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    Default Council Screen Names


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    Well I am jealous

    I should have started one on CALL long ago

    Or maybe me and Stan in Goma

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    Well I am jealous

    I should have started one on CALL long ago

    Or maybe me and Stan in Goma
    Hmmm, there's nothing sexier than call signs 501 and 506

    Well, there used to be 13 call signs before Tom arrived
    If you want to blend in, take the bus

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    Default In El Salvador

    I was Tango 5 and there were all the little Tangos, according to Tango 2!

    Where was Doctrine Man when we needed him?!

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    Default There was a time

    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

    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
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    I was Five Three Bravo Tango. Five Three was 3rd platoon. Bravo was the Platoon leader and Bravo Tango meant I was his RTO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
    Only later did I concern myself with our call signs "Cedar" when having the HF repaired, I noticed "made in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA."
    The Collins radio story is pretty cool.

    I've been Blue 6, Bushmaster 6 and Hellraiser 6.

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    Sapper 16, Sapper 5, Heavy Red 1, Fox Blue 1, Rifles 35A, Quickstrike 6, Iron 6, and (currently) Lightning 6.
    Example is better than precept.

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    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)


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    Default This is...

    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.
    Last edited by jkm_101_fso; 10-17-2008 at 04:27 PM.
    Sir, what the hell are we doing?

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    Typically "hey, you", although there have been variations on same from time to time.
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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    Usually Mad Dog.

    The rest (far more common) are NSFW.

    John Wolfsberger, Jr.

    An unruffled person with some useful skills.

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    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.
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    This truly is the bike helmet generation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jkm_101_fso View Post
    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.
    Apache White 1, Stetson 5, War Eagle 5, Ready 3A, Duke 1, Duke 4, Battle 6, Ready Main.

    Currently no callsign.
    "A Sherman can give you a very nice... edge."- Oddball, Kelly's Heroes
    Who is Cavguy?

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    Currently no callsign.
    Army of One?

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    The one I hear the most these days, and like the best: Dad Best, Rob

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    Default We just had our daughter's 9th

    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

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    "Tomcat 6," "Avenger 2," and my favorite, "Nightmare 1." Compared to these, "Editor" and "Director" are depressing, but not as depressing as "Mister."
    David H. "Cow" Gurney
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hownowcow View Post
    "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


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    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....
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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