Posted on Dec 3, 2013
What's your favorite military "nickname" or "call sign"?
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It's no secret, we're big on nicknames in the military, and there's some really great ones out there... so, what's your favorite? It could be a nickname that you had, or someone you know, from a move or tv show; it could be a nickname for a rank, base/location, career field, position/title, weapon system, piece of gear, personnel, or just about anything else under the sun. Perhaps it was a nickname for a mascot, civilian personnel, military family member, or something altogether different that has to do w/ the military, military life, or life from the military perspective. Well, this should be an absolute blast folks; so, feel free to share any related info, facts, photos, links, historical context, or just plain entertaining sea stories. The idea here is simple, to share fun and interesting info and to learn a thing or two in the process; now let's get this thing started, so pull up a keyboard, and... see you all in the discussion threads!
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In one unit that I was assigned to we all had beaver call signs. I being the M88 driver used "Beaver Retriever", I will stop at that on that one. In Iraq in 07-08 one of our MITT Teams had a cup cake 6 call sign.
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Mine was bestowed upon me by a Brig Gen John Shalikashvili; "Tubes" Galloway all because my team had more direct fire reports than 2 divisions and my Alma Mater the 2nd ACR. Too bad it was only training exercises though.
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I was the NCOIC of CATD Engineer Branch and we taught all the demo classes for all the schools here at Ft. Benning. For our basic demo class we put on a skit to keep it interesting for the students. The instructor had an assistant call Buddy Row Kudzu (BRK) which I am the last one. It was BRK's responsibility to harass the instructor to know end but everything he did two repeated what the instructor just said and the hands own demo was by the book. Sadly after I had gone back to the line in 1994 the new NCOIC stopped the skit.
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Boonie...its Arabic for Brown...which makes it easy for our partners to join in the fun.
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