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Peenys
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Friend of mine, private parts got stuck between his zipper after getting out of a bar ...
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Paco
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I received the Callsign before I arrived at the squadron. My last name is Sobrero (obviously similar to Sombrero), so the squadron assumed I would be the first Mexican in the squadron and one guy commented that my first name was probably Paco or Pedro, Paco stuck.
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Pagan
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Capt. Jerry "Pagan" Temple
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Painter
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The Dutch guy, who designs the Paintjob for the F-16 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Demo Team.
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Pampers
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An F-14 backseater who suffered "nozzle failure" during flight.
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Pancake
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Non-military pilots get nicknames too, even those who fly unpowerd hang gliders. One fine day I was setting up a landing, planned a downwind run, 180, settle in to the sand for a perfect no-step landing. Didn't quite turn out that way. Turned about 5 seconds too late, plastered my hang glider into the side of a trailer, which was also the local hang gliding shop. Ever since then I was known as "pancake", for being the only pilot to splat into the trailer.
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Pappy
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Oldest Guy in the squadron.
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Peanut
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Shortest guy in the squadron
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Peanuts
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Being Dutch/Indonesian mix was the main reason for my call sign
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Pecker
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It's a play off of my last name. I do, however, have other stories behind it depending on the audience.
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Perp
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'Short for 'perpetrator.' Security stopped him while walking to the barracks from the o'club. Perp thought he was evading the enemy, so while hiding in the bushes at the golf course, he sanitized his flight-suit patches and refused to talk.'
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PEZ
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My initials are P.E.S. n some genius must've stayed up all night to come up with that one.
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PFKAP
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Original call sign was Pigpen before he PCS'ed to Aviano AB, Italy, around the turn of the century. As the 510th Fighter Squadron commander already had the callsign Pigpen, the new guy's callsign was reduced to the acronym for Pilot Formerly Known As Pigpen (a la Prince's former name -- AFKAP)
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Pickle
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Came back from a flight one drop tank short...
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Pink
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last name was Floyd
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Pinky
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My ears resembled those of the rat from "Pinky and the brain".
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PITA
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I was assigned to the 36 FS (Osan AB) and all the FNGs get a naming ceremony. Considering that I was on my fourth tour in the Viper, had trained several of these guys either in UPT or RTU, and already had paid my dues, I basically busted their balls during the whole ceremony (and paid the drinking penalties for it). They finally gave up and named me Pain In The Ass. I think I earned it!
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Plow
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a 496 TFS pilot in the late 80's was taxiing in after a night mission. He turned on the wrong taxiway and ended up at a gate that wasn't open. Rather than call on the radio and admit his major faux paux, he elected to try a U-Turn. Well every Viper pilot knows that the jet that can turn tighter than anything in the air... can't on the ground. His U-Turn buried a main gear strut and instead of shut down, he powered it out and back onto the taxiway. Unfortunately, mud almost to the bottom of the wing gave him away.
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Poacher
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Col. Funk. Rumor has it he strafed camels in the sandbox. He will neither confirm nor deny the story.
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Poet
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Like the poet, Longfellow - get it? True origin: Puked on Eggs Twice. I have a slight aversion to raw eggs mixed with Jeremiah Weed. After I yakked the first time, I scraped the yak off the table and into my beer (only to repeat the process). I might have been a tad inebriated at the time...
It's a callsign not likely to strike fear in the hearts of men, so I tend to tell the Longfellow version.
They died in their glory, surrounded by fame,
And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim;
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
--H.W. Longfellow
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Point Man
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I get volunteered for every mission... even if I don't volunteer myself. Started in AITs and continues today in airsoft...I'm point man for every op.
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Pointer
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Guns seem to be tighter than laser beams in the dark
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Pookie
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Short punk kid who wanted a cool callsign. He wanted to be called Swerve from when he was a kid. Everything we called him he hated. So we pulled Pookie out of nowhere. He hated Pookie more than any other callsign. We loved it! We got a HOT CHICK to tell him that she wanted to call him Pookie because he reminded her of an old boyfriend that was just as hot as he was. He loved it. But secretly we all knew that we just pulled it our of our A**!
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Poopy
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Name with held to protect the guilty. Because they only make piddle packs, #2 is up to you.
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Prankster
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We're a brand new Shadow UAV unit, when we got out of the school house, we went to a unit that had no idea what we were, so we pulled pranks to ammuse us for the year and a half it took for us to get our equipment and start fielding, we're deployed in OIF 07-09 and we still pull pranks on each other, we love messin with manned aviation.
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Psycho
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This guy had a penchant for psych ops. Secretly suffered from very severe obsessive compulsive disorder. Left service to train to become a brain surgeon...
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Pukey
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Got this one at the Kun after a long night on Soju while walking back to the "A Town" bus stop. My fellow nose picken-tire kicken crew dawgs were amazed at how I could projectile hurl while walking down hill while never missing a step. Needless to say, the name stuck.
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Punchy
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Capt Michael Penrod used to use this call sign, during our F-4 days. He was one of the best sticks then. He later went on to fly F-16's. We still stay in touch -- good friend!
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Puppy
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Named like that 'cause the babyface I have
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Pyro
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Forgot to "Fence Out" on LAO at Osan. Pickled off a few flares in the closed pull up and started a fire on the field!
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Other callsigns
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Paint,
Paps,
Pasha,
Patches,
PeeWee,
PePe,
Pete,
Pewer,
Phil,
Pickle,
Pickwick,
Pig,
Pigpen,
Ping,
Pinto,
Pipe,
Pizza,
PoGo,
Polle,
Poorman,
Puffin,
Puke,
Pumpkin,
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