How to tell it you’re a POUG. Feel free to keep adding to the list

1. You address your Company commander as “MA’M”
2. Your 1SG is called “TOP”
3. You have a Magazine pouch on your weapon.
4. Your weapon is longer than the room you are trying to clear.
5. Any of your units supply request include Tampons.
6. You know power point inside and out and can do a 150 page OPORD on it in less than 24 hours, but you can’t disassemble your weapon without help.
7. Your PC can’t fit properly on your head because your hair is put up in a bun.
8. You think “PC” means your computer.
9. While in the field you spend more time trying to keep your computer clean than you do your weapon.
10. Your primary weapon is a stapler and form flow.
11. You think that line 10 doesn’t make sense because form flow is out dated.
12. You have more hours on MySpace than you do in the field.
13. You get deployed and can still get pu$$y from other soldiers in your unit.
14. You have no clue what TA-50 is.
15. Your combat experience is limited to staying an extra hour on your 8 hour work day to pull radio guard and it made you miss your Guitar hero tournament at the MWR tent.
16. You wear a Combat Action Badge.
17. You actually call Cadence while running.
18. You get out of PT once a month because of “female Problems”.
19. As an E-5 you have more ribbons on your uniform than an Infantry CSM.
20. Your Commander is on leave because SHE had a baby.
21. Your body armor has more “cool guy” gear on it than a Delta Operator and you don’t know what any of it is used for.
22. You download pictures of Iraq online just so you can “prove” you were there.
23. You claim that everyone in those pictures is “your buddy”.
24. You think a “click” is a noise from your Computer.
25. You think a paper cut is deserving of a purple heart.
26. Your on your second enlistment and you still don’t know what an MRE taste like.

Some of those are funny, some just straight up sexist.

Hit and Miss, in my opinion. Remember, females can be in the FSC's in infantry battalions, and the ones in the 82d I know have seen their share of schit.

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16. You wear a Combat Action Badge.

I would not go so far as to say someone with a CAB is a pogue. A lot of people have been in some heavy schit that are not infantry. I DO think the badge was given out for the wrong reasons, but I know people with CIB's from indirect fire. F_uck it.

and a sexist bastard I would be. But hey hit_it I hope we can still be friends.

hit_it...

What is a POUG? Anyone other than an Infantryman. Or POG="People Other than Grunts". Therefore anyone who is not an Infantryman is a pogue no matter how much combat they have been in.

I'm just sayin...

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Originally posted by runfuret:
hit_it...

What is a POUG? Anyone other than an Infantryman. Or POG="People Other than Grunts". Therefore anyone who is not an Infantryman is a pogue no matter how much combat they have been in.

I'm just sayin...

In the literal sense, you're right.

But I know a chaplain assistant can be a delta operator, so would he be a pogue?

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and a sexist bastard I would be. But hey hit_it I hope we can still be friends.

We're cool, brother. Just being the devil's advocate.

So if you were an 11B and now are a 68W with a Line Unit are you now a POG because you are no longer an 11B?



former 11B now 68W POG with an EIB,AA, CMB/EFMB and Master Blaster lol

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Originally posted by hit_it:

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16. You wear a Combat Action Badge.

I would not go so far as to say someone with a CAB is a pogue. A lot of people have been in some heavy schit that are not infantry. I DO think the badge was given out for the wrong reasons, but I know people with CIB's from indirect fire. F_uck it.

This is such a touchy issue. I know this

I know a 19D who pretty much lived outside the wire and hes platoon's sector was ****in huge, in short he earned his ****.

People who get there CIBs for indirect or being like last 1151 in a patrol and lead vic gets hit, thats ****in lame.


Really depends on what you did for it.

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Originally posted by 5RTBHH6:
So if you were an 11B and now are a 68W with a Line Unit are you now a POG because you are no longer an 11B?



former 11B now 68W POG with an EIB,AA, CMB/EFMB and Master Blaster lol

I would say if you used to be an 11b and no you are doing something else then you are a displaced infantryman operating in the capacity of MOS X.

And i posted this for the sake of humor, alas it turns into a debate again. But hey, at least a cherry hasn't said anything stupid yet

17. You actually call Cadence while running.
I thought everyone did that?

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Originally posted by 5RTBHH6:
So if you were an 11B and now are a 68W with a Line Unit are you now a POG because you are no longer an 11B?



former 11B now 68W POG with an EIB,AA, CMB/EFMB and Master Blaster lol

Technically... Yes haha. There is nothing that says a POG cant be hardcore. They are just hardcore POGs . Its simply a term that Infantrymen use to reffer to "others".

I've got a few more for the POGUE list, Gruntpain:

27. You eat KBR chow often enough to complain about it.
28. You have seven foot lockers of crap from Blackhawk shipped downrange to you, and it comes home as clean as the day you bought it.
29. You actually spend $3.95 apiece for 'Magpuls'.
30. You own an 'assault pack' with a dedicated laptop pocket built in.
31. You have a yellow construction hardhat with your name on it for driving your M-Gator.
32. Hell, you HAVE your own M-Gator in the first place.
33. You have nothing better to do with your duty day but walk around and make uniform spot corrections to soldiers passing through on R & R.

And the list goes on...

34. You aren't an 11B.

34. They know what your order will be at the burger king window when they see you walk up.
35. Your bank account drains faster in Iraq than in the States because you spend all your time in the PX.

good ones simon

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Originally posted by runfuret:
34. You aren't an 11B.

lol..damn, Run, doesn't that mean that 11C's are pogues?

Thanks, Gruntpain. While I was remembering these, I thought of an Anti-POGUE one:

1. The only 'Green Beans' that you see on deployment come out of a mermite.

Haha, 11Cs are kinda like the redneck inbred cousin. They are dumb, ugly, and simple, but you sure do like having them around in a fight.

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Originally posted by runfuret:
Haha, 11Cs are kinda like the redneck inbred cousin. They are dumb, ugly, and simple, but you sure do like having them around in a fight.

This is true, although it's funny watching an 11C have to stand on a milk crate to hang rounds out of a 120mm.

Awesome...

36. You don't know how to schit in the woods.
37. You have never gone a week without a shower.
38. You have a sore thumb from playing playstation.
39. You wear cologne everyday.
40. You put yourself in for a Purple Heart because you have hemoroids from sitting on your butt all day.

Funny on the cologne thing. When I first got to my unit after basic I showed up with two other joes from my basic training class. One of them was a turd named Morris who later got kicked out for coming on to one of his buddies. We were standing at parade rest in the hall way waiting for our squad leader to take us to the ahkio room. The XO walks by and says "Who the **** is wearing cologne? Why in the **** would you wear cologne to an Infantry company?" The XO walks off and the two of us look at turd boy and the other guy says "That had to be Morris..."

Grunts definately don't wear cologne on duty.