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THOR
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The men and women in the 120th FS are known as "Redeyes." There was a Pilot by the name of T. who slept with one of his female counterparts. They ended up getting married, but T's callsign ended up as "THOR" and it stood for "T. Had One Redeye."
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Tread
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LCdr. Saufley (Tread softly and carry a big stick)
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T-bone
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dropped a practice bomb through a cow
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T-Retz
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Curses and verbalizes when upset. All caught on the HUD tape.
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TAC-N
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Flight doc, Turn And Cough, Now! Enough said...
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Tally
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First Female fighter pilot. Short for Tally-Ho (HO...get it??)
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Tank
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'A brand new F-16 pilot at Pope AFB looked down at his fuel gauge and 'Oh crap!' it was almost empty and he was a ways from base. 'Uh. . . Tower, this is Tiger 2 declaring an emergency!' Never a good thing for a fighter pilot's ego anyway. Ooops, my bad, I just forgot to switch from my wing tanks to my main tanks. 'Tower, Uh. . . forget that emergency.' From that day forward he was known as TANK.'
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Tarheel
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Well, pretty simple actually--I'm from North Carolina and a diehard UNC fan. I bleed CAROLINA BLUE!!
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Tassels
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Female - I think you can figure it out
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TBAR
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That Boy Ain't Right
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Tennesssee Smith
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My Tennessee heritage coupled with a thick Southern accent reminds my CO of a gunslinger... I dont see it, but it could be worse I guess.
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Tess
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First Class RAF Tornado GR4 Squadron Leader, whose surname is Tickle.
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Test Gun
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Not a fighter, but civilian 767 Pilot...
At age 14 I started flying gliders in Germany at a local glider club and as a present for my 16th b-day I received an original M-1 Leather flight jacket I liked to wear during the winter. That got me the call sign "Top Gun". The following summer my club received a used glider and after several members flew it reports surfaced that it was having some wiered flight characteristics along the longitudinal axis. As I was a snubby-sixteen-year-old know-it-all-still-student-pilot I HAD to find out what was wrong with the bird... so I got an IP to let me fly it but limited me to 160 km/h max speed (beginning of the yellow line in that particular glider). So after launching out of the winch I was able to gain some altitude in some thermals and started checking the bird out... and went over my given speed limit to find out that the ailerons were due to their weight caused the ailerons to flutter at higher speeds. In my case they were violently fluttering almost tearing the plane appart... Back on the ground I confessed my finding and the plane was pulled out of service for inspections just to find out that a stiffening substance injected into the aileron-cavities was increasing their weights and causing the flutter behaviour... From that moment on I was called "Test Gun" and grounded for 6 Weeks...
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The Rock
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My Last name is Stone
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Thump
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The sound a body makes when it hits the ground...hard. I fell off a second story balcony at the Tyndal Q's during our post WSEP Ops/Mx party.
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Thumper
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When first learning to fly, my right leg would always shake on the rudder pedal. My flight instructor gave me the name.
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Thunder
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No matter how hard the guys tried during basic at P'Cola and during deployments afterward nobody could ever get my Dad pissed off enough to lose his cool. Finally one night during one hell of a storm onboard the Enterprise while reviewing landing tapes a new nugget slammed the ramp hard and bent a landing gear on a brand new Scooter. Dad went out and proceeded to chew the guy out for 45 minutes straight in a thunderstorm on the flight deck. Since my father was one of the quietest guys around until finally provoked the name stuck.
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Tic
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In Korea in 1998, a crusty captain deftly integrated the Foncho clause (combination of the Fish and Poncho clauses - a poor story told well is better than a good story told poorly, and don't take all $#%ing night to tell it) and the 10% rule. He told a poor story extremely well, 90% of which was bullshit, in order to name me Tic...which stands for "Talk is Cheap."
Since it was a bullshit story...I'll leave it at that.
Of course, there are cover stories such as "Thrust is Cheap" and "Troops in Contact."
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Tickles
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Attractive female viper pilot I met at Nellis once. First name was Tess. Thought it was pretty clever ;)
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Title IX
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This soon-to-be pilot was out at the mall doing one of those Flight Sim places with a couple buddies. This particular place has made deals with the "Women Fly" movement, of which she's a big proponent (she's the only girl flier around). As we were waiting, a buddy walked past the Women Fly merchandise and called out "Hey Rachael, here's the Title IX rack". It stuck.
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TMS
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True story... I had to cut a combat sortie due to what I like to refer to as a 'DFAC (Dining Facility) initiated early return'. There was no way I was of any tactical use, let alone flying the sortie itself. I made it back to Base X, made it down the ladder, and thankfully the Crew Chief was waiting there with a garbage bag because I didn't make it to the port-a-john. I was named "The Mad Shxxxxx"!
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Tool
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"Tool" Stanley
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Torch
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LTC Don Campbell at Luke AFB, 1988. Taking off for Hawaii with three bags of gas, lights the blower, engine blows up, airplane catches on fire. He aborts takeoff, ground egresses, and runs to the edge of the runway, pulls out his pack of cigarettes, and very rapidly puffs through the entire pack as he watches his airplane burn up. Hence "Torch".
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Trash
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Last name is of course White.
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Trax
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Passed out on the railroad tracks in his Choker Whites after a tough night at an airwing party.
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Trey
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Landed 3 wires on first sea trial
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TUA
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TUA means "Typical Uncivilized American"
Callsign for Capt. Alan Talbert 22 FS Spang. (now 35 FS Kunsan).
Got his name for some typical not so smart (American) moves/actions while in Germany.
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Tubby
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Striking resemblance to one of the Teletubbies
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TULSA
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Total Utter Lack of Situational Awareness
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Tuna
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I tried to cook a can of Tuna over a chemical (hexi) stove during a ground survival training thing, the can blew sky high because of the heat, we were not allowed back on the base ever again and I got a bolloking from my shell-shocked C.O. Somebody called me that on the way back to base and it stuck.
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Turd
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Had to use the bathroom one night and was too far from the AMU, so I went next to the F-16 farthest from prying eyes....but got caught!
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Turgon
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The story goes that during one of his first bombing runs in the A-7, he pickled off the entire bomb rack (TER or Triple Ejector Rack) instead of just the bombs hung on it.
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TWATT
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"Twitches While Attempting To Talk" This poor guy had one of the worst ticks I've ever seen. I'm not sure what his condition was, but that's the name he received, and yes, it is pronounced exactly how one would think it would be pronounced.
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Two Bags
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Barfed twice during an incentive ride
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Two Bit
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Last name was HO.
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Two Times
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A Marine aviator named Vince. Italian descent. Reference to the character in Goodfellas, Vinnie Two Times, who finished every sentence by repeating himself, repeating himself.
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Other callsigns
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Tag,
Tamil,
Tapper,
Tatoo,
Taz,
Tex,
The Hammer,
Thoro,
Tinton,
Tits,
Toad,
Topper,
Toro,
Toto,
Toucan,
TouTou,
Tri-Pod,
Trigger,
Tron,
Turbo,
Turf,
Turk,
Twie,
Twin,
Two Dogs,
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