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SNAKE:
COBRA GUN SHIP!!!!!!!!




S**t Hotel:
Very good




Raunchy:
Something that is nasty or dirty.




Red Ass:
Very irrated or someone who is very irrated.




Irish Pennant:
Any string or thread hangin from cloth such as clothing, bedding, flags, pennants, etc




Brig Rat:
Any member of the Armed Forces who is in the brig.




Shit Bird:
Any member of the Armed Forces that doesn't meet standards or is generally concieved as a screw off.




KMA:
Keep Me Advised, but any resourceful radio operator knew it meant, Kiss My Ass.




Royal Baby:
Onboard ship, when crossing the equator, a person usually with a large belly, dressed as a baby with a greased gut, who all the Polly Wogs had to kiss his belly.




King Neptune:
The senior Shellback onboard. The person with the earliest initiation date for crossing the equator.




Jury Rig:
To perform an unapproved repair on equipment, or to piece together equipment in order to make it work.




Midnight Requisition:
Stealing equipment from others in any service.




Joe Shit the Rag Man:
Person of unknow identity in the Navy, as in, I don't know you from Joe Shit The Rag Man.




Operation Golden Flow:
The donation of urine samples for drug screening in all services.




Bollardhead:
A hard headed or extremely thick headed person in the Navy.




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