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"The Big Red One" of the 1st Infantry Division. 1st Infantry Division "The Big Red One" – from the division's official shoulder patch: Red numeral "1" on an olive drab shield. "The Fighting First" "The Big Dead One" 2nd Infantry Division "Warrior Division" – official nickname "Indian Head" – Official as of 1948.
Operation Ivory Coast – On 21 November 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brigadier General LeRoy J. Manor and Army Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons landed 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers [161] by helicopter at the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp located only 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi ...
PL – Platoon Leader (U.S. Army) PLL – Prescribed Load List (U.S. Army) PLT – Platoon (U.S. Army) PMC – Partially Mission Capable; PME – Professional Military Education; PMS – Planned Maintenance Schedule (U.S. Navy) PNG – Passive Night Goggles; PO – Post Office; PO1 – Petty Officer 1st Class (USCG/USN E-6) PO2 – Petty ...
Massachusetts Army National Guard - Ense Petit Placidam [2] (also the state motto) Michigan Army National Guard - With Honor We Serve [2] Missouri Army National Guard - Protectors of Peace [2] North Carolina Army National Guard - Always Ready, Ready Team [2] North Carolina Army National Guard - 30th Brigade Combat Team, (Formerly 30th Infantry ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Trade-school – Refers to graduate of one of the Military Academies. TRAM – Tractor, Rubber-tired, Articulated steering, Multi-purpose. T-Rats – Tray ration, nickname for Unitized Group Ration, a ration heated and served to a group of servicemembers. Trooper – Soldier, considered a grievous insult to refer to a Marine unless plural.
"31-Knot Burke" – Arleigh Burke, U.S. Navy destroyer commander (for being unable to meet his habitual maximum speed during one operation due to limited recent maintenance) [1] "7, 8" – Yedi Sekiz Hasan Pasha, Ottoman Turkish Pasha who gained this nickname because of his signature consisting only of the Arabic letters seven (٧) and eight ...
1st Cavalry Division "Eugenio di Savoia" – named after Prince Eugene of Savoy (Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia). 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring – named after Hermann Göring, the final President of the Reichstag and former Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe who stood as one of Adolf Hitler's closest allies and highest ranking generals during the Third Reich.