Losing Your Gun
Speaking of the feeling that your gun is still with you, former soldiers sometimes even dream that they lost their gun, though this sounds more like a nightmare really. They then wake up and remember they don’t carry a gun anymore.
Phonetic Alphabet
Soldiers have the tendency to spell out words using the military phonetic alphabet. Rather than saying the letter “a”, they will say “alpha” and “omega” instead of “o”. You might have even heard them talking right next to you, yet you didn’t understand anything.