Military phrases and acronyms you let slip in the civilian workplace

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Rock1982
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glidepath

As in "on the glidepath to success"
WBBQ74
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'I got comms' with someone to mean that we started talking about something.

Change 1.

'Let's go get some Class I'.

Writing 'NEF' with lines on both sides to designate 'nothing else follows' on this Letter of Transmittal.
3 William 56
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Head instead if bathroom
Bulkhead for wall
IRT "in regards to"
3rd Platoon
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"What's the ETA?"
86sq6
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I taught my kids to 'Range Walk' when they were younger to cross the street; at ork one day, I starting drawing on a dry erase board several different COAs instead of Options. They looked at me as if I had stepped off of a UFO.

Also have to keep myself from including FYSA, WTF and ILO in my emails. I sometimes keep v/r in my signature block.....
Protrident
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trip up on saying All Manager Meeting all the time, "you going to the All Officer.... All Manger meeting?"

"Roger/Rog" all the time.

BBRex
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Yes, "scuttlebutt" is a Navy word. Do you use it for "water fountain" or "gossip"? I'm guessing you mean the latter.
DevilD77
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When I have an employee who is screwing up and trying to blame the equipment I have been know to say "I think it's an operator head space and timing issue!"
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Roger
Say again
Check
Pogey bait
Chow
Head
Recall Roster
SL3 complete
Unsat
Niner, tree, fife
Cleared hot
Ink Stick
Still use Phonetic alphabet on a daily basis.

I have used the following while coaching the REC league football team,
Side straddle hops
Cherry pickers
mountain climbers
Flutter kicks
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FIGMO
 
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