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REMF ‎(plural REMFs)

(slang, US, Britain, military) Rear-echelon ****; a soldier far from the front line, especially during the Vietnam War.
- 2005: Back at the PXs, the REMFs (rear-echelon motherfuckers) [...] were indulging in black-market schemes and pleasures while Stone and his buddies out humping the boonies did the fighting, putting their lives on the line. — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 175)