The Neverending Callsign thread (Best/Worst/Funniest and where they came from)

[badger16]

Eddie and Badger16, Your question on aircraft and squadrons during my career.
1951. U.S.S BonHomme Richard CVA-31.. VF-781 F9F-2B Panther jet.
1952 Exchange pilot program to 1sMAW ( 1st Marine Air Wing) VMJ-1 K3 Airfield. Pohang. Korea. Flying F2H-2B Banshee fighter escort for aerial photographic reconnaissance squadron
1953. U.S.S. Princeton CVA-37.. VF-152 The Fighting Aces. F2H-2B Banshee fighter escort for VC-61 photo reconn.

1955. U. S. S. Hancock CV-19. F7U-3 Cutlass. Worst Navy aircraft to fly.

1957. NAS Agana, Guam. VP-6 Flying P2V-Neptune. Typhon Hunters.

1964 U.S.S. Constellation CVA-64 VA-144 A-4C- Skyhawk. Vietnam

1966 U.S.S. Oriskany CVA-34 VA-163 A-4E Vietnam

that is very very impressive sir. You said the F7U-3 was the worst jet to fly. what was your favorite?

 

[Gainesy]

Couple of RAF ones:
"Tess" Tickle --Jaguar pilot.
"Toyah" Wilcox--Tornado nav.

 

[Mumbles]

Best/Worst/Funniest Call Signs

Today at work I was engaged with a few submariner bubbas about aviation C/S's and the genesis thereof...... so I implore Ye fellow Warriors to divulge stories, (or just the C/S...and we can leave the rest to imagination). Here's a few I can think of.

Spooge, Puke, Showtunes, Felcher......

 

[burningfeathers]

FUNGUS (Fuck You New Guy You Suck), my favorite ever.
That stuck with the guy for five years.

 

[Shpion1]

CAULK BLOCKER. If I remember right he was a Pukin' Dog back in 98 on the STENNIS.

 

[a_m]

NEMO (nobody expects much output)
Circum (Last name Seiser)
Double (last name Fister)
Frumba (last name Hines-fairly common one)

 

[Pags]

Personally, I've had the following hung on me at various times:
1. Stupid (what do you call a guy who gets married right before det?)
2. 3-Wire/Magellan (might have been a bit lost and "found" the FCLP pattern at Fentress)
3. Sparrow (dropped 1.35mil worth of em in the drink)

 

[Mumbles]

To this day I don't know if I'm Mumbles because of my lack of elocution.....OR....the fact that some squadronmates thought that I looked like a gangster?? Probably a little of both.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Stinky (and before that Pepe) - I took 4 showers in three weeks during a CAX at 29 Palms.

 

[el douge]

SAJAK = Situational Awareness Just Above Kelvin

 

[Birdog8585]

SAJAK = Situational Awareness Just Above Kelvin

That is brilliant...even sounds cool, but it's what lies beneath...

 

[Uncle Fester]

"Sounds cool, but embrassing story" are the best callsigns.

Second best are "Sounds embarassing, but there's no real story to it." 'Cuz no one believes you when you say there's no story.

I just got "Fester" from being bald and stocky. But my dad's was "Gomez" (especially bad cruise mustache on nugget cruise), so that's cool.

 

[Morgan81]

Overheard two IP's talking about this in Primary, I have no idea if they're real or not but apparently they're the only callsigns that stuck from Primary that these two had heard about...
Tumbleweed - walked too close to the rear of a C-12 doing a runup
Caucasian - hooked up with an Asian tranny.

 

[Flash]

FRIBAT - Flew Right Into Big Ass Tower

 

[picklesuit]

My partner in Corpus got the callsign "Sprinkles"

I was sucking it up in the pattern in the On-Wing stage of Fams in the mighty T-12, constant overbank ("you are not in the T-6 anymore") overspeed, drug-in, angling final, and forgetting to turn off lights with gear up, etc.

My IP says every time I go over 30 AOB he is going to charge me a crispy creme donut...Ens Smartass sitting behind me pipes up with "I want sprinkles on mine"...Sprinkles it was for the rest of Advanced...