Vietnam dictionaries
SOF How does your military background relate to a Vietnam War slang book? Quân phục rằn rior simpler đồ rằn ri.The Vietnamese Marines called their version the: cọp biển(sea tiger), hoa biển(sea flower),” or sóng biển(sea waves). They were fabricated in Japan, Korea, and Thailand under US contact and were seen in a wide variety of shades and patterns. Tigerstripes “Tigers” were four-color (black, medium green and brown, tan or pale green) camouflage uniforms used by Special Forces, CIDG, special reconnaissance units, and the Vietnamese Marines (“sea wave pattern”). Reputed to be the toughest of the Army’s six infantry training centers. It included the Army’s largest Vietnamese mock village at Tiger Ridge. Tigerland The 3d Infantry Advanced Individual Training Brigade, North Ft Polk (“Ft Puke”), Louisiana. This does not necessarily indicate a “clean wound.” Organs, major blood vessels, and bones could still have been hit. Through and through Bullet or fragment wound that exited the body (T&T). Occasionally called a “weapons carrier.” Various types of communications-electronic shelters could be mounted. Three-quarter-ton The 3/4-ton 4×4 M37B1 cargo truck. Automatic pistols were difficult to operate and reload one-handed while revolvers could be.ģd Herd Any 3d Battalion, e.g., 3d Battalion, 508th Infantry referred to themselves as such. Aviators used revolvers as crashes often caused hand/arm injuries. USAF Security Police used the S&W Model 15. Investigators and others requiring easily concealed weapons carried snub-nose Police Positives. Aviators used the Model 10 along with riverine craft crewmen. 38 Special revolvers were used to include the S&W Model 10 and Colt Police Positive.
TH3 is a more effective compound than thermite and burns at 4,330☏. Three were carried in tanks to destroy the main gun, radio, and engine. Mainly used to destroy equipment and prevent its capture/use. Thermite grenade AN-M14 incendiary hand grenade is actually thermate (TH3) filled, not thermite. Aka “bazooka.” Replaced by the M72 LAW and 90mm M67 recoilless rifle and declared obsolete in 1970.
Three-point-five The 3.5-in (89mm) M20A1B1 rocket launcher. There was little more a grunt could gratefully expect than dry socks (which can be inferred as a dry place to sleep) and three hot meals a day, even if just heated C-rats. Extract, page 178-Example of a typical page. Its approach to the study of Vietnam slang is somewhat different than found in other dictionaries.ģ. Casemate Publishers recently released Grunt Slang in Vietnam: Words of the Warin hardback and Kindle formats, 240 pages and 1,500 entries. I started collected slang while in Vietnam and ever since. There are a few Vietnam slang dictionaries about, handback, paperback, and on-line, but to me there more to slang dictionaries that a simple word definition. Sometimes those memories are a bit rusty nonetheless those old and sometimes funny or odd words spill out. That was a long time ago, 50 years or more for most of us. Have you ever found yourself throwing out some slang word recalled from Vietnam at an appropriate or not so appropriate moment? Most Vietnam vets have done this.