Durr is my last name. I tried getting some of the callsigns and nicknames that I have had in real life but they were all taken, such as:
Tex-- When I first left home I went to Illinois. Because I drove around in a 4x4, wore boots, a leather belt with buckle, and a hat (yes ripsnort I earned mine) all the Yankees up there called me Tex. I am actually from Louisiana, but to them anybody that wore a cowboy hat and boots was from Texas. Besides I figured that if I protested to much about being from Louisiana (a much superior state
) they might start calling me Louise!
Farmer-- Later, when I returned to Louisiana and started college at Louisiana Tech University, I joined AFROTC. I was in the honor guard and everybody in the honor guard had a nickname. Mine was Farmer, because I had an incredible farmers tan on my arms, from several years of raking hay on a open topped tractor with my sleeves rolled up. The colors have evened out some now, but at the time it was like, major tan below the elbow and pasty white above.
Sleepy-- After I was commissioned 2lt in the USAF, I was sent to Navy Air Station Pensacola to flight school to become a strike navigator. Everybody in the military aviation community quickly acquires a starter callsign which may or may not stick, until they do something truly memorable which guarantees them a nickname for life. Initially, I was dubbed Sleepy because I fell asleep in a particularly long ground school class (I wasnt the only one, lots of nicknames were given that day for the same reason like Sandman etc.) That nickname didnt stick very long because it doesnt fit me very well. Im almost finished with flight school, (will get winged in August or Sept) and have managed to avoid getting a permanant callsign so far. If and when I get tagged with one for real, and its only one stupid mistake away, I will probably change my AH callsign.
