Junior enlisted warrior (j.e.w.)
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A term brought in to use by the United States [Marine Corps] in Mid 2008. The term was to be used as a substitute for the suppossed derogatory term used for new Marines before(See: Boot).
Like most other [tems] in the Marine Corps, this phrase has been shortened into an acrynom for easier use in every day speech or insults. In haste to make change to hundreds of years of tradition, this term failed to be propperly eddited; resulting in [all new] Marines (ie: boots)to be refered to as JEWS
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