When you join the military YOU become gov, property,
every thing that you need is issued to you, and you are sent to where
ever the gov needs you, so you become Government Issue hench the term G.I.
old military man
and proud of it,
Goverment issue
The nickname for American soldiers because their clothing was labeled government issue was GIs.
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The German soldiers that were paid by the British to fight in the Revolutionary War were called "Hessians".
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One GI in Vietnam stated that it was a corrupt pronunciation of the Korean word for "foreigner", and GIs had been called that term during the Korean War...so GIs adopted the usage.
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The nickname for American soldiers because their clothing was labeled government issue was GIs.
G.I. stands for Government Issue
They were and still called GIs or GI Joes for the "General Issue" or basic nature of issued equipment and similar appearance of all soldiers to each other in uniform. "Joe" was believed to be the common or stereotypical American name.
because they had "GI" stamped on all their belongings "GI" stands for Galvanized Iron not Government Issue.
American soldiers were typically referred to as Colonials or Patriots during the Revolution.
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Buffalo Soldiers.
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They called the same thing the enlisted men were called. Soldiers. They were not differentiated from the enlisted men. Of course some of the men were called grunts, GIs, Yanks, and a other not so nice names. ____ In Canada, men who waited until they were drafted were called zombies by the soldiers who had volunteered.
German soldiers during World War I were called "Huns" by the American soldiers. The Germans called their soldiers "The Bosch" during World War I.