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boonie rat
noun
a soldier serving in the jungle or other remote area US- In Vietnam, he goes by an assortment of names—the Grunt, Boonie Rat, Line Dog, Ground Pounder, Hill Humper, or Jarhead. — David Reed, Up Front in Vietnam, p. 3, 1967
- Everyone has always portrayed infantryman, boonierat, as dumb. Everyone, except anyone who has ever been a boonierat. — John M. Del Yecchio, The 13th Valley, p. 121, 1982
- The fort afforded showers, bunkers, private rooms, movies, girls, and enough equipment and supplies to make us boonie rats drool. — David Donovan, Once a Warrior King, p. 217, 1985
- From this point on, with the possible exception of a seven-day rest-and-recuperation (R&R) leave (probably spent somewhere else in Asia), he would live each day of the next year in the surreal, virtually indescribable existence of the “boonie rat.” — James L. Estep, Company Commander, Vietnam, p. 22, 1996
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