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clerks and jerks noun clerical support personnel and officers US, 1975 Vietnam war usage. The high degree of cynicism about officers found in enlisted men was even more intense in Vietnam.- Running a god-damned club when there’s nobody on the rear except clerks and jerks. — John M. Del Vecchio, The 13th Valley, p. 461, 1982
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 44, 1991
- [T]he second plane was filled with the clerks and jerks–the Ranger support company, whose weapons probably weren’t even loaded. — Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior, p. 329, 1992
- “When operations gets really strapped for door gunners, they even let some of the clerks and jerks tag along!” — Richard Burns, Pathfinder, p. 123–124, 2002
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