desert cherry

desert cherry
n. a new soldier in a desert war; a soldier new to the desert in wartime. (From the Persian Gulf War. See also cherry.)
About 5,000 desert cherries arrived last week. Something is going to happen soon.
The desert cherries are complaining about the scorpions again.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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