What nicknames were you given in the military?

Because I called cadence for our school classes in the morning, I was called mouth. This was when I was at AO “A” School in Jax, Fla.
After thinking about it for awhile, I thought that I would add another nickname I was given. When I was younger I had a remarkable resemblance to Elvis Presley in his youth. I am reminded of a story of when some buddies and I went to a drive theater on Liberty one time. We were walking by the snack bar past a small group of girls, when one of them called out “Elvis?” Naturally, since I was used to answering to that name I responded, “yes!”. She fainted on the spot. I thought it quite humorous.

CPL Dave Hoover, the one that I got during boot camp was "Zipper" I was so skinny, that I got a waver and double rations while in boot camp. The whole platoon hated me. If I stood sideways and stuck out my tongue I looked like a zipper. LMBO

Already posted that question CPL Dave Hoover - mine was "Burly"

https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-nickname-were-you-given-when-you-served-in-the-military

I was given the nickname "chuck" by another crew chief who said I looked like Charlie Brown. I don't see the resemblance and it stuck with me up until this day..the price one pays for working in the same field for the same boss as a civilian..

Well basically I have two CPL Dave Hoover . The first one I attained is when I first got to Aschaffenburg, Germany. My first night I went to our on Kaserne bowling Alley. After having a couple of German beers " Which are strong for newby's ". I started a conversation with another GI there . " Note ",he was wearing a kaufman high school T-shirt.
I thought to myself Can't be Texas ? So I asked him if it was Texas, and he said yes it was where he graduated. I am from Ennis which is about 30 miles west of Kaufman, Texas. I thought how ironic I meet some one in Germany from my neck of the woods. Now mind you, this was my first night in my regular unit. so I stayed in the newby barracks on the Kaserne.
The very next day I was assigned Alpha company in 3rd platoon. Every body in the platoon was working in the motor pool. My platoon Sergeant assigned my room with another in a shared room. I had no idea whom he was. My platoon Sergeant squared me away and told me to be in formation By 1700 hours.
After formation we all were dismissed and I went back to my barracks room. About 30 minutes later my room mate showed up and it was the GI I had a conversation at the bowling alley. I asked if this his room and of course he said yes. He looked at me and said," we'll I guess you are my new roomy Homegrown ! " So Everybody in the platoon called me " Homegrown " after that. Some of the NCO's didn't find it amusing but, it stuck !

The other nickname I got is when I achieved the rank Sergeant. After that I was known as Sgt Mac. Which Mac is still used today. Great post CPL Dave Hoover .

Turtle it followed me to every base!

My nickname was Roach CPL Dave Hoover. I was given that before I enlisted and it stuck with me through West Point. It is engraved on my West Point class ring and is included in the entries min the yearbook known as the Howitzer.
At West Point I has subscriptions to High Times, Soldier of Fortune and Mother Jones. After I was sentenced by a Brigade board to the maximum punishment of 60 tours [as a plebe] I was respected by the upper class members. For one reason or another I ended up with over 100 hours of punishment tours.

Variations of Roach were used at times. I was Russian Exchange student Vladimir Rochevsky at times when we had road trips to the ladies colleges. Roach the Romeo was another epithet :-)

This is the same response I posted to our friend's COL Mikel J. Burroughs's question - which he shared the link to.

Zipper head. Seems like everything told got leaked out every once in a while

CPL Dave Hoover I've Always been "Chip" "Chip off the Old Block" or "Chipmunk" but Professionally as a Naval Communicator We are Known by Our Chops. 2 Letters, Usually Initials but due some constraints I couldn't use My Initials so another Option is used 2 Letters signifying Your Home. So I was KC So to a Lot of My Fellow O-Branchers they Know Me as Casey.

I was called the lance colonel