Nope, you're all wrong!!
It stands for Gastro-Intestonal!
Because they've got guts!
Joe
--- Kirwin the Insane <kb0yev@midusa.net> wrote:
>
>
> RoughDoc@aol.com wrote:
>
> > How about that other wonderful nickname, the "GI"?
> >
> > I've read and heard of two stories. Anyone
> perhaps closer to the era able to
> > comment?
> >
> > The first (and more commonly believed) is that the
> GI stands for Government
> > Issue, and the phrase was used so often, it stuck
> on the soldiers.
>
> I always thought that it stands for General
> Infantry.
>
> Later
> Michael Clark
>
>
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