Armed Forces Dictionary

THE ARMED FORCES DICTIONARY

Blamestorming

- Sitting around the Headquarters discussing why a suspense was missed or a mission failed and who was responsible.

Assmosis

- The process by which some people seem to absorb success and promotability by kissing up to the commander.

Adminisphere

- The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the Battalion level. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are generally profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

Seagull Colonel

- A colonel who swoops in, makes a lot of noise, and dumps stuff all over everything.

Salmon Day

- The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

CRM - Career Restricting Move

- Used among officers to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing core values or discussing Multi National Company pay scale, while your commander is within earshot, is serious CRM.

Flying Pay

- The Rs. 7000/- a month paycheck you'll earn when you get out and continue to fly until you're a senior captain at Jet Airways.