1. Boring Grenade Battle
   Big Gray Boat
2. Barge Gun Brigade

A BGB is a "Big Gray Boat." It's what many soldiers and sailors use when they see the long, broad sides of huge Navy ships.

1. Shortest Nuke Onboard
   Sighted Nuclear Operations Brigade
2. Sighted Nuclear Operations Brigade

On a nuclear submarine, it's the sailor who has the least amount of time left in the service. He's the SNOB, the Shortest Nuke Onboard.

1. Police
   Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants
2. Punching Out Lights

Trying to perform vehicle maintenance? You definitely need POL, or Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants.

1. Local National
   Laser Nuke
2. Lazy Navy

An "LN" is a local national. LNs often work on U.S. military bases scattered around the world.

1. Overrated Beans
   Overcome By Events
2. Operated By Experts

If circumstances are dictating the situation instead of the soldiers who should be in control, those troops are OBE. They've been Overcome By Events.

1. Retired On Active Duty
   Red On Airborne Ducks
2. Rangers On Attack Detachment

If you're on your last months of active duty but getting lazier by the day, you're ROAD. You're Retired On Active Duty.

1. Privately Owned Vehicle
   Poor Overhead Value
2. Preening Officer Visitation

No, you can't drive that tank off base. But you can take your POV, or your Privately Owned Vehicle.

1. Launching Rockets At
   Long-Range Attack
2. Lowest-Ranking Airman

Are you the LRA, or Lowest-Ranking Airman in your unit? Guess what? You get stuck doing all of the task that no one else wants.

1. Hairy Airmen Need Operations
   High Altitude No Opening
2. Heckling All Noctural Opponents

It's a derivative of HALO, or High-Altitude, Low-Opening, when paratroopers jump from a high plane and open their 'chutes at low altitude. A HANO, then, is when there's No Opening … meaning a sky soldier's parachute didn't work and he is now probably dead.

1. Low Trajectory
   Lieutenant
2. Long Tomahawk (missile)

You've heard this one in 1,000 war movies. "LT" is short for Lieutenant.

1. Nuclear Uranium Bomb
   Non-Useful Body
2. Norwegian Undertaker Brigade

If you're a NUB, you're dead weight. You're a Non-Useful Body, and for whatever reason, you don't contribute to the team effort.

1. Guns Overboard, Battalion In Place
   a large desert
2. General Officer Bright Idea

You know how your supervisor at the office gets a "great" idea that winds up making more work for everyone? In the service, that's a GOBI, a General Officer Bright Idea.

1. Destination 4 Delta
   Desk, 4 Drawers
2. Defense For Donald

It's an old Air Force joke, because most people in this branch don't get to zoom around in planes. Instead, they fly D4Ds … desks with four drawers.

1. Gun Integrator
   Government Issue
2. Gory Implements

The term "GI" has been around for decades and refers to people in the service. Some say it stands for "Government Issue," essentially meaning that soldiers were just replaceable cogs in the machine of war.

1. sewage
   delicious foods
2. small children

In the Navy, CHT stands for "Collection, Holding, and Transfer" systems, which sometimes break, spilling sewage all over the floors. Thus, CHT is often shorthand for the sewage itself.

1. Roaring Through Uganda
   Regimental Team Unfit
2. Returned To Unit

You just couldn't stop messing around during that training exercise, could you? So you got RTU, Returned To Unit, or sent back to base.

1. Death Jet
   Dork Jumper
2. Dim Jane

Some folks use DJ when referring to the F-22 Raptor. The DJ is an ultra-deadly, ultra-futuristic, and ultra-expensive project meant to offer air superiority all over the planet.

1. Heard, Understood, Acknowledged
   Head Under the Asphalt
2. Hoard Up

Did you really get that order, soldier? "HUA" means you "Heard, Understood, and Acknowledged" a directive.

1. Plastic Flotation Contraption In China
   Poor Flight Control In Cockpit
2. Private First Class in Charge

PFCIC is Private First Class in Charge … a derisive term. It refers to privates who tried to exert more power than they really should.

1. Dragging Idiots aCross Kuwait
   Dedicated Infantry Combat Killer
2. Dumb Imbecile Country Klan

During the Gulf War era, DICK took on ominous tones. It referred to some soldiers as DICK, as they were Dedicated Infantry Combat Killers.

1. Joint Eagle Exercise Program
   Junior Enlisted Expendable Personnel
2. Jiggling Explosives Exploding Parameters

You don't want to be a JEEP on a battlefield. It means you're Junior Enlisted Expendable Personnel.

1. Cold-weather Heating Unit
   Containerized Housing Unit
2. Choppers Hurting Ugandans

It's home sweet home to many troops. A CHU is a containerized housing unit, often not much more than a big cargo box outfitted with a few living conveniences.

1. Egads, Go Airborne!
   Enhanced Graphics Adapter
2. Eagle, Globe, and Anchor

You'll find this one in the Marines, thanks to the distinctive insignia you find on their uniforms. It's Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.

1. Big Ugly Fat Fellow
   Beat Up Fascist Fighters
2. Blogging Undermines Free Folks

BUFF is "Big Ugly Fat Fellow," which refers to the huge B-52 Stratofortress. There's also a less family-friendly version of this one, and we'll not publish it here.

1. Failure To Adapt
   Forgot The Airplane
2. Forks, Tongs, Apron

In the Marines, it means you couldn't hack the situation. You experienced FTA, or Failure To Adapt.

1. Dork Alert
   enlistment papers
2. toilet paper

It's a standing (or sitting) joke in the service. If someone says they need "DA Form 1" one, they really want some toilet paper.

1. Date Returned From Overseas
   Dirty Red Fascist Overlords
2. Drew Roger's Face is Offensive

It's pronounced "dee-ross," and it's usually a good thing. DROS stands for Date Returned From Overseas.

1. Deep Navy Killer Hummer
   Damn Near Killed Himself
2. Deer Near Kuwaiti Headquarters

In the service, from guns to tanks, there are a lot of ways to hurt yourself. "DNKH" is short for "Damn Near Killed Himself."

1. Black Moving Object
   Battalion Movement Officer
2. Big Monstrous Orifice

During the 1991 Gulf War, some non-Muslims identified battlefield objects in shorthand. "BMO" was Black Moving Object, and referred to women who wore traditional black robes called burkhas.

1. Punch Nazis Now
   Parachuting into Nocturnal Neverland
2. Private News Network

It's not CNN, it's PNN. And that's the Private News Network, the gossipy grapevine that soldiers use to spread (mis)information.