Word: chevron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cracked continuously and often brutally about the wound chevron in the last war, and of course every Croix de Guerre was "found in a case of French monkey meat," etc., etc. But we meant no disrespect for the chevron or the Croix, and no editors attempted to interpret our gags for the home folks, who were far more interested in what we did than in what we said or thought...
What do U.S. soldiers in the South Pacific miss most, outside of families and sweethearts? In Chevron, Marine Corps newspaper, Combat Correspondent Sergeant Bill Allen reported these yearnings...
...Marine Corps Chevron at San Diego gathered and published a glossary of leatherneck slang heavily flavored with Chinese, Tagalog, pidgin English and plain Navy. Examples...
Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...
Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...