Largest Collection of Military Pilot Nicknames / Call Signs

Fearless Tower said:
Exactly.

And many call signs tend to come as a result of something bad or at least humorous that you did. I guarantee the guy with the c/s 'BRINA' did NOT select his own.
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So there we were, sitting in the ready room debriefing a series of maneuvers done during APT and one of the instructors says. . .

"Take Farrell there- he has more excuses than there are names in the New york phone book, but once he gets it he does it right. .. . "

The next day everyone started calling me 'phonebook . . . ' 2 syllables - phonetically clear -
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Isn't Kimberly Clark a brand of toilet paper?

What exactly are you trying to say?

I can't use a$$wipe since children will be on my site (student pilots).
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THERE IT IS!

Forever Kimberley is now "TeePee"

no escaping it now . . .
 
Threefingeredjack said:
Indeed. But perhaps to be fair those of us who were hung with call signs should relate their backstory.
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Upon notification (warning?) of the brand new 2nd Lieutenant (me) heading their way, one of the Captains was trying to figure out how to pronounce my name. Being a Barney Miller fan, he felt there was only ONE possible handle.

Ron "Wojo" Wanttaja
 
Have also known a K13 and an L15........last names that were nearly impossible to pronounce, but had 13 or 15 letters following the first one respectively.
 
comanchepilot said:
So there we were, sitting in the ready room debriefing a series of maneuvers done during APT and one of the instructors says. . .

"Take Farrell there- he has more excuses than there are names in the New york phone book, but once he gets it he does it right. .. . "
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If I remember right, nothing warms the heart of an instructor than the student excuse matrix :)

That being said, my training command call-sign stuck with me through the RAG (equivalent to FTU), but went away very quickly after I hit the fleet.
 
You mean you hadn't sold him on the "They call the wind Want-TIE-ya" idea?

Yes, Kim, it was what little I remember from high school history, where Merriwether Lewis and Kimberly Clark went looking for the fountain (or as they say in wisconsin, the bubbler) of youth.
 
I'm "Cupcake". I didn't choose it, but now that it was given to me, I OWN it. I work for an organization where most people pick their own callsigns, and I find that very annoying.

More on topic, I like "Kim Possible" for you. Seems to fit your attitude/demeanor and it's certainly G-rated enough for public consumption.

Also looks good on the side of a plane...

Edit: For people who don't watch cartoons anymore... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Possible
 
Ron Levy said:
Yup -- your squadron-mates must pick it. You get no input and definitely no power of disapproval. So...



...what do we think Kimberly's tactical call sign should be?
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I say "nordo" or "magenta"

Since you can't stand towered airports
but you love the magenta ones:rofl:
 
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Fingers? Because she types so fast she has 6900 posts! Jeez, that's a lot of posts I just realized
 
Kim Chee

and

Kim Possible

won't work. This was to stay ANON and using my real first name isn't very anon now is it?
 
Oski.

I think Kim will understand this. I'm not sure about others.
 
It even incorporates my last name!

OK, here you go:

1. Everyone knows my first name is Kimberly. My middle name is Anne.

(kimberlyanne)

2. My full initials are KAL

3. I was born AFTER a friend of my parents had their first born, so they "won" and got to name their child "CAL" while I got stuck with "KAL"

4. CAL is short for University of California, of which there are now many, but in the beginning there was only one (in Berkeley, CA)

5. My parents and the parents of the other child loved CAL (aka University of California at Berkeley) and would take us infants / kids to all the football games.

6. So technically I am named after a college football team.

The MASCOT of CAL is Oski the bear.

Here is Oski:

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CAL's biggest rival is Stanford University (private school, CAL is public). Each year they play one another in the "Big Game" and whoever wins takes back to their University the "axe" (trophy):

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Oski or Oski the Bear (named after the "Oski Wow-Wow" yell) is the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley and was introduced in 1941.

Up until 1941, actual live bears were used as mascots.

Nowadays, the bear's activities are overseen by the Oski Committee, which also appoints a new Oski whenever a replacement is required. Oski drinks beer (or any offered beverage) through a hole in his right eye.
 
The reason I remembered Kim's story is that I also come from a CAL family, at least on my mom's side. My mom, my uncle, some of my cousins, second cousins and myself are all alumni.

Best of all, I learned to fly at the Cal Flying Club. :)
 
Everskyward said:
The reason I remembered Kim's story is that I also come from a CAL family, at least on my mom's side. My mom, my uncle, some of my cousins, second cousins and myself are all alumni.

Best of all, I learned to fly at the Cal Flying Club. :)
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I used to be banned from wearing red (Red is a Stanford color).
 
My niece-in-law is going to Cal.
 
Another successful thread.

I had to rename some of my jpgs to remove my name and now I need to move some youtube videos from the kimberly account so Oski it is.

I realize that it won't be hard to figure out who I am and all that but I don't just want to put my name, home airport, etc. on the home page.

When I see my family this weekend I think they will get a kick out of my secret You Tube flight video life of Oski The Bear.

http://www.youtube.com/oski1bear
 
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