Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!amd!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Soldier's names, origins Message-ID: <235@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 21:38:07 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.235 Posted: Fri Jan 4 21:38:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:39:18 EST References: <120@cord.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 11 > GI Joe is from an American comic strip. Yes, but before WWII, US soldiers weren't called GIs (at least if I understand this right!). That term comes from Government Issue - the label that some newspeaker added to the catalog of items that the soldiers were issued. -- Ed Gould {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed