Put it this way: you can start any thread you want. If it deserves to live, it will. If not, no more bits and pixels will be wasted on it....Military slang might even deserve its own thread.
So, start it up!
I started the Tagline Graveyard in Res Diversae back in 2005. It still gets hits every now and then, but if no one ever visits it again, it's no real loss.
[I just recently made a minor edit to one person's Wikipedia article to link to someone else's article that explained the term "digger" as Australian/New Zealand slang for a soldier.]