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A better bus
service
all round ( Carousel Buses advertising slogan )
A pitched battle
A product of the master mind ( Senior
Service
cigarettes advertising slogan )
A tiger in your
tank
Absent without leave
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All present and correct
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An army marches on its stomach
An army of one ( United States Army advertising slogan )
Armed
and dangerous
Armed
intervention
Armed
struggle
Armed
to the hilt
Armed
to the teeth
Army Dreamers ( Kate Bush song )
Army strawberries (
military
slang term for prunes )
As busy as a one
armed
paper hanger
As you were
At your
service
Atilla of the American Continent ( Nickname of General William Sherman )
Ballad of the Green Berets ( Staff
Sergeant
Barry Sadler song )
Bangers and
mash
Barmy army
Be all that you can be ( United States Army advertising slogan )
Be all you can be ( US Army advertising slogan )
Be the best ( British Army advertising slogan )
Blue rinse
brigade
Break ranks
Brothers in arms
Butcher of Baghdad ( Nickname of Saddam Hussein )
Butcher of the Somme ( Nickname of General Douglas Haig )
Call to action
Call to arms
Call up
Canteen culture ( boorish behaviour by rank and file police or
soldiers
)
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Charge of the Light
Brigade
( British
cavalry
charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
Chemical Ali ( Nickname of Ali Hassan al-Majid )
Civvy street
Clerks and jerks
Combat
fatigue
Combat
ready
Comical Ali ( Nickname of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf )
Command central
Cracker box
Dad's Army ( BBC comedy television series )
Dawn patrol
Dawn raid
Denial of
service
attack
Don't
mess
with Texas
Don't
mess
with my head
Don't panic ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )
Dragoon into
Drummed out of the army
Drunk
tank
Earn your stripes
Esprit de
corps
Eyes right
Fall in
Field Marshall ( the highest rank in the British Army )
For
mash
get Smash ( Cadbury's Smash advertising slogan )
Frightful
mess
Garrison town
Getting things done ( AmeriCorps national
service
program advertising slogan )
Give a hoot, don't pollute ( United States Forest
Service
advertising slogan )
Go
commando
Green slime (
military
slang term for the intelligence
corps
)
Grunt cruncher (
military
tank
- grunt is a slang term for infantryman )
Had a good war ( to have been successful during a
military
campaign )
Hand-to-gland
combat
( slang term for masturbation )
Heart to God, hand to man ( The Salvation Army advertising slogan )
Here's another fine
mess
you've gotten me into ( A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy )
Hot
mess
I want YOU for the US Army ( World War I and World War II advertising slogan )
In the Army, the edge ( Australian Army advertising slogan )
In uniform
Invalided out
It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( BBC comedy television series )
Join the colours
Join the professionals ( British Army advertising slogan )
Join up
Keep in line
Keep the field ( - continue a
military
campaign )
Keep your powder dry
Kit and caboodle
Lions led by donkeys
Masters Of War ( Bob Dylan song )
Mess
around
Military
precision
Monster
Mash
( Nickname of Jamal Mashburn )
No
battery
is stronger longer ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
No man's land
No names: no packdrill
Normal
service
has been resumed
Old
soldiers
never die, they just fade away
On Her Majesty's Secret
Service
( James Bond movie George Lazenby )
On parade
One
armed
bandit
Only you can prevent forest fires ( United States Forest
Service
advertising slogan )
Onward Christian
soldiers
Out of
service
Overpaid, oversexed, and over here
Pay lip
service
to
Pecker checker (
military
slang term for medical personnel )
Press into
service
Put a tiger in Your
Tank
( Esso advertising slogan )
Put the tin hat on it
Rank and file
Red Army Fraction ( German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction )
Reporting for duty
Right
service
Right price ( Meineke advertising slogan )
Rise and shine
Send a salami to your boy in the army
Send in the reinforcements
Senior
Service
satisfy ( Senior
Service
cigarettes advertising slogan )
Service
level agreement
Service
with a smile
Shack rat ( Canadian
military
slang term for a promiscuous female who visits
military
barracks to sleep with
soldiers
)
Silver
service
( a method of serving food using silver cutlery )
Sod this for a game of
soldiers
Some of our best men are women ( United States Army advertising slogan )
Space
cadet
Square bashing
Stormin' Norman ( Nickname of General Norman Schwarzkopf )
Suicide is painless ( title of the theme song to
MASH
tv series and film )
Swell the ranks
Take the field ( begin a sporting event or a
military
campaign )
Take the king's shilling
The Army Game ( BBC comedy television series )
The Bengal Tigers ( Nickname of The Royal Leicestershire
Regiment
)
The Black Watch ( Nickname of The Royal Highland
Regiment
)
The Blues And Royals ( Nickname of The Household
Cavalry
)
The Iron Chancellor ( Nickname of Otto Von Bismark )
The Little
Corporal
( Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte )
The Poor Bloody
Infantry
( term used to describe the British
infantry
in WWI )
The Red Baron ( Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen )
The Sally Army ( Nickname of the Salvation Army )
The Tartan Army
The army national guard, you can ( US Army National Guard advertising slogan )
The few, the proud, the Marines ( United States Marine
Corps
advertising slogan )
The forgotten army
The toughest job you'll ever love ( United States Peace
Corps
advertising slogan )
Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
There's a tiger in my
tank
There's no life like it ( Canadian
Armed
Forces advertising slogan )
To our members, we're the fourth emergency
service
( Automobile Association advertising slogan )
Tour of duty
Trench warfare (
combat
where
troops
face each other in trenches )
Uncle Joe ( Nickname of Joseph Stalin )
War footing ( preparedness to fight a
military
campaign )
World
Service
Yeoman
service
You and whose army?
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )
You're in the army now