Do NFOs/ECMOS even rate a callsign??
If your grades in flight school were good enough to rate jets, then you'd know the answer to that question.
Brett
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If your grades in flight school were good enough to rate jets, then you'd know the answer to that question.
Brett
If your grades in flight school were good enough to rate jets, then you'd know the answer to that question.
Brett
You mean good enough to sit in the front?? :icon_tong
Good One Bubba
Guess you've never seen a Prowler?
In my first squadron, we had a B/N with the call sign "Dog." About a year into the squadron, he was assigned to a brand new pilot and, on their first hop together off the ship (we were in the South China Sea), Dog got hopelessly lost and wound up somewhere in the vicinity of Iwo Jima, only about 900 miles from where they were supposed to be, and we had to launch an extra tanker to go save them. In the ready room afterwards, he earned the call sign Barko Polo, to which he immediately announced wasn't funny, so of course it stuck.
Now THAT is the stuff of good callsigns. With a couple creative exceptions, the ones based on people's names are usually lame.
Brett
Tomcat crew in mid 80's launched on Alert 5. As we were EMCON they were using a SINS cable, no RF. The cable got pulled early and the INS dumped...pilot insisted they launch or Brand X would go first.
They got hopelessly lost about 400 miles from the boat. New RIO call sign: Magellan. An A-7 at the very edge of his search area picked up their beacon on guard and they were recovered.
Do Marien Corp hello buebas rate callsigns, too?
They got hopelessly lost about 400 miles from the boat. New RIO call sign: Magellan. An A-7 at the very edge of his search area picked up their beacon on guard and they were recovered.
Do Marien Corp hello buebas rate callsigns, too?
We also had a JO who fell into a binjo ditch one night in Singapore. Henceforth, the legend of Binjo Bob was secure.
(for those who don't know, a binjo ditch is an open sewer running by the side of the road. flight surgeons don't have enough shots to cover what might infect you from one...)
Another great 'earned' call sign was when a JO and his buddy were having a night with a couple Filipino ladies in a hotel in Olangapo and, as reported by one regarding the other (name Steve, and he wasn't a small guy), Steve's lady friend was overheard saying, as he was 'climbing aboard,' so to speak, "Oh Steeb, you so heaby." The Steeb name tag was made up within hours.
Which reminds me of famous Po quotes:
"Are you in, are you in??? You are...oh you sooo beeg."
I miss that place sometimes...so many memories...so many San Miguels...so many headaches...
The view from the Cubi O'Club down across the carrier pier to the bay and mountains beyond was priceless.
Seen plenty of em - I know one of you gets to ride shotgun. Splittin hairs aint we?