The Three Rules of Callsigns
- If you don’t already have one, you will be assigned one by your “buddies”.
- You probably won’t like it.
- If you complain and moan too much about 1. and 2., you’ll get a new nickname you’ll like even less!
So, how do you get a callsign?
Do something stupid or have it fit with your last name. Obvious examples, ‘Crash’ or LT ‘Cheese’ Kraft. Sometimes it’s based on a physical appearance thing like ‘Carrot’. After you’ve earned the respect of your buddies, you’ll get a more ‘heroic’ callsign.
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Boom-Boom
‘Jeff ‘Boom-Boom’ Paulk, a 10TFS pilot got his name for a funny thing. He used to be the Nr2 Quaterback at the Georgia U football team, so a very competitive guy. One night at the O’Club one of the Sabres challenged all his bro’s with the Sabre coin. When a pilot challenges another with the… Read More »Callsigns
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“W” or Dubya
My daughter was a Flight Equipment Tech assigned to an A-10 squadron at Davis-Monthan. Her last name started with a “W” and the Hog drivers found out she was a big fan of Bush 43.
007
We called him 007.<br>0 motivation<br>0 skills<br>7 shit breaks
1N
Air Battle Manager, his name was "Glen", not "Glenn" and he made sure everyone knew it.
900
Female pilot – her voice on the radios was just like an operator of a 1-900 number.
A.B.
Ass Blaster. Had the ability to clear a room by breaking wind. Rumor was he was in bed with a girl, lit one, and it was so bad she got dressed and left.
ACE
E-6 Wing Commander. Back when he was in pilot training, his girlfriend (eventual wife) came to his graduation. He was caught with her in the backseat of her car. The story preceded him to his first assignment, where they promptly gave him his callsign: Anal Cavity Explorer.
Adolf
A German COS that was a jew. It was too perfect.
AFIASH
A young LT in our squadron, stands for 'Always Fit in any A$$ Hole'…
AFLACK
Given to me by my fellow maintence workers! Even though I am not a pilot since it was embraced by my pilots and I think it qualifies! They still call me by it 5 yrs later!
Fresh out of Tech School and First TDY at red flag in 02! We were at Nellis AFB and I went out Drinking with my pilots. It was also a few months after my 21st birthday. Needless to say I did not have much of an alcohol tolerance built up yet! Trying to keep up with the pilots was a bad idea!
It started off with. You’re walking like you have pillows on your feet! Then progressed to Flippers! Then to you walk like a duck! AFLACK!!!!!!! From the duck of the aflac commercials, Spelled different to avoid being sued!
Agony
A man named Payne.
AHAB
Always Humping Asian B**ches. Because that's all he did.
Air-Fix
Pretty vain and looked like a model apparently… i.e. air fix model. He was an engineer though , not a pilot – hence the fix part…
ALF
Annoying Little F**k
Alien
My Boss in the 35th Fighter Squadron at Kunsan AB, ROK was Capt Mike Buck, now Retired LTC. He was new to the fighter world from being an instructor pilot at UPT and he was getting a second degree in Physics so he could get a slot in Test Pilot School at Edwards. I guess his first degree was in like, French or something non scientific.
Well, this guy liked space stuff, stories, airships, space ships, pretty much everything outer space oriented, so I figured he was really an Alien trying to get back to his mothership.
During one of our fighter sweeps, where the entire squadron hits the local town to party it up, drink some drinks from every bar in the dive town, then catch some STD they haven't discovered a cure for yet…we had Capt Buck up on stage and the unit was throwing out names. So I started going around through the crowd telling people that we had to get him back to his spaceship soon because he was an Alien…and vola!
If anyone know's Mike Buck, tell him to look me up.
Don Juice Welch
Alphabet
Had this new guy in the squadron by the name of Varsonofy Krestovozdvizhensky. After the first day, everybody just called him Alphabet.
Amber
He disappeared so frequently from work they had to send out the [insert callsign] for him to come back.
Angrez
Pronounced 'uhn-graze'. Hindi for english-speaker. South Indian IAF cadet who joined the academy without knowing a word of Hindi.
Angry
Thunderbird 9 – Flight Doc. Always nice – gets really yappy. Perfectly described his personality
Anteater
Let's just say the guy wasn't Jewish.
ANTIFA
Had a buddy who was a Navy pilot but couldn’t stand the Hornet community. So we named him ANTIFA (Anti-Fighter Attack)
Apex
During F-16 FWIC, this guy was supposed to be a docile Red Air target for his fellow studs trying to pass the intercepts phase. However, he insisted on aggressively shooting at his fellow classmates and screwing up their intercepts. Thus "Apex", after the Soviet AA-7 missile.
Apollo
Last name Creed
Arclight
This guy had a personality like a B-52 strike
ATM
My illustrious colleagues at Sheppard Googled my name and found my Doppelganger is a 5'2" amateur adult film star advertising her business. Well apparently she specializes in a niche called "A** To Mouth", and needless to say the name stuck.
Atom
Guy was the smallest pilot in the squadron
All callsigns starting with the letter A
“W” or Dubya
My daughter was a Flight Equipment Tech assigned to an A-10 squadron at Davis-Monthan. Her last name started with a “W” and the Hog drivers found out she was a big fan of Bush 43.
007
We called him 007.<br>0 motivation<br>0 skills<br>7 shit breaks
1N
Air Battle Manager, his name was "Glen", not "Glenn" and he made sure everyone knew it.