Question Military Lingo

Need a little help here.

I know that using the wrong terms for military slang in a story would be immersion breaking on the low end, and even potentially offensive to some readers (due to the author's ignorance). Since I do not have any military experience I'm looking for at least one term in particular, but this might be a good resource for others as well.

Googling has done nothing for me. Mostly because there are so many card games out nowadays anything I search for only brings up those.

Is there a military term for the types of playing card decks that have bounties or specific enemy leaders on the face? And then so-and-so is referred to as "The Three of Diamonds."

edit: I did finally find a lead. They're called "personality identification playing cards" officially, but did the troops call them anything special?

Remember, military slang varies from country to country.

Any and all answers build better stories!

Well, in the US Army, this started back during the invasion of Iraq, with the deck of cards being important figures in the Iraqi regime for high value captures. If memory serves, Saddam Hussein was the Ace of Spades, though I couldn't tell you the others, but the wiki article has a list . Basically the brass began to realize soldiers are gonna play cards regardless of the orders, but if they supply the deck, maybe they'll get a high value capture out of it.

Were you just wondering about the cards or some other lingo?

Specifically, what soldiers called the cards, if anything, as opposed to a regular deck.

Katssun wrote: Specifically, what soldiers called the cards, if anything, as opposed to a regular deck.

I've always heard them be called Deck of 52 or Bounty 52s

Source: Father lived on base for a bit

What history I know that might help?

In the Vietnam ear they used to have unit insignia backed deck of cards and the unit would leave them in the field on the dead to tell them who did it "death card" 'Apocalypse now' showed that one.

heard from family that 'death card" was started by the marine raiders of WW2 fame and they would leave little cards or stickers in Japanese held areas and leave without killing ANYONE to show they could at anytime day or night!

lighttech wrote: they would leave little cards or stickers in Japanese held areas and leave without killing ANYONE to show they could at anytime day or night!

This is completely off topic, but I remember a story posted to soc.bi circa 1994 about a civilian contractor for the DoD who, on his last day of work, stuck a pink triangle/'we are everywhere' sticker somewhere where it wouldn't be found for several days...

I don't recall the details, though, and I've always been a bit suspicious as to the veracity of the tale. I just tried to search for it via Google Gropes but found nothing.