I have a brother that my daughters call "Uncle Eleven" - If we'd been to Tenerife, he'd been to Eleven-erife!

One of our (Hangar) Stores 'Ladies' was nicknamed 'Shrek' - she was fairly grotesque - and useless,she quite often would say ''no we do not have any of those in stock'' - so I would often go into stores and go to the location where the item was sitting on the shelf - pick the item up and say to her ''If you don't have any in stock then I will not have to book this one out'' :) - sad really LOL

We used to have a Waaf they called the three minute warning, not the prettiest thing, but the only game in town if the world turned to poo.

Never trust a man who gives himself his own nickname.

Normally because their given one was so bad...

ah yes... call me madam
 

Ah yes..

Deeply unpleasant man down south surname D***** preferred "Evespan" because Adam delved and Eve span. Ha ha. No Cedric, you were always "Clubman" to us because you were the Perfect Country Member. Ah yes, I remember......

Then there was Kay-Squared for knock knees. Naval chap who wore shorts that stayed still while his legs waggled to and fro..

Para regt guy "Juno" because his opening words were "D'you know etc etc"

TAPSATAS,,,, as in TAPS but with "And Twice as Strong" added

Fella by the name of Patches or was it Tatters, anyway he was "Rags" obviously..

Job Centre... "Sits vacant". Took me a while to get that one.

And Greta, for Greta Garbo, Aussie slang for garbage collector.

In my Chinook Unit you earned your Call Sign and once assigned said name you learned to live with it with protests of any kind only making it used in every conversation as often as possible.

Usually they were not flattering to the recipient as they mostly dealt with some act that drew attention to them for some reason that was a bit embarrassing to the name holder.

There was no Appeal Right....you got tagged and that was it.

Salute!

Thanks, SaS....

I always thot the rotorheads were a little strange, but could take a joke when we pimped them about trusting a plane that rotated its wings to get lift instead of simply going fast.

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.
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I also recall "stag bars" that USAF disposed maybe 30 years ago or more. Last one I recall was at Nellis in mid-80's. The most non-PC, non-woke one was "The Nail Hole" at NKP late 60's/early 70's. It was the primary water hole for the special ops Fac's, and the criteria for a female to have unrestricted access was imprinting her spray painted butts on the ceiling!

Oh well, as long as we are still cold-blooded triggermen for the Queen or CINC, we may just survive this awakening.....

Gums sends...

Salute!

Times have changed. And while the RAF folks here are talking about "inclusion" and such WRT the females..., USAF has had the gals around for many years, starting in the 70's, and then letting the gals fly fighters by mid-90's.

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I kinda wonder what some of their tactical callsigns were. First T-bird gal was a Mudhen pilot and shorter than me! She was "Fifi". Then was the famous Hawg dirver that came back in reversion mode with lottsa holes in the jet - "Killer Chick"( Kim Campbell). Was she offended?

Gums sends...

If I’m not mistaken, the first BFT course with female students had their course badge with the slogan “20% flaps”!

RAAF No.202 Pilot Course Badge and RAN FAA Pilot graduated. Famous UK firm also known as. :}

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That's a HEEDS bottle she's wearing, I suspect that she is a helicopter pilot.
For gums: that means "unrestricted aviator" since we can fly backwards if need be. ;)

There was a Lt(jg) Bates in our wing who was, predictably, given the call sign of Master.

Salute!

That's a good one Wolfie re: Master, ... and the folks at Hill used a similar theme for their female demo pilot - Beo ( bay-oh).

Well, I am worried we will not get back to having a good sense of humor and if very "sensitive" folks are upset, let them find another line of work.

Gums sends...

She is a Navy lass (epaulets) and they only have helos, no FW, that's RAAF territory, who have no helos.

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".

One of the RAN chopper pilots was known as the Cruel Shepherd, as he had apparently been caught beating his mutton.

A pilot with the surname of Fatt was known as Cracker.

A rescue pilot who came home after a rather low run along a beach with metres of fishing line wrapped around the mast and the sinkers making a weird noise, was known as Snapper.

Rumour has it that there was a cargo loader on the base who was called PERRY MASON. Reason was that he only handled one case a week. :-(

A superb SAAF fast jet pilot ( and lovely guy) of the"african" persuasion some years ago :

"Midnight"

Similar to the backseater in Top Gun 1, "Sundown".

I'm an outsider in all of this but am enjoying the thread. I heard about a chap who had a deformed leg, causing him to rock from side to side when he walked. He was known as "The Sniper's Nightmare".

A good mate of mine is called Richard and is a cardiologist. He's known as Dicky Ticker. Another chum who frequents this forum has the surname Ware. One wag started calling him "Tupper".