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Position:Home>History> What kind of words were used during the time of the vietnam war?Question: What kind of words were used during the time of the vietnam war!? were doing a project, and were susposed to pretend that were in the vietname war, and were writing a letter back home!. What kind of words should i include!?
please help, if you provide some unique words that would be great best answer to the one with the most and unique words!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: boucou dinki dow ( you big crazy), we had a hot LZ (landing zone under fire) and had to call in a fast flier (jet) to burn out (napalm) the VC (Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) before we had a dust off (retrieval by helicopter) for the wounded!. The door gunners fired of the Huey fired on a hooch (shack) we were receiving fire from!. We then had to hump it (march with packs) 10 miles before pick up!. We were near the DMZ (demilitarized zone)!. We had the help of some yards (montagard tribesmen)!. Sorry I don't have any paper so I wrote on this rat box top (ration box) and sent it!. It is hot in country( in Vietnam)!. The 'Nam is really hot and humid, and there is no AC anywhere for the grunts (soldiers)!. Still another month before my Freedom bird (flight home after tour of duty)!. They tried to give me the sixty, but I stayed with my thumper- it is safer!. ( they tried to make him the M 60 machine gunner, but he stayed with his grenade launcher)!. The sixty goes behind the point ( is second in line on a trail) and draws fire fast!. We lost Joe to a punji stake (poisoned bamboo stake hidden along a trail)- he got sent home!. Bill lost a foot to a toe popper (booby trap or mine with small explosive charge)!. Million dollar wounds-( home alive) anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Far out zero cool Icy Yeah, man! feelin' groovy psychedelic went ape beat feet blast bookin' (leaving) boss bread $$ brody (tear up the grass in your car) burn rubber cat (person) cherry chhick chinese firedrill church key (can opener) cop a feel cruising cutout (leave) dibs dig!? don't have a cow don't sweat it drag (race) fab fink five finger discount flake flower child fox fuzz going steady glasspacks hairy hang loose hip lay it on me meanwhile back at the ranch midnight auto supply neato passion pit peel out pig score shades shotgun skank skuzz slam book split square submarine races swapping spit threads wedgie zitsWww@QuestionHome@Com or "tango's in the bush" "open fire" "fire in the hole" "enemy's on the brige" "ambush!!!" "were surrounded" "Help me" "requesting reinforcements" "i need back up!!!" "we got a man down" "requesting artillery suport" "casualties report" curse words!.!.!. "plunder" "were under fire!" "im hit" "ahhh my leg hurts" "my arm's hurts" all kinds of words!.!.!. :P he he!.!.!. "i wanna sleep more" "im tired"Www@QuestionHome@Com grunt (inexperienced soldier) DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) gooks (enemy) All kinds of them here: http://www!.1stcavmedic!.com/glossary!.htmlWww@QuestionHome@Com Hey, Frosty, thanks for the blast from the past!!! One of my faves was Bogus (bad)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com VC for Viet Cong!. And I think soldiers usually refer to the enemy as "Charlie!." Www@QuestionHome@Com hang cha po kong tah that means shoot the guy in the bush!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |