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Title: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 22, 2010, 02:31:35 PM
somehow i stumbled upon a thread that ended some 8 years ago about this very topic. figured i'd start a new one instead of necro-bumping the original thread. so..... how did you create yours?

i originally chose "Wildcat1" for my high school mascot. the "1" was because i thought it would sound original (we all thought crazy things as 2-weekers)

about 6 months ago, i changed it to "swede91", because my family has Swedish herritage. "91" because my birth year is 1990. i mistakenly pressed "1" instead of "0", but didnt notice until i was in-game.  :rolleyes:

after the Philipine Phandango scenario i changed my name back to "Wildcat1" because of my admiration for the F-M2 Wildcat. that bird has gotten me through a lot of messes.

so what's your story?
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: SEseph on October 22, 2010, 02:34:09 PM
there's been a couple since.

Mine is from FFVII. I loved that game and used Seph since I started oh so long ago. The only change was the addition of the SE 3 weeks after I started.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: StokesAk on October 22, 2010, 02:46:53 PM
Strokes is 1 letter away from my name. Its a nickname in school.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Dragon on October 22, 2010, 02:55:26 PM
I started as ddragon during tour 51, cuz dragon was taken.  Took a short 1 year or so break, came back as leDragon for a few years.  I changed to chef after the Dayton gathering in 2009 by popular demand.  Took on the SW after squad change.


 :airplane:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Blooz on October 22, 2010, 03:41:17 PM
My favorite style of music.

I chose this spelling thinking "Blues" was probably already taken.

Keep On Singing The Blues - Larry Garner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5BJke3efec (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5BJke3efec)
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: oakranger on October 22, 2010, 03:42:27 PM
Oaktree: National Tree and i am a range ecologist. 
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: columbus on October 22, 2010, 03:53:02 PM
from living in columbus ga and oh
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: ImADot on October 22, 2010, 03:55:21 PM
Because it's true.   ;)
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on October 22, 2010, 03:59:38 PM
Navy seals movie.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Shamus on October 22, 2010, 04:19:15 PM
Cuz that's what I is.

shamus
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 22, 2010, 04:21:17 PM
Because it's true.   ;)

 :lol nice
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Amaazee on October 22, 2010, 04:33:25 PM
XBOX Gamertag...


Started to use Amazing, but not catchy.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: redman555 on October 22, 2010, 04:49:16 PM
No idea, I was sitting there and couldn't think of what to put, Redman555 (my name for like all my games) was taken, so just put BigBOB, then joined CH so put CH at end... lol


-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: potsNpans on October 22, 2010, 04:51:30 PM
Because I don't have a pot to piss in, and I pan handle for spare change  :rock
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: whiteman on October 22, 2010, 04:52:22 PM
Inside joke about catching an elbow to the face in our section at football games, Bonesaw
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Tupac on October 22, 2010, 05:07:22 PM
DM because I'm a drunken monkey. Whitey is my nickname (last name is white)

DMWhitey
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: redwing7 on October 22, 2010, 05:08:20 PM
<---the team not the.... uhhhhh.... "snack" :O
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: columbus on October 22, 2010, 05:09:06 PM
<---the team not the.... uhhhhh.... "snack" :O

thats too bad the snack is much better
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Dragon on October 22, 2010, 05:26:16 PM
 :rofl
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: DEECONX on October 22, 2010, 05:32:44 PM
Just finished playing Army of Two (second one) and got back to AH, so I went with Salem. And my friend went with Rios lol.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: DaCoon on October 22, 2010, 05:40:35 PM
Started AH as Greg429, changed to WylEdawg cuz my bro loves Wyle E. Coyote(super genius), morphed into KjunFlyr cuz I'm from La., became coona55 (spelled in all caps I got in trouble w/ Skuzzy), then changed to DaCoon so folks would know coona55 wasn't abducted by aliens.    :D
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Plawranc on October 22, 2010, 06:38:56 PM
Well

When I was a 2 weeker about 3 to 4 years ago. I did not have any idea how to choose a name, purely cause I was about 12 or 13 at the time. Just click and play was my thing. I was assigned B67891.

Now I flew like this, and when I got my mic my aussie accent and humor got me plenty of friends (and enemies cause of the squeaking!), so they all called me B6.

Well I got sick of being called NUMBERS GUY, so I changed it to B6Dogftr. The B6 was there to make sure everyone knew who it was, I flew like that for a while too, but people called me "Dogfart" so I thought, screw them I will come up with my new name.

An because of my name, Peter Arthur Charles Lawrance. I said, hang on lets use my initials, drop the last name cause its a Gamer Tag and you get PAC.

Pacman = B6Pacman = Famous Australian loudmouth.

There we go  :aok
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Meatwad on October 22, 2010, 06:44:02 PM
Self Explanatory
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: JHerne on October 22, 2010, 07:38:54 PM
When I signed up I mistook my account name for my callsign and got it bass-ackwards. I changed my callsign when I came back after a year's break but no one knew who I was, so I switched it back.

Back in the CFS/IL2 days it was Freiejager.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Yossarian on October 22, 2010, 07:40:04 PM
Because I find the character Yossarian from Catch-22 rather amusing, and I find myself agreeing with his logic moderately often.

Also I love that book.  In fact, I may just go and start rereading it now.

P.S. My love of the B-25 comes from the book, not vice versa  ;)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y1USaJemzSs/SMh5sZDFnfI/AAAAAAAACbU/_RJ0Ry68f1c/s400/catch22--yossarian+screaming.jpg)

P.P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln81Y87DHQA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln81Y87DHQA&feature=related)

P.P.P.S Yes the comments on that video are clean.

P.P.P.P.S. There are no comments.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: CAP1 on October 22, 2010, 07:51:35 PM
1Lt. Civil Air Patrol.  :aok
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: FLOTSOM on October 22, 2010, 07:52:32 PM
from the expression Flotsam & Jetsam, which is the name for the debris field left after a plane crash and the wash up on shore after a ship wreck.

one of my favorite metal bands called Flotsam & Jetsam

i joined Aces High as a way to spend more time hanging out with my best friend, (known to you all in Aces High as Paul, Ink, Mortis, and i believe one or two other callsigns) I took the name FLOTSOM (i prefer the "o" sound to the "a" sound in the word) and he took the name JETSOM as kind of a parody of our playing style. always be aggressive and always leave a mess behind.

we were a part of the B.O.P.'s for a short time after i first started playing Aces High, but we left the B.O.P.'s due to differences in playing styles and personal preferences to form our own little squad. It was called SUICIDE DWEEBZ, our motto was "BLOOD OR BULLETS" as those were the only acceptable reasons for RTB. It was our way of ensuring that we never got score hungry, as we would almost always assuredly die every time we took to the sky.

we would live up to our names....
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: fbWldcat on October 22, 2010, 07:57:57 PM
Three Reasons, mainly.

1.The Bobcat (Thusly Wildcat) is the animal of Kentucky, I love them, their looks and their mannerisms.
2.The Kentucky Wildcats are my favorite team, Women's BBall, Men's Basketball, Football, you name it, I love it. (Except baseball, I never got into that sport, I'll still root against any rival teams that try to beat us.)
3.The F4F and F2M are some sweet rides in the game.

Add in my squad, The Freebirds, and you get (Now in-game) FBWldcat.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Meatwad on October 22, 2010, 08:13:52 PM
WOOO WOOO GO BIG BLUE!!!
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: USRanger on October 22, 2010, 08:17:56 PM
                                                                                     (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5996/icon39.gif) (http://img221.imageshack.us/i/icon39.gif/)

                                                       (http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7325/ranger.gif) (http://img822.imageshack.us/i/ranger.gif/)



Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: 1Boner on October 22, 2010, 08:21:28 PM
Ranger gave me my name. ;)
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: USRanger on October 22, 2010, 08:28:31 PM
Shwiiiinnnggg!!! :banana:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: columbus on October 22, 2010, 08:59:11 PM
Ranger gave me my name. ;)

why do i not wanna here how you earned that call sign???
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Plawranc on October 22, 2010, 09:24:37 PM
haha, Ranger is a big strong man. Being a Ranger and all.

1Boner is a sucker for uniforms  :neener:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: SmokinLoon on October 22, 2010, 09:33:36 PM
My Grandfather.

Lt.Col. Darrell M. "Bud" Gray, USAAF, WWII PTO (South Pacific).

Pilot/Co-Pilot: B24D w/ 5th Bmbr Group/72nd Squadron (Heavy)
>28 combat missions vs Japanese shipping and static defensive positions up and down the "slot"; took part in Guadacanal-Bougainville campaigns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_georgia_pol89.jpg
  
>Personal chauffeur for Lt. Gen. Millard Hammon for 8 months prior to earning enough points to rotate home in late spring '45. He claims an expensive bottle of scotch gitfted to his CO helped him earn an extra point or two.   ;)
http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio_print.asp?bioID=10235&page=1

"Bud" served in the USAF reserves until 1977 and retired.  He was called up during the Korean and early Vietnam conflicts to teach new pilots the basics of low altitude carbet bombing without the use of a bombardier.  Luckily, he was allow to sit out those 2 conflicts because he was self employed and has a family.  FWIW, his pilots logs show his B24D on 2 different occasions bombing Japanese defensive positions w/ 100lb bombs while flying at 550 ft over the target area.  :O  

I lost my grandfather in October of 2002, and to this day my throat tightens when thinking of him.  He meant the world to me and I miss him dearly.  I only hope to be half the man he was.

My forum name is based on my favorite guitar player's favorite on stage buzz medicine: EVH and his "Smoking Loon" merlot wine.    
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: mbailey on October 22, 2010, 09:34:34 PM
Mbailey

First initial and last name........I wish i was more creative  :rofl
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Latrobe on October 22, 2010, 09:41:36 PM
Usually I use the name "Himid" (which I got when I was watching the news and the weather reporter missspelled 'Humid'), but I wanted something new for AHII. Got a glimpsy of my dads Rolling Rock sitting on the table and the word "Latrobe". Not sure why, but I took a liking to that name and chose it. Now I keep getting asked if I'm from Latrobe, PA or like Rolling Rock (The answer is no to both, I'm still just 19  :neener: )
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Guppy35 on October 22, 2010, 10:57:52 PM
World War 2 80th FS "Headhunter" pilot  Corky Smith named his 2nd 38 Corky Jr.  Seemed to fit when I saw this photo of him bringing it in single engine.

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/CorkyJr.jpg)

Forum name comes from the nickname of a P38 pilot in my favorite fighter pilot book "Nanette" by Edwards Park.  Guppy flew 38s with the 39th FS, 35th FG.  Guppy35 predates CorkyJr.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Scotch on October 22, 2010, 11:09:30 PM
It's the liquor on which I was conceived...  :uhoh
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: stealth on October 22, 2010, 11:15:01 PM
Well, I came up with mine from the movie STEALTH and I had poster that said STEALTH. Plus I always give my self names that I'm the opposite of. Thinking of changing my name to YourX. (YourX shot you down) :aok
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: USRanger on October 22, 2010, 11:17:47 PM
haha, Ranger is a big strong man. Being a Ranger and all.


5'10", 145 lbs. Not big, just mean. ;)

My gear usually weighed more than me.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: branch37 on October 23, 2010, 12:20:04 AM
Well my name is Branch, and 37 was my football number.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: guncrasher on October 23, 2010, 12:43:17 AM
back in aw my brother's call sign was semp take a wild guess why.  we both played using the same id.  i took the name after he left for the big sky.  then stopped playing for about 8 years. then came back as guncrasher.  everybody in my old squad would always tease me about my inability to land any plane.  they would say that all i could do was gun b17's and crash.  

I took semp when it became available a couple of years ago.

semp
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: rpm on October 23, 2010, 01:56:03 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Mercury_Suit_Gordon_Cooper.jpg/250px-Mercury_Suit_Gordon_Cooper.jpg)
"I'm not one of those hot dog pilots, I am the hot dog man Himself."- Gordon Cooper
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Larry on October 23, 2010, 04:03:38 AM
It's the liquor on which I was conceived...  :uhoh


 :rofl
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: canacka on October 23, 2010, 08:43:39 AM
Got mine from friends and teammates while playing baseball as a kid.  They'd say, "He can knock the ball out of the park every time!"  You know kids, they started mixing it up, saying it faster and in different ways and then ended up with the nickname canacka.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Dichotomy on October 23, 2010, 08:54:18 AM
di·chot·o·my
   /daɪˈkɒtəmi/ Show Spelled[dahy-kot-uh-mee] Show IPA
–noun, plural -mies.

division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups: a dichotomy between thought and action.

When I worked for Philip Morris as the National Event Coordinator for their country dance contest.  We were in a meeting in New York and the Director of Marketing jokingly said 'hey when we go to the clubs (my name) can teach us how to country dance'
'No actually I can't'
'Can't dance never bothered to learn as I was always DJ'ing'
he give me a long look and says
'So, let me get this straight, you're running the worlds largest amateur dance contest for the worlds largest cigarette manufacturer and you can't dance and don't smoke'
'Pretty much'
'Boy you're just a walking talking dichotomy'

And that's been me since.   
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Treize69 on October 23, 2010, 08:59:27 AM
Was originally (and for about a decade) Treize, after my favorite anime character.

Briefly changed to White13 when I was exclusively flying in the AvA and running Grupul 7 Vanatoare. Changed back when I went back to the MA.

Currently, after a long hiatus, back under the callsign 2Dragoon in honor of the unit I reenact, the Second Continental Light Dragoons.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: CAP1 on October 23, 2010, 09:07:43 AM
di·chot·o·my
   /daɪˈkɒtəmi/ Show Spelled[dahy-kot-uh-mee] Show IPA
–noun, plural -mies.

division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups: a dichotomy between thought and action.

When I worked for Philip Morris as the National Event Coordinator for their country dance contest.  We were in a meeting in New York and the Director of Marketing jokingly said 'hey when we go to the clubs (my name) can teach us how to country dance'
'No actually I can't'
'Can't dance never bothered to learn as I was always DJ'ing'
he give me a long look and says
'So, let me get this straight, you're running the worlds largest amateur dance contest for the worlds largest cigarette manufacturer and you can't dance and don't smoke'
'Pretty much'
'Boy you're just a walking talking dichotomy'

And that's been me since.   

i tried learning to line dance once. the bar i was at had 3 bars within. i tended to go to the lest crowded one.......there were about 5 of us there. the batender insisted on trying to teach us, even though she knew we were all drunk.

 it wasn't pretty.  :rofl
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Mongoose on October 23, 2010, 10:39:46 AM
The first flying game I played on the computer was Wing Commander.  You had to create a name and call sign for your pilot.  I always like the story of Rikki Tikki Tavi.  So I named my pilot Rick Tavi, and his call sign was Mongoose. 

I used the same call sign for War Birds, and now Aces High.

 :airplane:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: stroker71 on October 23, 2010, 10:45:29 AM
First name here was Stroker1...was a mistake ment Stoker.  How the "r" got in there I dont know. Second name was Duhasst after the RamStein song...Only that song was actually duhast but no one really cared. WMBohica came from letting Wrag (Jesse) name me if he came back to the game after he quit.

B= Bend
O= over
H= here
I= it
C= comes
A= again

 :aok

WMBohicA
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: mtn-paradoc on October 23, 2010, 11:07:23 AM
in game callsign....is "medic"
real life job.....firefighter/paraMEDIC
it was either that one, or one that reflects my flying ability...and "dead meat" was gone! lol
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: HGBuck on October 23, 2010, 11:18:11 AM
My first Golden Retriever "Buck"............see avatar
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: 1Boner on October 23, 2010, 11:31:24 AM
the worlds largest amateur dance contest for the worlds largest cigarette manufacturer   

Just a guess.......... was the house band named Weezer?  :rock
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Wildcat1 on October 23, 2010, 12:22:54 PM
Just a guess.......... was the house band named Weezer?  :rock

 :rofl
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: 68ZooM on October 23, 2010, 12:31:03 PM
 well mine started back in  AOL/Gamestorm days of AW as Zoom, then went to MotZm until AW closed, then joined AH as Zoom flew under that for a year then found my old squaddie KO joined and became 68Zoom flew under that name 6 almost 7 years, took a year off and now im flying as UrSelf the only guy in the rock and roll squad  haha
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Dichotomy on October 23, 2010, 01:15:32 PM
Just a guess.......... was the house band named Weezer?  :rock

nope  :neener:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: 68Wooley on October 23, 2010, 01:59:40 PM
Major Stanley Wooley - Royal Flying Corps, Western Front 1916 to 1918. Principle charcter of the book 'Goshawk Squadron' by Derek Robinson which, along with all his other books, is highly recommended.

Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Penguin on October 23, 2010, 02:05:58 PM
I fly under Penguin, since all of the names from the Redwall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall[/i]]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall (http://[i) series were taken.  I figured that animals were next on the list, and penguins never seem to have any luck these days with the melting icecaps.  I decided to pick it in order to showcase what may be a soon-extinct order and family.

-Penguin
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: usvi on October 23, 2010, 02:15:25 PM
See Map...

(http://crucianglobal.com/images/globalcrossingMap_small.gif)
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: Slash27 on October 23, 2010, 03:01:18 PM
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff215/JoanaOF/Slash.jpg)

27 was my hockey number when I was playing.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: ozrocker on October 23, 2010, 03:23:47 PM
Name, I would hope explains itself :rock
Been a Sabbath/Ozzy fan since 1970, been to countless shows/Ozzfests.
Even have "Ozzy" tattoo across back :D
 
                                             <S> Oz

                                    
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: ROX on October 23, 2010, 03:54:10 PM
I got mine from the FCC.  I had to pass 3 tests first though.
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: augustk on October 23, 2010, 04:41:23 PM
august is my 3 year old sons name, and k is for our last name, Kelly     :airplane:
Title: Re: where did you get your callsign?
Post by: OOZ662 on October 23, 2010, 05:34:23 PM
I got this name from attempting to use too many emoticons in my AIM screen name when I was 7 years old. Due to the fact that nobody would choose it at random, it's stuck. I use it on every website I visit/sign up for.