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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,John Gray in Oz	BS: US or USA ? (30)	RE: BS: US or USA ?	21 Oct 03
In our navy we write on ,or label, machinery as "US" to denote that it is un-serviceable. This always brought on dark looks when we dropped of equipment to be repaired in US navy workshops at Subic Bay and Da Nang. The connotation the American sailors drew was, being unserviceable - US - it doesn't work. It took some explaining to convince them that it wasn't a term we conjured up to piss them off. We had plenty of other terms for that ! JG/FME

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