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ruff-puff
noun
a South Vietnamese local defence force US, 1977
RFs were regional forces, PFs were platoon-size village forces. Quick American minds took RF with PF to form “ruff-puff”.- Below the RF’s and the PF’s (collectively known as Ruff-Puffs) were regular national police, white suited, pistol-carrying cops known as White Mice. — Ward S. Just, To What End, p. 136, 1968
- They were PF’s, Popular Forces, whom everybody called Ruff Puffs. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 83, 1977
- None of the Civil Guards, now called the Regional Forces or RF and referred to derisively by the advisors as “Ruff Puffs,” who were supposed to be protecting Cu Chi, stirred. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 511, 1988
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 406, 1990
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