In the Army, for decades, a favorite way of saying this has been "...his
head in a state of rectal defalade", taken from (your choice) a tank is in
hull defalade when the hull is occluded and protected by a berm, pit, or
other landscape feature, leaving only the turret exposed, or, from the
infantry, the term "skull defalade" meaning only the soldier's head or
helmet is exposed, the remainder being below the edge of the foxhole,
sandbags, or other protective element.

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Guy Avenell <[log in to unmask]>@RAVEN.UTC.EDU> on 06/04/2002 03:08:27 PM

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<snip> From: "Chuck Ryan"

> even though I sometimes wonder
> how a poster managed to type the message with their head in a suppository
> position...".

In the Air Force, we used to call that, "Head up and locked!" as opposed to
gear up and locked (when the wheels are inside the undercarriage of the
plane).

Guy Avenell
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