Fessing up time on callsigns

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....

=)

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José Herculano

Yeesh...welcome to my nightmare.

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

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

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

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

In message , José Herculano
writes
Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign....

=)

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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!