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Volume 4. This along provokes a look of envy as you come to talking to your normal Joe Civvie as he scratches his head, wondering what you are talking about. Yes, the continuation of the popular "How To Speak Like A Soldier" continues...

This is how to speak like a solider... volume 4!

Black (pron) - The Army has deemed to make things 'crayola', by describing their effectiveness by colors. Green is 90% or better. Amber is 75% to 89%. Red is 51% to 74%. Black is 'your pretty much fucked.' This has been around for quite some time. Probably made by some staff puke in the Pentagon.

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1- Caelanwolf on Dec. 25 2007

I love these installments. They make me giggle so. I would like to add that we in the military WIFE community also call the Barracks Whores "Barracks Bunnies" and "Tag Chasers". Don't know if you enlisted folk do, but we take much pride in snarking, and generally tearing down these pieces of trash and hiv-spreaders. Blech.

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Done