Military life inflamed their ironic sensibilities and their skepticism. A single crude acronym that captured the soldier’s lowered expectations-SNAFU, for “situation normal, all fucked up”-had expanded into a vocabulary of GI cynicism: SUSFU (situation unchanged, still fucked up); SAFU (self-adjusting fuck-up); TARFU (things are really fucked up); FUMTU (fucked up more than usual); JANFU (joint Army-Navy fuck-up); JAAFU (joint Anglo-American fuck-up); FUAFUP (fucked up and fucked up proper); and FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition).
This, from Rick Atkinson’s ‘The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944‘, part 2 of his Liberation Trilogy
From this Wikipedia entry on Military Slang, I also encountered: BOHICA for “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again” and FAFO for “Fuck Around and Find Out” amongst other such illuminating, handy entries.
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