ABSTRACT
Respectively, a typical army balls-up: a non-adjustable balls-up; a self adjustable balls-up, where balls-up=confusion, ‘mess’: army, mostly officers’, esp. in North Africa: 1940-5. TARFU is that state of confusion in which ‘things are really fucked-up (politely, fouled-up)’; TCCFU is a ‘typical Coastal Command fuck-up’ and was employed in the RAF, esp. in Coastal Command itself, 1941-4.
