What's your favorite military "nickname" or "call sign"?

I was Skypup. A bunch of us gave each other "dog" nick names, a portion of their name ending in DOG. I'm small so it it was declared that I was too small to be a dog and was called Sky"pup" instead. It stuck and 30 years later I'm still called it!<br>

When I was a PVT E-1 very new to the Army, I was the baby of my group and my NCOIC called me "Little man", lol

I haven't developed a new call sign at my current unit but I feel that's coming soon....

As for my favorites, I mean come on folks Goose and Maverick! HELLO Top Gun!!??!! Highway to the danger zone anyone?

As the only MI guy in a platoon of scouts and tankers going around kicking in doors, I was eloquently named "PowerPoint"...

Soulless 2-3, due my&nbsp;Ginger&nbsp;heritage and the fact Gingers have no souls lol jk.

<div>I've had a few:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>PROFESSOR: Had an overly analytical opinion about many things and would provide factual evidence to support those opinions.</div><div><br></div><div>SNAKE EATER: Nothing strange, I just made a strong push to catch a cobra in the Philippines to make cobra adobo. Got blasted by the CoC. I later drank snake blood and venom in Taiwan to satisfy my in-laws.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>ROBOT: As an E-6 there was a LOT going on in my life, so I basiclly switched to robot mode and had very few personal connections with juniors or superiors. I focused on getting the job done, and getting the job done. I worked out like a machine, quoted regulation, and took every mission possible. I’m better now. =)&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>

They say you can't choose your own nickname and I firmly believe this. <br>I got mine in AIT as an Air Force retread after a 22 year break in service at the ripe age of 46. My then 22 year old room mate's favorite movie was Talladega Nights (the saga of Ricky Bobby). Well given my seemingly "elderly" status he started calling me Grandpa Chip at first as a great joke but as most nicknames go it spread like wild fire and I had almost everyone calling me either Grampa Chip or just Chip. This actually continued to my unit and many of my former soldiers still call me Sgt Chip.&nbsp;

My first NCOIC called me "Vann-skee" for years, and don't know why but I swear he was in the mob so I just accepted it and said "Yes, sir". My last CDR in this unit called me either "Vann-man or Dick" depending on the situation. If he needed me for something, the first, if I made fun of something or someone, the latter.&nbsp;

<p>I had the same nickname in service that I had as a child growing up, it started out as a smart "ass" one from my friends as a kid, but stuck with me growing up because of my wild side and adventurousness, but when I went into the Army, some of my colleagues had learned from my girlfriend at the time and it came to pass with me there as well, especially with my job and working drug interdiction in the late 80s into the early 90s. It was "Bad Boy", just like the song and the movie, but I was the original one before both, so I used to have to tell people in the later 90s, I was not copying because of the career choice I had, but because I was nicknamed that from 20 years earlier. Of course many shrugged it off as BS from me, but many of my fellow MPs that knew me from years prior backed me up and even found a photo of me in the mid-80s with it on the back of my football jersey for a unit team from Germany.</p><p><br></p><p>Long story I know, but had to include the back story as well for all to understand, and to this day many in my family (mine and my military one) still refer to me by that nickname.</p>

For about the first 10 years or so I was Wilky or Wilk, then for a few years it was Silky Wilk and the last few at ACU-5 I was Wookie.