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Well I am jealous
I should have started one on CALL long ago:wry:
Or maybe me and Stan in Goma :cool:
I was Tango 5 and there were all the little Tangos, according to Tango 2!
Where was Doctrine Man when we needed him?! :wry:
when we were known as Cedar Radio on the HF managing MAC flights (for those younger than 40, it's or was AMC).
The remainder of the USMM were eloquently known as Cedars One thru 15 (being me, the most junior even as an E-7). Girlfriends came and went, but we adjusted to Cedar One Point Five for my standbys and tried to recognize accents. My latest catch was MS B from the Swedish Embassy :p
Only later did I concern myself with our call signs "Cedar" when having the HF repaired, I noticed "made in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA."
With that John, I can only imagine how you acquired Tango 5 :cool:
I was Five Three Bravo Tango. Five Three was 3rd platoon. Bravo was the Platoon leader and Bravo Tango meant I was his RTO. :wry:
Sapper 16, Sapper 5, Heavy Red 1, Fox Blue 1, Rifles 35A, Quickstrike 6, Iron 6, and (currently) Lightning 6.
Dummy: freshmen year, Airborne School, RANGER School, language school (especially from my French instructor who was a retired Jesuit priest)
A$$h0le: too many times to count (my wife likes this one)
Colonel, comrade, and friend: Stan (he likes dummy, too, for good reason)
Tom
Bulldog 95, Coldsteel 10 & 26, Hammer 5, Mongoose 95, Balls 2, Warrior 1 and currently Warrior 3.
Still lacking a 6. Hope to get it soon.
Typically "hey, you", although there have been variations on same from time to time.
Usually Mad Dog.
The rest (far more common) are NSFW.
:D
Wildcat 6 Romeo, head shrink, and by one clueless squad leader "that by the book soldier" (I tried to explain why crossing lanes of fire during a room entry was a BBAAADDDD idea and dug out my ranger handbook to help illustrate)
meh.
Reed
The one I hear the most these days, and like the best: Dad:) Best, Rob
Birthday/Halloween party. Took 14 kids through the pastures at night - Shiloh's Pastures of Peril (Shiloh is her horse and a real spook). 2 other Dad's and I were the live spooks - they were Vampires; I was a Ninja monster. As they were coming around my hide sites I heard my daughter calling, "Daddy, don't scare us!":)
Cheers
JohnT
"Tomcat 6," "Avenger 2," and my favorite, "Nightmare 1." Compared to these, "Editor" and "Director" are depressing, but not as depressing as "Mister."
Long ago--when I was a captain--in a galaxy far away--known as Leavenworth--a friend of mine who was a Major would do a Schtick in the hall way of CSI about "rat faced civilians". I was doing it with him one time when a good friend and Deputy Director and chair of my project on the 64 Congo crisis, Dr. Roger Spiller called me in and politely but effectively chewed my ass.
Some 15 years later when I first went up to Leavenworth as a civilian military analyst I was running around Bell Hall and I hear "So, Odom, who is a rat-faced civilian, now?" Of course it was Spiller...
You know, RFC does sound kinda catchy part of a signature block :cool:
Tom
I tend to prefer PFC...as in Private F*$&!n' Civilian. Best uttered when inspection teams or the like are due in shortly and you're the only one who doesn't have to freak out about them....:D