You Know You Spend To Much Time On Ptsd Boards

[Deleted member 28812]

* when you know what AWOL, ETA or charley foxtrott means even though you are not a native speaker of english and start calling it 0800 while your Vet calls it "eight o'clock in the morning"
* when you learned what the chair force is and wonder how that knowledge has any relevance for your life but still think it is cool to know
* when you see everything your spouse does as "a symptom"
* when you start thinking of your guy as "my sufferer"
* when you start threads like this and that way spend even more time here

How about you?

 

[shimmerz]

When I speak to friends about your day and tell them about a posting on the 'trauma board'. :geek: <-- Geek

 

[Sweetpea76]

When you realize not everybody in the world knows what a stress cup is.

 

[Teasel]

I know I have ptsd (complex - maybe it's different?) But I don't know what any of your post means?

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

.......when these strangers all over the world start to become family....and a wonderful family I have!

 

[digger]

you learned what the chair force is

Okay, I obviously don't spend enough time here....what is the chair force?

 

[Sweetpea76]

@digger, "Chair Force" is slang for Air Force used by other branches of the US military, especially Army and Marines with their boots on the ground. It comes from the large number of airmen with technical jobs that keep them at computer. Different branches bust each other's chops for sport.

Like this joke (since we're an Army Family ;))

An Army grunt stands in the rain with a 15 kg. pack on his back,
5 kg. weapon in hand, after having marched 15 km, and says, "This sucks."

An Army Airborne Ranger stands waist deep in the rain with a 25 kg. pack on his back,
weapon in hand, after having jumped from an airplane and marched 30 km,
and says with a smile, "This sucks just fine!"

A Special Forces soldier lies in the mud, 40 kg pack on his back,
weapon in hand, after swimming 10 km to shore, crawling through a swamp and
marching 40 km at night past the enemy positions,
says with a grin, while biting the head of a snake "This really sucks, I wish it could suck more....."

An Air Force Pilot flying over the battlefield, the rain is pouring down,
looks down at the soldiers below and says: "Sure sucks down there!"

An Airman sits in an easy chair in his air conditioned,
carpeted room and says to his friend, "Man.. Cable's out! This sucks!"

 

[Deleted member 28812]

But I don't know what any of your post means?

Clearly you don't spend enough time on PTSD boards (or you spend it on the wrong sections) ;)
It's military language. So I noticed that I speak english/american military without being a native speaker. I must picked it up by reading on PTSD boards because I did a horrible lot of reading in the last months.

AWOL - absent without a leave
ETA - estimated time of arrival
charley foxtrott - complete f*ck, that's the Nato phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charley, delta, echo, foxtrott and so on

0800 is military time for 8 o'clock in the morning. The military has a 24 hours clock - just like civvies in my country by the way but we pronounce it differenty. So 2200 would by "ten o'clock in the evening" in an english speaking country. It would be "ten o'clock in the evening" or "twentytwo o'clock" in my country (people understand both) and it would be 2200 in the military - no matter what country.

 

[Deleted member 28812]

@Sweetpea76: I noticed that I picked up the habit of parroting things back from my hubby. So basically you tell him to do ... and he parrots back at you "Yes, do ..." and I used to be so annoyed at him - until I understood that he was not making fun of me. Now he has reduced it - but something scary happened.

My guy: "Could you wash my pullover"
Me: "Yes, wash the pullover"
My guy: "The red one"
Me: "Yes, the red one"
... and suddenly you feel like... eeks... did I just say this? Something like this has happened repeatingly. It has infected me... this odd way of talking has infected me. Now that he is not doing this as much anymore I will end up talking like this.

 

[Teasel]

@Lemontree ty for explaining :) Have spent more years than I care to know on ptsd forums, am quite new to this one, others haven't had many men if any - now you've explained, it all seems so obvious, I guess I was thinking these terms must refer to something to do with PTSD x

 

[Deleted member 28812]

Just another question: I noticed that it is quite common on this board to say that you got a persons six or "You better watch your six around that person" is that strictly military talk or would an english speaking civvy understand it? I am always trying to improve my english skills.

So I assume an english speaking civilian would not understand "Sorry I went awol" or something like this.

 

[digger]

got a persons six or "You better watch your six around that person"

It's military. I have no idea what it means! AWOL is common usage but comes from military originally.