Stephen Ambrose gently suggested that the ingenuity of the American soldier was a contributing factor in the Allied victory in WWII, pointing to the GI-engineered solutions to, say, Normandy's hedgerows as an example. That creative spirit is illustrated linguistically, too, as shown in the linked list of acronyms and expressions.
I love the black humor of BOHICA and BCG. I also followed the link to the meaning of "Hooah!" and was charmed by the Ranger variant of "Who, us?"
Via Grow a Brain.
