come on guys this must happen in most countries where each regiment has nicknames for the others? i served in QLR (Queens Lancashire Regiment) so we had the nicknames of

Queens Last Resort
Quick Lads Run
Queers Lesbians and Rejects

LOL

what were the nicknames for you unit etc? this should be good for a laugh



On the 8th day God created Ben-Britain and he took over!


"when I get home people'll ask me,'hey Hoot, why do ya do it man? Why? Just some war junkie?' Ya know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is."
SGT 1st Class Norman Hooten

My former regiment, RMR, is really Royal Montreal Regiment, but otherwise known as "Run Monkey Run."

Otherwise, other units in the Montreal area were:

CGG: Canadian Grenadier Guards, or "Canadian Girl Guides"

Blackwatch: This is more interesting, because all Highlander regiments in Canada have the acronymn of RHC, or Royal Highlanders of Canada. We called the Blackwatch the "Blackcrotch." But to generalise all Highlander regiments, we took the RHC and called all of them "Real Hard Cocks."

LMAO

We don't have any humorous nicknames since our regiments are numbered. (ex. 3rd Marine Regiment)

The 5th Marine Regiment is known as the Fighting 5th.(the most decorated regiment)
The 1st Bn, 9th Marine Regiment was also known as the Walking Dead. It was disbanded (in the 80s I think) but it is going to be reactivated.

The American Marine Division has the highest combat effectiveness in the American armed forces. It seems not enough for our four divisions to surround and annihilate its two regiments.

---Mao Tse Sung to General Song, prior to Chosin Reservoir

Come on Gyrene, I know your USMC regiments are just dying to adopt names in order to have such nice nicknames!

Otherwise, I forgot to add that there are quite a few other regiments in Montréal, but they have French names and I don't think you'd understand them. And those were just infantry regiments, there are also armour, artillery, etc.

LOL

here are a few more that i can remember off top of my head

KORB (Kings own royal borders) = kings own rent boys
Green Howards = Green Cowards
T.A. (territorial army) = SAS (saturdays and sundays)
Blackwatch = Watch us Botch
POW (prince of wales own) = don't need to explain this one surely
RAF = Rockapes
KOSB (kings own scottish borders) = Kings own sh*t bags
Kingos (liverpool) = Thieving b*stards LOL
Light infantry (batcos gang) = duracel bunnys


erm really struggling to think of anymore but they will come to me as the day progresses



On the 8th day God created Ben-Britain and he took over!


"when I get home people'll ask me,'hey Hoot, why do ya do it man? Why? Just some war junkie?' Ya know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is."
SGT 1st Class Norman Hooten

Some other Canadian regimental names (bear with me on the French-language ones) :

-->PPCLI is Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, or "Pickles"

-->Royal 22e Régiment is Royal 22nd Regiment, or "van Doos" because 22 is vight-deux in French, and thus "van Doos" is a bastardisation of the proper pronounciation

-->RCA is Royal Canadian Artillery, or "ReCock the Ass"

KORB (Kings own royal borders) = kings own rent boys
Green Howards = Green Cowards
T.A. (territorial army) = SAS (saturdays and sundays)
Blackwatch = Watch us Botch
POW (prince of wales own) = don't need to explain this one surely
RAF = Rockapes
KOSB (kings own scottish borders) = Kings own sh*t bags
Kingos (liverpool) = Thieving b*stards LOL
Light infantry (batcos gang) = duracel bunnys

The Royal Anglians we called the angleirons, fvck knows why.
TA = Stabs or Stupid TA Bastards.

But as a Light Infantry soldier, just one derogatory term is used says it all, for all other regiments & thats 'redcoats', its us & them, 'green jackets' against 'redcoats'.

What about regimental songs (unofficial ones)