# Ten-hut?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 6, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997 "2013-04-06T07:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/81 "2013-04-13T03:14:52Z")
Singing… _I know a girl named Buffalo Jill She won’t do it but her buffalo will_ ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/82 "2013-04-14T21:30:31Z")
One of my favorites is “Irene”: Irene’s her name She’s one of the best. So every night I give her the test. She looks so pretty. So sleek, so slim. The moon is bright the lights are dim. I’ve seen her stripped. I’ve seen her bare, I’ve felt her over everywhere. I handled her just as gentle as I could. And when I got in her I knew she was good. I rolled her over on her side Then on her back I also tried. She’s just one big thrill the best in the land. She’s an F-16 in the Air Combat Command. ---
**Author:** ![TailGunnerTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@TailGunnerTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TailGunnerTrout)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/83 "2014-07-31T16:12:31Z")
Anyone here claiming to be or have been in any branch of service but says they never heard “ten-hut” is full of sh\*t about one of two things: you either are lying about never having heard it OR, and this is the most likely answer, you never served a day in your miserable life yet you want people to think you had. That makes you a liar and a yellow coward! “Ten-hut” or even “Tench-Hut” are both the most commonly used commands which have taken the place of the command of “attention” and have been used more frequently than the full command of “attention” since the 1950s! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/84 "2014-07-31T16:15:25Z")
> [@TailGunnerTrout](#): > > Anyone here claiming to be or have been in any branch of service but says they never heard “ten-hut” is full of sh\*t about one of two things: you either are lying about never having heard it OR, and this is the most likely answer, you never served a day in your miserable life yet you want people to think you had. That makes you a liar and a yellow coward! “Ten-hut” or even “Tench-Hut” are both the most commonly used commands which have taken the place of the command of “attention” and have been used more frequently than the full command of “attention” since the 1950s! And how many branches of our armed services have you been in? ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/85 "2014-07-31T17:52:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > When I was in boot camp, the RPOC tried to call us to attention by saying “ten-HUT!” The Company Commander stopped him and said, “Don’t bark, RPOC - Marines and other dogs bark.” The commander was a major dork for ‘correcting’ his RPOC in front of any trainees. You’re a junior dork for making me look up RPOC. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/86 "2014-07-31T18:00:06Z")
> [@TailGunnerTrout](#): > > Anyone here claiming to be or have been in any branch of service but says they never heard “ten-hut” is full of sh\*t about one of two things: you either are lying about never having heard it OR, and this is the most likely answer, you never served a day in your miserable life yet you want people to think you had. That makes you a liar and a yellow coward! “Ten-hut” or even “Tench-Hut” are both the most commonly used commands which have taken the place of the command of “attention” and have been used more frequently than the full command of “attention” since the 1950s! There is no need to be abusive, particularly when you are simply voicing an opinion and most particularly in the General Questions forum. [Please note the Warning issued in this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17597673&highlight=rein#post17597673) [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/87 "2014-07-31T18:30:41Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Slightly off-topic, but I am recollecting my Drill Sergeant, SSG Jackson, from basic training at Fort Knox (Agony! Misery!) in 1988 being thoroughly chewed out by the post chaplain, whom happened to be wandering by as we were being marched to the PX to a cadence that contained some _colorful_ phrases. > > SSG Jackson was _pissed_ at being browbeaten in front of us by that guy, and in retrospect, it really wasn’t a professional thing to do on the part of the officer, even if he was only a chaplain. I don’t want to sound cynical, or perhaps to give too much credit to the Army for cleverness… but… Did you feel some empathy at the Drill Sergeant’s predicament? After all, you certainly knew what if felt like to be chewed out, and seeing him getting the same treatment as you would have been a revelation: he’s like you, and he wants you ultimately to be like him. I smell a set-up. Although a chaplain would certainly be in a position of (blue-nosed) moral authority, it just seems a little pat and convenient. Maybe not. Not every “conspiracy” is actually a conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/88 "2014-07-31T18:37:29Z")
I never heard ten hut. I often heard “attention on deck!” As did everyone else in the Navy and Coast Guard, Mr military expert. And my being a lying, yellow coward is entirely besides the point 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 31, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/89 "2014-07-31T18:49:23Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > There is a term for this. It’s called “toxic leadership”. Tell that to your Drill Instructor. I hope you enjoy doing pushups. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/90 "2014-07-31T19:00:46Z")
In the Army and the Coast Guard, I heard Attention, A Ten Shut, and Ten Hut. And I don’t recall hearing much of any of them out of recruit training. Maybe I was just in the wrong units. And I ran into 2 kinds of “At ease”. There was “At EASE!” which was given when you were standing at Attention, and then there was “At ease!” which was verbal shorthand for “Shut the fuck up, I’m trying to tell you guys something!” ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/91 "2014-07-31T19:09:03Z")
Is it just me or does it seem like our Army brethren have put a…considerable…amount of thought into how to walk? 😉 Zakalwe ABE3, USN ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/92 "2014-07-31T19:13:43Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Tell that to your Drill Instructor. > > I hope you enjoy doing pushups. **Bear\_Nenno** was right when he said that back in Apr 2013: toxic leadership. If it were to happen in the Marines, you wouldn’t be a smart private to say that to your GySgt / SSgt / Sgt Drill Instructor. You’d be right, but just shut up and think it and don’t say it right then and there. At least, when I was in, 1980-1993. Yeah, you’d be doing push-ups. Not sure about the other service branches, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/93 "2014-07-31T19:16:17Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Is it just me or does it seem like our Army brethren have put a…considerable…amount of thought into how to walk? 😉 > > Zakalwe > ABE3, USN Walk? We call it marching, and there is some precision to it. You should try it sometime. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/94 "2014-07-31T19:31:37Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Walk? We call it marching, and there is some precision to it. > > You should try it sometime. 😃 Hell, if I’d wanted to do that I could have joined the Army or the Corps! I will admit though, it does look pretty snazzy once y’all learn how to do it right. 😃 Thanks to all involved for a very informative thread (albeit a bit of a zombie apparently). My recollection from RTC is that we got the steps explained/demonstrated to us, but not all that about preparatory and execution and what-not. On the other hand, it was 27 years ago, so I may just not remember it that well. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/95 "2014-07-31T21:41:50Z")
> [@TailGunnerTrout](#): > > Anyone here claiming to be or have been in any branch of service but says they never heard “ten-hut” is full of sh\*t about one of two things: you either are lying about never having heard it OR, and this is the most likely answer, you never served a day in your miserable life yet you want people to think you had. That makes you a liar and a yellow coward! “Ten-hut” or even “Tench-Hut” are both the most commonly used commands which have taken the place of the command of “attention” and have been used more frequently than the full command of “attention” since the 1950s! I was in the Army for 5 years, including 2 in Iraq, and the only times I heard “ten HUT” were when the Marines were marching by while I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal. That’s a Marine thing. In fact, when the Marines marched close I couldn’t tell a damn thing they were saying. Their commands were all sing-songy and spoken with weird accents. I half expected them to call somebody a “Leftenant”. In the Army we used real words because we wanted our troops to actually understand what we were saying. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/96 "2014-07-31T23:34:23Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > If it were to happen in the Marines, you wouldn’t be a smart private to say that to your GySgt / SSgt / Sgt Drill Instructor. You’d be right, but just shut up and think it and don’t say it right then and there. At least, when I was in, 1980-1993. Yeah, you’d be doing push-ups. > > Not sure about the other service branches, though. Once, when out on a mission and taking 5, I called the Platoon Sergeant a REMF to his face. Right before he exploded I said, “I’ve been on point for the last hour, and to the guy on point, everyone else is a REMF!” After he let his breath out and his color got normal, he said that I was right and gave me a spot transfer to the rear. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/97 "2014-08-01T02:56:41Z")
It’s for the same reason they say “Oye, Oye” to open a supreme court hearing. It’s a corruption of “Hear Yea.” My related (Probably unanswerable) question, is why do all drill sergeants and airline pilots have a slightly southern accent, even when they’re from Boston or North Dakota? ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/98 "2014-08-01T03:22:55Z")
> [@TailGunnerTrout](#): > > Anyone here claiming to be or have been in any branch of service but says they never heard “ten-hut” is full of sh\*t about one of two things: you either are lying about never having heard it OR, and this is the most likely answer, you never served a day in your miserable life yet you want people to think you had. That makes you a liar and a yellow coward! “Ten-hut” or even “Tench-Hut” are both the most commonly used commands which have taken the place of the command of “attention” and have been used more frequently than the full command of “attention” since the 1950s! Since I hadn’t posted on this thread previously I guess you aren’t actually calling me a liar. I however did five years in the Army. Stop by I’ll be happy to show you my DD214. I can say that in my unit one said **attention** and nothing else. So just out of curiosity what would make someone sign up to post on a thread that hasn’t been active in 16 months and then call everyone(who you know knothing about) a liar? Maybe you didn’t get enough **attention** as a child. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/99 "2014-08-01T04:37:43Z")
[There is much random anger in this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=11234940) ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997/100 "2014-08-01T05:30:41Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Tell that to your Drill Instructor. > > I hope you enjoy doing pushups. _My_ drill sergeant? _I was_ the Drill Sergeant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-hut/654997.md?page=6)