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Yeah, my intuition is that 'situation normal' is an American-style locution,
not something that would come naturally to a Brit -- though who is to say
about the vocabulary of soldiers?
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I'm doubtful about that. Isn't it just the vestige of one of those technical
locutions, 'skin greenish, limbs rigid, temperature normal', 'code 41' and
suchlike? (Also Cf *House Mother Normal*)
Besides Martin's Wikipedic derivation, there is a theory that SNAFU may be
either a back formation from or formed by an analogy with a pre-existing
military acronym. However, as far as I am aware no one has come up with
anything concrete, without which....
CW
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