# Gotta love military report langauge. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092 "2015-11-20T16:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/1 "2015-11-20T16:53:42Z")
> **[Air Force loses $115 million gunship to a ‘sideslip’ | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/politics/air-force-gunship-lost/index.html)** > > How can you destroy a $115 million airplane without crashing it? Interesting article all around about on of my favorite planes, the AC-130. But I love phrases like this. > [@](#): > > “The aircraft exceeded the targeted angle of sideslip until it departed controlled flight and momentarily inverted before being recovered after losing approximately 5,000 feet of altitude,” “Departed controlled flight” hehe. I am never going to stumble again, I am just going to momentarily depart controlled ambulation. ETA: Ahh crap, thought I was still in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/2 "2015-11-20T17:00:08Z")
That’s one hell of a sideslip! I couldn’t imagine doing that accidentally in a C 152, much less a Hercules. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/3 "2015-11-20T17:14:23Z")
I would always get a kick out of when the CO would come on the 1MC and report that we had “delivered” some ordnance to a target, like we were UPS, or some shit. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/4 "2015-11-20T17:25:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > That’s one hell of a sideslip! I couldn’t imagine doing that accidentally in a C 152, much less a Hercules. Hercules. For some reason Eddie Murphie crossed my though processes. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/5 "2015-11-20T17:29:31Z")
Ordnance delivered, **sir**! When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight! :cool: ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/6 "2015-11-20T20:17:12Z")
For sale: 1 slightly used aircraft. Low mileage. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/7 "2015-11-20T20:46:25Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > For sale: 1 slightly used aircraft. Low mileage. Flown only on exercises over the Gulf of Mexico. Armament not included. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/8 "2015-11-20T21:17:15Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > For sale: 1 slightly used aircraft. Low mileage. But I’m paying it off at ten bucks a week. And I wouldn’t be doing that if I’d gotten that extra collision coverage. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/9 "2015-11-20T21:40:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But I’m paying it off at ten bucks a week. And I wouldn’t be doing that if I’d gotten that extra collision coverage. Hey! You wreck it, you’ve bought it! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/10 "2015-11-20T22:00:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But I’m paying it off at ten bucks a week. And I wouldn’t be doing that if I’d gotten that extra collision coverage. Hey, you gotta read the fine print on the contract. It clearly says no smoking, no unapproved operators, no inversions. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/11 "2015-11-21T03:34:48Z")
How much for just the guns? [![](https://media.snopes.com/images/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg) ](https://media.snopes.com/images/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/12 "2015-11-21T04:24:44Z")
The language they use in those reports can be fun. Came across an interesting turn of phrase the other day. Air India flew a Boeing 787 around with only 4 of 47 screws installed in a fuselage panel. [According to the official report](http://www.bangaloreaviation.com/2015/11/dgca-report-finds-air-india-operated-787-with-only-4-of-47-screws-installed.html): > [@](#): > > “The Panel 196KR was only on four screws instead of 47 screws thereby the entire load was being taken by these four screws. As these four screws were not fully tightened, the air load caused fluttering of the panel further leading to fatigue crack around the four screw holes. Finally at touchdown in Bangalore the panel liberated from the aircraft, with three screws remaining on the aircraft” It didn’t just fall off, “the panel liberated from the aircraft,” it simply chose to be free! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/13 "2015-11-21T05:45:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > How much for just the guns? > > [http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg](http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg) You’re going to need a progressive loader. Yeah. Imagine that. The aviation engineering industry has jargon. And flight test and other military aviation fraternities use the same jargon. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/14 "2015-11-21T16:18:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > How much for just the guns? > > [http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg](http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/graphics/dobos.jpg) I’m in loooooove! :o ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/15 "2015-11-21T16:29:04Z")
Okay, who noticed her seconds before they noticed her gun? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/16 "2015-11-21T16:55:01Z")
Mi amusing encounter with military jargon took place when I worked as an electronic tester for medical, military and aerospace electric components. We were supposed to have the ISO military standards manual for test methods for electronic and electrical parts. To this day I still wonder why between many electronic and environmental procedures there was a military standard for a burrito; yes, the edible kind. Size and components precisely mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/17 "2015-11-21T17:31:57Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > We were supposed to have the ISO military standards manual for test methods for electronic and electrical parts. To this day I still wonder why between many electronic and environmental procedures there was a military standard for a burrito; yes, the edible kind. Size and components precisely mentioned. From my experience with the military supply system, I’ll offer two possibilities. 1) someone was bored and slipped it in as a joke, and B) someone transposed some numbers in a Federal Stock Number. I was an instructor at the CG electronics schools. There was a 1st class ET there who may have been good at repairing electronics and passing promotion tests, but he was terrible at dealing with people. Especially those he outranked. So, after he was assigned to the school, it was very quickly determined that he wouldn’t be an instructor. Well, there were several support positions there. And one was in Electronics Supply. There was a lot of equipment used at the school, both trainers and test equipment (VOMs, DMMs, oscilloscopes, signal generators, frequency counters, etc.) for the students to use which sometimes needed repairs. They sort of shrugged off the time he transposed some FSNs and ended ordering 65 feet of tread for a M-60 tank. However, they HAD to tell the CO and the Base Commander and some Captain on the Area Commander’s staff when the same guy did it again and ordered launchers for radar guided surface to air missiles and they were delivered. BTW, I knew second hand one of the instructors at the Gunner’s Mate school there. Those guys were all drooling over those. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/18 "2015-11-21T17:37:24Z")
Probably transposed numbers as mentioned above. For those of you wondering about a mil-spec burrito in the first place - consider the greed of military contractors and suppliers. If there weren’t exceedingly exact specs for _absolutely everything_, the suppliers would be cheaping out and your Burrito, Bean and Cheese, One Each would be the size of a taquito and filled with floor sweepings. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/19 "2015-11-21T18:53:36Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Okay, who noticed her seconds before they noticed her gun? With a chick like that, who cares if she can cook? :o [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C917QJH9GNM/hqdefault.jpg "Chicks who Love GUNS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C917QJH9GNM) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092/20 "2015-11-21T19:58:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But I’m paying it off at ten bucks a week. And I wouldn’t be doing that if I’d gotten that extra collision coverage. you really should be getting treatment for your Paternal Conflict Syndrome. I know they’re years away from a vaccine, but there are management therapies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-love-military-report-langauge/738092.md?page=2)