Whats in a name?

[jimgriff]

Can someone define:
Blunties:
Crabs:
Bombheads:
Ragpackers:
Squiiffers:
etc etc..
Would love to find more to add to list as well please!

[NorthernSID]

Add:

Plumbers Armourers (A, I'm an armourer, B I'm an armourer, C I'm an armourer too)

Leckies Electricians
Fairies Avionics
Squippers Safety Equippers
Rigger Airframes
Sooty Engines

More I'm sure to follow

[the funky munky]

Although this topic has been raised before here are a few more.

Greenie - Electrician
Pinkie - Radio/Radar
Blackie/Grubber - Airframe Engine
Bombhead - Armourer
Blanket stacker/Advanced duvet technician - Storeman

Thats just a few to be going on with!

[Nearly there!]

Blunties - RAF ground branch personnel (i.e. not at the "sharp end").

Crabs, crabfats - Naval term for the RAF. From the light blue colour of RAF uniform, which was the same as that of a fatty ointment used to treat sailors for pubic lice.

Bootneck - Royal Marine

Fish-head - non-flying RN officer

[Talk Split]

Here is another:

WAFU - Flying RN Officer (acronym for Women Always Fancy Us, or something like that)

[CrabInCab]

Willies are for us?

[RFCC]

Steelies - (Steely Eyed Killers - the two-winged master race)

[Gainesy]

WAFU= Wet And F***ing Useless

...according to Rick Jollie's book.

[Wee Jock]

Shinies - same as Blunties (shiney bums caused by sitting on them all day.)

Commissioned Ballast - Navigator

Directional Consultant - Another Navigator

[tengah chum]

Shinies ( Admin clerks etc, because of their shiny trouser arse.)

[Nearly there!]

Food-powered checklist reader - Yet Another Navigator

Self-loading baggage - Probably Not The Last Navigator

Gingers - engineers (Cockney rhyming "ginger beers")

[canberra]

ginger beer

ginger beer is not cockney rhyming slang for engineer, it rhyming slang for queer! ever seen carry on up the khyber?

[tony draper]

Iron is cockney rhyming slang for queer, as in iron hoof,
I always thought ginger beer was slang for engineer.

[tu chan go]

Stovies - RN Fast Jet Pilots
Junglies - RN Helo Pilots (Marines carrying for the use of)
Pongos - RAF term for army types

[Aerodyne.]

Grow bag:Generic term for aircrew.
Winch weight:Loadmaster(usually preceded by"ding ding i'm a...")
Meat bomb:People stupid enough to depart 'S' a/c,eg:Para.

[reynoldsno1]

Knocker : NCO aircrew
Knuck: Fighter pilot (RNZAF), now extinct species

[Busta]

Moles - engineers
Mole control - Sengo
Mushrooms - most aircrew
Limp wristed gay bar loiterers - Jaguar pilots
Expensive chaff - F3's
OCFA - Senior Spec aircrew Sqn Ldr

Nothing matters very much, most things don't matter at all.

[Cougar]

Knuck: fighter jock (still used in Aus)
Trash Hauler: Herc Pilot
Bluntie: anyone non-aircrew
Fish head: P3 driver
Mud slinger: F111 driver (not common name, only heard it a few times)
White hander: avionics fitter
Black hander: Engines/airframe fitter
Spits: Service Police
Doggies: Dog handlers
AJ's: Army Jerks