| Term |
Description |
| OJT |
On the job training |
| On the Mat (with hat) |
in the shit |
| ORP |
Operational Readiness Platform |
| Ovaries |
Overalls |
| Panic Night |
Monday Night prior to Tuesdays Room Inspection |
| Pansy Drabs |
Tailor Made Summer Uniform |
| Pay Day |
Eagle Shit |
| PE |
Plastic Explosive |
| Pig-Pen |
Officers Mess |
| Piss-Head |
Drunkard |
| PO |
Pilot Officer (Shit of the kings) |
| Poofteenth |
A tiny fraction (maybe a thousandth or even less) |
| Pouyang |
Thai Sheila |
| Queer Trades |
Other Tech Musterings (Other than Armament |
| Radio Technician |
Rad Tech, Black Box Changer, Knob Twiddler |
| Range Party |
Piss-Up out on the Bombing Range ;-) |
| RSO |
Range Safety Officer, usually a Boggy or a pilot who screwed up the day
before. |
| Rat Catcher |
Environmental Health, Hygiene Inspector |
| Rat Shit |
Faulty, No all that Good |
| Remuster |
Change Trade |
| Richard Cranium |
Dick Head |
| Rings |
Rank designation on Officer's cuffs |
| Roach coach |
AAFCANS food van |
| RTO |
Railway Transport Officer |
| Runner |
Practice Sidewinder, Orderly Room Messenger |
| Sandbag |
Loadmaster (Choppers) |
| SAR |
Search and Rescue |
| SAV |
Stores Adjustment Voucher (handy for sorting out non existing equiment) |
| Scuttlebutt |
Rumour, Furphy |
| SGT |
Sergeant |
| Shakes |
Minor DTs, Ducks and Drakes |
| Shellback |
Old Hand at the game |
| Shirker |
Lazy bugger |
| Shonky |
Crooked, Not quite cricket |
| Skerrick |
Small fragment, particle |
| Slack Arse |
An Armourer not performing very well |
| Snake |
Sergeant |
| Snake Pit |
Sergeants Mess |
| Snake Pit |
Sergeant's Mess |
| Sortie |
One aircraft take off and landing |
| Spanner Universal |
Adjustable Wrench |
Spoof
|
White Teflon based lubricant in a sorta toothpaste tube -ask anyone that's
been to Nui Dat re-arm |
| Sprog |
Apprentice |
| Stand Down |
End of work for the day |
| Suck |
An Airman trying to impress his peers, Suck Hole |
