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Military humor is humor based on stereotypes of military life. Military humor portrays a wide range of characters and situations in the armed forces . It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes , making use of burlesque , cartoons , comic strips , double entendre , exaggeration , jokes , parody , gallows humor , pranks , ridicule and sarcasm .
Military humor includes jokes, puns, parodies and satire of life in the armed services. This category uses the word "military" in its US English meaning - i.e. of armed forces , and not solely of armies .
The joke's ubiquity has led to real-life humorous consumption of crayons and has been referenced by the Marine Corps itself in celebration of National Crayon Day. Multiple products have capitalized on the trend, including two lines of edible crayons created by former Marines and a coloring book by Uriarte.
During his half-decade with the Marines, he served as an embassy guard in Russia during the Cold War and fought in Vietnam, earning accolades for rescuing a wounded marine while under enemy fire.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's King Charles joked he had been "allowed out of his cage" on Thursday as he visited a military training college on his latest engagement since returning to public duties ...
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”