Gavin sent this to me in an email. I must say I got a kick out of it.
Replace a few words and spelling and you could make the exact same list for the US Military.
You know your in the Australian Defence Force when...
1. You need a translator to talk to your civvie (civilian) friends, only because they don't understand your military terminology and acronyms.
2. You don't have to think about what time 21:30 is.
3. You tell people to 'snap it off' when your waiting to use the bathroom..
4. You lie when people ask you what you do for a living.
5. You use 'target indication' to point out hot chicks.
6. You use field hand signals in a nightclub if people can't hear you.
7. You can't remember the last time you saw a doctor who wasn't wearing DPCU/DPDU.
8. You think the mash potato has been laced, but you eat it anyway.
9. You think that eating every meal for a week with the same spoon that you licked clean and kept in the pocket of the same shirt you've worn all week is perfectly normal....
10. You spend all your money at the boozer.
11. You can't resist saying "Roger", "Say Again" and other snappy bits of RATEL.
12. You want to punch slow walking civvies in the back of the head because they aren't moving with a 'sense of urgency'.
13. You walk at a ridiculous pace and are physically incapable of walking at the shopping pace of your girlfriend.
14. Your girlfriend is stored in your mobile phone address book as 'Zero Alpha'.
15. You refer to personal organisation as "admin".
16. You spell out everything with the phonetic alphabet.
17. You always point out things using your whole hand in a karate chop motion.
18. You carry everything in your left hand.
19. You don't trust your mum/wife/girlfriend/any woman to iron your kit because deep down you think that your ironing is better.
20. You think not shaving is a treat.
21. Your blood boils when you see civvies wearing DPCU.
22. You refer to cigarettes as 'durries' or 'darbs'.
23. At least half of your DVD collection are war movies.
24. The sight of rolling countryside makes you scan for 'enemy depth'.
25. You're incapable of cooking anything that can't either be boiled in a bag or eaten cold.
26. You always use the 24 hour clock.
27. You know what a 'F.R.E.D' is.
28. You discovered it's a federal offence to jump out of a perfectly good plane on a civilian flight.
29. When scanning open ground (when not looking for enemy in depth) you think, good tank country.
30. You scan open ground.
31. When you are pointing out some natural feature you begin with "Reference - bushy topped tree etc"
32. You tell your friends to 'wait out'.
33. You cringe, and mutter under your breath 'haircut', when you see men with long hair.
34. You can't watch war movies without giving a running commentary.
35. You can read a catalogue from cover to cover and refer to everything that is useful as a 'Gucci' bit of kit.
36. Sleep deprivation is one of your skills.
37. You think 'piquet' is crap.