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G.I. is an informal term that refers to "a soldier in the United States armed forces, especially the army". It is mostly deeply associated with World War II, but continues to see use.
It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron. The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906 or 1907.
During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as "G.I. cans". During the same war, "G.I.", reinterpreted as "government issue" or "general issue", began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army, e.g., "G.I. soap". Other reinterpretations of "G.I." include "garrison issue" and "general infantry".
The earliest known recorded instances of "G.I." being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935. In the form of "G.I. Joe" it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942. A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that "G.I. Joe" encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities. They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network.
"G.I. Jane" originally referred to a member of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, but more recently it is used to refer to any American woman soldier.
In British military parlance and in armed forces modelled on British military traditions, G.I. refers to a Gunnery Instructor, generally an NCO responsible for inducting and training recruits.
See also
Greatest Generation, the social history of these veterans
Digger (soldier) – A similar term used in Australia
Doughboy
Dogface (military)
G.I. Bill, postwar benefits for veterans
G.I. Blues (film)
G.I. Generation
G.I. Jane (film)
G.I. Joe (pigeon) – birds used in World War II
G.I. Joe (disambiguation)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945 film)
Tommy Atkins (soldier) – British slang for a common soldier
References
Further reading
Cooke, James J. American girls, beer, and Glenn Miller: GI morale in World War II (University of Missouri Press, 2012) online.
Kennett, Lee B. GI: The American Soldier in World War II (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997) online.
Meyer, Leisa D. Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and power in the women's army corps during World War II (Columbia University Press, 1996) online.
Piehler, G. Kurt. A religious history of the American GI in World War II (U of Nebraska Press, 2021) online.
Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca. "Constructing GI Joe Louis: Cultural solutions to the “Negro problem” during World War II." Journal of American History 89.3 (2002): 958-983. online
= Primary sources
=McGuire, Phillip, ed. Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (University Press of Kentucky, 1993). ISBN 0-8131-0822-5..
Pyle, Ernie Here is your war: story of GI Joe (U of Nebraska Press, 2004) reprint of newspaper essays by famous war correspondent who focused on soldiers' life online.
Shapiro, Lisa K. No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat (Naval Institute Press, 2018) ISBN 9781682472729. Letters from GIs to college professor; primary sources; online book review
GI or Gi may refer to:
Military
G.I., a nickname for U.S. Army soldiers
Arts and entertainment
GI (album), an album by the Germs
Gi (Captain Planet character), a Captain Planet character
Game Informer, a magazine
Gert's Inferno, a comic book series
Global Icon (band), a South Korean group
Genshin Impact, an action role-playing gacha game developed by miHoYo
Organisations
Goethe-Institut, a German cultural association
General Instrument, an electronics company
Gesellschaft für Informatik, a German computer society
Guaranteed Irish, a business membership network
Science and technology
GI, a complexity class in the graph isomorphism problem
Galvanized iron
= Biology and medicine
=Gi alpha subunit, a protein
Gastrointestinal tract (GI tract)
Gigantocellular reticular nucleus, a subregion of the medullary reticular formation
Glycemic index, measuring a food's effect on blood glucose
= Computing
=.gi, the country code top-level domain for Gibraltar
Gi (prefix symbol) (gibi), a binary prefix
Global illumination, a group of 3D graphics algorithms
Transport
Guduvancheri railway station (Indian Railways station code), a railway station in Tamil Nadu, India
Itek Air (IATA airline designator), a former airline based in Kyrgyzstan
Other uses
Gibraltar (ISO 3166-1 country code)
G.I. Generation, a demographic cohort
Graphics Interface, a conference on computer graphics and human–computer interaction
Geographical indication, on products which corresponds to a geographical location or origin
Gi (kana), a syllabic character in Japanese script
Gi (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
Greg Inglis (born 1987), Australian rugby league footballer
Keikogi, a Japanese martial arts uniform known in English simply as a gi
See also
G.I. Joe (disambiguation)
.gi is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory. It was created on 5 December 1995.
Second-level domain names
.com.gi (commercial organisations)
.ltd.gi (registered public or private limited companies)
.gov.gi (Gibraltar government departments, bodies, and associated government-funded organisations)
.mod.gi (Gibraltar Ministry of Defence departments)
.edu.gi (schools and Education departments)
.org.gi (non-commercial organisations)
Use in Girona
It has been used for some official domains for the Spanish city of Girona due to its coincidence in abbreviation. This limited use began prior to the creation of the .cat TLD because of Catalan reluctance to use domains under the Spanish country code TLD .es. Subsequent rules changes prevent new 2nd level registrations directly under .gi for entities not connected with Gibraltar.
References
External links
Gibraltar NIC
IANA .gi whois information
ajuntament.gi: City of Girona (in Catalan)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The S.I.G.I.T.
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- G-Dragon
- G.I. Joe
- Storm Shadow (G.I. Joe)
- Titik G
- G.I. Joe: Retaliation
- Production I.G
- Johnny Gerard Plate
- G.I.
- GI
- G.I. Jane
- .gi
- G.I. Joe
- List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters
- Project I.G.I.
- G.I. Bill
- G.I. Joe (film series)
- AEG G.I
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