Embrace the Suck

Embrace the Suck

Members of Americaâ€™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 insiderâ€™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.

This comprehensive field manual, complete with descriptive and humorous illustrations, includes more than 500 colorful entries including:

Voluntold: Derisive slang for â€œI was ordered to volunteer.â€
Back to the taxpayers: Navy slang for where a wrecked aircraft gets sent.
Dome of obedience: Slang for a military helmet. Also called a brain bucket or Skid Lid.
Echelons above reality: Higher headquarters where no one has an idea about what is really happening.
Embrace the suck: The situation is bad, deal with it.

Embrace the Suck is the perfect gift for the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman in your lifeâ€”or for the Beltway Clerk* who yearns to speak like one.

*Derisive term for a Washington political operative or civilian political hatchet man. May refer to so-called â€œWashington defense expertsâ€ whoâ€™ve never served in the armed forces.
Country USA
Manufacturer Bombardier Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-01-09
Format Kindle eBook

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