Pilot Callsigns

Most recent additions

TOOT

 (added: 23 Apr 2024)

Instructor pilot who always started by saying “The Objective Of Today” is…

DASH

 (added: 23 Apr 2024)

A Marine Harrier Driver accidently discharged his 9MM Baretta into his leg on the Ship after a hop in Desert Storm. “Dumb Ass Shot Himself”!

Fetus

 (added: 23 Apr 2024)

F-14 RIO with a very young “baby face” was called Fetus, before political correctness ruled the waves.

Blender

 (added: 23 Apr 2024)

A guy who started a Harrier with the Engine covers still attached

Barstow

 (added: 22 Apr 2024)

New guy wanted his callsign to be "Hollywood". The first meeting he introduced himself to as "Hi, I'm Hollywood." a squadmate said "Hollywood? More like Barstow" and the name stuck. Barstow is a truck stop town on the edge of the desert in california.

Cheeto

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

Early days of GWOT, circa 2002. Young LT was older, non-Prior E, guy who was a Wall Street investment banker, or something similar. Very sure of himself... fit right in.

He was also "Metro" before the term had its peak as a pop culture movement, and he maintained the perfect shade of Bronze #5 from the local tanning salon. He was also decently in shape and like to think he was the next star at Magic Mike's Cabaret.

He decided his callsign, since he was "fast" and a badass, would be Cheetah ?

The Major wasn't having it... "Bro! You're as orange as a corn pop...you're Cheeto!"

Oscar

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

Threw away deployment orders by accident, was seen by squadron CO digging through a dumpster to find them.

Note: Oscar (the Grouch) is a Muppet character who has has a green body and lives in a trash can.

Buttock

 (added: 14 Apr 2024)

Her peers misheard an admission of only having one "Boat dog" (ships mess hotdog) during a deployment.

Megamind

 (added: 20 Apr 2024)

He had a big forehead

Radio

 (added: 15 Apr 2024)

Consistently screwed up communications until they started calling me “radio boy” when talking to other people about my awful comms skills. and then just “radio”, eventually. It could be worse!

Herr

 (added: 17 Apr 2024)

Last name was Peez.

Sheriff

 (added: 17 Apr 2024)

Navy flight officer. Real by-the-book guy, with that old-time cowboy movie kind of attitude.

Whiskey

 (added: 17 Apr 2024)

Last name Hennessey. Didn't drink.

Lurch

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

While he already looked like a member of the Addams family due to his height and build, the callsign was solidified after missing a call from his squadron commander, he walked to his office and allegedly said, "Hey sir, you rang?"

Note: Lurch is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams as a butler to the Addams Family.

Guantanamo

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

Wore a high-vis orange jacket ONCE.

DOODAD

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

This pilot exemplified the "asian glow" where he would get incredibly drunk and red after only 1 stiff drink. Drinks Only One Drink And Dies

Boresight

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

He was so unfamiliar with firearms that when he was once handed a (thankfully unloaded) rifle, he immediately looked down the barrel.

Jailbait

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

In the navy on a cruiser, there was an operations guy who'd joined up when he was 17. By the time he got to the ship and got qualified to stand AIC (aircraft in control) in combat, he had just turned 18. Everyone called him Jailbait because of how young he sounded over the radio nets. Its been long enough that he's about done with his contract and the name is still sticking.

Zippo

 (added: 10 Apr 2024)

On his first flight in his new unit, his engine caught fire during the takeoff and exploded.

Snow White

 (added: 24 Mar 2024)

Paled and almost passed out on the enlistment medical exam blood drawing

Sugar Boy

 (added: 4 Mar 2019)

One of the new guys in our squadron kept stealing sweets from the kitchen until the Captain found out. As simple as that.

Flare

 (added: 2 Mar 2024)

I was in a mock dogfight on the F-16, my first one. I don't remember many details, but I do remember I was stressed, excited and desperately wanted to win. All of that blurred my judgment and the bandit "launched" a 120 in BVR. I notched it, but instead of chaff, I deployed flares... That's how I got my callsign.

RIOT

 (added: 27 Feb 2024)

Dutch Viper driver who misidentified the target and accidentally strafed the control tower at the Cornfield range. Rolled In On Tower - RIOT.

Miraculously nobody was injured, despite multiple direct hits to the control tower.

BBS

 (added: 2 Mar 2024)

He loves boobs, so we call him BBS stands for BooBieS

Romeo

 (added: 2 Mar 2024)

Young man who flew L-39's for airshows and would always stop by to say hello to his group's maintainers whenever he could, ended up being good friends with most of them. Maintainers would always see him stopping at the security post talking to a young blonde security guard almost every day, but he denied any sort of romantic interest. Fast forward to a Top Gun movie night, where the one of my buddies, much to the young man's embarrassment, caught him making out with the security guard behind a storage shed. From then on, he was deemed "Romeo". And no, Romeo and Juliet never did work out.