Fun Time... What was your Call Sign/Nickname?

Iowa or Hawkeye.....I'm a big Iowa Hawkeye fan....when I did cadence I would mix in something Hawkeye related. Here is my chu while deployed:

Chilly Willy

My brother In-laws name is Blake. His aviation call sign is Brake. He was embarrassed to tell me when I had a Japanese wife. He popped several tires landing with a certain pair of boots on. We went with that explanation. LoL

I don't recall call signs while I was in Germany for our Infantry BN. But the troops themselves came up with the best nickname ever. We were 1/52 In but the troops christened us 1/5ZOO, They went as far as to call each other Zoosters.

Mine was a Call Sign Nick Name. Meaning I never used it over the air. In my first assignment as a CSM, the First Sgts of the BN referred to me as "Spoon 7" behind my back. They didn't let on till my farewell dinner thinking I may take offense because of my career in Food Service. They meant it as a compliment and a term of respect. That is how I took it and still use it 20 years after I retired.

Bueller. It was a great documentary!

Not a natural runner, always slow so they called me “SPEEDY”!!!

Working as the XO of Army Reserve Communications (PAO shop for OCAR), I overheard one of the junior officers complaining about how the senior leadership was clueless about exploiting social media. The NCO that she was talking to asked if it was an age thing, and she replied, "No. LTC Harris is a dinosaur, and he gets it." Then she realized that she'd called me a dinosaur, and began apologizing, but I said that it was okay, and that we should shake on it, but when she put her hand out, I said, in my best geezer voice, "Sorry, but I can't reach you with these little T-Rex arms." I was T-Rex for a couple of days, but it didn't stick.

On a CH47 crew in Honduras “Big Bad Wolf” yeah we blew a house down on approach. Local farmer had built a hut right at the tree line near a little village Los Possos over the weekend. Wasn’t there Friday and bam right there on Monday morning. Coming in with a sling load of fuel for the engineers who were building roads. It was an approach we flew 3-4 times a week so it was pretty standard. Never lived that one down.

I was attached to an infantry company as a tanker in a stryker unit. One of the infantry team leaders survived testicular cancer. He was known as “wrecking ball”. He took it well.