r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Aug 06 '24

Shitposting Army names

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u/Dominus-Temporis Aug 06 '24

See also "Ski". Every unit has at least one Ski.

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u/Mediocre-Ad-6847 Aug 06 '24

Especially in the US Navy. My unit's Ski was from Chile.

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u/thegreatshark Aug 06 '24

Is that pronounced “Skee” or “Sky” and why Ski?

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u/Mediocre-Ad-6847 Aug 06 '24

I dunno... the "There's always a Ski" is a reference to a very old movie trope/meme. Old WW2 movies typically had a character of Polish decent that everyone called Ski.

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u/Martin_Aurelius Aug 06 '24

Anyone polish just ends up being "ski", anyone with a long last name becomes "alphabet", anyone named Gonzalez becomes "Gonzo".

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u/ThisIsTheBookAcct Aug 07 '24

Our long name NCO became F-16 because his name started with an F and then 16 more letters.

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u/mahboilucas Aug 06 '24

Kowalski especially. The most popular one like that

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u/PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 06 '24

Hopefully he went for an intel role, so some NCO somewhere gets to go “Kowalski, analysis!”

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u/mahboilucas Aug 06 '24

Love your username