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The term F.U.B.A.R originated in World War Two and was used as a military acronym by United States soldiers. During World War Two, F.U.B.A.R was used to describe the chaos and bedlam involved with trench warfare. It is unknown what word the term originated from, but it is suspected that it comes from the German word Furchtbar, which means terrible. F.U.B.A.R can be translated into two ways, Fucked Up Beyond All Repair, and Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Despite having slightly different connotations, both translations essentially mean the same thing. F.U.B.A.R is now an official military acronym used in order to deem a situation (or target) as utterly destroyed. Similarly, Fubar is a slang term which means botched, ruined, or completely messed up. F.U.B.A.R can be used in many negative situations and occasionally some positive ones, whether military or nonmilitary use. In military use, if pinned down a soldier may say that the situation is F.U.B.A.R, or that without proper intelligence and documentation an operation would be F.U.B.A.R. Or if it is nonmilitary and being used as Fubar, one may say that their homework assignment was fubar. Another example is that a pilot with a terrible sense of humor may make his callsign Foxtrot Uniform Bravo Alfa Romeo. Many …show more content…
Many words could be used to describe the trenches, insane, helter-skelter, and lawless being just a few. These words describe it well, but fail to fully encompass the true nature of the trenches. Which lead to the creation of the acronym F.U.B.A.R, which, as stated earlier, likely originated from the German term furchtbar. Which is interesting to think about, because not only would a soldier have to be close enough to a german soldier, but said soldier would also have to be able to speak German. So in theory for F.U.B.A.R to have originated in this way, it would have had to have been extreme

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