How Fighter Jet Pilots Get Their Callsigns?
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Pilot: nearly loses arm
Call sign: *_Army_*
Wingjob would work too
I would have submitted Bandit, short for 1 armed bandit.
I would have named him Anakin or Luke... or maybe Skywalker
Lol. At that point, no longer able to fly for the military...
@@johnbuenaventura1 I said nearly for a reason!
"Kebab" is the funniest callsign with the darkest backstory.
Yes
I was thinking they were going to call him something Christmas related.
Why the fuck is an oreo in youtube shouldnt you be in a package waiting to be eaten
that's a really cute name
Fr
I was never in the Air Force but I was in the Army. We we're out at NTC before we deployed and my platoon sergeant gave me the nickname Possum, because every time I had to use the restroom, literally EVERY time, we'd get attacked and I'd end up absolutely fine.
He told everyone before we got on the plane to Iraq, "I don't care who you are but if you're around Johnson and he says he has to use the restroom, RUN, because you're about to be attacked."
That’s hilarious timing. Reminds me of how every time I’m highly needed at work I’m in the bathroom.
@@maicius😂
@@maicius I feel like that was my standard work day in my last job.
@@sirflimflam 😂
Restroom break in the nick of time. The flesh is weak but your luck is strong, Iron Hand
My dad was friends with a navy pilot. His last name was Spears. His call sign, Britney 😂
Đàmn :))
"It's Britney, bitch!" *drops JDAM*
👍👏😂😂😂😂😂😂
this is comedy gold here
Should have been Cigarette Spears
Ewan McGregor's brother was a pilot in the royal air force and his call sign was obi two
LMFAOOO 😭😭😭
Obi Two... Obito... Tobi
@@KugasKuoskaplease always stay 500km away from me at all times
His uncle was luck Skywalkers wing man.
@@iwanna_dieWHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲
Guy from mu unit has corrective spinal surgery using titanium rods
We called him Nickelback
Nah thats fucked
Seeing all the stories behind these call signs are killing me 😂
Bro I am about to go to pilot training, I am fucked
Funnier the name the more tragic the incident 😂
"LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH"
My father told me his call sign was snake. He said he got it because“what does a snake do? It spends hours stuffing its face then crawls off somewhere, hides, and goes to sleep.”
That's a cool ass call sign wtf
@@BEANBOYOBEANITH with a different group he could've been called fatso
Your linked by cursed genes
this made my snake solid
You’re pretty good
Pilot I knew was called Pyro. Apparently, he set himself on fire during a bar crawl.
Tbf that's a sick as callsign
metal asf
A cool callsign but with quite a funny backstory, i guess
@@fush3gaming900 I dont think being set on fire funny
I hate when I set myself on fire while I'm crawling in a bar
I served 32 years in the USAF. 2 of them in the Nighthawk and 20 in the Strike Eagle. NEVER did I fly armed and returned a single piece of ordnance to base. Did I get a 'cool' callsign like 'Cannon' or 'Fireball'? Nope. My callsign was 'Miser'.
Sometimes, you just can't win.
Sincerely,
JB III, Major General, USAF (Ret.)
32 years and you get the callsign "Miser". Welcome to Military humor folks 😅
2 years in the nighthawk? damn thats cool
Sometimes you just can't win.
Nah, that's amazing.
@@itsjustme8947 who gave you the callsign and how exactly did you earn it?
Plot twist: Iceman was frozen while at a high altitude, Viper found a snake under his seat and it bit him, and Hollywood screwed up during a film or movie
There’s some truth to those yknow iceman was cold as ice when you didn’t know him viper was quick as one and Hollywood was acting like he was center of attention like a film actor or at least that’s how the naming system goes
Viper => Very Idiot Person
Bigger plot twist: Maverick got a Maverick missile dropped on his foot during training
Goose made roast goose every thanksgiving instead of turkey
Phoenix was born in phoenix
Hangman sucks at the game hangman
Bob is Bob.
Wolf man claimed to have seen a werewolf
Sundown always watches the sun go down every evening
And Rooster has a pet rooster 🐓
@@Armada-1935I like how there’s zero explanation for Bob
@@bossoldsouth7446 he doesn’t need an explanation, he’s just Bob
I had a coworker who's nickname was "zeus" because his helicopter got struck by lightning with him in it, while grounded. No forcast for lightning, no nothing, just a bolt from the blue and he nearly died from it.
"Strike me down zeus! YOU DONT HAVE THE BA-"
He indeed, had the balls.
I'd have called him pikachu. Zeus is too dignified.
@@ignazioacerenza9881 he was a very hairy greek man, so that probably contributed
@@Dan-fw2db missed opportunity for "Odin" to piss the guy off for the rest of his life XD
Still a bearded man, still related to lightning. Just not a Greek XD
At an airshow at Travis AFB I met a Lieutenant Prime, callsign "Optimus"
Probably the best and most serious one here lmao
I would not hate that name
Aw man, that one kicks ass...
Must have done something really sick to get that one
Cool
We had a guy who was born in Germany, became a citizen, he demanded we call him "Red Baron" he had it embroidered on his flight bag, we weren't having any of that. He had a funny voice so we named him Smeagol
Y’all missed so many opportunities like “focker” or “schnitzel”.
Did he strangle many people in the dark?.
He was probably looking at his embroidered bag going "My precious" wishing he could be called red baron 😂
Thats funny af
Fun fact:-yall know who the red Baron is right? he is the best German pilot in WW1 and a nightmare for the allied air force (forgot there name during WW1)he is even hailed as the best Triplane pilot in history ,his most famous plane was Fokker DR 1 plus he was called the Red devil by the french due to his blazing red color in his plane ,after a year later his death did he started to get called the Red Baron and oh yes his name was Manfred von Richthofen
I saw a documentary where a trainee's last name was "Jobbins" so they appointed him a callsign "Blow"
i remember that one, his name got changed by the end because he fucking broke the sound barrier over a parking lot and set off every single cars alarm
Documentary was called Jetstream and it followed RCAF CF-18 trainees. Watched it before.
Imagine someone saying "Blow" on that radio and "Blow" comes up blowing shizz up 💥💥🔥🔥💥💥
John " blow " Jobbins
give me that skibidi toilet job
Buddy of mine was clumsy during flight training, one afternoon he tripped and slammed into the wall of the CO's office, jostling the mounted deer antlers hanging on the wall, which came down and hit him square in the forehead, requiring 5 stitches. His callsign became "Antlers"
That's kinda tight.
😂🎉
Knew a pilot who's last name was Baiter his call sign was Master.
Wow
Knew a pilot with the first name Clint. His call sign was Tarus.
@@devilkhild Knew apilot with the last name Pinkley. His call sign was Toris.
@@EinSofQuesternice
I really hope this isn't a lie
in the 80s there was a kid who had a bad acne problem. his callsign was "shrapnel"
No way😂
that callsign is badass tho
That sounds fucking sick that sounds cool
That’s gonna be a great callsign when his acne goes away
They could have come up with a better name like "stridex", "blackhead", "whitehead", "pizzaface", "craterface", or "proactiv"
A coworker of mine said that on the first day when he met his Navy flight unit, he forgot to wear his wings on his uniform. His call sign was “Penguin.” 😂
Penguin can also mean the enemy of batman, which is kinda cool haha
lol
Learn To Fly 🤣
I also knew a pilot with the callsign penguin because he brought the batman movie to show his men and he said, "I'm kinda like batman huh?" And they said, "no, you're more like penguin"
Ostrich
my dad's callsign was 'Wedge', he told us growing up that it was because of a pilot character in starwars who had one line in every movie, and technically survived everything that no one cared about or noticed being present as a sort of "oh yeah, I forgot you exist" joke, but when I grew up he admitted to me that it was actually because 'the wedge is the simplest of all tools"
Wedge Antilles
Hahaha. That is so cruel it is actually awesome.
Yeah, the wedge is the simplest of all tools, but it's also the most reliable.
Not always useful, but handy to keep that butter bar busy...
@@spvillano It was also one of the first tools.
Tell him there’s a character in Battlefield 3 also with callsign “wedge”. Its Lt. Jennifer “Wedge” Hawkins.
Shes the WSO for the F/A-18
I was told about a pilot named Limbo because he constantly set the bar low and yet still walked under it every time 😂
that one right there. i'm folded.
FROG was my personal favorite. For if a dude joined at the age limit or close to it, stands for "F*****g Really Old Guy"
For added context, isn't the cutoff age like 29?
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We had a pilot call sign "Dude" because when checking in he asked a Major (3rd highest in the unit), "Hey Dude where's the ready room at?"
Heh, when I was fresh out of bootcamp and encountered my first officer in the wild, I had a brainfart and instead of saluting I said "How's it goin' sir?" and tried to shake his hand. He gave me a death glare and said "Are we friends, private?" and I still didn't get it. I said "I don't know if we've met sir, but we can be friends if you want." and he couldn't process how stupid I was so he just left.
How did the Major react? Brotha the moment the realized 💀
@@Roman14Fox88 I: WOULD. DIE. on the spot if this happened tome
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My brother's call sign in the Marines was Skate...until the tail hook broke on his Intruder during a carrier landing and he crashed into numerous F18s on the deck of the USS Ranger. He and his copilot ejected but he broke his leg when he came down on the tower. After that day they called him "Ace" since so many aircraft were destroyed
LMFAOOO
I mean they never specified whose planes need to be destroyed or how, just that it had to be a pilot responsible for their loss
Amazing
Pretty cool nickname
He lost his licene?
Knew a guy that got a rudder jammed in the middle of the takeoff preparation, thus he was making circles on the runway while trying to make the plane stop with land brake
Nickname? Burnout
I would have gone with "Donut"
sounds like a transformer name
I think he knew a thing or two about family
One polish guy with a long name got the call sign alphabet.
Lmao not true but hilarious
that's awesome lmao
@CDPEOfficialI can see why they went for alphabet
That nickname is pretty common in the military.
@@danielvandenhoek1028that is not the guys name
Grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz is a name a character from a movie uses to attempt to prank German officers
Source: am polish and have watched the movie at least once
Call sign 'Lantern' because your not too bright and need to be carried
zeus-zero effort unless supervised
@@tomast9034fax
Lanterns are pretty bright
You're.
@@grammerpolicedeputy6913 grammar*
Women: Her nick name is Lucy, because her full name is Lucien.
Men: His nick name is barrelroll because he ended up falling from a 70 step staircase.
and the funniest part? he was absolutely fine after a short stop at hospital
I will call my friend either side table or medium rare. The former because he’s short and the later because he once got salmonella from eating raw chicken and was off school for a month or two
As a french speaker, seeing "Lucien" used as a female name is wierd, because here, it's exclusively male.
We call him Thor, he got zapped climbing over a fence he “swore wasn’t electricuted”
My back would be shattered after that. Falling down 5 sets of stairs hurts.
My nephew is a helicopter pilot in the navy. His call sign is "Mongo". He had a habit of flying hit chopper in the direction he was looking."Mongo look left, Mongo fly left"
Brings a whole new meaning to "Don't look down!"...
Mongo don't know. Mongo only pawn... in game of life
@@elijahjarman2837 exactly
sounds like barbarian class in D&D lol
So basically the Heli turns in a direction first and then forward/backwards? Man that's hilarious
Air Force Chief of Staff General Brown earned the callsign “Swamp Thing” by ejecting into the Florida Everglades 🔥
I’d suggest “Shrek”
@@gabrielborba97LMFAOOO 💀💀💀
The best callsign ever
Oh Lord what a nightmare place to eject into.
My call sign was gerbil, simply because I was always snooping around where I shouldn't be. And because it was a tiny joke I was the biggest in the platoon so they called me gerbil the smallest guy in the platoon we called hippo
You were snooping in Richard Gere's ass?
I remember watching a mini-documentary about a recent Navy flight graduate, and upon catching his first cable, he let out a little scream. Callsign - SLAG... "Screams Like A Girl"
Banger fucking callsign though
This is completely accurate,I knew someone who had the callsign “chunks” he threw up after his first flight.
My dad's friend had a last name of Weathers so his callsign was 'Stormy'
@@who_knows_idk well at least he got a cool name unlike mine.
I looked like I was 10 so my callsign was Bambino
Think I heard a story about a guy who threw up over the side of his plane. Got the callsign Washjob, which sounds cool
But isn’t lol
My callsign is bucket because I was running over somewhere and I accidentally put my foot in a bucket and trips
Callsign: haha funny name
Callsign lore:
Apparently, when he was in the RAF, Colin McGregor's callsign was "Obi-2" since his brother Ewan played Obi-wan (Obi-1)
that is funny and cool as shit lmao
that's cool
You can leave the "apparently" cause you are correct my friend👌🏽
@@justwes1240 This is funny we share the "Just" so long lost internet cousin how are ya
@@justwes1240 He said 'apparently' due to a slip-up; good chance he copied another comment for updoot points, and the 'apparently' was a subconscious way of saying he didn't look for another source.
You get a branch in you're thigh then being called kebab is so funny
It's so disrespectful but God is it funny
@@daboiondacouch gotta have thick skin in the military
@@daboiondacouch I don't get why it needs to be disrespectful
Some call it bullying. Meanwhile the Air Force calls them callsigns
Ur new name is pants
Knew a vet i knew at the VA who got called "Period" after he broke his nose in an F-4 mid mission. When he landed the interior of his cockpit "looked like you basted a chicken with a claymore"
LMFAO!
dang that's rough!
But when he tells stories at the bar, he will say “my callsign was period, because I marked the ending of the enemies lives 😎.”
@@Roach_Dogg_JR nah, he bragged about taking his commanding officers girlfriend up for some fun and she forgot to tell him some details
I've had a few nosebleeds where it looked like I tried remodeling the bathroom and splatter painted the sink and toilet
Pilot: Crashes and dies
Callsign assigned: _Skill issue_
💀
My dcs callsign in the group I'm in is "trash" because I'm so bad at landing
And yes, I really am that bad at landing.
@@al3xb0t2I used to be a member in a Gunship III group (a mobile dogfighting game), I'd always be called "AssTurd", for similar reasonings..
While "Hangman" and "Bob" are explained, now I started to think that there's a background event where "Rooster" woke up late or worse, dozed off mid flight.
Rooster's dad was Goose. (birds)
Or another name for rooster? Cock... The possibilities are endless 😂
@@Yadro767 Someone must have grabbed his ass before the flight
Hangman said it was cause he was too scared to do stuff and “never flew far from the coop”
@@chrisp7061that and his dad was goose
I knew someone with Call sign: Basco, and another known as “Soy Sauce”.
Soy Sauce because during room inspection, there was a drawer full of soy sauce packets from his constant trips buying sushi from the commissary.
“Basco” was a similar story, but it was from Tobasco sauce.
Id fill a drawer with worcestershire sauce for that type of callsign, itd be funny to hear people try and say it
@@AdamBrzozowskicallsign steaksauce
@@Kikker861😂
@@AdamBrzozowski worc worc worc worc FUCK *you getting blown up because youre mate coudlnt tell you that someones behind you
Soy and Basco should be friends and share their condiment
Knew a guy who spilled his spaghetti on himself when eating and his call sign became Ragu
Knew a guy called 'spiders' cause on landing he had flown through a cloud of parachuting baby spiders, they were all over the cockpit glass and the guy had phobia about spiders and totally freaked on an open mike.😂
The fuck that's Australia? PARACHUTING SPIDERS
God, imagine if one got into the cockpit somehow
mother fuckers can fly now?! shit...
My skin crawled just thinking about it 😭 I hate spiders
knowing there are just clouds of parachuting spiders is terrible
Someone who was in my dad's regiment was run over by a Blackhawk under tow. The tire came up to his chest before it was noticed. Aside from bruising he was miraculously alright. He thought he should get the nickname "steel chest" or "iron man" for coming out unharmed. Instead he got "chocks" as in door chock...
The things that are used to chock aircraft wheels on the ground are called "wheel chocks" too btw 🤣
Bet the calls "CHOCKS IN!" and "CHOCKS OUT!" straight hit different after that.
That’s devious
Did his best Impression of Wheel chocks... makes sense he'd get that nickname.
He survived? I had a coworker in on brother orders, their sib was run over by a SH-60F under tow... they died in route to the Trauma Unit.
We had a woman in the unit called 'Nokia'. She got it after people stumbled on her in the act of connecting multiple people;)
My Uncle's call sign was "marco" because he got lost and couldn't figure out where his F-16 parking spot was. Just like, Marco Polo.
Lol that is pretty funny
Cliff was a friend of the family when I was a kid. He was a bomber pilot in WW2 and transitioned to a fighter escort when bombers slowed downed. He was there from D-day till the end of the war and flew on any mission they would let him. Thus, he earned the nick name "R.I.P" because everyone assumed he was as good as dead.
Low-key a metal af callsign
"a pilot almost crashes into a building"
Callsign: *Osama*
It’s true.
However, you forget most call sign idea are submit by your colleagues. Then the higher up select the worst one for your.
This sounds like total fraternity nonsense. Why not just use names?
@@48956lbecause it’s funny
@@48956l Anonymity, comradery and because the nicknames are more often than not far quicker to say than the actual names. Case in point on the length: every nickname mentioned in this video (even the top gun ones) are two syllables or less.
@@48956l because funny
@@48956l My guess is for the sake of morale, or to just have fun.
There was an A-10 pilot who’s call sign was “Dumbo”, we never got to meet the man as he was always in the air providing CAS for us … the boys drew up some pretty funny sketches of what we thought he might look like.
he probably just had big ears
@@Seany1616 that was the general consensus. Some of sketches had his ears the size of North America.
not sure if i want my overhead A-10 in the hands of dumbo
@@AdrianOkay looking back now we may not have been the safest boots on the ground 🤔 Thank God he never learned of our artistic endeavors … we would have been toast for sure!
So if callsigns are given based on stupid or embarrassing things that happened to them, let's speculate on the REAL reasons behind the Top Gun callsigns.
Iceman: Accidentally got locked out of the barracks in his underwear on a cold night.
Rooster: Wakes up before Reveille every morning with the most obnoxious sounds ever.
Goose: While off duty, drunkenly challenged a goose in its territory.
Jester: Always acting like a clown and tells bad jokes that nobody laughs at.
Merlin: Knows way too much about fantasy lore and cosplays at every D&D session.
Cougar: Rizz at the bar only works on the older ladies.
What are some of your suggestions?
Spider: Four-eyes who got a bit too grabby while drunk.
Viper: once had an actual viper be in their bag
Maverick: really likes a certain chain of gas stations.
Pikachu: zapped himself fixing an electrical appliance.
ZEUS: Zero Effort Unless Supervised
And if it’s not that it’s a pun on your last name.
Like “Vodka” Smirnoff, “Tread” Saufley, and “Oh My” Gaud
not a call sign but i kept getting called "Lich" by others....
I worked in what everyone lovingly referred to as the "dungeon" .... the storage under the building.... always looked dead tired.... and was a play on my last name
We had a "Cleveland" Steamer and a "Grand" Mariner.
Instead of “oh my” it should be Omar
one pilot had "Noodle" cause he ejected going faster than sound, he broke every bone in his body
WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS!?!?
@@nirxiod5774It's a joke fam
@@Splicer-lb5xb no its not, his name Brian Udell
@@nirxiod5774 he recovered then went on to fly for an airline
How fast did he recover?
My commanding officer has very short arms and couldn’t be a jet pilot so had to become a p-3 pilot, callsign “T-Rex”
I'm waiting for the day someone has the callsign "Beyblade" because they spun out
In my squadron we had a guy who’s call sign was Shredder which sounds cool, but he got the name because he accidentally shredded a very important document that he got in a lot of trouble for.
Yeah, I remember my first job in an office (DoD Civil Servant) I shredded a (luckily unimportant) document on my first or second day.
On my birthday or work anniversary over a year later, I walk into my cubicle and discovered that every available surface was covered in shredded paper.
@@NemisCassanderWhat was your callsign
Guy almost gets his foot chopped off
Call him footloose
Kenny Loggins would’ve love to hear this 😂
He sanged both footloose and Danger Zone. 🤣
TH-camr and former F-14 Tomcat radar intercept officer Ward Carroll was given the call sign Mooch because when he was in a bar with his senior officers. They asked him if he has any money with him. He answered no. Thus they called him Mooch.
Its worse then that, he needed to mooch everything for his first deployment, he went from school, to a deployed carrier without the here is what you need to bring lecture.
That's funny. We helped a guy fresh from boot who had his pay screwed up. Poor kid was penniless so bunch of us collected for him. Of course they fixed it. I even think the Skipper made sure he got an advance. Mooch is a good one though. Lol
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i once heard of a guy who was not paying attention while taxi'ing to the specified runway for takeoff, ran into a fence, and somehow tore out about 300 feet or more, of chain-link fence.
His call-sign was Fencer.
De-fencer
It's nice to know that the military is basically the same as my old Boy scout troop.
I was "Sunshine" or "Chuckles" because I almost never laughed or smiled. Another kid was "Pockets" because he'd always lose stuff, ask you where it was, and inevitably it would be in one of his many pockets.
“Wedge, because you are a simple tool”
love that one
Wedge Antilles
the fuck is the context?
@@RomanTorchwickRWBY the context is that he took it from the other comment above
Why does it have to be insulting?
If you destroy a tire when landing, you're called "Ryanair"
thats wild
I got the call sign "Jeans". A few MSgts figured out my middle name was Levi, not long after I was at an out of work event with them and ended up ripping my jeans while picking up a keg. That pretty much sealed the deal then and there.
Had a buddy who went into hypoxia while flying. Callsign - "Pox"
thats pretty badass actually. the unrelated symptom "pox" was awful in medieval times. Very evil sounding although not everyone would like that, I assume
@@sirsnek6562 I think it is much easier and straightforward. POX is just Proline Oxidase ferment which expression intensifies in hypoxic conditions
I love that the Callsigns are supposed to be embarrassing, but no matter what they still manage to sound cool. Kebab is fucking rad.
My buddy is called Wrecking Ball. The polite reason is, he breaks stuff without trying to. Odd edge-case equipment failures happen to him with alarming regularity.
The impolite reason, he's got one testicle the size of two testicles.
There was once a pilot who came so close to getting killed that their callsign was Lazarus. The short form was Laz.
Awesome.
Had a WSO who accidentally inflated his life vest getting out of the cockpit. Forever known thereafter as “Floato”.
id have called hi lie'lo, after the inflatable pool bed. lol
I know of one pilot who had to eject and the jet went straight into the side of a sand dune and disappeared. This resulted in the coolest callsign of “dune” but the story behind it is still funny
My EA-18G growler pilot callsign “MOP”, spilled his drink on the new hard tiles and biggest guy on base grabbed him headfirst and used his curly hair to mop the liquid. Not very effective, but it earned him a cool callsign.
Nope
lol
Right, his curly long hair? In the military? Cap
@@username5172 probably like short noodle hair like cup noodles 🍜
@@username5172 Curly hair tightens up and sticks to the top of your head. Australian Military permits beards and curly hair as long as it is maintained and presentable.
C.W Lemoine got his callsign "Mover" by blowing up cows from an F-15 with a 20mm autocannon
F-16* Mover never flew the eagle.
tbf, almost every american fighter jet , including the eagle and viper has the same autocannon, the M61 vulcan. Except for the A-10 (GAU-8 Avenger 30mm) and F-35 (GAU-22 25mm)
Brother of a friend got his call sign because he didn't know how strong the wind coming from an airplane engine was. He got himself thrown about twelve feet in the air for walking where he shouldn't have and broke an arm on the fall, when he got discharged from the hosplital his platoon recieved him with a sign reading "wellcome back Kite"
the guy had his callsign "wolf". because when he was once on night watch, a wild wolf showed up to his post, the guy shat himself.
My call sign was "Chewie" as in Chewbacca due to excessive body hair.
That is badass ngl
Did you solve the issue finally?
Omg that would be me, I have so much body hair
My uncles call sign was "DK" short for donkey kick after he was pranked in the barracks.
His unit was tired of him getting them in trouble for sleeping in and they woke him up by pretending to be the Sgt.
He threw both his feet back and kicked his bunk mate in the face so hard it knocked him out. But he also screamed like a donkey or mule from what his friend said. 😂
I used to work with USAF fighter pilots when I tested the avionics mission software for the F-22. One pilot told me about a new pilot who showed up and said he wanted his callsign to be Ice. So they named him Slush. 😂
Major Patricia Yapp Syau Yin is a Malaysian military pilot and flight instructor. She is Asia's first female MiG-29 fighter pilot ,her call sign is foxy because she yelled Farking oxygen when the oxygen equipment on her fighter malfunctioned.
Panic is my favorite callsign, also the coolest pilot I've worked with.
In Top Gun Maverick, I think Bob had the best callsign in the movie, since Hangman did refer to it as “Baby on Board”
i wonder what phoenix did to deserve hers.
a phoenix rises from the ashes, so maybe she was almost kicked out of the program only to end up topping her class?
nah, it needs to be something embarrasing
@@cockatoo010 I would like to think she finished a mission while being on fire
I know a pilot that lost his ring finger when jumping out of a jet. His ring caught the latch for the canopy when he jumped down, stripping everything off the bone. His callsign became "shocker". Another friend of mine walked like buzz lightyear when he was in all his flight gear, callsign was "buzz". That one, when i got it, i died cracking up watching him walk across the flightline.
My buddy's callsign was phsyco private because when he first joined, he yelled back straight into the drill Sargeant's eyes
lol
Did he live
took balls of steel to do that
Knew a machine gun soldier who pressed the trigger for a little too long, his call name was ratata
A Navy pilot I know tried to put "Lobo" on the board at his first carrier exercise. Nope. The older pilots rewrote "Princess" and that was his callsign forever.
In VTOL VR, my callsign is "leapfrog". I was on the ground waiting for clearance. I scratched my nuts and forgot about the controller in my hand which resulted in me accidentally pulling the eject lever.
I love this callsign.
Ahahahaahaha damn i scratch my nuts sometimes too we all have been those times😊
A friend of mine's last name was Hind, so they naturally gave him "Frumby" as his callsign. LOL
thats a good one lol
…sight?
We got a fat dude in our plt that's Italian from New York and we started calling him meatball but he got super aggressive about it. So now we call him meatball even more
...got super aggressive about it. Spicy Meatball.
It's the same for skydivers, oddly enough.
Mine is Windsock. I shanked myself on a windsock flagpole while under parachute.
We had a pilot who flew to low hitting the top of some pine trees . His call sign was “Trimjob”
Had a guy roll his ankle to become “Achilles”. Spent the next 2 years as “Limps” until he transferred.
I had a friend who’s older brother’s call sign was Saint, and I forget exactly how but he nearly destroyed seven hangared aircraft, so he became Seven Aircraft Inside Nearly Totaled
I know a pilot called "Ace". During his first war games out of flight school, he 'shot down' five planes, not a single was was OPFOR.
"Ace" is Air Force, retiring this year.
Oof.
Thank you, needed that laugh
Love me some badass callsigns with the stupidest stories behind it.
OPFOR?
@@andywillis9701 Oposing force
Know a marine pilot while I was working on an amphibious carrier. His call sign was “chowhound” because that devil dog had to be the most out of shape man in all the marines corps 😂
Never underestimate fat pilots. The fatter you are, the higher your G tolerance (provided you stamina and strength is else ok)
mm, crayons.❤
Pilot : Doesn't even know how to take off
Callsing : Maverick
My dads student, he works in the Swedish Air Force training pilots, so he his students luggage got stuck in another country so he didn’t have clothes so his callsign is luggage
My dads callsign is Brownout or smth idk
@Boggeboy10 wonder how he got that name...
@@Megafragger_probably accidentally lumbered down a pole and caused a brownout ☠️
There is always a guy named “Bags” story is he somehow dumped the luggage pod off the aircraft. The call sign is a little too common for me to believe the story.
I had one Captain with the call sign "spanky" our next captain's call sign was "Inmate"... I'll let you wonder on how they got that.
Uhhh........damn idk 😢
Spanky cause someone bend over
Somehow I think the first captain was getting spanked and the second one was in Spanky
Was spanking while treating the other like he droped the soap 😂?
ah in mate and spanky, i guess the middle one is submisser
My friend is one of those guys you'd think they walk and move in slowmotion. We called him 'Quick'
Short reminder the actor from Obi Wan had a brother in the air force with the codename Obi-Two
This is perfect
My uncle was a pilot during WW2, Korea and Vietnam, he served on aircraft carriers and got the call sign Old Man because of his age. Most of the other pilots were at least 8 or 10 years younger than him.
There was a US navy pilot with the callsign 'Skip'. He got this in a training exercise when he got to such a low altitude he actually hit the ground and skipped off the Earth. Hence the name Skip.
In Boot/Mct/Schoolhouse, i was called Scrat, that damn squirrel from iceage 💀
And it was because i always did "World-Ending Shit, and looked like a crackhead" 😭
Met a guy whos callsign was dirt cause he went nose cone first into the dirt. I also met one called L.O.K.I. which meant lost our keys immediately cause he dropped their keys in an elevator shaft when they checked in at their hotel
Lmao our last dog we had always stole our keys and her names was Loki 😅