Embrace the Suck

Embrace the Suck

<B>MILSPEAK: Slang for military jargon, troop idioms, and Pentagonese. The perfect gift for anyone who is in the military, veterans, or who plans to serve.</B><BR><BR>Members of America’s armed forces have their own distinctive language: milspeak. Especially since WWII, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have invented and adapted their own slang vocabularies, creating a colorful insider’s lingo of bureaucratic buzzwords, acronyms, mock jargon, dark humor, and outright profanity. Milspeak gives a unique and touching insight into military life from basic training to the trenches; from the flightdeck to the cockpit.<BR> <BR>This comprehensive field manual, complete with descriptive and humorous illustrations, includes more than 500 colorful entries including: <BR> <BR><B><I>Voluntold</I>: Derisive slang for “I was ordered to volunteer.”</B> <BR> <BR><B><I>Back to the taxpayers</I>: Navy slang for where a wrecked aircraft gets sent.</B> <BR> <BR><B><I>Dome of obedience</I>: Slang for a military helmet. Also called a brain bucket or Skid Lid.</B> <BR> <BR><B><I>Echelons above reality</I>: Higher headquarters where no one has an idea about what is really happening.</B> <BR> <BR><B><I>Embrace the suck</I>: The situation is bad, deal with it.</B> <BR> <BR><I>Embrace the Suck</I> is the perfect gift for the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman in your life—or for the <I>Beltway Clerk*</I> who yearns to speak like one.  <BR> <B><I>*</I></B>Derisive term for a Washington political operative or civilian political hatchet man. May refer to so-called “Washington defense experts” who’ve never served in the armed forces.