Posted on Jul 24, 2018
What nickname were you given when you served in the Military?
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RP Members, Connections, and Friends I believe there are some really outrageous nicknames that have been handed out to some of you when you served in the Military. Lets' get them out there and don't be embarrased. Please share! This is one of those Posts that just keep giving over time. RP Members keep adding your nicknames.
Don't leave us hanging - share the story behind the nickname too!!
One of my many was: "Burly" and when I was a PFC/E-3 it was "Horse Collar!" Others I can't repeat from Basic Training - use your imagination!
Don't leave us hanging - share the story behind the nickname too!!
One of my many was: "Burly" and when I was a PFC/E-3 it was "Horse Collar!" Others I can't repeat from Basic Training - use your imagination!
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I think one random day one of my soldiers stood at the position and yelled "El Presidente!" followed by an extremely awkward salute. And it just stuck after that.
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On my way to my first ship, I lost one of my contact lenses and had to show up wearing the BC glasses I got in boot camp. One of the guys in my shop said, "Those glasses make you look like Ernie from My Three Sons." For the rest of my time onboard, I got called that more often than I got called by name - even my department head called me Ernie. Even after I got a new contact lens, and also got spare non-BC glasses, the nickname stuck - I'm pretty sure there were people who thought it was my name.
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SSG William Wall
One of the guys in my CI resident office requested "Non-standard spectacles", because we were coat and tie guys. They came back from the lab, basic black plastic, about 5 sizes to big.
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I'm quite familiar w/ those specs! In the Army we called 'em "birth-control-glasses", and boy did they work-LOL!!!
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Wow, I just remember my 1SG in Co C, 2nd of the 17th Infantry, 7th infantry Division call me "Horse Collar" How could I forget that. Don't know why, but that was his favorite name for me from the beginning until he retired.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PO2 Michael Martin - That was his favorite saying "Horse Collar" Don't know where he got it, but it was his habit comment. LOL!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs Sprechen Ze Deutch, Hmmm. William, Nephew of William, Cousin of William, Grandson and Great Grandson of William, Father of William, Grandfather of William. Everybody in My Family has to Use a Nickname or Middle Name. LOL! Look a lot like My Father so "Chip off the Old Block" also born with a Severe Overbite "Chipmunk" the Name Stuck. Now I'm a Naval Communicator as Such We are Known by Our Chop (2 Letter Initials or Chosen 2 Letter Combination coming from Kansas City I Became KC or Casey as My Fellow O Branchers and Radiomen called Me) My Love and Passion is all things Radio to include CB Radio on which I was Known as "Blue Shark". I'm a Sailor and We always call folks by their Rate/MOS/Job Title, As Such I am CTO1. My Son in Law is a Sailor Robert Eli Taylor needless to Say All sailors that Know Him refer to Him as Cotton like Eli Whitney.
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SPC Woody Bullard
I'm going to try this "Chip" so don't laugh. I have not spoken German since I left Deutschland in 1971. Ich habe in 46 jahren kein Deutsch gesprochen und erinnere mich ein wenig. Guten abend Herr Nagel. I hope I didn't butcher that one. LOL !!!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SPC Woody Bullard Not at All Shipmate You Did Just Fine, Making Me Homesick for the Old Country!
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As a CW3 I had a good friend who became a major general and he called me JimBob, because I was from Mississippi and he'd always wanted a friend with two first names....really cracked the troops up to hear him invite Chief JimBob up during staff meetings.....
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When I was in Vietnam all of my closest comrades called me "B-Brain." The nickname was derivative from my habit of reading constanly on our standdowns. I didn't think the name was appropriate. My intellectual efficiency was marginal at best and I harbored tremendous ambivalence towards the implications that I was an "egghead."
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SPC Benjamin Hartog
The nickname "B-Brain" differentiated me from my fellow soldiers in my platoon. I hungered for a more respectable appellation that would provide me with a more comprehensive identity and dispel any notion that I was an "intellectual" who transcended all the picayune elements of Army life. I remember seething in a state of unappeasable discontentment whenever I was called "B-Brain". I was nineteen and still individuating and I could not articulate my objections to the nickname without imperiling the solidity of my comradeship with my fellow soldiers. I felt that my attachment to my buddies was of paramount importance and I learned the invaluable lesson that tolerance was a key component of my maturation as a soldier and a youthful man. Once I experienced this epiphany it facilitated my attempts to revision my relationships with the men in my platoon. It increased my sensitivity towards them and helped restore my sense of humor and openness that led me eventually to form deeper bonds with them. It was a stage in my psychological and emotional development and I have depended on this insight for my readjustment to civilian life both interpersonally and socially. My daughter is a living testimony to my efforts to share my vision with those who are close to me. She completed her graduate studies at Columbia and is now happily employed in Manhattan. Thus, my nickname "B-Brain" was instrumental in laying out my destiny as an intellectually aware individual. Walt Whitman wrote in the spirit of my vision when he said of his encounters with dying Union soldiers in the Armory hospital of Washington D.C. that they "opened a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity."
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Basic called me "Halo" or "Goku" since when asked what I did before the military, I told them I worked at Atari and FUNimation on DBZ games and other popular titles.
I was called "lil bit" in AIT due to my shortness (69 inches tall, go figure).
My platoon sergeant at first duty station called me "junior" despite me being older than him by 10 years. I guess it was a rank thing.
Some soldiers in Germany called me "DW"...found out it stood for drill wannabe, oh yes, they paid the price.
I was called "lil bit" in AIT due to my shortness (69 inches tall, go figure).
My platoon sergeant at first duty station called me "junior" despite me being older than him by 10 years. I guess it was a rank thing.
Some soldiers in Germany called me "DW"...found out it stood for drill wannabe, oh yes, they paid the price.
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