Where did you get your call sign?

[BigJim]

Heheh ask Ranger Bob where I got my handle <grin>

[daddog]

Wow! Started this early Friday it was about half this size when the day was over.  
Thanks for all the responses gents! Some I have really enjoyed, others....more than I wanted to know.  

Your right badger I have seen this several times, but it is always a good read. 78con, jwg was just my initials, James William Glazier.  

I would like to hear from more...how about the HTC crew?
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daddog
332nd Flying Mongrels   
Snapshots
Where men become friends, and friends become brothers.
 

[DoZZ]

I guess I came by my callsign honest. When I worked in the sawmill's of eastern Tenn. no one went by given names. Everyone had a nick like Motor or Scratch or something. It was said that Motor could lift a 4cyl. and carry
it under one arm...he was a big boy :^) and you dont want to know what Scratch's problem was :^) So they studied for weeks for a nick for me.I finnally gave them the excuse one day cleaning up after work. I took a 2x4 and used it to cleaned out from under one of the saw's. they said it looked like I was bull dozing...:^) So Dozer was born on that fatefull day. I thought it fit well cause I love the down an dirty fights on the deck.
Since then my WB squad mate's would shorten it with doze or dozz, so DoZZ it is ... ;^)

[treadhead1]

Well, mines pretty easy to. I was a tanker on M1A1s stationed in Vilseck, Germany for 3 yrs. (just got out in Aug 99) It amazes me hoe many ex-tankers are here in AH. Guess we like flying  a plane rather than slogging around in the mud!

Just ask anyone who has trained at Grafenwhoehr or Hohenfels. (and i know you guys are out there!)


Tread  
>>The Screamin Meanies<<

[Sox]

Was Grim Reaper in AW3, Callsing was Riper, can only get 5 letters in the box so missed the other P in the name. Couldnt get Ripper in this game was already takin and tried many others, Spent forever to find a name. So The White Sox wone the World Sieres Last year and found that A short callsign was qwicker to typ for 6 calls so took the name Sox. The bad thing is that people dont get the Baseball out of it. Thay end up geting The Presidents cat.  But o well. Sad to say would love to change it now.

[Spatula]

My handle comes from being the stupidist sounding Kitchen Utensil. I had envisioned a mighty plethora of Kitchen Utensils gracing the AH virtual skies going by the name:
1st Airborne Kitchen Utensil Assault Group.

It would seem that others dont seem to want to have a silly handle so i disbanded the sqaud after a few months. We had:
 - Spatula
 - Grater
 - Ladle
 - Corkscru
I had an offer for a ginsu2000.

But i was the only one who actaully signed up when we went pay, so i joined some new-found friends in the 357th Pony Express and kept my handle cause it sounds silly (and it was well known)


Spat
= 357th Pony Express =



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[Spooky]

Hehe ! I used to show up at my local firing range with five guns ...I used to fire two  black powder .45's at once and was nicknamed SPOOKY in reference to the Vietnam-era C47 gunship by a U.S friend who was visiting that day...I liked the reference so I kept the name...

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[air_borg]

Well...I have the deepest respect for anyone that can assimilate an entire species...especially when its in a cockpit being thrown around in all directions  

So Im "the borg" (just dont expect me to be as good lookin as 7 of 9)  



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[Ripsnort]

Long story short, used to break horses, was bucked off onto a barb wire fence, which almost castrated me.  After returning from the hospital stitched up, my dad returned from work that day and said "Looks like you had  a "Ripsnortin' good time!".  Name stuck.

To this day when I see an urban cowboy with a hat on, I feeled compelled to  walk up to him and scream "Did you EARN that friggin' cowboy hat, mister, or you just playin' the part!"

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Ripsnort(-rip1-)
I./JG2~Richthofen~
Panzer Group Afrika-15th Panzer division
JG2 Communications Officer
Aces High Training Corps
JG2 "Richthofen"
 
Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures.  Remember, when
someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, BUT, it
only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm, grasp the joystick button,
and shoot the sucker down!

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[pzvg]

First, back in AW on Compuserve, I was IRA,For no reason,then Got into WB about 0.95 version,My R/l nick is Bear,but that being taken, was casting around for something and hit on the 7up spotad, so I became SPOT, bad idea, seems there had already been a SPOT who had been a jerk, so after the 5th or 6th time of being a victem of a "dweebhunt" out of mistaken identity, I was ready for a new handle, but what? well I liked tanks had been a tanker, (yeah treadhead I remember Graf '80-'88) and I liked WWII german equipment so I settled on my favorite the Panther, now pant it would have been in the old WB handle, umm no, uncool, hmm PanZerkampfwagen 5(V) ausf G?
PZVG? sounds good   and it has ever since.

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[Mighty1]

Had several names but started with Mighty1 in the Fighter Duel and Fighter Ops days and used it and Target/Udi in Flying Circus and Dewey- in WB/DOA.

I sucked so bad when I first started flying I decided I should have a scary sounding name so that people (Hopefully) would think twice about attacking me so I chose Mighty1.

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The New Baby Harp Seals

"Come try to club THIS Seal"

[sourkraut]

Back in the CB radio days my (ex)Mother in law suggested sourkraut for my handle.
Only 8 letters allowed so its sourkrau

Sour

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Sourkraut
JG-2 Richthofen

"Hey - someone has to be the target...."

[StSanta]

Hey rip, I want one of them cowboy hats.

And a gun to go with it, the bigger the better.

And leather pants stuff, dunno what you call them.

Boots would be cool too, just to complete the image.

No damned horse though, those critters are insane.

Guess I'll look pretty lame, with my 180cm, 65kg frame, in a red cowboy hat, red boots, white fake beard and a Big F*cking Gun, riding a red offroad bike  

But, the chicks will dig it. Or maybe not. Anyway, *I* would consider myself Extremly Cool And Very Tough, and that's a good thing.

Or maybe one of them cool Aussie hats, I like those.

Or a German helmet, but people would label me a Nazi, even though it is red and wears the insignia "Rudolph is dead, I got hungry".

Even considered a red drysuit for my diving, but black and yellow was cheaper  

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StSanta
II/JG2

[Mickey1992]

Mickey - Derived from McCormick

[Belgar-]

Started out as Pegasus from games like WW2 Figthers from Janes and some helo sims, then came Warbirds over a year ago and a seven letter words wouldnt fit like Pegasus, i chose Pegsus then made Belgar at the same time came from one of the characters off David Eddings novels. Both still fly but Belgar is my regular flyer.

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Belgar
 

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