re: You sound like dorks when you use "military lingo" and you're not in the military

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Never spent a day in uniform, but Dad was a Korea vet who used the lingo, so its natural I picked some of it up. Sorry if it offends you, shitbird.

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My son, who’s since enlisted himself, is the same as you. Even before he reported to Fort Benning (they changed it to Moore while he was there) for Infantry School, he was using the knife hand to point at things and using much of the jargon he’d heard me use his whole life.