You too will get squared away before you know it.ĭoc Jargon, cutting through the jargon that is the U.S. The best advice I can give you is to keep ask¬ing questions and learning the lingo. Our Army definitely has its own language some¬times and squared away is a prime example of that. What that looks like will change throughout your husband’s career. Being squared away is a status that requires mainte¬nance – personally and pro¬fessionally. It isn’t a box you check one time and call it good. Sounds like your husband is having an overall positive experience if his en¬listed leadership is squared away.īeing a squared-away Soldier takes constant growth. As for the new members – they’ll get there with time and training just as we all do with the right examples and leadership. Soldiers slang drew upon pre-war cultural references, old army terms, bastardized French, and new words created in the trenches.
#Army lingo update
If you have a favorite military term or phrase, send us an email and let us know so we can update this list. So, if the commissary is squared away – he means everything was right where he expected it to be. From unnecessarily long acronyms to (at times) inappropriate phrases, military slang is a language of its own and its something you take with you even when you take off the uniform. Square away means to put things in order. You are spot on with your assessment of the term – except the part where the Army is full of squares.
What in the world is he talking about? The best thing I can figure out is that being squared away is good and not being squared away isn’t. He even said the commissary was squared away yesterday! So, the housing office was squared away, the new members of the unit needed to get squared away, his new unit here has a squared-away first sergeant. I’m beginning to think the Army is populated by a bunch of squares! I keep hearing terms from my hus¬band like “squared away” and he applies that to ev¬erything.
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