Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Pilots....Call signs?

Call signs have been a part of Naval Aviation since WWII (actually since radios were installed on airplanes). It was a great way to "clear six" in combat if there was a bandit on your ass (or a SAMs eventually). Call sings were (are) assigned using a variety of methods, if your last name is "Rowe" for example, odds are your call sign is going to be "Skid" (or if word gets out from the laundry your skivvies had a few "bacon strip" stains on it.). Last name Little? callsign "chicken", etc.

The other method as it was alluded to was for something you did (usually stupid). We had a guy whilst doing preflight on a jet's tail on a carrier, leaned over way too much, lost his balance and went over the side. Callsign "Splash". Lastly, if you had a particularly hideous physical characteristic, that could be used as well.

Hey, speaking of grotesque physical characteristics, that gives me an idea! Let's have a callsign contest for this guy (after all he's god's gift to military aviation):



I'll offer up a free box of ammo to the winner (determined by me of course)...