Call signs or Military Nicknames

[WinterSoldier]

What was your call sign or nickname they gave you when you served in the military? Mine was Breed for being a half breed Native American so I got stuck with this and did not exactly choose it.

 

[RTR ATL]

They called me "Wipeout" at Aviation Challenge because I face planted trying to look cool on a Razor Scooter.

 

[heavyarms21]

I work in Aviation and Callsigns were a pilot thing. But we gave some guys nicknames based how we knew them.

Best Call signs I liked

Lt. Wood Call sign "Morning"
Major Anderson call sign "Neo"

 

[JAEGERX]

"Mailman"

 

[CardonaLJ**]

Oh man. When I was on Marine Security Guard I had tons of em. I will list all the ones I can remember.

Carnuba - DI called me this in Bootcamp.
Cardonuts - SSGT's little kid couldnt say my name so he called me this. It stuck for a while
Shooter - Had a ND with a shotgun first day of post. I will elaborate if need be.
Lost Shooter - Later in the same week, I got lost talking to U-Bahn and S-Bahn from Downtown Berlin to Clayallee after my shift ended
Buttons - Long story, but it includes me arguing with another guy on post on who should open our mag locked doors to one of the embassy personnel. Will elaborate later as well
Broken Chair - Went to the German-American Volkfest across the street from the consulate in berlin. Sat down in a chair and the shit collapsed. I was a whopping 135 lber back then
Big Red - Went out one night, met some girls, we all got hammered, heading back home one of them threw up all over me, friend asked me to make it seem cool so he could get laid, i offered the girl a stick of gum and then proceeded to make out with her
Tardo - Regional Security Office called me this cuz I would act stupid at times when i yemen.
Smokey - Habitual smoker

Those are some I can remember and that are on my going away plaques and shit.

 

[Protectandserve]

Don't have one but I knew a guy who was a Chaplain's Assistant that used to pick names like "Lady Bug" or "Fuzzy Bunny" for his when he would go through people's battlespace with the chaplain. Said it really pissed off all the "Death Dealer, War Horse, Stalker, etc" guys to have to call "Lady Bug" on the net.

 

[heavyarms21]

Every body called me 40 in my first unit , you can take a guess why

 

[bcordova]

They called me "hotsauce". The red hair hair.

 

[WinterSoldier]

They called me "Wipeout" at Aviation Challenge because I face planted trying to look cool on a Razor Scooter.

Ouch that sounds like a painfully earned nickname.

 

[WinterSoldier]

I work in Aviation and Callsigns were a pilot thing. But we gave some guys nicknames based how we knew them.

Best Call signs I liked

Lt. Wood Call sign "Morning"
Major Anderson call sign "Neo"

You guys in the aviation field got all the cool call signs for pilots and all the good looking women.

 

[WinterSoldier]

"Mailman"

Now that is one badass nickname.

 

[WinterSoldier]

Oh man. When I was on Marine Security Guard I had tons of em. I will list all the ones I can remember.

Carnuba - DI called me this in Bootcamp.
Cardonuts - SSGT's little kid couldnt say my name so he called me this. It stuck for a while
Shooter - Had a ND with a shotgun first day of post. I will elaborate if need be.
Lost Shooter - Later in the same week, I got lost talking to U-Bahn and S-Bahn from Downtown Berlin to Clayallee after my shift ended
Buttons - Long story, but it includes me arguing with another guy on post on who should open our mag locked doors to one of the embassy personnel. Will elaborate later as well
Broken Chair - Went to the German-American Volkfest across the street from the consulate in berlin. Sat down in a chair and the shit collapsed. I was a whopping 135 lber back then
Big Red - Went out one night, met some girls, we all got hammered, heading back home one of them threw up all over me, friend asked me to make it seem cool so he could get laid, i offered the girl a stick of gum and then proceeded to make out with her
Tardo - Regional Security Office called me this cuz I would act stupid at times when i yemen.
Smokey - Habitual smoker

Those are some I can remember and that are on my going away plaques and shit.

That is a quite a list of impressive and well earned nicknames. What did you guard while in the Corps?

 

[WinterSoldier]

Oh man. When I was on Marine Security Guard I had tons of em. I will list all the ones I can remember.

Carnuba - DI called me this in Bootcamp.
Cardonuts - SSGT's little kid couldnt say my name so he called me this. It stuck for a while
Shooter - Had a ND with a shotgun first day of post. I will elaborate if need be.
Lost Shooter - Later in the same week, I got lost talking to U-Bahn and S-Bahn from Downtown Berlin to Clayallee after my shift ended
Buttons - Long story, but it includes me arguing with another guy on post on who should open our mag locked doors to one of the embassy personnel. Will elaborate later as well
Broken Chair - Went to the German-American Volkfest across the street from the consulate in berlin. Sat down in a chair and the shit collapsed. I was a whopping 135 lber back then
Big Red - Went out one night, met some girls, we all got hammered, heading back home one of them threw up all over me, friend asked me to make it seem cool so he could get laid, i offered the girl a stick of gum and then proceeded to make out with her
Tardo - Regional Security Office called me this cuz I would act stupid at times when i yemen.
Smokey - Habitual smoker

Those are some I can remember and that are on my going away plaques and shit.

Don't have one but I knew a guy who was a Chaplain's Assistant that used to pick names like "Lady Bug" or "Fuzzy Bunny" for his when he would go through people's battlespace with the chaplain. Said it really pissed off all the "Death Dealer, War Horse, Stalker, etc" guys to have to call "Lady Bug" on the net.

Didn't have a call sign or nickname? That sucks and I thought everyone did. I like the story about the Chaplin's assistant and I would be mad too with a nickname like that.

 

[WinterSoldier]

Every body called me 40 in my first unit , you can take a guess why

Was that 40 for ounces or caliber?

 

[WinterSoldier]

They called me "hotsauce". The red hair hair.

That's a cool nickname too for a redhead and our redheaded guy in our squad was called Catsup.

 

[WinterSoldier]

Zipp. I guess it stayed with me, huh?

Zipp is another one of those catchy names and glad to see it stuck with you.

 

[Protectandserve]

I don't have a call sign cause I am seriously never on the net. I think mine would be "Sentinel 2" right now if I was ever on. Closest I have to a nickname is everyone calls me Officer____ instead of LT____ due to me being a cop on the civilian side.

 

[heavyarms21]

Was that 40 for ounces or caliber?

Well I would have hated to play a game of edward 40 hands with a gun

 

[WinterSoldier]

Well I would have hated to play a game of edward 40 hands with a gun

I thought you meant ounces and wanted to make sure. I wouldn't want to play a hand of Edward 40 Hands with a gun or a knife.

 

[motorboatJones]

When I was stationed in California my shop super was a retired Air Force MSgt. He was so ate up. He demanded that when we used the shop radios we use call signs of 62 Alpha, 62 Bravo, etc. instead of just saying "Hey Dave, can you meet me on the B-52 side of the base, we have a leak at one of the pump stations." There were 4 military and 3 civilians in our shop. No one else heard our radio convos so it was just stupid, really, really stupid.