Via Marginal Revolution, Business Insider has a list of phrases only the military would know. Among them: "Double-Digit Midget." That's listed right after "days and a wake-up".
I wonder if the draftees in earlier wars were using the same phrases. I suppose only those in a bureaucratized military, with terms of service calculated down to the day.
Anyhow, both those phrases and a few others were familiar from my days in the US Army.
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