I Haven't heard any current combat troops I know, use that term and don't recognize it.. Explain please.
Never heard of a REMF? Have you never served in the US military?
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One poster here was good enough to give me the rendering of the term. The complaints with "rear eschelon" were occasional when I was in the military but not a major deal.
Being chaplain of the local Am Legion post, I know many young veterans, but my major contact is with my grandson and his friends, who are Special Operations Marines, then there is another young man i taught in Sunday School who is an Army Ranger (1st Ranger Bn), and a third who is just starting into his Special Forces training. The first two have extensive combat experience, the latter due to see combat in the near future..
None of them use the filthy, brainlees term indicated by the "MF". Nor did I ever use such terms, I always figured those terms are for those with inadequate verbal skills to express themselves otherwise.
In my experience and talking with current warriors, there is little growsing about the 'rear eschelon" troops, they are fully cognizant of the need for them. The only time they may get perturbed with them is when a rear eschelon troop may try to claim for themselves, feats they never accomplished.
My grandson did one day, in a FOB near Fallujah did confront a new, replacement 2nd looie when he tried to tell the much experienced NCOs who had been there for months..what combat is like..
As far as the term REMF, forget it..that's for the low-brows...or perhaps for rear eschelons re-coloring their record..
