REMF
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Noun
REMF (plural REMFs)
- (slang, US, UK, military) Rear-echelon motherfucker; a soldier far from the front line, especially during the Vietnam War.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 175)
- Back at the PXs, the REMFs (rear-echelon motherfuckers) […] were indulging in black-market schemes and pleasures while Stone and his buddies out humping the boonies did the fighting, putting their lives on the line.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 175)