| no duff Jul 12th 2013, 01:08, by 203.185.222.210 | | | | Line 9: | Line 9: | | | {{en-interjection}} | | {{en-interjection}} | | | | | | | − | # {{context|Canada|military slang|radio voice procedure|lang=en}} {{non-gloss definition|Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.}} | + | # {{context|Great Britain|military slang|signals procedure|lang=en}} {{non-gloss definition|Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.}} | | | #* '''2001''', Ska Child and David Harris, ''Skavoovee'', Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, p 152: | | #* '''2001''', Ska Child and David Harris, ''Skavoovee'', Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, p 152: | | − | #*: "Sunray, '''No Duff''', '''No Duff''', '''No Duff'''. We need a medic, we've got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over." ¶ All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ''''No Duff'''.' It was the signal for a medical emergency. | + | #*: "Sunray, '''NODUF''', '''NODUF''', '''NODUF'''. We need a medic, we've got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over." ¶ All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ''''NODUF'''.' It was the signal for a medical emergency. | | | #* '''2011''', Gloria Galloway, "[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/when-troops-heard-no-duff-they-knew-resolute-bay-rescue-wasnt-an-exercise/article2139644/ When troops heard 'no duff,' they knew Resolute Bay rescue wasn't an exercise]", in ''The Globe and Mail'', August 24: | | #* '''2011''', Gloria Galloway, "[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/when-troops-heard-no-duff-they-knew-resolute-bay-rescue-wasnt-an-exercise/article2139644/ When troops heard 'no duff,' they knew Resolute Bay rescue wasn't an exercise]", in ''The Globe and Mail'', August 24: | | | #*: "Someone grabbed me from behind and said ''''No duff''',' which means this is real," said LCdr. Wong. "That's what everybody heard, 'Plane crash, 737,' and all of us started running to our posts," he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene. | | #*: "Someone grabbed me from behind and said ''''No duff''',' which means this is real," said LCdr. Wong. "That's what everybody heard, 'Plane crash, 737,' and all of us started running to our posts," he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene. | The term NODUF was first noted used prior to the outbreak of WWII in Great Britain, where early Radio Direction Finding networks would use the proword NODUF during military exercises to indicate "No Direction finding [No DF] equipment to be used on this message as it is not an exercise transmission". "No Direction finding" was shortened in signals to the proword "NODUF". Operators from the many allied nations working in the UK during the war then adopted the term into their own signals procedures.  |
