What are some of the best name combinations you came across while serving?
What are some of the best name combinations you came across while serving?
I knew a Soldier with the last name Major and he was a sergeant, so when someone would call his name SGT Major, Soldiers would go to parade rest or the Sergeant Major (E-9) would turn around.
I also knew a Major Lipp. She was not at all a wordy or confrontational person, but people would crack jokes about it anyway. Oh, and her first name was Cherry, and she was decent looking, so behind her back some of the more sexist guys would make jokes about "where Cherry Lipp's Cherry Lips could go." More than once people had to be reported for that one (including reported by me), but unfortunately, in the time I knew her they always seemed to get out of trouble somehow.
I can only imagine Drinkwater at basic...."DRINK WATER" and she come running over.....must have been most hydrated unit ever!
When I was with 3rd Bn 5th Marines in Iraq in 2003, as an Army Civil Affairs Officer - I knew a SGT Cherry, who was assigned to 3/5.
When the Marines left, and I went to Ramadi - I worked with a Major Hope.
I met the following US Airmen in Iraq - Major Clutter and SSgt Snoozy;
and a British Army Officer that I know LtCol Jamie Balls. Jamie stated that when he went through the British Army Officer school --Sandhurst--, he was known as "Coxswain Balls..."
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