I am a shifter and one of my DR was Top gun. As people known call signs are not as cool as they seem. You get your call sign from ur unit and most of the time is memorable embarrassing/stupid shit you did or something that happened. Here are the stories behind call signs in my DR.
Iceman: snuck small ice packs into the academy and would use them to cool down cuz there was no working ACs. He gave a few to his friends in exchange for a few bucks, would also hog the ice baths
Slider: did not see a shipment dollie infront of him tripped and fell on it and it rolled down the halls with him on it. He was face down and somehow could not stop the dollie
Maverick: argued w/ multiple unit members for days on end that mavericks are birds. They are in fact not birds. They are cows.
Goose: a goose attacked him while he stood at attention. Proceed to try and fight said goose. (He lost) a few days later the same (they think) goose stole his MRE.
Chipper: was so excited to be in a plane that he ran to his plane slipped and chipped his tooth after bashing his head on the plane.
Cougar: only older ladies would flirt with him at bars could not for the life of him get a girl his age to talk to him
Now these below are my friends/squad mates/unit (I was there when they were named, reason they got named, named them)
Flare: (me) (this was inspired by my grandpa’s wingman IRL) I set off a flare before I was supposed to during emergency water rescue training. I almost set my CO on fire.
Toad: did not close his pack properly and we were camping (team building) near a marsh, got back to base and open his pack to find that a toad was in his pack and it pissed on all his stuff.
Berry: his last name is Barry, he is also allergic to all types of Berrys. It’s ironic.
Straw: his last name is also Berry (w an E) he would not shut the fuck up about how his family has a small strawberry farm and how’s it’s been in the family for ages.
Tarmac: it was going to be Clumsy but then 17 times in one day he tripped on nothing on the tarmac and face planted/landed on his ass every single time. Then proceeded to fall off the ladder to his plane.
Fish4: was originally Trip but then he tripped right off a boat was stuck in the water for a few minutes but in those few minutes managed to catch 4 little fish and shoved them in his pocket. When the CO was lecturing him he pulled a fish out of his pocket and offered it to the CO.
Spider: has a phobia of spiders. Came down the ladder after a hop saw a spider on the bottom rung screamed and kicked the ladder out from under him and somehow managed to crawl onto the wing of his plane
Plus: genuinely thought the red cross symbol was a cross not a plus
Crow: we don’t know what he did to piss off the crow but boy was that crow angry at him, would attack him, do bird shit flybys, and try to steal his food
Stack: was short stack but it wasn’t easy to say in the air. That man is 6’5 idk how he fit in the cockpit
Stilts: she’s 5’6 and would stand on shit to try to be taller. Tried to DIY stilts from wood she found, she failed
Ironically those 2 are a RIO/pilot pair. (Yes the tallest mf in our unit was w the shortest pilot)
ABNB: “all bark no bite” this one should explain itself
Wings: constantly lost his wings at bars, barracks, pocket, you name it. It was common to call out “Wings” to help him find them or a reminder to look at his wings to make sure they were there
Polo: most directionally challenge mf I have ever met, he would get lost anywhere, he could be in a 2ft closet and still get lost. Yes his name was Marco
Driver: slowest mf in the world a sloth walks faster than him. The COs would yell at him constantly to not fly the plane at 60 mph cuz it’s a fucken plane. We thought cuz he walks and flys so slow he would be a good DD. Nope man goes like 90 in a 35. He is not allowed to drive on base cuz he almost hit a captain w his car (the captain was Maverick)
Loser: we can’t have nice things when he’s around. And by nice things I mean contraband. He would report everything all the time because he lost at a board game we snuck in. So yea we named him sore loser. We did a lot of push ups cuz of that bitch
Zeus: the lightning had it out for him stfg every time it rained he would come close to getting struck by lightning
PhD: his name is Stephen Doctor self explanatory (he also only had a high school diploma)
Straps: would not tighten his mfing seat straps in the cockpit and actually gave himself a concussion from hitting the canopy cuz you guessed it his straps weren’t tightened
Matt: big fan of Daredevil and was super drunk and found red sunglasses, proceeded to: start a bar fight, get his ass beat, run into a wall, fight the wall, and when the hospital staff asked for his name he said “Matt Murdock” what a legend…ary idiot
Locked: yea he got “locked” in to a closet. The closet had no lock. the dumbass also pushes on pull doors and pulls on push doors
DogS: “dog shit” thought he was the shit. He was a shit alright
I.T.: was not the computer wiz he said he was, he in fact blew up a computer
Duck: a duck flew at his head we told him to duck, he did not duck and got smacked in the face with a duck
Wheels: anything that had wheels had it out for her, chairs, cars, ladders, planes, gunnery’s, if it has wheels it’s going to hit her at some point in time
Marker: she was a hoot, had colored markers on her at all times and would draw shit on walls, fences, people’s faces, cars you name it. we didn’t know it was her till Sharpied caught her drawing on his face when he was asleep (she got away with it for 6 weeks)
Sharpied: Marker’s fav target cuz he was an idiot and slept anywhere other than his bunk that’s asking for hazing
Banger: shittiest music taste, would head band to fucking classical music 
Buzz: so many reasons I could go on forever, that arm thing that buzz light year does? Yea that’s how he would search rooms
Woody: cowboy, lost his shoes or get them mixed up w other people so he wrote his name on his shoes. Also found a scorpion in his boot (not snake but close enough for us)
Yes they were a RIO/Pilot pair
Dally: ALWAYS LATE I was her CO at this time and every day I would yell at her to not dilly dally and pick up the pace. She wasn’t as slow as Driver tho
Bar: he hit his head a lot on bars
Lake: lakers fan, painted his helmet their colors, we weren’t going to give him that name (was going to call him LA) but then he slipped and fell into a lake like three times
York: he’s from New Jersey
Jersey: she’s from New York
Table: he gave himself a minor concussion from sneezing so hard he brained himself on the table
AIDS: his initials are HIV (Henry Ian Vincent)
Z’s: was a RIO before deciding to become an anesthesiologist it was originally (K0-Know’s nothing)
Cupcake: was a teacher’s pet and brought cupcakes for the CO’s it backfired on him
Globe: a flat earther who told the COs we shouldn’t fly to far cuz we could fall off the world
Boomer: enlisted at 35
MLC: “mid life crisis” literally told us that he joined cuz he was having a midlife crisis…he was 20
PP: not only was he a dickhead he was a passenger prince and a backseat driver/pilot
LukeS: was in a heated explanation of why Star Wars is a good movie and don’t hear me (a CO) ask for her callsign responsed “Luke Skywalker” apparently thought I asked who the main character was
TAFL: “take a fucking look” swear to god thought he was blind no situational awareness whatsoever idk how he made it past flight school
LAS: “Lost at Sea” he could not find the carrier so he just landed in the ocean when he ran out of gas
YARD: “You’re a RIO David” David was also a backseat pilot
LTMYSF: “Listen to me you stupid fucks” His pilot would not listen to him so it was something he said often. It’s even funnier cuz now he’s a Staff Sargent at boot camps
Dyslexic: can’t spell, also struggles to spell his own call sign, if he wasn’t an asshole we would have given him “ICS- I can’t spell” but he was
HTCWV: “Hit the COMPACFLT with a volleyball” yes this man spiked a volleyball at an unaware Admiral Kazansky it was originally PIDS “Pilot in deep shit” im not going to elaborate it was gross
Steps: cannot walk up the steps normally, face plants, trips, takes 2 at a time, slides down the railing.
Canada: a Canadian goose attacked him and during standard concussion test he answered w full confidence that he was in Canada. We were in Florida.
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