REMF

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REMF (plural REMFs)

  1. (slang, US, UK, military) Initialism of rear-echelon motherfucker; a soldier far from the front line, especially during the Vietnam War.
    • 2004, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 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.

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