Soldiers there face daily attacks to occupy this symbolic outpost. Sangsar is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban, and the former home of Mullah Omar, their leader. GUN: At Combat Outpost Sangsar in Kandahar, soldiers from 10th Mountain Division fire mortar rounds at nearby Taliban positions.
#Military lingo movie
Ricky Munoz watches a movie on his laptop at Combat Outpost Lakokhel. Please leave anything you think should be included in the comments.īIG VOICE: The Big Voice broadcasts emergency instructions at Forward Operating Base Tagab in Kapisa Province.īIRD: A soldier and a military contactor watch Kabul's city lights glow through a Black Hawk's plastic window on their way to Jalalabad Airfield Oct. But these terms are critical to speaking the current language of soldiers, and understanding it when they speak to others. This list is by no means exhaustive, and some of the terms originated prior to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course the US military never "retreats" - rather it conducts a "tactical retrograde." The US military drawdown in Afghanistan - which is underway but still awaiting the outcome of a proposed bilateral security agreement - is often referred to by soldiers as "the retrograde," which is an old military euphemism for retreat. Soldiers fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have developed an expansive new military vocabulary, taking elements from popular culture as well as the doublespeak of the military industrial complex. Slang changes with the times, and the military's is no different. KABUL, Afghanistan - It's painful for US soldiers to hear discussions and watch movies about modern wars when the dialogue is full of obsolete slang, like "chopper" and "GI."
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