Fessing up time on callsigns

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

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José Herculano

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

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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José Herculano

"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...

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

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José Herculano



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

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


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"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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José Herculano



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

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
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"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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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 we
(1) Woodcock
(2) Glasscock
(3) Babcock
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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

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

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?
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)