BUFDRVR wrote:

I assume it was the same in the USAAF and USN at that time?


Quite unsurprisingly, it occurs today, and even tends to offend some. During
Operation ANACONDA, I was given coords by an ETAC under fire. As part of our
procedures, my offense team plotted out the coords and they landed smack inside
a small town depicted on the JOG. Since I could hear some of the chaos and gun
fire in the back ground every time the ETAC keyed the mike, I felt bad asking
him, but ROE required me to verify he knew about the town. He responded; "the
target *is* the town, I'm taking heavy fire from it...level the f%$#ing town".
I came back with a quick "roger that", which was followed quickly by someone
saying "hey...watch the language on the radio". To this day I'm not sure who it
was, it could have been another jet this guy was controlling, it could have
been the ASOC or it could have been another ETAC trying to coordinate fire
control measures with "my" ETAC via UHF. It gave me a chuckle all the way home.
Hey...let's watch our language while we slaughter other human beings.

What I always find silly, is the use of spaces or #@%& to replace letters in
expletives. Does anyone not know what word the writer means? If you mean
"****ing," and everyone mentally translates the word that way, what is the point of
writing "f%$#ing"? To me, this procedure makes about as much sense as children
believing that no one can see them if they close their eyes.

Guy

P.S. Because I'm feeling ornery, I will now write George Carlin's "Seven dirty
words you can't say on television or radio," with no use of spaces, asterisks or
other symbols in place of the actual letters. Those of you who will suffer
irreparable harm from the mere sight of these words in their natural form, should
read no further. You have been warned):







****, ****, ****, ****, cocksucker, mother****er, and tits.

I'm curious, so let's take a poll --

1. Was anyone unaware of any of these words (and related or modified forms of
them), or their meaning, prior to my writing them above?

2. Would anyone be unaware of what word I was referring to, or fail to mentally
translate them into their actual form, if I were to replace some of the letters
with other symbols?

3. Has anyone reading this never heard these words used in conversation?

4. Has anyone here never used any of these words themselves?