It especially happens to looeys on up to shavetail captains. From Wordnik.com. [From The Daily Growler Wastebasket] Reference
The shavetail lieutenant at that position took one look at him and knew that trouble was brewing. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Faces]
My dad was a shavetail crew member aboard the RB-47 overflights that did ELINT in conjunction with the U-2 photo intel. From Wordnik.com. [A Commercial for Christmas] Reference
Alain Berliez and Roger Dempsey had been assigned to Ori-12-1818 as shavetail lieutenants only 6 months before but they were especially trained in regard to the new 3-D sensor. From Wordnik.com. [Plasma Monster]
The "doughboy shavetail", a hero before the armistice, or the aviator who held the stage until November eleventh, once he put on his serge suit and went back to selling insurance or keeping books, became a nodding acquaintance, sometimes not even that. From Wordnik.com. [The Log-Cabin Lady]
Many moons ago, when deployed to Kuwait as a young shavetail butterbar, we didn't have the obscene amenities that are de rigueur on even the most spartan FOB today. it took about a month before we had a shower -- which was little more than a shower head beneath a tank of water, the purpose of which was not to get you clean, but to get the funk off of your body. From Wordnik.com. [From My Position... On the way!] Reference
Whatever else you be yore no shavetail or shorthorn, an’ that’s howsomever. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wolf Pack] Reference
No, he bought it in the drop on Suvla-surely that was when that new blond young shavetail got his when his parapack roman-candled-no, you're thinking of that guy, what was his name? was always sick when we went through the box. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
"What are ye laughin 'at, ye shavetail?". From Wordnik.com. [Pardners] Reference
And in the cantonments the soldiers said, "... this lousy son of a badwoman of a shavetail can't put nothin 'over on me ... say ... oh, I hate to get up in the morning, oh, how I long to remain in bed ....". From Wordnik.com. [Erik Dorn] Reference
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