Back-Stop: A term used to cover a staff failure to properly wargame a course of action. Also a term used by infantry showing how “hope” is a method incorporated to defeat the enemy. “If the enemy gets through the engagement area, we have Delta Company placed here – to back stop the Battalion defense.
Coocy (Gucci) Move: Altering Commander’s intent, commander’s guidance or violating the fundamentals of reconnaissance or security operations. USMC spelling: Goosey.
Get Up and Haul Butt: A movement technique that requires all elements within the organization to cross the LD yesterday.
Flail-Ex: Also known as the planning process.
SelfCon: This is when a junior commander (usually a captain) comes to the realization that his higher is completely clueless (perhaps even befarkled) so he simply attaches himself and his command to another unit.
Cheetah-Flips: The course of action development phase of the Military Decision Making Process in an imagined crisis environment (often replicated by headquarters during daily operations).
Pound The Crap Out Of: Somewhere between disrupt and destroy and slightly more than neutralize.
Squirrel-Ex: The wargaming phase of the MDMP after all Cheetah-Flips are completed, briefed and refined. The Squirrel Ex phase normally culminates with a 102 color slide briefing clearly outlining what can be said in a well written paragraph (formerly known as the Commander’s intent and/or concept of the operation) this phase is often called a Cheese-Ex. This is the Force XXI cause of the “Fog of War.”
Take-Down: An aggressive former wrestling term used to describe your actions on the objective an inherent lack of regard for the enemy’s capabilities.
Sweep: A fluid, noncontinuous form of battlespace dominance, usually combined with zippin’ around or getting’ jiggy with it.
Mop-Up: A term for the actions occurring just after you discover you are actually on the objective, in the enemy’s fire sack, that implies a willingness to expose oneself to lethal fires.
Hit: Term for applying massed effects against the enemy. As in “First we’ll hit these guys over here then we’ll hit these guys, and then the guys over here will be hit with assymetrical dominance from assets from EAC.
Boned: A term used in response to orders issued from a higher commander. As in “I am the counter-reconnaissance company and the battalion reserve at the same time – I got boned!”
Triple-Hull Down: A term associated with force-protection, fratricide and self-preservation. In order to prevent being fired on by friends when saying something really stupid, hiding from the boss who has a task that only you can fill, or cover your butt from being smoked by anyone.
