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SAINT
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Female at Hill not really concerned with flying the Viper, but was more concerned with getting on TV, in the paper, etc. Missed more than one training session, academics, etc for less-than-important reasons. When she missed something important for a hair appointment, she got a new callsign...SAINT. Salons Are Important, Not Training.
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Salesman
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Apparently a guy who had a hard time closing the deal. (use your imagination)
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Sandman
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We were out on parade and for no reason I just fell asleep - hence "touched by the SANDMAN"
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Scarecrow
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I've been told I have a high intimidation factor.
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Schlonger
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Questions?
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Scooter
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Got the callsign while being dragged on my rear behind a 4-wheeler.
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Scooter
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Alabama judge called me "scooter" in front of my immediate chain of command who were "character" witnesses at a hearing for me doing 102mph in a 55mph zone (also a well known speed trap, which I didnt know). The ticket got tossed, but the nick name followed me forever.
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Scro
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USAF Captain I met at Camp Red Cloud, around 1997. Last name was Tam.
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Scuba
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Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus - got caught getting a bj in a hot tub in Vegas during Red Flag
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Semtex
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Short dynamite aviator
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Shackle
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All fighter pilots know and have executed this maneuver. It's just not the smartest idea to make your flightlead do it as a new wingie, especially during a large international exercise...
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Shaft
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The guy's first name is Cam. 'Nuff Said.
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Shaker
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Didn't shake hands with the squadron commander, who stood there with his hand already out, welcoming him on the first day at the squadron. He thought he had already met him....
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Sheehanjob
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Flight school buddy of mine who's last name was Sheehan. It just came to me one day, while looking at the flight board, so I did some letter rearrangment. Needless to say, it caught on fast.
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Shim
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We only thought Wedge was the simplest tool. A Shim is even simpler. It is also a Triple-Entendre...may also be short for $#!T Magnet, and She-Him (for the Metro-sexuals in the sqn).
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SHOCK
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Sh*t Hot Ovulating Commie Killer
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Shocker
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A guy in our squadron that lost his entire finger egressing from a jet (wedding ring hung on the canopy rail).
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Shooter
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I was given this callsign while from my teammates on my AFROTC drill team. I used to have my hair parted to the side and they all decided that I look like Shooter McGavin from "Happy Gilmore." In fact, we had all gotten together for the Super Bowl one year and the girl I liked was there, she looked at me and said I looked familiar. Then someone said "Happy Gilmore" and right then she realized... "That's it, that's why I recognize him." That pissed me off, and ever since then I've been stuck with "Shooter" as my callsign.
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Shooter
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The evening I arrived at Kunsan, a Friday night, I got into a late night game of 4-5-6. Since I had a pocketfull of cash for the PCS, I told the guy with the dice to "shoot it" several times. Since I won each time and pocketed a serious amount of $, the story got around and hence the nickname.
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Short Bus
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The guys found out that I used to ride one to school in the 5th grade. ( I dont know why our bus stop had the short bus but I had to ride it). Hence the call sign Short Bus.
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Short Bus
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An F-16 DCC who admitted to riding the short bus while in grade school. (R. F. of Luke AFB).
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Silver
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Last name Bulat....sounds like Bullet. One of the few words in the English language that has no other word that rhymes with it. Picked it up at DM in 1975 and retained it until retirement in 1988/
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Sizzler
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Decided to have a close up look at a fire during a party. Named after the sound his arm made.
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Skids
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One guy at Edwards AFB had the name 'Skids' after I guess in UPT he managed to put the plane down/wheels up.
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Slapshot
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Larry "Slapshot" Ludwig: I always wanted to play ice hockey, but growing up in South Texas... you can see the problem. When I was finally able to get the chance I was going through Selfridge and had a buddy there that was a huge Redwings fan. While I was a decent skater, I had no "stick time" (as in hockey stick time), so when I tried out my slapshot at the local rink... I gave it a mighty whack and topped it, and it slid along the ice at about a whopping 2 mph. Well, all the guys from Selfridge that were there with us started calling me "Slapshot"
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Slaw
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Shops Like A Woman.
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Sledge
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Capt. Hammer
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Slew
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On a deployment from Hahn AB, Germany to Sidi Slimane, Morroco in 84, I came back from the community shower with a tale about a this guy at the next shower who was "hung like Seattle Slew". He deserved it, I got it and still have it.
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Slick
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Too much hair gel
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Slick!
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Has been given by my female multi-engine flight instructor after my examination check ride. I got a nice handnote on my logbook by the examiner for the - well, it was so - perfect ride and I was so young and cocky that I showed it to everybody. The same very night we got a beer together with other pilot & instructors and she wrote "slick!" on the beer pitcher. I still wonder... :)
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Slider
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Last name "Dekok"
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Slippery
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My Sergeant first class Ripley
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Slush
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'Right after Top Gun came out there was a 'new guy' who wanted (pleaded) to be called Ice. The rest of the squadron decided he wasn't cool enough to be called Ice... so they named him 'Slush'.'
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Slut
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During my 35 TFS, Pantons, naming ceremony the guys came up with a joke callsign of Slut: last name - Giglio becomes Gigolo then Whore then Slut. They decided that was too easy and started on my chubby physique, but the crowd started a "Slut, Slut, Slut, ..." chant and they finally gave in. So I was Slut, and my wife had the honor(?) of being "Mrs. Slut" when she came to visit.
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Slutter Chief
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The story began when I was a last year student of the Air Force Academy. Sometime at a weekend holiday night, my friends and I went out to the city, and suddenly we met a slut on the road.
My friends were challenging me to speak with her, so I began to approach her. After several minutes of chit-chat, she still didn't believe that an Air Force cadet wanted to sleep with her. As the price negotiation was going on, suddenly we saw my Academy instructor walking down the road and approaching me!
My friends ran and left me behind alone with an embarrassed face, I met the instructor and he said, "You're such a son of a b***h! Go home now and we'll see if that any punishment you'll get!"
At the Academy, the Cadet's Honor Board gave a punishment I'll never thought before. They said, if I pass the Academy and were sent to an Operational Squadron, they'll call me "Slutter Chief", and believe it or not, my friends that were with me on the day, also got a similar callsign: "Slutter One", "Slutter Two", and "Slutter Three"...
Now, 7 years after I graduated from the Academy and the Captain's insignia are on my shoulders, my counterparts still call me "Slutter Chief" ...
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SlyPig
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Last name Cunningham (I'll let you think about it for a sec).
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SMAT
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Small man always talking -- every squadron has one
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Smiley
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First solo on the Viper, with an IP chase - I was on the edge of the area, so the IP behind me in his jet informed me I was about to leave the area. Then I recognized it and I gave him a big smiley sound call with a good laugh. Ever since they called me a SMILEY plus I do have a big smiley face.
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Smoke
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LT couldn't keep his feet off the brakes during landing. The Maint. Warrant had to send a crew to change both mains @ Nellis one time because it.
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Smooth Money
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Caught ironing dollar bills in his stateroom).
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Smurf
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LTjg was very short and we already had an Elf
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Snacko
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standard nickname for the most critical job in the squadron
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Snake
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'O' Club antics...
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Snake
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Got it while a F-4G Wild Weasel cause he always wanted to get below the bad guys radar then pop up on the target and then back into the weeds again. Bear had to keep him safe by looking through an AGM 65 head for obstructions. Scared the hell out of a semi trucker driver once when we passed him looking laterally at each other. His favorite statement -- "we're going to jump up and bite somebody in the a$$". Anything above 100 feet was to high.
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Snakeye
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Mk 14/15--The Dumb Retarded Bomb.
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Snap
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Sensitive New Age Pilot. In a debrief one of our new Lts just back from RTU said "That's not how we did it at Luke, our student bill of rights says" at which point I told him to shut the F**k up and color you sensitive new age pilot and it stuck with him to this day.
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Snapple
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There was a guy who took a Snapple up in his plane and it exploded all over the cockpit... of course his call sign is 'Snapple'.
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Sneezer
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On my first carrier landing, when we hit the deck, I (for some reason) sneezed into my mask... covering it with snot.
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Sniffer
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I blew over the runway at like 300 metres with max power, grounding me for two weeks. Hence, the callsign "Sniffer".
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Snocone
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Most should remember "Iceman" from Topgun. Well, the story was he thought he was a great pilot and wanted to be called Iceman. He was good, but not great, Close, but not quite....
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SoJu
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We had a female WSO we named once we RTBd to AK. She was at Brooks Medical thingy prior to flight training. In the spirit of the ROK and their awful local drink, we named her SoJu - Sister of Juggler (See callsign Juggler)!! That and she got shifazzed at her naming and puked up enough for 3 people.
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Solo
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Last name "Han"
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Sonar
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Used to be a navy submarine officer before he saw the light and joined the airforce
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Soup
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Capt. Campbell
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Sparky
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A guy at Eglin AFB was called 'Sparky' after dragging his F-15s tail halfway down the runway and causing quite a fireworks show.
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Spider
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Capt. Chip Webb
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Spitfire
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Name given to someone who always has the right answer, right now.
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Splatt
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Lt. Sam Platt
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Splinter
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Was training and flew too low. After landing, the ground crew found small shards of wood in the belly of my F-16.
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Squawk
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Pilot who finally managed to squawk in the right transponder code after 4 failed attempts...
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Squid
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Last name sounds like calamari
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Squieek
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Cause I stept on the CO's little dog. Had to go to hospital for half a day, I had a black eye for a week.
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Squirt
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Stripped down naked and pooped in a ziploc bag in the back of a Prowler on an OIF 1 mission.
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Squirt
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Last name Seaman... you figure it out!
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Stanza
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He was the oldest guy in weapons school, he was bald , and rather short and reminded the class of Castanza from Seinfield. The name stuck from there on
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STAP
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Shorter Than Average Penis
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Stash
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Lt had an eye infection, which made his right eye red. He looked like he had been smoking something...
Hence, Stash (Stoned as Hell)
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Statch
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Lets just say I liked them young and leave it at that
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Statutory
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Last name Rape - and he was also the Guidon bearer in boot camp
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Stinger
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Guy in South Africa, got attacked by wasps
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Stinky
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Last name Colon
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Stitch
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'An ex 307FS viper driver, 6'4' tall, walked into a wingtip AIM-9 and cut his forehead open.'
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Stokos
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Greek callsign that means putty (you have enough stoko in your brain to fix the Parthenon).It is used for pilots that think they are Tom Cruise and cannot understand that CREW CHIEFS are much more smarter than them!!!
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Strawberry
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I had red hair and red face with freckles. Nickname since I was a teen. Hardly anyone knew my real name.
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Streamer
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My buddy and I went through the academy together and while I took a fixed wing assignment he took a "bent leg" (parachuter) job. By all odds he ended up in the back of my airplane for his qual jump. As I ended up being the jumpmaster/loadmaster I intentionally put him in the front of the jump line so he had to jump first. Even over the roar of the airplane and the wistling of the wind I heard him singing "soon to leave a crater" by megadeath....a song that was on MTV the morning of his jump that was stuck in his head. (A streamer if you are not versed in "jumping" refers to a tangled chute that looks like a party streamer when obeying the laws of gravity.)
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Stretch
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6'11" - I think that says it all.
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Stretch
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Well I was doing my aviation course through cadets and I am 6 foot 2 so they had to order me a special flight suit and had to move the seat back in the cockpit for me etc... :)
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Studa
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Last name Baker. Get it..?!
I've heard it said it's because I'm old, fat, slow and ugly. That can't be right, can it?!!!
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STUFR
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Stop Talking You F'ing Retard (Too many beers and talking to a General)
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Stymie
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Lost a golf match due to a stymie.
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SUGAR
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Capt Michele S.
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Sumart
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A chick Navy pilot - Shut Up Men ARe Talking.
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SuperTard
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Numerous/continuous acts of buffoonery...
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Swamp Thing
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During one hot summer, a few crew members and I were having a drink in the O-Club. I was wearing gray shorts (the kind that tend to get darker when wet). The A/C was not working I tend to sweat profusley in my buttocks area. My buddies called me Swamp @$$ for a week before settling on Swamp Thing.
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SWAT
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Short Woman Always Talking. Came from a fight Surgeon we had. We thought it meant something else. Can't remember what we told her it meant though...
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SWAT
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The current AMXS commander and pilot for the 120th FS. Babe Ruth had the nickname SWAT when he was traded to the Yankees long ago. It was considered the best trade in baseball history. Captain Jim "SWAT" Collins flew C-21s out of Peterson AFB, CO when he was traded to the 120th FS in return for a female pilot. It was considered the greatest trade in the 120th Fighter Squadron's history.
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Other callsigns
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Sammy,
Sass,
Scar,
Scarface,
Scherm,
Schwanz,
Scibo,
Score,
Scorpion,
Scotch,
Scotty,
Scruffy,
Scuba,
Seabreeze,
Secks,
Seymour,
Shadow,
Shock,
Shooter,
Simo,
Skeet,
Skeeter,
Skip,
Skull,
Slap,
Slick,
Slider,
Slim,
Sluggo,
Smash,
Smokey,
Smug,
Smurf,
Snatch,
Snike,
Sniper,
Snoopy,
Sonny,
Spanki,
Speedy,
Spike,
Spine,
Spiro,
Spook,
Spoon,
Spot,
Spuds,
Squig,
Squirt,
Stallion,
Steady,
Stein,
Stilts,
Stinks,
Stocky,
Stool,
Stork,
Strato,
Streak,
Stretch,
Suds,
Sureshot,
Surf,
Surfer,
Swami,
Sweet Pea,
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