Fessing up time on callsigns

[José Herculano]

Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....

=)

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José Herculano

[Greasy Rider @invalid.com]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:41:47 -0000, "José Herculano"
> postulated :
>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....

Enjoying working on my motorcycle.... Greasy Rider

[Mike Kanze]

Got mine ("Owl") as a "combat Buckeye B/N" while stashed at VT-7 right after
wings. One of the IPs there hung it on me when he learned I was a BJN
School output headed eventually for Intruders. I think all of the A-6's
night hunting tasks and gear stimulated the word association.

At one point they almost hung "Mole" on me (eyeglasses), until they learned
that I could actually do VMC low-level nav quite decently.

One of my 1973 VA-95 compadres was hung with "Asshole" because, well, he
WAS.

--
Mike Kanze

"If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know
who you are?"

- Claude Fischler


"José Herculano" > wrote in message
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> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
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> =)
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> _____________
> José Herculano
>

[John Weiss]

"José Herculano" > wrote...
> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....

"Snow" Weiss happened to be the one that stuck. The "Edel" contingent was
outvoted...

[M. B.]

"José Herculano" > wrote in message
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> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>
> =)
>
> _____________
> José Herculano
>
>

Went through school with a guy whose last name was "Fluck". Callsign:
"Custer".

[Mike Kanze]

ISTR someone in this N.G. sharing the tale of two guys named Babcock and
Cochran (or something close to this) in the same squadron being tagged as
"the Cock brothers."

--
Mike Kanze

"If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know
who you are?"

- Claude Fischler


"M. B." > wrote in message
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> "José Herculano" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>>
>> =)
>>
>> _____________
>> José Herculano
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>
> Went through school with a guy whose last name was "Fluck". Callsign:
> "Custer".
>
>

[John Alger]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:41:47 -0000, "José Herculano"
> wrote:

>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....

Nothing glorious - I was tagged "Spartan" because I was from Michigan
(as were about 6 other of my fellow VT-24 instructors). Not because I
went to school at Mich. St. as I attended Embry-Riddle in Daytona
Beach. I had recently graduated as a student from the same squadron
and the senior instructors asked my what callsign I would use. I had
told them I liked "Eagle" as I had 20-15 vision, but another
instructor already used that - two were not allowed I was informed. So
they settled on "Spartan". Guess it was all they could come up with -
had not done anything colorful enough to warrant one of those
callsigns everyone forever wants to know what you did to earn it. :-)

We had a marine in the squadron who ran marathons and had about -5%
body fat. He was known as "Cadaver". Another Marine was known as
"Brillo" due to his hair.


J W Alger USNR(ret) 1310/1325
TA-4J, A-7E, EC-130Q, P-3B

[vincent p. norris]

>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
We didn't have personal callsigns when I was in the Marines, half a
century ago. But one pilot in the squadron, Major Terry Noble, a
great guy, had the nickname "Tripod."

I don't suppose I have to explain why.

vince norris

[Gord Beaman]

vincent p. norris > wrote:

>>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>We didn't have personal callsigns when I was in the Marines, half a
>century ago. But one pilot in the squadron, Major Terry Noble, a
>great guy, had the nickname "Tripod."
>
>I don't suppose I have to explain why.
>
>vince norris

Who named him Vince?
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

[Doug \Woody\ and Erin Beal]

On 1/19/05 1:41 PM, in article ,
"José Herculano" > wrote:

> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>
> =)
>
> _____________
> José Herculano
>
>

I can say this:

Mine doesn't have anything to do with male anatomy. Nor is it about wood
working, birds that drill trees, or Tom Hanks' animated cowboy in Toy Story.

--Woody

[John Miller]

Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
>
> Mine doesn't have anything to do with male anatomy. Nor is it about wood
> working, birds that drill trees, or Tom Hanks' animated cowboy in Toy Story.

You play clarinet?

--
John Miller
email domain: n4vu.com; username: jsm@
Surplus (For sale or trade):
New Conn V1 double trumpet case, no logo
Tektronix 465B oscilloscope
New leather brief/notebook case

[Dave Kearton]

"John Miller" > wrote in message

| Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
||
|| Mine doesn't have anything to do with male anatomy. Nor is it about
|| wood working, birds that drill trees, or Tom Hanks' animated cowboy
|| in Toy Story.
|
| You play clarinet?
|
| --
| John Miller



Woody stay in tune if he did ?




--

Cheers


Dave Kearton

[Charlie Wolf]

I was enlisted aircrew for 20 years and we generally avoided the
catchy "callsign" phenom -

Well, exept for one of our guys whose nick was "Beans". Real name was
John Van Kampen. Later became an NFO and kept the nick.

We also had a JO in the squadron with a very apt nickname of "Splash".
He got it on a very dark night while he was prefilghting the "ready"
bird, whose tail section was hanging over the deck edge. He attempted
to preflight the back end of the airplane and quite simply walked over
the side of the Nimitz. A/C was spotted right near the crotch of the
angle deck next to cat 2 and therefore had a gap in the safety netting
below the deck edge. Happy ending --- he survived but only due to the
great skill of the MWB crew.

Regards,



On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:41:47 -0000, "José Herculano"
> wrote:

>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>
>=)
>
>_____________
>José Herculano
>

[Ed Rasimus]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:41:47 -0000, "José Herculano"
> wrote:

>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>

I was in the business before the general use of personal tactical
call-signs. So, all I ever got was a simple shortening of my last name
to "Raz".

As squadron ops officer in an F-4 squadron I did get to hang names on
a lot of the young troops. One of my favorite was a guy named Jim Teak
who arrived at the squadron wearing the name tag: "Jim Teak--Fighter
Pilot".

Since he was a FAIP (First Assignment IP in T-38s) and had no combat
experience I explained to him that merely being assigned to tactical
aircraft didn't make him a fighter pilot. He was a pilot flying
fighters and would only be a fighter pilot when others recognized his
skills and bestowed the title on him. Until then he should consider
his name tag as misspelled and mispunctuated. It really said
"Jim--Weak Fighter Pilot". From that day on his call-sign was "Weak".
(BTW, he wasn't--he was a very good airplane driver.)

One of the best I've heard from the modern force was a Viper driver I
encountered at a River Rat Reunion. His name tag identified him as
"Oboc".

Naturally I queried and eventually got the story. Seems he was off on
a week-end X-C and got lucky with a beautiful young miss. Next morning
his associates wanted a detailed accounting of how many times, how
good it was, how was she, etc.

Seems he confessed that while both parties were very willing, he
wasn't able to set any performance records because he "Only Brought
One Condom"--henceforth he was "Oboc".



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org

[Ogden Johnson III]

vincent p. norris > wrote:

>>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>We didn't have personal callsigns when I was in the Marines, half a
>century ago.

?????!!!!!

OK, strictly it wasn't "half a century ago" but from the time I
hit my first squadron in 1963 [after the USMC had sent me kicking
and screaming to fill a "nominate all eligible for aviation
retraining" quota] every pilot in the squadron had a personal
call sign. From every indication in the squadron records [I was
an Ops pogue], this quaint "zoomie" custom had been going on for
a *long* time. Sure wouldn't have stood for it in the grunts; I
can tell you that.

[Upon reflection some time later, 1965/66-ish, the advantages of
being an "airedale", and not back in the grunts humping through
the toolies, was rather more appreciated than it was in 1963.
;->]
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

[Jeb Hoge]

Yeesh...welcome to my nightmare.

[vincent p. norris]

>..... one pilot in the squadron, Major Terry Noble, a
>>great guy, had the nickname "Tripod."
>>>
>Who named him Vince?

Don't know. He had that nickname when I arrived at the squadron.

vince norris

[vincent p. norris]

>..... from the time I hit my first squadron in 1963......
> every pilot in the squadron had a personal call sign.

I left the squadron in 1953 and spent my last year in the Marines as a
Forward Air Controller with an infantry battalion--where, as you said,
the grunts would not have engaged in such a frivolous practice.

vince norris

[vincent p. norris]

>Seems he confessed that while both parties were very willing, he
>wasn't able to set any performance records because he "Only Brought
>One Condom"--henceforth he was "Oboc".
>
Gawd, that's the saddest story I've heard in a long time!

Made me recall Tom Lehrer's song: "In case you meet a girl scout who
is similarly inclined, BE PREPARED!"

vince norris

[Ogden Johnson III]

vincent p. norris > wrote:

>>..... from the time I hit my first squadron in 1963......
>> every pilot in the squadron had a personal call sign.

>I left the squadron in 1953 and spent my last year in the Marines as a
>Forward Air Controller with an infantry battalion--where, as you said,
>the grunts would not have engaged in such a frivolous practice.

I keep forgetting that you're one of those *really* old pilots my
OpsOs were always telling the nuggets [and the odd second and
even a few third tour pilots that needed an occasional pointed
reminder] they should strive to become. ;->
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

[[email protected]]

Mike Kanze wrote:
>
> ISTR someone in this N.G. sharing the tale of two guys named Babcock and
> Cochran (or something close to this) in the same squadron being tagged as
> "the Cock brothers."
>
> --
> Mike Kanze
>
> "If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know
> who you are?"
>
> - Claude Fischler
>
> "M. B." > wrote in message
> news:z4HHd.4931$J6.1082@trnddc02...
> >
> > "José Herculano" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
> >>
> >> =)
> >>
> >> _____________
> >> José Herculano
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Went through school with a guy whose last name was "Fluck". Callsign:
> > "Custer".
> >
> >


This is really true!...
I was once stationed at a command whose roster included three guys whose
names were:
(1) Woodcock
(2) Glasscock
(3) Babcock
...........

[José Herculano]

> Seems he confessed that while both parties were very willing, he
> wasn't able to set any performance records because he "Only Brought
> One Condom"--henceforth he was "Oboc".

ROTFLMAO


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José Herculano

[vincent p. norris]

>I keep forgetting that you're one of those *really* old pilots...

Guilty as charged. Just passed 77 and still flying.

vince norris

[Gord Beaman]

"Dave Kearton" >
wrote:

>"John Miller" > wrote in message

>| Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
>||
>|| Mine doesn't have anything to do with male anatomy. Nor is it about
>|| wood working, birds that drill trees, or Tom Hanks' animated cowboy
>|| in Toy Story.
>|
>| You play clarinet?
>|
>| --
>| John Miller
>
>
>
>Woody stay in tune if he did ?

That wood be a rather iffy question I'd say...
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

[Tex Houston]

"Gord Beaman" > wrote in message
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> "Dave Kearton" >
> wrote:
>
>>"John Miller" > wrote in message

>>| Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
>>||
>>|| Mine doesn't have anything to do with male anatomy. Nor is it about
>>|| wood working, birds that drill trees, or Tom Hanks' animated cowboy
>>|| in Toy Story.
>>|
>>| You play clarinet?
>>|
>>| --
>>| John Miller
>>
>>
>>
>>Woody stay in tune if he did ?
>
> That wood be a rather iffy question I'd say...


Log me out so I don't have to read these old chestnuts as I pine for more a
more peaceful board.

Tex

[JD]

We got in a basketball game while in training. The guy guarding me fell
and grabbed my shorts. Pants'ed me. After that, I was stuck with
"Pinky"........
Humiliation in front of friends is never forgotten.
jd

[Peter Twydell]

In message >, José Herculano
> writes
>Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....
>
>=)
>
>_____________
>José Herculano
>
>
I saw an RAF Puma pilot (sorry to mention crabs in a naval NG) at the
RAF Waddington airshow a couple of years ago, whose name badge read "Foo
Kennard". When he saw me laughing, he told me I was the first person all
weekend to have got the joke.

--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!