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I was thumbing through the JANAP call sign book once and came across
"Dingleberry" - it was a navy ship, forget what kind, DD maybe. Walt BJ |
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"José Herculano" wrote in message .. .
Please do share the most preposterous you have come across. Not very preposterous, but whilst in VT-24 we had a Marine instructor with the moniker of "Brillo". Hair was just like a brillo pad, but he was not a man of color. Unlike "Peaches" I know one guy whose callsign changed over the years. When we were going through training and for some years later he was known as "Lurch", later as "Slim". John "Spartan" Alger Scooters, SLUFs, Hercs, and Orions |
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I spent my MIDN 3rd Class cruise on the USS BRAINE (DD-630), callsign
"Snowdrift". One of the carriers we operated with that summer (can't recall which) had the callsign "Climax". -- Mike Kanze 436 Greenbrier Road Half Moon Bay, California 94019-2259 USA 650-726-7890 "I've had a lot of calls asking if my dog Ernest was running for Governor. I explained to each caller that Ernest died several years ago, to which the usual response has been, 'So what?' Come to think of it, would a dead dog running for Governor make California look any more weird than it already does?" - Al Shugart, Chairman - Friends of Ernest (San José Mercury-News, 8-16-03) "Walt BJ" wrote in message om... I was thumbing through the JANAP call sign book once and came across "Dingleberry" - it was a navy ship, forget what kind, DD maybe. Walt BJ |
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Rampage -- Hancock
R / John |
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CORAL SEA was "Mustang", leading to any number of her JO bunkrooms calling
themselves "Mustang Ranch" during her long career. -- Mike Kanze 436 Greenbrier Road Half Moon Bay, California 94019-2259 USA 650-726-7890 "I've had a lot of calls asking if my dog Ernest was running for Governor. I explained to each caller that Ernest died several years ago, to which the usual response has been, 'So what?' Come to think of it, would a dead dog running for Governor make California look any more weird than it already does?" - Al Shugart, Chairman - Friends of Ernest (San José Mercury-News, 8-16-03) "Elmshoot" wrote in message ... One of the carriers we operated with that summer (can't recall which) had the callsign "Climax". Climax is Enterprise, Panther is Kitty Hawk Too many gin and Tonics to remember the rest. Sparky |
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Mike Kanze wrote: CORAL SEA was "Mustang", leading to any number of her JO bunkrooms calling themselves "Mustang Ranch" during her long career. -- Mike Kanze 436 Greenbrier Road Half Moon Bay, California 94019-2259 USA 650-726-7890 "I've had a lot of calls asking if my dog Ernest was running for Governor. I explained to each caller that Ernest died several years ago, to which the usual response has been, 'So what?' Come to think of it, would a dead dog running for Governor make California look any more weird than it already does?" - Al Shugart, Chairman - Friends of Ernest (San José Mercury-News, 8-16-03) "Elmshoot" wrote in message ... One of the carriers we operated with that summer (can't recall which) had the callsign "Climax". Climax is Enterprise, Panther is Kitty Hawk Too many gin and Tonics to remember the rest. Sparky My only ship, W.S.Sims (DE-1059) was "Credit Clerk". That did not lead to much bragging at the club. A clear winner in the category "Least Macho Call Sign". Bob McKellar |
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"Bob McKellar" wrote in message
snipped for brevity My only ship, W.S.Sims (DE-1059) was "Credit Clerk". That did not lead to much bragging at the club. A clear winner in the category "Least Macho Call Sign". oh yeah? Oh Yeah? OH YEAH?!?!?!?!?! How 'bout "Tacky Botfly?" USS BLANDY (DD-943), Summer of '67. Bill Kambic P.S. Sorry for the macho thing, but when you got a call sign like that you get into a fair number of scapes! :-) If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist, sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist, phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you to get over it. |
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One of the carriers we operated with that summer (can't recall which) had
the callsign "Climax". Probably in honor of a town of that name in Colorado. Some years ago, a resident of that town wrote a letter to The Wretched Mess News (a great little newspaper published in West Yellowstone), "You have no idea how fatiguing it is to be in Climax 24 hours a day." vince norris |
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Story went like this. When the F-14 RAG was co-habitating weith the F-4 rag at
Oceana(I think). Since the F-14 was the 'Tomcat', guys would clear the runway and ask ground to 'taxi to the cathouse'...callsign for the F-4 RAG was 'Nutgrass', instructors started asking for taxi to the 'nut house'... P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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Callsign for VF-33, before they changed it to 'starfighter' was 'cupcake'..
P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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