Navy OCS Jargon and Definitions

[Ultimyke]

Hello all,

I've been reading these forums for a while now, and I appreciate this site providing firsthand experiences of military service. I have no close family in the military, and I just started getting into joining OCS. I like to read the forums about Navy OCS, but sometimes the jargon and acronyms fly completely over my head. I searched for a jargon thread, but I didn't find any, so I would like to start one, where people could ask for definitions, and experienced members would define them.

A couple terms that I don't know:
Ditty
SUYA
LOR
Pro-rec'd

I'd appreciate any help with these, and any more that I will come across

thanks

 

[croakerfish]

Most of these are probably in the Stupid Questions about OCS thread. Ditties and SUYAs aren't important. You'll find out when you get there. LOR= Letter of Recommendation. Pro-rec means an officer community has sifted through the pile of applicants and picked you, contingent on your ability to get a security clearance and other administrative hurdles.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

A couple terms that I don't know:
Ditty

"SAY MY DITTY RIGHT NOW."
A ditty is basically a memory item, used extensively in drill practice. Also there's the discipline ditty, which is in the OCR, if you find a copy of that floating around here. Otherwise, like croakerfish said, you'll hear all about it (and the SUYA) at OCS.
(Not to be confused with DITY [Do It Yourself Move], now called the PPM [Personally Procured Move], which basically means when you get orders somewhere, you load all your stuff into a pickup or U-Haul and move it all yourself. So some extra acronyms there)

 

[AllYourBass]

Don't worry too much about ditties. They stopped using them earlier this year due to hazing concerns. The DIs of late have been instructing drill with some fairly clever limericks until the new policy is fully in effect.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

Don't worry too much about ditties. They stopped using them earlier this year due to hazing concerns. The DIs of late have been instructing drill with some fairly clever limericks until the new policy is fully in effect.

No way. Even ditties are considered hazing now?

 

[AllYourBass]

No way. Even ditties are considered hazing now?

 

[Renegade One]

Hello all,...sometimes the jargon and acronyms fly completely over my head. I searched for a jargon thread, but I didn't find any, so I would like to start one, where people could ask for definitions, and experienced members would define them.

DICNAVAB is your friend! Not sure if it's available on-line or not...

[E.g., Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations"]

 

[mrdrown]

I had some of the same questions. SUYA is "Sand Up Your Ass." You can youtube OCS SUYA and get some video clips. It's a sandpit that you do various exercises in.

 

[LFCFan]

Don't worry too much about ditties. They stopped using them earlier this year due to hazing concerns. The DIs of late have been instructing drill with some fairly clever limericks until the new policy is fully in effect.

I was there from Feb to end of June, I'm not quite sure what you mean by this.

 

[ea6bflyr]

While I know this isn't OCS specific, here is a compiled list of Navy Aconyms and Terms (aka GOAT) that one might find useful.

 

[AllYourBass]

I was there from Feb to end of June, I'm not quite sure what you mean by this.

I was joking Although if the DIs really did shift to limericks for drill, I imagine it might sound something like:

Candidate, don't be alarmed
When I call for right shoulder arms
Just be a good soldier
Stick rifle to shoulder
And you may leave Kay Hall unharmed receive a barrel of soft, cuddly kittens

EDITED PER HAZING POLICY

 

[Renegade One]

This is going to "go south" fast…

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

Candidate, don't be alarmed
When I call for right shoulder arms
Just be a good soldier
Stick rifle to shoulder
And you may But you'll never leave Kay Hall unharmed
EDITED TO REFLECT REALITY

Because let's be honest. I'm pretty sure my class got RPT'ed virtually every time we went to Kay.

Back on topic, by the way, RPT is Remedial Physical Training. Mostly consists of DI's or RDC's shouting at you to do push-ups, leg-lifts, run in place, side-straddle hops (jumping jacks where you clap your hands at the top and behind your back), bear crawling, or - my favorite - rolling.
"Roll out of my formation right now!"
Also, technically they're not allowed to give you RPT more than 10 minutes per hour. But if they're mad enough, sometimes their watch may malfunction...

 

[rondebmar]

http://www.acronymfinder.com/HMS.html

 

[Renegade One]

I was joking Although if the DIs really did shift to limericks for drill, I imagine it might sound something like:

Candidate, don't be alarmed
When I call for right shoulder arms
Just be a good soldier
Stick rifle to shoulder
And you may leave Kay Hall unharmed receive a barrel of soft, cuddly kittens

EDITED PER HAZING POLICY

Rudyard Kipling said it a bit better…and how oddly prescient:

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

Just saying…"Ditty" or "Jody" or "Cadence" calls, or whatever…go back a long, long way. Probably to Rome's legions.

This from the memoirs of Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions:

"We're here in Germania, for the third or fourth time…
And the fookin' barbarians are still standing a line…
One more headless messenger returned tied to his horse…
Strength and Honor, legionnaires, and up German arse!"

I know the rhyme doesn't translate exactly from the original…Probably has something to do with differences in Post-Medieval, Vulgar and Romance Latin translations and pronunciations over time.

USNA guys can relax right now…you would have to have had a real college education to understand what I'm saying. Steam cycle and drift & set are still good for you trade-school types.