What nickname were you given when you served in the Military?

1SG Carl McAndrews

Muchos gracias senor!

Interesting enough, my dad for his PhD thesis pretty much invented the jet fuel as we know it now. Apparently jets would spontaneously explode and he found the cause and that was his PhD. Since it was a thesis he couldn't get a patent/copyright etc.

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My call sign was given by my Platoon, Stubby. Vietnam 1968. As a freshly minted 2nd LT. and my first day in the field, my platoon Sgt. mentioned I needed a call sign. I then asked the platoon to give me a call sign, after several days of consideration, they decided to call me Stubby, for two reasons, I was the shortest man (5'6") in the Platoon, and the FOB was cut out of a hill top and there were many tree roots exposed, and always at a run when the CO called, I would catch my toe on a tree root and stub my toe, therefore, Stubby. Made sense to me :-)

Lol, I’m rewatching Major Dad on Hulu. I’m trying to visualize Major Mom.

AWCS Paul t. Ewing crewmenber on P5M, P2V ans P3A always chief cook on all these aircraft. I loved every minute of my over 600 flight hours. I started as an AT, AX, then AW, left after 20 years, stations were VP-56 Norfolk, VP-16 Jacksonville, then VP-22
Barbers Point, Hawaii Always called Chief Cook P.T. and you can see why.

Way to go CPT Hogan! Sign me up!

Mine was simple - Kaz!

SP5 Mark Kuzinski - You're lucky you weren't called Unabomber or Ted like me.

CPT (Join to see) - At one time I ordered a pizza in Dearborn MI and when I got there the said is this a pizza for Ted!