To sort of get back to the spirit of thread:
In the early nineties I attended a Joint Warfare Course at RM Poole. During one of the presentations, a USMC bird Colonel uttered the following: "Amphibiosity is the main tent pole of this operation"
About the same time I also attended a PfP SAR seminar in Aberdeen at which a US Coastguard lootenant described their problem solving process thus: "We break it [the problem] up into bite-size chunks, chew it over awhile, then spit out the answer". Fine for English speakers, but somewhat perplexing for the former WP attendees who were listening to real-time translation; the Russians particulalry looked bemused, as lunch was still some way off.
A report from, I think, the Daily Bellylaugh a couple of years ago:
At a demo by USMC of a new combat vehicle, the Marine Captain acting as guide stated that said vehicle "has high manouevrability in low trafficability situations". When a quizzical senior British officer asked what exactly he meant by that, the rather sheepish reply was "goes well in mud, sir".
