Fred Shapiro has provided evidence that "snafu" was in use at Camp Joseph T. Robinson (North Little Rock, Arkansas) in late July, 1941, a sighting that slightly antedates that which the OED provides. (I've also found two instances of "snafu" in use in early August, 1941, also with regard to khaki field hats.

Apr 10, 2014 · Snafu is a service slang word compounded out of the initial letters of the words in a phrase politely translated: "Situation normal, all fouled up." Pernicious snafu is somethings called susfu, or "Situation unchanged,still fouled up." By the end of the war, evidently, editors no longer needed to define the term for their audiences.

Feb 29, 2016 · A snafu typically doesn't develop over years, but more typically over a period of weeks or months, and occasionally hours or days. (The "Charge of the Light Brigade" was a classical snafu, developing in hours due to bungled communications in the command hierarchy.)

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Feb 24, 2014 · The word snafu, for example, was originally an obscene U.S. Army reference (situation normal -- all f'ed up"), and fad is purportedly originally an acronym for "for a day". Some terms, such as AWOL, seem to be stuck in between-- they are almost used as words, but equally almost always capitalized.

Nov 26, 2012 · For example, in relation to this question on Workplace Stack Exchange the term snafu was of military origin and was used to define a person, team, organisation, etc that continually makes mistakes. The first time I saw the term was in relation to a data protection leak and this now seems a pretty common usage e.g this article amongst the tech ...

Mar 22, 2016 · SNAFU which stands for: "Situation Normal All Fk'd Up" SNAFU was a flag we used to fly on our ship during the Vietnam War -- our unofficial motto was: The schedule has been changed, because we were always giving up scheduled periods of R & R in exchange for Search and Rescue missions.

@JoeZ. I have to agree with Matt. FUBAR is an adjectival phrase; here, "beyond all recognition" means "into an unrecognizable form." It's an intensification of SNAFU ("situation normal, all fucked up"). If SNAFU gets even worse, it's FUBAR.

Aug 16, 2010 · a URL, a snafu, a Charlie Foxtrot, a moron the URL, the snafu, the Charlie Foxtrot, the moron (all pronounced /ðə/) Most native English speakers never notice that there are two different pronunciations for the, but non-native English speakers need to know this immediately.

Jul 3, 2014 · snafu (situation normal all fucked up) For certain, we know that such a person is maladroit (adjective). We could coin a new word maladroid as the noun for such a person. One could see that there subclasses of such situations: