desert cherry noun a soldier newly arrived in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf war US
“Desert cherries” in “Kevlars” fly the “Sand Box Express” to the “beach” and soon are complaining about “Meals Rejected by Ethiopians” if they can’t find a “roach coach” run by “Bedouin Bob.” — HoustonChronicle, p. 15, 24 January 1991