A Marine mortarman. Typically the smarter ones of the infantry cesspool, you’lol typically find one of these exotic creatures at the MFP playing spades on fdc plotting boards or executing a fire for effect so 11’s 31’s and the rest of the maneuver element can push forward or move up to occupy.
The more unappreciated 03 however definitely the baddest of all 03s.
“See that tubestroker 0341 over there?” “Ya” “before we can execute range 400 were gonne need him to suppress for us and put the enemy’s head down”
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)