Ah yes, the Ops had different names but aswe were all mostly going to the same places (KAB/BAG) at the same time, I doubt the locals knew we had different Op tags!
Irecall the story too and I don't know what the 1* is doing right now- but he may be able to corroborate the story - clearly he was being fed B-Sh1t by someone and he was probably not best pleased.