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Cycle or Cycling:
Punishment for recruits in boot in the form of strenuous exercise




On your six:
On your rear-end




Deep Six:
To get rid of




HOOAH:
(who-a) adj.[slang used by soldiers] referring to or meaning anything and everything except "no".




Pull Chocks:
Let's get out of here (Or, the actual meaning of pulling chocks to let a plane or piece of equipment be moved. Chocks are placed on each side of a wheel to keep it from moving.)




Grid Squares:
New soldiers are sent to retrieve a box of them.




Klick:
Distance




The Pit:
Marine Boot Camp Sand Pit in which lots of exercise are done for punishment.




Cattle Truck:
Semi used to drive large amount of soldiers around post.




Squid:
Navy Personnel




Maggot:
non-conforming, non-productive, stupid, lowest thing on the earth




Dudd:
no brains- can't do anything right




B-52:
what we called the Big new canopener for our C-rats it came out just before MRE's




Slop Chute:
P X or a place to buy Poggie Bait




Deck:
Floor




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