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2 days ago · AMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan – III Marine Expeditionary Force received a shipment of Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs) at Naha Military Port on June 29, 2024. The ACV is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier, designed to fully upgrade the Marine Corps' fleet of Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV). “III Marine Expeditionary Force is a ...
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Sep 10, 2021 · A mechanized airborne force is a SERIOUS headache for the enemy. Instead of expending resources to deal with "Little Groups Of Paratroops" (LGOP) they're instead having to deal with the tactical mobility of a mechanized force that drops behind their lines? An annoyance becomes a concern.
Jun 19, 2022 · Is it a rare configuration for Growler to load with six air-to-air missiles? Royal Australian Air Force EA-18G (A46-305) from No. 6 Squadron conducts air-to-air formation flying off the coast of South East Queensland on Dec. 7, 2021. pic.twitter.com/Z8tL7UdZnU. — Ryan Chan 陳家翹 (@ryankakiuchan) June 18, 2022.
Merriell Allesandro Shelton (January 21, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was a United States Marine who served in the Pacific theater during World War II. He is depicted in the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge which chronicled their combat experiences.
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Back to SNAFU. The OED says it's also originally US military slang, with the first citation from a September 1941 edition of American Notes & Queries, apparently in reply to a May 1941 article: This suggests SNAFU entered army slang from air slang.
Roaring Fish found another etymology of SNAFU from Don Taylor (wayback). Taylor says in April or May of 1941 (before Pearl Harbor) during radio network training at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, it came from a mechanical coding device that scrambled messages into five letter code groups. He and John Paup entertained themselves by forming initial...
Taylor's story is discussed on the Snopes forums: Shapiro's sergeant says the name first applied to khaki hats, and suggests the name came first and then "somebody decided it was a bunch of letters that stood for words". These hats references are interesting, and deserve more attention -- did why exactly was snafu used for hats in the first place? ...
Back to the Wireless Worldstory. The story tells of two telephone engineers who used SNAFU, TARFU and FUBAR as code words in their pre-war jobs at Western Electric (founded 1872, defunct 1995). It's possible, but seems unlikely partly because there's no written evidence that these were used before World War II. 1. The earliest written evidence show...
Jan 21, 2024 · ‘SNAFU’ is a widely recognized slang term that originated during World War II. Though it began in the military, it has since permeated civilian language, offering a concise and often colorful expression for describing chaotic or disorganized situations.
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