Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
My first one was initial tour at Bien Hoa, 1967, and was "Boy Wonder". I was youngest pilot, had some good missions and debriefs went public, so flight commander annointed me. Second was "Doo Doo" during Sluf years at Thailand and The Beach. Then came "Gatlin' Gums" due to radio talk, and the beat goes on.
We had very poor ones in 'nam, and they cannot be revealed here... heh heh.
Gums sends...
Gums mentions SVN. Back in the day, the VNAF attack a/c (Spads, A-37s, F-5s) had great, punchy callsigns. I remember "Dragon White" and "Phoenix Amber".
Then in 1970, as part of "Vietnamisation", the USAF allocated awful USofA state names as VNAF FAC callsigns.
Imagine these poor little fxxckers trying to get their mouths around names like "Colorado", and "Mississippi".