RoughDoc@aol.com wrote:
> How about that other wonderful nickname, the "GI"?
>
> I've read and heard of two stories. Anyone perhaps closer to the era able to
> comment?
>
> The first (and more commonly believed) is that the GI stands for Government
> Issue, and the phrase was used so often, it stuck on the soldiers.
I always thought that it stands for General Infantry.
Later
Michael Clark
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