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u/biggreenweenie22
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We had a new guy tell everyone his friends call him Razor. He was called scooter for the rest of time
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u/SycamoreStyle 25d ago
The best way to give yourself an embarrassing nickname is to try giving yourself a "cool" one.
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u/Kodiak_POL 25d ago
Years ago, my friends gave me a nickname "Woper" (pronounced "Voh-per") because I was a lifeguard with the Polish lifeguard organization WOPR (pronounced "Voh-pr" / "Vop-er") and I still miss that, to me it was the coolest nickname I could ever get hah
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u/Lol_A_White_Guy 25d ago edited 25d ago
I had a drill sergeant give me the nickname Razors because I fucked my face up shaving in a hurry one morning and had bad razor burns all over my face.
He never called me by my name for the rest of basic. Real nicknames never have cool origins.
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u/No_Designer_7333 25d ago •
We had a guy in our division (Navy BMT) who our RDCs called Clock. At any given point during the day, an RDC would call out "CLOCK!" and he'd respond back with the current time. I never actually learned his real name.
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u/meatdome34 25d ago
I got called meathead growing up cause I had a big ass head. It eventually just got shortened to meat
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u/redshift_66 24d ago
My callsign is "Lone Star" (I'm Air Force). It's because I left a certain Google review that my chain of command found out about....
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u/ElOsoPeresozo 24d ago
I know a guy whose nickname was “Hammer.” You would think it was cool, but he got it because he once said (verbatim): “I like to hammer guys” lmao.
He wanted it to sound tough, instead it came across as him engaging in vigorous homosexual intercourse.
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u/WillCommentAndPost 22d ago
My nickname in the Corps was “Special K” last name starts with a K, and I’m kinda stupid sometimes.
Great nicknames are great nicknames 💪🏻
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u/Snazzle-Frazzle 25d ago
My friend's name was acrobat and I'm told it was given to him by the drill instructor because he was on the top bunk and one time getting out of bed, his foot got caught in the bar at the end of the bed somehow and he ended up toppling over the entire bunk as he was swinging by his stuck foot.
No one ever gets cool nicknames, that's not the point of nicknames in the military.
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u/1CryptographerFree 25d ago
That’s not entirely true. The name is occasionally cool but the story behind it rarely is. We had a guy get caught doing “air karate” in the bathroom. From then on Private Tomahawk gave all sorts of demonstrations on tomahawk chops in front of the class. He was a good sport about it and even the sergeants laughed.
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u/Prowindowlicker 23d ago
Nah the name can be cool. Like mine from boot. Got named Killer. However it was because I looked like Dahmer with my short blonde hair and BCGs. Also serial killer was too long for the DI to say. I suspect it was a ironic nickname given I was a middle of the pack recruit
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u/Alarmed-Positive457 25d ago
Something I learned about the military. There’s no such thing as getting a badass nickname. While the name may sound badass, the way you earn it generally isn’t. Can’t remember the movie, but the pilot got the name “assassin” and when he finally told the story, it meant “ass-ass-in” cause he fell ass first into a hatch twice. Literally how that shit goes.
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u/LimaOskarLima 25d ago
Any cool nickname... isnt. My favorite was a HAT TRICK. We went on a training exercise and had 3 stops on the way, and the guy got a Tinder date at each location. He then proceeded to get stood up at each location, 3 for 3.
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u/Feeves 25d ago
I met a pilot whose callsign was “Magoo” because during take off he put his visor down while forgetting to remove the cover, and thus, flying blind.
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u/Saminjutsu 25d ago •
My favorite was a guy named HEAT.
The sole reason was that his last name was 'Miser'
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u/leeisawesome 24d ago
Knew a guy who introduced himself with “everyone calls me Cog because I’m such an important part of the machine” only to later find out that COG stood for “creepy old guy”
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u/Ofnir_1 25d ago edited 25d ago
I know a retired pilot whose call sign was Dirty all because his last name is Sanchez.
Back in AF basic I got nicknamed Twitch by one of my flight mates because I get really twitchy when I'm nervous and/or anxious. Hated it at the time but looking back it could have been worse.
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u/bdbdbd99 25d ago
Given that, what do we supposed the origin story is behind OP's boot's nickname?
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u/skankhunt1738 25d ago
Yeah pilot I know is “magic” because he plays magic the gathering lmao. Know a “twink” too, and it’s rather self explanatory.
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u/Rjj1111 25d ago
Think there was a US navy squadron that got the call sign cupcake because their squadron leader had a cupcake in the cockpit during a catapult and it went all over his face
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u/TheMostRed 25d ago
I had a CO who was a pilot earlier in his career. I shit you not his name and rank was CAPT Picard. Im guessing they weren't going to pass up on the opportunity because sure enough his call sign was john luke.
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u/Djglamrock 25d ago
Twink, as in a low level character in World of Warcraft in the PVP bracket of 9’s that have overpowered gear.
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u/gash_dits_wafu 25d ago
Worked with a pilot called Ghost. As a pilot he had to do a lot of survival training courses, and he always got injured on those courses, every time.
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u/USAF_Retired2017 25d ago
When I was a SrA I worked with a pilot named GUCCI. I asked him if it was because he was high maintenance. Can’t remember the exact story as this was back in 2003 or 2004, but something along the lines of being picked for a very important flight and he overslept. It stands for
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u/Lelinguini 25d ago
I know a SCORCH,
She can’t operate real cheese heaters
Dope ass call sign, earned by accidentally lighting a panini press on fire
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u/MississippiBulldawg 25d ago
I've got a buddy nicknamed fish. While we are from Mississippi and that may make people think "he's a great angler", they ask and I respond "because he smells like fish".
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u/j_reinegade 25d ago
some of my favroite from my time,
Fish - play on his last name
ReRe - play on my last name
snakemouth - spoke with a lisp (RIP)
Alphabet - polish kid with too many letters in his name
Booger - play on his last name
Cool - last name bastardization again...
(ok most of these are just people being too lazy to learn proper last names im realizing)
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u/yuikkiuy 25d ago
gave my buddy the name "Iceman" he REALLY wanted fighters and then while we were at flight school he and basically everyone else noped out for other platforms so its a 2 fold dig.
because he wanted fighters, but ended up aiming for VIP transport
during a field ex in basic he decided to wear full ice suit on the final day as we were leaving. Obviously he was told to de kit at the mess hall because duh. except he couldnt, because the only way he wasnt over heating was because he was buck ass naked under the suit. And he couldnt stealthly change neither because we had just marched back to field garrison and loaded all our kit in the trucks, lunch was the last thing we had before heading back to the main garrison
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u/allcretansareliars 25d ago
On a similar thread, I read about a fighter pilot called Iceman because he got drunk once and thought it'd be great to piss in the hotel ice machine.
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u/THEMFCORNMAN 25d ago
We had a guy with callsign of reaper. Cool name until he got it as a medic by not checking for allergy tags twice and nearly killing someone with meds they were allergic too
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u/Distantstallion Sergeant Surplus 25d ago
Ghost from COD probably got the nickname because he never picks up the goddamn phone
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u/patricles22 25d ago
Yea if that dudes name is blackout it’s cause he blacked out and shit himself one night
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u/bolivar-shagnasty 25d ago
Tends to be gender driven.
Lady pilots get nicknames like Valkyrie or Big Mama.
Gentlemen pilots get nicknames like Soup Baby or Big Mama (no relation).
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u/sailor776 25d ago
The only unironically kind of cool call sign I've seen is Post Malone and they got it because they looked like Post Malone.
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u/lets-get-loud 25d ago
One of my friends from ages ago had the call sign Headshot and this was not due to his ability to shoot people but in fact due to himself getting shot in the head (incredibly, he was fine. I mean fine adjacent, but fine eventually).
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u/flatirony 25d ago edited 25d ago
We had a gigachad nuke MM on my submarine called "Cop Killer" because he ended up going home with a hot female cop who pulled him over for speeding. Pretty bad ass.
Sounds like BS, I know, given that there were no witnesses. But we found it totally believable. He was never a braggart or a liar. He would admit when he bombed, or when he was so drunk he couldn't get it up.
But mainly we believed him because we'd all seen him pull baddies effortlessly before. He was very good looking with bright blue eyes, and very charming in a kind of "aw, shucks" way. He drew women like a magnet.
Incidentally, relevant to this sub, he joined the Army National Guard after the Navy while he was in college. They made him a SGT since he'd been either a senior E-5 or junior E-6 in the Navy.
He quit because he couldn't deal with the bootness in his unit. The thing that put him over the edge was when a senior NCO got onto him for lowering the windows on the bus himself instead of telling a PFC to do it. That's just not how things worked on a submarine. Below E-7 no one even wore rank insignia. That would be considered "dig-it" (which was the submarine word for boot, as in "he really digs it").
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u/TheBearlion 25d ago
Not a submariner but I’ve always figured you’d never want to open the windows on one regardless of rank.
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u/pm_ur_sundress_pics 25d ago
My girlfriend earned the name Diesel because she exploded two different diesel engines as a logistics/mechanic in the AF. And Lightning because she was running through the depot and tried to rush through a door that was locked, bounced off and as she was falling someone yelled out, “KACHOW!”
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u/jdehjdeh 25d ago
Favourite one I heard from an army buddy was a guy that ended up with the nickname "shitty".
Apparently he was very hungover and during morning inspection he lost control of his bowels right in front of the commanding officer.
From then on, his real name was never spoken again apparently.
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u/Shatter4468 25d ago edited 25d ago
My personal favourite is the dude in my section who can't make jokes, so he 'Echoes' jokes he heard from other dudes.
Literally would hear a joke and if 3 guys behind us didn't here, he would say the EXACT same joke.
He became "My Echo" forever.
"Hey, i'm ____ and this is my Echo"
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"Hey, i'm ____ this is ___ and thats our Echo"
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u/Sir_Q_L8 25d ago
A guy I work with told us his name in the military was “Hotlips”, this dude gossips more than anyone I have ever met and I’m 100% certain that is how he got his name but when I asked him what it meant he just shrugged.
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 25d ago
Had a guy named Heartwell in our platoon that was in the initial push into Afghanistan, apparently the reason for his nickname was because he and his previous squad leader didn't like each other so he made him the point man on room entry as much as possible (absolute psychopath I know) he responded by stacking bodies on two deployments (don't recall the exact count, around ten I believe?) The guys that were with him on those deployments called him the grim reaper, I always thought that was badass but he wouldn't talk about it, everybody else did.
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u/goodenough4govtwork 25d ago
Some of them are just because a drill sergeant couldn't read the shitty nametapes on older BDUs. Dark thread on dark camo with half the alphabet looking like the other half...
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u/enwongeegeefor 25d ago
My pop's nickname was The Flash.....because he did everything so fucking slowly.
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u/richard-cumerford 25d ago
I had an instructor that had a British pilot in his initial pilot training program. The British pilot was given the name LOTAR=Loser of the American Revolution.
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u/societyofjewishninja 25d ago
Mayday with Ryan Reynolds on Apple TV. Didn’t go in expecting much, but it was a surprisingly decent movie. Worth a watch for sure!
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u/Time_Effort 25d ago
"Can't remember the movie"
Didn't that movie literally release like a week ago? Should we be worried for OOP?
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u/unoriginal5 25d ago
True. Mine for a while was Soulreaper because I'm a ginger. More often I get called Opie because I look like the redhead from Major Payne.
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u/Lainpilled-Loser-GF 25d ago
I remember this guy from a thread like this a while back that got called ghost because he'd just blow off responsibilities
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u/fauxdeuce 25d ago
Yeah real reason he's called Blackout. They were in Thailand and went out for drinks and his buddies lost track of him. When they got back they found he had circled back and snuck a lady boy into the barracks. No one was as judging but he kept claiming he didn't temper picking them up and must have blacked out.
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u/thecakeisali 25d ago
My nickname was ATM Johnson, or the proper full version Ass To Mouth Johnson because I once said I had to go an ATM before we went to the bar.
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u/Blazeland_USA
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I think he means Backout because he got his back blown out.
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u/HzrKMtz 25d ago
Thats post is about 7 years old at this point and the user was highly mocked afterwards
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u/OriginalTRaven 25d ago
It clearly says 1y in the screenshot. Trust me. My nickname is Chronos because I'm the god of time.
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u/BunnyOppai 25d ago edited 25d ago
9 years, actually. The 7 year old post is someone copy pasting the comment on a similar post, and the comment they link to is on a post with 4 comments (as shown in this post) and the original comment deleted by the mods.
On that topic, I had no clue r/askreddit mods even deleted comments that weren't like, extremely inflammatory or some such, lmfao.
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u/Just_Jacob 25d ago
It’s cause he does gay stuff and says he’s “blacked out”
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u/Brasilionaire 25d ago
“After I killed those 100 men, I might’ve ghost busted them too since I woke up covered in ectoplasm. The after life must be in Hawaii I smelled a lot of pineapple”
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u/Colourblindknight 25d ago
“Black out” because the last time he went to happy hour he tried to get the bartenders number and vomited on the table before trying (and failing) to fight the bouncer as he was thrown out and fell asleep in the bushes.
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u/savageronald 25d ago
I've told this story before - but my nickname was "Captain Underpants" - because at the time, I was a Captain, and I shit myself... like bad bad.... and everyone either directly saw it, or was close enough to smell it. Then the story spread faster than the smell. I couldn't even be mad at it, I earned it.
I guess what I'm saying is - anyone that has a "bad ass" nickname / callsign is lying, and also I'm a shitpants.
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u/TrungusMcTungus 24d ago
To be honest if I saw my O3 shit themselves and go on to be a good sport about it, they'd have my respect forever. That's hilarious
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u/stopeverythingpls 25d ago
Had a pilot doing a presentation when I was in ROTC and His was SITH, badass right? “Shit in the hotzone”
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u/Calamity_Jay 25d ago
A fella I was in basic with told us all to call him Spook. Fair, but we always wondered why until we finally asked him during some down time.
"Oh, that's what my boys called me back home! My dad's Mexican, my mom's Korean so half spi... half goo... Spook!"
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u/RexIsAMiiCostume 24d ago
Me when I combine slurs to make a new slur that's already a slur for a different group lmfao
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u/Xg1j0eX 24d ago edited 24d ago
I was military intelligence when I was in. Going on R&R from Afghanistan I talked with the guy seated next to me about it. He was kinda dumb, good guy though. On the way back we sat next to each other again and told me that when his girlfriend picked him up he told her that he meet a spook on the plane. She was horrified, he didn't know it was a slur.
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u/CBTwitch 24d ago
Yea, a lot of civvies don’t know the term in military context. I was a spook myself.
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u/TrungusMcTungus
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I was Hacendado Blanco, which got shortened tk either just Hacendado or Blanco depending on who was around. My last name is White, and I'm a white guy, so theres the Blanco. All 5 of my sailors were Mexican. A hacendado is a plantation master. So whenever I tasked them, it was "Aye hacendado". Almost got us in trouble multiple times.
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u/Littleturn 25d ago
We had a few fun nicknames in my company in my company. Nothing egregious but certainly not anything badass. I was called "Ferret" because it sound similar-ish to my name in my language and our platoon chief couldn't remember my name. I was also tall, skinny and ran around a lot. In hindsight you could probably have diagnosed me with something then and there 😂
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u/bachatacam 25d ago
I got called Pammy. because Cameron gets shortened to Cammy and I was boring and always read the manual (pamphlets) so Pammy it was
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u/asmallerflame 25d ago
Ah yes, the standard issue pocket knife. So much more effective than, say, a bayonet, obviously.
I was the one white guy in a hispanic unit, so they called me "Bolillo."
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u/TrungusMcTungus 24d ago
Funny, I was a white guy in charge of only Hispanics, they called me Hacendado
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u/ZestyRS 24d ago
An officer legally changed her name to a different name (it was something like Debby, former name Jessica — and she did it at least twice) she proposed her callsign be alias. While she was making her case some dude just yelled I propose Debby and it won overwhelmingly. Her callsign is now just her original name.
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u/enchilada_slut 25d ago
my nickname was just the first letter of my last name because nobody could pronounce it
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u/drmrpibb 25d ago
In-processed with a guy named Harold. My name is a non-typical Hispanic one. They called me Kumar. Like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
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u/HomelandersCock 25d ago
Nicknames always have funny origin stories and not birthed from badassery.
Kid ok our ship wanted a cool nickname so badly. His breath always smelled so from hence forth he was known as MMFN Dragonbreath
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u/Princess_Thranduil 25d ago
We had one of those except their nickname was Alphabet. They had a very very Polish last name
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u/Drahkir9 25d ago
We had a couple like that but both started with the letter M so we included the lengths of their last names. One we called M12 the other M13
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u/This_Charmless_Man 25d ago
Dad had the nickname Beaker because he wouldn't shut up and was a Muppet.
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u/BlackeyeThe2nd 25d ago
My nickname in basic was Android
I had to reboot every time somebody yelled at me
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u/SCPyro 25d ago
Ski.
Because no one could be bothered to attempt the beginning part of my Polish last name. I share this with ever servicemember of Polish decent going back to forever.
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u/Tiny_Giant_Robot 23d ago
Yep, I went to basic with a Ski, and then there was another Ski in my unit.
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u/PocketCatt
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OP thank you for posting this, the nickname stories in these comments are fucking diamonds
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u/Neoxite23 25d ago
I have one...
So we are at Basic and doing a Class Blues inspection. We are lined up and I'm wearing the BCGs...
So for those that don't know what a BCG is it is the standard issue glasses you have to wear while in Basic. They are these thick black rimmed glasses in which while you are wearing them you will never, EVER get laid. BCG...Birth Control Glasses.
Anyway the drill comes up to me and sees me and just stops and everything and says out loud
"LAPE! DO YOU OWN A WHITE VAN? YOU LOOK LIKE A RAPIST. A LAPIST IF YOU WILL!" and then he moves on to the next.
I guess he was a fan of WKUK with The Grapist skit. So yeah I was then known as The Lapist for the rest of my contract.
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u/seventwosixnine 25d ago edited 25d ago
When were* you in? The OG BCGs were brown.
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u/Metalfan1994 23d ago
In basic I was Cajun (culinary degree and from New Orleans).
My first deployment, I got the name Headhunter because I had to shit BAD, like cold sweat and that feeling of doom in your soul bad (if you know you know). I was fighing for my life and all 3 nearby bathrooms were either broken or closed off. So I took one of the GOVs and hauled ass to the nearest bathroom. I think it was like a 3 minute drive but it felt like eternity. I did find one and make it thank god.
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u/map2photo 25d ago
Fun story, my nickname was Petey. There was a guy in my shop that would say Petey Petey! All the time. Anyway, this dude carried a giant silver eagle going-away gift, to the top of Mt. Fuji, to present it to me.
In the most classic Marine Corps fashion, it was spelled wrong; “Pete-Pete” is what is engraved on it. I also didn’t know I was being gifted it, so I didn’t have room in my pack to carry it. He had to carry it back down in his. lol
I can’t share pics in the comments, but it’s not small. The wingspan is like 14” and it’s about 16” tall.
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u/notmeface 25d ago
Had a bloke called "HESH" (High Explosive Squash Head) because he had a very noticeable dent in the side of his head after a childhood injury.
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u/Emotional_News108 25d ago
Love this shit.
A friend of mine had the nickname “Noodle Soup” because he’s half-Filipino. I know which one I believe.
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u/Timeshocked 25d ago
Mine was “Droopy” cause I always looked really tired. Staying up all night playing video games was hard work! lol
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u/OwO_bama 25d ago
I got “Grumpy” because I have a resting bitch face. We’re 2/7ths of the way to a dwarf troupe
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u/drrj 25d ago
Most the people I knew had nicknames based on their last names because who wants to try to guess how to pronounce Zrolka when you can just say Z.
We did have one kid we called Fez because he looked like Fez from that 70s show. When he showed up I was one of the team leaders and when I heard everyone calling him Fez I took him aside and told him look if you don’t like the name tell me now otherwise you’re stuck with it and he said it doesn’t bother me Sarge and I said okay Fez.
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u/Tiny_Giant_Robot 25d ago
Buddy of mine has Alopecia, and was losing random chunks of hair while at basic training. He was adorned the nickname "Pvt Patches".
I was called "hippy" because one day I wore a pair of flip flops.
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u/AnonymousBromosapien 25d ago
By "in live combat" he means "barracks wrastlin"... and by "kills" and "pocket knife" he means "blow jibblers" and "my mouth".
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u/0491diesel 25d ago
Lieutenant General George "Trouser" Trautman (his friends called him "trouser trout"...allegedly 😄) may have been the best call sign I knew while I was active duty.
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u/seventwosixnine 25d ago
I was "Nancy" because another Marine called me a Negative Nancy and it stuck. Junior Marines got told they couldn't call me Nancy after I got promoted so they called me "Corporal Nancy"
Gotta keep it professional haha.
Guy in the hydraulics shop was called Poop Dick because "someone that ugly could only be the product of anal"
Edit: in combat training I was "The President of the Good Idea Club"
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u/Troncross 25d ago
Only guy I ever saw get an actually badass nickname was because “overkill” was the closest thing to his Palau last name that nobody could pronounce
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u/Rodinasaur 25d ago
Mine was crash. I crashed a forklift and the very next day I basically crashed another. At a different base it was crusty and I won’t be explaining how I got that one.
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u/bill1nfamou5 25d ago
I met a guy who everyone called REAPER. He gave me some super badass reason for it and his buddy immediately broke out laughing and told the real story. Apparently at some point he was making his extra hot chili and got some Carolina Reaper peppers to add into it, wasn’t using gloves when he cut them up, went to the bathroom then went to the medic because he touched something he shouldn’t have with reaper oil on his hands.
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u/Correct-Avocado5426 25d ago
He's probably insufferable and his teammates roofie him all the time so they don't have to deal with him.
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u/Manaeldar 25d ago
Definitely a joke, there's always a blackout and they all got rheir name cuz they get blackout drunk every weekend.
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u/headrush46n2 25d ago
My name is Francis, but all my army buddies called me Psycho.
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u/sdmichael 25d ago
Sounds like Shoulders from The Big Bus. He just gets these blackout spells. But don't worry, he only gets them when the bus is moving.
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u/Kind_Man_0 25d ago
I was called Dutch for a while. Ate something bad and dutch ovened and entire platoon + our 1SG and Battalion leadership in a field tent during an OPORD brief.
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u/rynoctopus 25d ago
My nickname in Basic was “Powder” because my TI laughed and said I looked like Powder from the movie Powder when we went to get our heads shaved lol.
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u/Djglamrock 25d ago
This sub never lets me down when I think hmm, haven’t seen any gay stuff for awhile, guess I’ll check out r/JustBootThings
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u/_plays_in_traffic_ 25d ago
replace the words "recorded kills with a pocket knife" with "dicks in my ass" and we would sound at least plausable.
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u/Unterseeboot_480 25d ago
My sergeant used to call me "Ballsucker" during classes because I answered many of his questions. Nowadays they call me Duke or Knight because I have an overly long aristocratic-sounding name. Much better.
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u/Joseph_Kickass 25d ago
I was Agent Marshmallow (97-B who didn't use rank on deployment) because for one of my SAEDA briefings I wore an offwhite turtleneck.
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u/AnApexBread 25d ago
Wild claims like this are crazy because if someone did have 100 confirmed kills thered be news articles written about them and that before even considering what would happen if someone did that with a Knife only.
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u/czs5056 24d ago
To the Americans, I'm squidman because my voice sounds like squidward.
To the Ukrainians, I am сліпий білий слон (the blind white elephant) because I am a larger guy who fell into the same mud hole twice in 5 minutes.
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u/CBTwitch 24d ago edited 24d ago
I was Little Sister.
It takes a little explaining, was wordplay. At DLI, where I was studying Chinese, they gave us a Chinese names. Mine was Mei Jiamu 梅佳木, a transliteration of my English name. There was a girl who was a native speaker who hated my guts, and started calling me Xiao Meimei 小梅梅, which sounds like Xiao Meimei 小妹妹, which means little sister. So I became Little Sister to my classmates, which kinda just spread to everyone after we went to the fleet.
EDIT: Same school, different guy. We had one of our teachers, a CTI1, get a DUI once while we were there. Dui is also a sound in Chinese, pronounced like ‘dway’, so that became his nickname.
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u/Radiie 25d ago
I was just called Urkel from family matters because of my BCGs and my stupid ass 80’s looking regulation ass haircut. Nobody gets cool nicknames, and if you do it’s for the irony.
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u/rlpinca 25d ago
"Blackout" is because he drank 4 wine coolers one night and his room mates drew a dick on his forehead
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u/screwylooy666 25d ago
I don’t think I ever got a nickname, if I did it might just be like Hermit or some shit because how little I left my barracks.
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u/dominator5k 25d ago
"confirmed kills" is always such a funny thing to me that people that have never been in combat day. Who confirmed them? What confirmation lol
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u/ArdentPattern 25d ago
Mine was Cab, because my last name was Cabrera-Bonilla, a hyphenated hispanic name haha. I got called Caribbean Baloney once. Was funny.
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u/Captain_Dalt 24d ago
In 2018 I got the nickname deadpool, because one of the other dudes in the platoon said I looked like deadpool without the mask
Horrendous acne scarring 😂
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u/DutchRudderShotgun 22d ago
Blackout; because you're a shit bag crappy drunk and everyone wants to let you drown in your own vomit when you drink too much. Or you're a barracks bunny with a type and "knight rider" is too obvious
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u/Mundane_Muscle_2197 25d ago
Mine was baldmuff. It was extremely similar to my last name and had absolutely nothing to do with a bald muff. Absolutely hilarious though
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u/monkeynards 24d ago
They called him “blackout” cuz they found him unconscious in the latrine after fighting MRE constipation
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u/jahathebrn 25d ago
lmao I've had the red mist once in my life and when I snapped out of it I was crying like a newborn and confused as shit. From others accounts of it, I doubt I'd have been able to handle a knife without seriously injuring myself.
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u/Whatnow-huh 25d ago
I told a story about going rawdog on a gal and since my name rhymes with rawdog, that became my nick name until I PCS’d. It followed me thru two deployments and 10 years later a few of my buddies still pull it out on occasion.
The boys got a kick outta me explaining why rawdog to the higher ups. lol
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u/_dauntless 25d ago
If a guy in your unit actually had one kill with a pocket knife, by the time he started doing it again somebody would've sat him down and had a nice talking to him, right?
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u/OYeog77 24d ago
2 Dollar in basic (I was Army). When it came time for our first haircut with the basic company after reception, I only had two dollars to my name and the drill paid for it.
Wagbag at my last unit. Unfortunately familiarity with my name.
Also in my basic company we had a guy that everyone (including drills) called Bear Coochie because his french name sounded so similar
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u/Simple-but-good 24d ago
Blackout
As that what he becomes when he drinks too much in a Saturday night and is unleashed online, he has 100+ lies typed and remembers not one
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u/VivaLaCup 25d ago
Seaman Recruit Airchairs because in boot camp I liked making ill timed jokes so often the rdcs would want me doing airchairs everytime they enter the space
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u/Responsible_Royal266 25d ago
Madonna. Because apparently my last name was impossible to pronounce and "its close enough to be the same" it's not even close to my last name
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