Feel like a Combat Jack? It's the Generation Kill Glossary

Generation Kill

FX

Sunday, 11pm (and +1)

Now, Mad Dog might have the sort of name you'd find in the Marines, but he wouldn't know one end of an M-16 from another, and would definitely have issues with taking a bathroom break in a pit under fire from an RPG (Glastonbury has never been quite that bad). So, he thought a Barking at the Television glossary might come in handy for watching Generation Kill, because when Cpl. Ray's been at the dip'n'rip, he's a belt-fed bulls**t artist...

• Actual - commander

• Attrited - worn down; one of those American words where a noun ('attrition') has been verbed

• Belt-fed - refers to the ammunition loading mechanism of a machine gun, but is used for emphasis: "He's a belt-fed a**hole"

• Charms - sweets provided in rations, considered unlucky by Marines - unlike Skittles.

• Combat Jack - a warzone w**k

• Devil Dog - a Marine

• Dip - a wad of tobacco, like Scandinavian snuss

• Grave - a Ranger Grave is a shallow pit which affords some protection while you sleep

• Haji - an Iraqi (or indeed anyone Middle Eastern)

• Hitman Victor - Humvee

• Mopped up - actually MOPPed up: wearing a Mission Oriented Protective Posture suit (nuclear, chemical, biological warfare protection)

• MRE - Meal, ready-to-eat

• Oscar Mike - on the move

• Rip fuel - an over-the-counter diet pill, which works as a stimulant for the sleep-deprived Marine. Banned but widely used. 

• ROE - the rules of engagement (whether to shoot only when shot at, or at anyone identified hostile, or indeed at anyone not American)

• Schwack 'em - destroy them

• Sit Rep - situation report

• Tango - terrorist, or enemy

• Unf**k - fix, or otherwise improve a piece of equipment or a situation

• Victors - vehicles

• Whisky Tango - White Trash, the least offensive of the racial slurs flying around on Generation Kill

More to come in the comments... PLUS: Coming soon - the Corporal Josh Ray Person tribute