The phrase “Killed in Action” (KIA) will be used to refer to combat or hostile casualties, as well as to people who are killed instantly while fighting an enemy or pass away from wounds or other ailments before receiving medical attention.
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What do you name a war dead soldier?
A individual serving in the military, whether as a combatant or a non-combatant, who is rendered unable for duty due to any number of events, such as death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion, is referred to as a casualty.
A casualty is defined as a person in civilian usage who is killed, injured, or rendered incapable by some event; the term is typically used to describe several fatalities and injuries brought on by violent acts or natural catastrophes. It is occasionally taken to indicate “fatalities,” however casualties may include injuries that do not result in death.
What does KIA Vietnam mean?
M-16 after 1966, the typical American rifle used in Vietnam. flak vest a soldier’s bulletproof vest-style jacket. KIA acronym meaning “killed in action,” or “killed while performing duty.”
What is KIA WWII?
Exhumation photograph taken by the Polish Red Cross delegation in 1943 of Polish military officers slain by the Soviet NKVD during the Katyn massacre.
Estimating the number of people killed and injured during wars and other violent conflicts is a contentious topic. The number of people killed and injured during World War II has been estimated by historians in a wide variety of ways. [12] “Casualty statistics are frequently incorrect,” the writers of the Oxford Companion to World War II claim. [13] The figures on fatalities and injuries among the armed forces for each nation are included in the table below, along with details on each nation’s population. A range of war losses is provided when scholarly sources disagree on the number of fatalities in a nation in order to alert readers to the fact that the death toll is debatable. The footnotes to this article provide the various estimates made by official governmental sources as well as historians because casualty counts are occasionally contested. Military statistics include battle fatalities (KIA), people missing in action (MIA), fatalities from accidents, illnesses, and deaths of prisoners of war while held captive. Strategic bombing deaths, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths from food and disease associated to the conflict are all examples of civilian casualties.
The sources for the casualties in the various countries do not employ the same techniques, and in China and the Soviet Union, a significant share of civilian deaths are attributable to malnutrition and disease. The losses reported here are real fatalities; prospective losses resulting from a drop in births are not counted among the total number of fatalities. It can be difficult to distinguish between direct casualties of war on both sides of the conflict and collateral harm. Sources can only provide an estimate of the total estimated population loss brought on by the war for countries that suffered significant losses, such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany, and Yugoslavia, as well as a rough breakdown of deaths due to military activity, crimes against humanity, and famine associated with the war. This list of victims includes the 19 to 25 million war-related hunger deaths that occurred in the USSR, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India and are frequently left out of other lists of World War II casualties. [14] [15]
The casualties and their sources are broken down in great depth in the footnotes, along with information on the number of wounded when trustworthy sources are available.
What does the military term “sandbox” mean?
a signal used in military training exercises to direct recruits to face their squad leader and stand equally apart from the soldiers to their left and right. It can also mean that something appears to be consistent.
a name for sleeping bags in the military. What else would you call something you spend a third of your day in and seldom ever wash?
A “fobbit” is a deployed service member who never leaves the FOB (Forward Operating Base). The name is a reference to a creature that refuses to leave the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 book The Hobbit.
Instructed to hurry to a site by a specific time, recruits are then forced to wait, occasionally for hours or days at a time.
Example: “The hurry up and wait environment of ride-share driving drove me away from the industry permanently.”
a marine or soldier in the infantry who lacks a strong background in reading. He’s typically an exception (i.e., problem child).
The door was simply dragged off its hinge by the knuckledragger; he might have just pushed.
An abbreviation for “meal ready to eat,” which refers to food that would sustain a soldier for an entire day that is sealed inside a substantial, brown, waterproof bag. Even civilians can purchase MREs online to include in survival packs.
STEAL stands for Strategically Take and Extradite to Alternative Location in this instance. Military personnel successfully acquire things, not steal them.
Example: “We better start Operation STEAL if we want that mixer for margaritas later.”
You may recall propaganda posters from World War II that said, “Loose lips sink ships.” And it certainly holds true for clandestine military operations. Keeping locations, troop movement schedules, and other details regarding military activities secret is referred to as operational security (OPSEC). It was the reason Geraldo Riveraki was expelled from Iraq in 2003.
Ranger members detonate smoke grenades to designate their locations during helicopter extractions so that the pilots will know where to land. The phrase “pop smoke” also refers to the termination of a service member’s term of duty. The expression can also be used to describe hastily leaving a place.
What does “wilco” signify when a pilot responds over the radio? You may have heard pilots in movies utter “roger” when doing so. It’s abbreviated for “will comply” and is frequently followed by a repetition of the instruction. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb
This phrase from World War II refers to a superior who excessively complicates military life, typically by requiring rigorous obedience to regulations.
Example: “Master Sergeant made me use my only toothbrush to clean the grout between the tiles, what a sad sack.”
It’s not where your kids have fun building sandcastles, no. It’s a term used by military personnel to denote a post that is deployed forward and is situated in a desert.
This Navy word refers to rumors or chitchat. It comes from the nautical word “scuttle,” which refers to the water-serving barrel.
Semper Gumby is a parody of the Latin phrase “Semper Fidelis,” which means “Always Faithful,” and is the motto of the United States Marine Corps. The pun alludes to Gumby, an animated clay creature, and describes someone who is always adaptable.
A “sick call ranger” is someone who frequently enters and exits the medical facility. This is due to the fact that despite attending sick call at first formation every morning, they nevertheless manage to show up for meals.
One who is “squared away” has excellent military bearing and completes the task they are working on exactly.
This combination of the words volunteer and told refers to when a superior offers you a job that you are aware is required.
a designation for a member of the Army National Guard, the Navy, or the Air Force Reserve. They are expected to serve just one weekend a month and two weeks of yearly training every summer, unless their unit is called up for active duty deployment. Despite attending the same training camps as full-time Army, Navy, and Air Force members.
I enlisted to be a weekend warrior, but I just received orders to deploy, for instance.
In order to use clock directions, one must picture their body as being in the middle of a clock, with their eyes facing the 12 and the 6 straight behind them. The phrase “watch your six” therefore literally means “guard your back.”
Do bodies from World War One still exist?
At a brand-new tourist destination that opens to the public next week and will get thousands of tourists annually, 160 corpses are lying concealed behind a closed door.
The bodies of lost First World War soldiers are still being recovered by farmers’ ploughs and developers’ bulldozers beneath the fields of the Western Front more than a century after the Armistice in 1918, at a rate of one per week.
What did the Viet Cong refer to as American troops?
Each veteran generation has its own vernacular. The deployment of troops, their objective, and their partners all contribute to a distinctive jargon that can be very challenging to forget.
Political correctness doesn’t necessarily apply to that same jargon. Because it provides insight into the pervasive and ongoing issues they encountered at the time, it is still worthwhile to examine the non-PC Vietnam War slang that troops employed while stationed in country.
Refers to putting on a fresh pair of dry-cleaned or well starched fatigues.
Victor Charlie, the phonetic abbreviation for the Viet Cong, is called Charles.
The states’ CherryDesignation for a new successor. Also called as fresh meat, new citizens, or the FNG (f*cking new guy).
Vietnamese woman Coka Girl who sells everything but “boom boom to GIs.”
Coka is how Coca-Cola is pronounced in Vietnamese, while the meaning of “boom boom” is left to your imagination.
Disney World Asia
Vietnam’s U.S. Military Assistance Command headquarters building It originates from “Disney East, often known as the Pentagon.
Fallopian tubing for inside tank turretsPrank carried out by tankers to lead Cherries astray
Flower Collector
Men hunting for prostitutes was first described in Vietnamese publications.
Stupid Stick
the curved yoke used by Vietnamese women to transport two baskets or water buckets, or a gun.
Indian CountryCharlie’s domain, sometimes referred to as the “Bush” or the “Sh*t.”
Mad MinuteOrder for all bunkers to test fire their weapons and harass the opposition for one minute by firing across their fronts.
The Arvin Marvin
Soldier from the South Vietnamese Army who fits the stereotype of a Schmuckatelli. The acronym for the Army of the Republic of VietnamARVN is the source of the name.
The youngsters of the peasants who would beg for menthol cigarettes were the Ok SahlemTerm American soldiers had for them.
Reynolds Raider
A derogatory word for someone who operated a typewriter, similar to the modern “Fobbit.”
balloting device
Tanks from the ARVN are known by this moniker since they only ever appear during coups.
Razor Raids
Vietnamese village burning Journalist Morley Safer famously captured Zippo lighters lighting thatched-roof cottages in his photographs.
Why were they given the name Charlie?
They were the Victor Charlie, also known as the VC or simply Charlie.
Between 1954 and 1975, American service members were engaged in combat with Charlie, a foe who could be found anywhere.
In the sake of communism and nationalism, more than a million enemy combatants died. Almost 60,000 American soldiers as well as nearly 50,000 South Vietnamese forces were killed. Thousands of civilians trapped in the crossfire perished in the hundreds of thousands.
They were a powerful force, equipped with weapons from the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. They made an effort to rule the Vietnamese people by using violence and propaganda. They received both conventional and guerrilla training. They were the People’s Army of Vietnam, the NVA, the North Vietnamese Army, and the South Vietnamese People’s Liberation Armed Forces. The United States frequently referred to them as the Viet Cong as a group. It was frequently abbreviated to VC, which was spoken as Victor Charlie in military alphabet code. It was condensed even more to Charlie. They went by the name Charlie and identified as liberators, according to American soldiers.
These original art propaganda paintings, which are rarely seen in the West, depict the grim reality of an enemy who is fiercely determined to destroy their foe and dominate the minds of their people. Exploring the true nature of warriors through art is a potent method. The creator’s vision and the strength of their dedication to their cause are communicated via their art. It serves as both an identifying symbol and a producer of identity, revealing the identity of its maker while also forming an identity for the observer. This exhibit will examine the adversary of the United States throughout the Vietnam War and the strategies they employed to gather both a conventional and unconventional fighting force.
Why did people in Vietnam refer to them as Charlies?
Vietnam War guerrillas from the Vietcong movement in North Vietnam crossing a river in 1966
Newspapers in Saigon first used the phrase Vit Cng in 1956.
It is an abbreviation for Vit Nam cng sn (Vietnamese communist),[7] or Vit gian cng sn,[7] if you want (“communist traitor to Vietnam”).
[8] The Viet Cong was first mentioned in English in 1957. [9] Victor Charlie, or V-C, was the nickname given to the Viet Cong by American soldiers. The NATO phonetic alphabet includes both the letters “Victor” and “Charlie.” In general, “Charlie” referred to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong communist armies.
The National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLFSV; Mt trn Dn tc Gii phng min Nam Vit Nam) is the name given to the organization in the official history of Vietnam.
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[nb 2] National Liberation Front is a common abbreviation used by writers (NLF). [nb 3] The “Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam” (abbreviated as “PRG”) was established by the Viet Cong in 1969. [nb 4] Although the NLF was not formally disbanded until 1977, with the formation of the PRG, the Viet Cong stopped using the name. The Viet Cong were commonly referred to by members as “the Front” (Mt trn). [7] The group is most usually referred to as the “Liberation Army of South Vietnam” (Qun Gii phng Min Nam Vit Nam) in contemporary Vietnamese media. [11]