Euphemisms in war
Aug 30, 2004 05:24 PM
by Andrew Smith
SEARCH AND DESTROY: offensive operations designed to find and destroy enemy forces rather than establish permanent government control; also, called "Zippo missions." In '69, while with the Big Red One, we received a directive that we were no longer allowed to use the term "search and destroy" to refer to our missions. We were told to use the term "reconnaissance-in-force" or RIF. We generally thought of this as chicken shit!!
Andrew W. Smith
DINKY DAU: Vietnamese term for "crazy" or "You're crazy."
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