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TSgt Ciz FNG
Posts : 3 Join date : 2010-10-02 Age : 66 Location : Vancouver WA
| Subject: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:22 pm | |
| I thought newbies were called pingers? Have things changed that much from back in the day. | |
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Beetle Comic God
Posts : 126 Join date : 2009-09-15 Age : 40 Location : Louisiana
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:59 pm | |
| I've always known them as FNG's
don't worry about the cow... thats a holdover from Crew Dogs. | |
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skruball253 PEX-Monkey
Posts : 826 Join date : 2009-08-31 Age : 42 Location : Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:13 am | |
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TSgt Ciz FNG
Posts : 3 Join date : 2010-10-02 Age : 66 Location : Vancouver WA
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:38 pm | |
| Well back in the bad old days of quonset huts and wood 2 story hooches in basic training, we called real total newbies (Airman basics etc.) as "pingers" because you could almost hear the hair re-emerging on their shaved heads. FNG was a term for someone who was already somewhat seasoned but transfered into the unit.
Times change. :~) | |
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skruball253 PEX-Monkey
Posts : 826 Join date : 2009-08-31 Age : 42 Location : Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:32 pm | |
| We use to call brand new from tech school JEEPs. | |
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TSgt Ciz FNG
Posts : 3 Join date : 2010-10-02 Age : 66 Location : Vancouver WA
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:13 pm | |
| - skruball253 wrote:
- We use to call brand new from tech school JEEPs.
Yes, we did that too. It usually was for the guys that had just gotten their 3 level. It meant they could get around by themselves but were easily upended by trying to go too fast. | |
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caribeandragon Trainee
Posts : 43 Join date : 2010-04-06 Age : 45 Location : Ft Hood, TX
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:04 am | |
| Heck Better than being called GRUNT (Ground Replacement UNTrained) | |
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Takami FNG
Posts : 4 Join date : 2010-10-27 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Poor poor pitiful me. No friends! Is it because I smell like a cow? Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:51 am | |
| Always known them as FNG for the new guys transfering into the unit and recently the guys from tech school have all been "nubs" | |
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