2006-09-06 18:09:23 · 25 answers · asked by jarm 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No one actually knows. The best story I heard was that in WWII, soldiers where know as General Issue. "Joe" that's an American soldier. I guess it got compounded into GI Joe. Ok, the hard fact is that a soldier(i.e. person) is a piece of equipment to the military much like a tank or rifle. Every unit has it's own Table of Organization and Equipment(TO&E) allowing for a certain number of manpower and equipment. For example the TO&E for an Infantry Company may be 50 soldiers and 50 M-16 rifles. So if a soldier is lost for some reason because of being transfered or a casuality of war, you would order another soldier in the same fashion as you would order food or bullets through the supply sargeant.
2006-09-06 18:17:41 · answer #1 · answered by joeymac 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The letters G.I. stand for Government Issue.
2006-09-06 18:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by Cial 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Government issue. Check out the Stars and Stripes WW2 cartoons. The cartoons of Joe and Willy captured the feeling that the troopers got that they were like a pair of boots or webbing. Just something the government issued to be sent were ever they were needed. The troops didn't get a lot of info as to what was going on or where they were going or even where they were in some cases.
2006-09-06 18:21:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GI stands for Government Issue - meaning that the person is not a free individual anymore, but is deemed to be property of the state until his time in the army is finished.
2006-09-06 18:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by kel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GI Joe got here into use specially throughout the time of WWII as a slang time period for american serviceman, in view that all ewuipment allowed replaced into "authorities Issued". AN insurrection is someone who "inserts" themselves right into a territory, oftentimes to reason hassle A commando is a really specially experienced soldier who has skills in operating on my own or in small communities, as hostile t oovery great communities that a widely used military is prepared into.
2016-11-25 01:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Government Issue...
2006-09-06 18:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by awesome_eo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
General Infantry
2006-09-06 18:15:08 · answer #7 · answered by It Co$t To Be Around The Bo$$ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jarm
Yup
it is General Issue.
I was so disappointed
when I found out years
ago. Somehow GI Joe
seemed smaller.
But,
I still believe in Santa!
2006-09-06 18:21:12 · answer #8 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gi meat and Gi gravy
Gi wished id joined the navy.
2006-09-06 18:12:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stands for "Government Issue".
2006-09-06 18:15:23 · answer #10 · answered by Deb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋