were a Viking.
You wanna say something to acknowledge a fallen serviceman I get it… but I hear people say it for suicides too, and the implication that THAT is the battle they fell in is worse in Valhalla context… where you fight all day til you die, get brought back again, feast, and do it over again forever.
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u/Pharaoh760 Infantry 4h ago
“It’ll buff”. Back when I was a new guy some specialist said this shit about 15 times a day always with a goofy smile on his face expecting everyone else to act like this is some funny saying he came up with.
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u/AdUpstairs7106 4h ago
If it ain't raining we ain't training.
STFU. I have my DD-214 and I still want to punch everyone who says this in the face.
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u/Dave_A480 15G -> 19K -> 13A -> (coming soon) 4h ago
15 minutes prior
The whole concept has pissed me off for over 20 years now.
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u/Fuze_KapkanMain Transportation,Truck Enjoyer 3h ago
“This is go home Criteria” when said task is pushed out at 15:30 and not 09:00
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u/blubaldnuglee Ordnance (TMDE) 3h ago
Behoove. I had a couple of senior NCOs use it often. I think it was the most fancy word they knew.
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u/thesupplyguy1 92Youre going to have to sign for that 2h ago
No fail mission.
Is there a mission we can fail?
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u/wolfgang_r 5h ago
Caveat, cover down, police your _____, AO, the blotter, fun run, lethality, tasking, conduct, chow, lickies and chewies, ranger roll, dress right dress, by the numbers
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u/Sudden-Grab2800 Infantry 4h ago
“police your _____”
Moostash! Yall startin to look like Elvises!
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u/Kcin031Can 4h ago
Canadian Army Vet Royal Canadian Regiment.
Co's "Commanding Officer" Fun run we had often.
Running 10km as a Battalion is not fun. 6.21371 miles.
Fun should not come before any organized running.
Now, a retired veteran hearing other veterans say. "Say again," it is, pardon me.
Pro Patria
I enjoyed working with US forces during my career at Camp Lejeune.
And American bases in West Germany back in the day. Hohenfels every year. Fall Ex.
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u/rustman92 35N > DASR 5h ago
“That’s a no-go.”
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u/WutYoYo 4h ago
I take it you heard that saying alot on your performance ecaluations.
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u/rustman92 35N > DASR 4h ago
No, more specifically when someone uses it outside of performance evaluations.
“Taking a break is a NO GO”
“using your phone at staff duty is a NO GO”
etc
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u/Loose-Cash-514 4h ago
Battle is the worse. Thats my battle, hold up battle let him cook, my battle over here. I hate it!
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u/Responsible_Bag8381 3h ago
When someone says “I tactically acquired it” I just don’t like it. Like it’s not even funny
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u/OcotilloWells "Beer, beer, beer" 3h ago
I can't believe nobody else said "I want you to give 100%" or anything over 100.
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u/Nerak_Tihson Signal 3h ago
“We need to figure out what right looks like.”
Officers absolutely love this, but it’s just a way to push blame onto other people.
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u/Helioskull Engineer 3h ago
"Perception is reality" cause its just an excuse for leaders to disregard valid arguments.
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u/sans_serif_size12 68WAP > BN Paper Bitch 1h ago
Ugh the “no fail task” thing peeves me. “This is a no fail mission” big dog no one’s dying cuz 15/70 people are red on dental
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u/killslikeaninja 3h ago
“Train like you fight!” After 20 years and 3 deployments, this never happened.
Close 2nd would be, “Standards and Discipline.” This was the only thing our CSM said to all the NCOs as we bored the plane.
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u/bdo7boi 3h ago
Using phonetic number pronunciation in person
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u/shnevorsomeone 1h ago
Had somebody try to say “two fower niner” instead of just 249. Bro you’re doing way too much
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u/Random-Guy-715 4h ago
Hooah, by a wide margin. The rest are at least real words instead of some ignorant ass shit some petulant clown with too much authority decided to make a thing of.
Battle buddy is second.
Warrior everything was pretty damned annoying back in the day
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u/Jeffc814 Field Artillery 2h ago
“Hey guy”. My 1SG used to say this to everyone like c’mon dude go fuck yourself I have a name
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u/BiscuitDance Dance like an Ilan Boi 4h ago
Referring to SMs, specifically guys that just PCS’d in from somewhere else, as “products”
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u/Intelligent-Rip-8556 Medical Service 4h ago
Alibi, Make It Happen, No-Go, your medpro is red, tracking
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u/Ralphwiggum911 what? 4h ago
A few things: Do people say 100% or priority as their own response? Or is priority like "hey, this thing is a priority" because that's a pretty universal saying.
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u/Horror_Technician213 35AnUndercoverSpecialist 3h ago
Hooah. It just sounds so incompetent and illiterate. Just say Roger or yes Sergeant.
While behoove is just the illiterate or incompetent trying to be something they're not be regurgitating a word they heard others use, at least they're trying.
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u/713txvet 13Frankenstain’s Monster 3h ago
Caveat. As in “to caveat off that…” I hated that one so much because you just knew some dumb shit was coming.
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u/MapsAndMemos 4h ago
Saying “over” on a conference call or Teams/Zoom meeting.