Examples A good example of Military humor is Reader’s Digest’s Humor in Uniform, a collection of short true anecdotes depicting amusing experiences in the armed forces. Military jokes might be sometimes quite blunt, e.g. British soldiers used to make a joke about the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) military decoration, to say of a comrade wounded down the belly that he had received DSO, DSO meaning “Dickie Shot Off.” In other jokes however, the lack of seriousness is more subtle. Often these are in-jokes and not everyone understands them. e.g. the following reference to “Camouflage Uniform Wear Policies”: Marines: Work uniform, to be worn only during training and in field situations. Army: Will wear it anytime, anywhere. Navy: Will not wear camouflage uniforms, they do not camouflage you on a ship. (Ship Captains will make every effort to attempt to explain this to sailors.) Air Force: Will defeat the purpose of camouflage uniforms by putting blue and silver chevrons and colorful squadron patches all over them. Sometimes the joke is made by civilians about the military. In the Philippines during President Ferdinand Marcos martial law years, Chief of the Armed Forces General Fabian Ver was a feared figure. In the midst of the tense times Filipino people used to joke that the general was so fiercely loyal that if Marcos would have ordered him to jump out of the window, General Ver would have saluted and said, ‘Which floor, sir?’ Comics Comic strips about military life may have a wide public world wide, like Beetle Bailey, set in a United States Army military post and featuring mostly inept characters stationed there. Other military humor characters, like the All Select Comics comic book feature “Jeep Jones” by Chic Stone did not become so popular. Films and TV series Among the oldest military comedies in film are the Flagg and Quirt movies. Some comedies, like the Don’t Call Me Charlie (1962-1963) TV series (about a young veterinarian drafted into the Army and stationed in Paris) are totally devoted to the military theme. The fourth series of the British sitcom Blackadder, known as Blackadder Goes Forth, revolves around the life of Edmund Blackadder in the trenches of World War I. Other movies, like Forrest Gump, give a glimpse of military humor during the time period that the movie’s hero is a soldier. See also Russian jokes (section Russian military jokes) Republic of Korea Air Force (section Military ranks) Military slang Grande Arme slang Wipers Times 6 Ps Saluting trap No Time for Sergeants Chipped beef Oxymoron Fawcett Publications Sergeant Bilko References ^ Fart sack at Sex-lexis ^ Chipped beef on toast (SOS in Military slang) ^ Rod Powers Camouflage Uniform Wear Policies in the US military ^ Ken Kashiwahara Aquino’s Final Journey – New York Times 1983 ^ Jeep Jones External links Covey Crump page, at the Royal Navy web site USAF slang dictionary USMC slang dictionary U.S._Navy_slang
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