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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My first was "SGT Know it All", then in OIF 1 it was "Stinky" now that I am retired I am "S8"
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I picked up three names in Basic, but only one stuck. The first was Harry (Potter), because my hair was super short and my BCGs kinda made me resemble Harry. The second was The Good Humor Man, because when I put on my Class A's with cover, I resembled the Good Humor Man. The one that stuck, though, was DB. My DS couldn't pronounce the last name I had then, Diliberto. He would call me Deliburrito. One day, he got all tripped up on it. In frustration, he turned to me with knife hand, and hollered, "That's it! From now on you're DB! You're just DB!" It stuck for the next six years. The only people who called me by my full last name, were ones who either didn't know me, or didn't like me. Made it easy to know who my friends were. Once in a while, I still hear that nickname. I have a pic from Iraq of my gunner's seat, salvaged from scrap, on which I put the initials with a paint pen. Wonder where that seat ended up after our tour?
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While in boot camp at Parris Island, one night somebody screwed up and we all had to paid for it. We had our foot lockers raised over our heads for about 30 minutes, then someone dropped their footlocker, so we had to do it again for another 30 minutes, I was pissed and I said "Oh you c#$&sucker" kind of under my breath, but I didn't realize that another Drill Instructor was standing behind me and heard what I say. Well started yelling profanity. Well hence forth I was know as "Profanity Child" thru out boot camp. I won't descried what happen next, but it was not pretty.
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My nickname before entering active service in the Seabees was my initials TR. Somehow because of my name tags on my utilities Ross TK my nickname changed to TK just in Seabees amongest the men I served with in MCB-4. Timothy K. Ross EON3 USN 1968
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