Chaos

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Pat Riot]

That’s funny. I guess if I had a call sign it would be “Crash”...It doesn’t stand for anything it’s just something I seem to be good at. 

 

What would be your Call Sign?

[DocWard]

7 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

That’s funny. I guess if I had a call sign it would be “Crash”...It doesn’t stand for anything it’s just something I seem to be good at. 

 

What would be your Call Sign?

 

I suppose that would depend on who you ask.

 

When I was in the Field Artillery, outside the medical section I was known as Doc Ward, no surprise there. Inside the medical section, my nickname, my callsign if you will, was "Charlie," because of my non-likeness to multi-talented football and basketball player Charlie Ward. Yes, it would even end up on our medical staffing board at the BAS and I answered to it. I even have a shirt from our unit's flag football team with it on the back.

 

On my paintball and air-soft team, my callsign is, again, Doc.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Well. in my early and mid teens, due to one particularly bad haircut, I was tagged as "Palmtree."

At work, when I got moved to quality control, I got tagged a "Q-tzar."  

[Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438]

I was born while my uncle was in Korea; my birth weight matched a mortar round that he and his compatriots referred to as "buzz bombs", and he christened me with it when he returned.  "Buzz Bomb" was shortened by the family to "Buzz", and it has stuck for 65 years.  No one in the family calls me by my given name, except my wife.

 

LL

[Pat Riot]

It’s funny how we get “nicknames” or maybe call signs.

 

Over the years “Crash” has been my nickname a few times due to my propensity for motorcycles, speed and the occasional test of the laws of physics. I haven’t defied them yet. I am going to try and keep those in the past from here on out.

 

When I was a kid I was “Liggy” all because my 9th grade science teacher decided my last name was too long.

 

In the Navy I was “Lingenfield” - my last name. No “special” names stuck.

 

When I worked at Hughes I was known as “Ling” or “Crash”. Crash kind of stuck...

 

Funny story.

I worked in a lab with a white guy with the last name Kain. People started calling him “Kwai Chang ‘Kain” as in the character from Kung Fu. That nickname got shortened to “Fu” as in Kung Fu.

I was Ling, he was Fu.

People would come into to our electronics lab looking for Ling and Fu because that’s what we were called. 

One day these 4 Asian engineers came into our lab, looked around and left. They came back a few minutes later looked about (our lab was huge and Fu and I were the only people that worked there) and they left again. We just figured they were lost. Finally they came in and the lady that was with them approached and said “Were are the 2 Chinese technicians that work here?”. We responded with “We are the only people that work here.” She went to the others and said “I guess we are in the wrong place again. Ling and Fu must be somewhere else.” We stopped them and told them we were Ling and Fu. We thought it was hilarious that people were having a good time messing with other people that would come looking for us to do projects for them.

[J-BAR #18287]

At age four my mother took me along while shopping downtown.  In one store she gave me a piece of hard candy to keep me quiet.  A fellow shopper looked down at me and asked me my name.  I replied “Douglas” but around the candy it came out “Googick”.  To my family I was Googick until they started to use J-Bar after I joined SASS.  

[Smoken D]

E.R. Personnel elected to give me the name, " Detective Death"

If someone wasn't dead, I didn't show up. 

[Saddle Up Slim]

Went through high school being called "Tuna" due to my last name. When I turned 18 and registered my "friends" had the name stenciled on a surplus steel pot helmet.