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Posted: 1/2/2020 9:05:12 AM EDT
The B-2 flyover yesterday at the Rose Bowl had a female pilot, call sign "Rogue". I had to chuckle at that one and how cliche' it was, "Rogue 1" joke parody potential, etc...

I know there was an F-18 squadron at NAS Lemoore in Cali. Called the "Fighting Redcocks" and their call sign was "Peckerhead 1" (2,3, etc...)

Got any good ones?
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:15:18 AM EDT
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I'd assume Rogue is a reference to the female X-Men character of the same name.

Might have found your girl
U.S. Air Force: Female Pilot Call Signs
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:23:32 AM EDT
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The best fitting one I remember was Clifford, he was a ~6' tall, completely pumped ginger, and a total man slut.

Named after the big red dog in the children's novels.

Kharn
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:24:38 AM EDT
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Fruit loops!
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:25:27 AM EDT
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The B-2 flyover yesterday at the Rose Bowl had a female pilot, call sign "Rogue". I had to chuckle at that one and how cliche' it was, "Rogue 1" joke parody potential, etc...

I know there was an F-18 squadron at NAS Lemoore in Cali. Called the "Fighting Redcocks" and their call sign was "Peckerhead 1" (2,3, etc...)

Got any good ones?
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That was likely the flight name, not the pilot’s call sign. Around here the F-16 flights are all Badger.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:28:09 AM EDT
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I did hear "Dirty Sanchez 73" make the call to transition through through Tajis airspace in 2007.  ATC asked them to repeat the call sign. So they did. ATC had to have had to have laughed or shit themselves.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:28:16 AM EDT
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See if you can guess what mine was.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:28:45 AM EDT
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Stepdad’s is Lick.  long story short when paired with his last name it sounds like Lick My Weenie. pilots are a creative bunch
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:29:19 AM EDT
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774th Airlift Squadron, The Green Weasels, used to borrow My Polish Whisper Jets to do Their thing.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:34:30 AM EDT
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Hmmmmm!  I wonder if that was spelled "Rogue?"   I ask because the unit I retired out of in 2004 used he Call Sign "Rogue."

There shouldn't be multiple military units with the same Call Sign.   This was an AF Call Sign out of Robins AFB, GA.

My Call Sign was "JBOB" for Joe Bag of Bagels.   I flew with an F-16 pilot who's Call Sign was "Spike."    Got it after an incident while taxiing out of chocks and one of his wingtip AIM-9s clipped the Crew Chief and gashed his head.   It was the Crew Chiefs fault but it stuck never the less.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:34:52 AM EDT
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Mine was my user name.

Had also been Outlaw 22 and Warlord 35

Unlike the zoomies ours changed from unit to unit.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:35:46 AM EDT
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Army buddy of mine got out and went to College for Air Force ROTC.

He was an 88M ( truck driver) in the Army. Ended up becoming a pilot, not sure what aircraft.

His call sign?  Bus driver.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:42:23 AM EDT
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Shaved Dog's Ass.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:42:30 AM EDT
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Mine was my user name.

Had also been Outlaw 22 and Warlord 35

Unlike the zoomies zipper suited sun gods ours changed from unit to unit.
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Fixed it for you.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:45:01 AM EDT
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Fixed it for you.
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Mine was my user name.

Had also been Outlaw 22 and Warlord 35

Unlike the zoomies zipper suited sun gods ours changed from unit to unit.
Fixed it for you.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:49:58 AM EDT
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F-15 pilot in my ANG unit with a last name of 'Packer'.

His call-sign was 'Fudge'.
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Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:52:36 AM EDT
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Capybara?
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 9:58:16 AM EDT
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Capybara?
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See if you can guess what mine was.
Capybara?
Baaaahaaaahaaa !!
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:01:09 AM EDT
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Balls
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:07:26 AM EDT
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I heard Porn 'Stache wasn't a good one.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:09:50 AM EDT
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Porn 'Stache/Stash?
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:13:30 AM EDT
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Blue Falcon
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:15:02 AM EDT
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Maybe her call sign was ROUGE...as in:

rouge noun
\ 'rüzh  , especially Southern 'rüj Definition of rouge (Entry 1 of 2)
1 : any of various cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips red
2 : a red powder consisting essentially of ferric oxide used in polishing glass, metal, or gems and as a pigment
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You pretty much had to post the definition, as seemingly half the board here seem to think it’s just an alternate spelling of “rogue.”
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:19:32 AM EDT
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Are you asking aircrew specific callsigns or aircraft callsigns?
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:22:21 AM EDT
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Bet you can't guess mine
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:22:25 AM EDT
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McNallyTV: U.S. Marine Captain Rand McNally "Atlas" crash lands on USS Ranger
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:26:44 AM EDT
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I worked with a FAC named Cpt Kirk.

His call sign was "James T".
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:30:51 AM EDT
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If I remember right, the Navy had an official response to this one.

Link Posted: 1/2/2020 10:38:22 AM EDT
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Unit call signs I’ve heard or been apart of
Panther
Torque
Reach
Quid
Herky
Lion
Rogue
Blade
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:03:38 AM EDT
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That was likely the flight name, not the pilot’s call sign. Around here the F-16 flights are all Badger.
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News article said it was her pilot call sign...
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:06:45 AM EDT
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Are you asking aircrew specific callsigns or aircraft callsigns?
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Specific pilot call sign/nicknames.

like "Maverick", "Goose", "Ice Man"...

Like the skinny 6' 6" tall red-head marine pilot I met with just a Mohawk strip of fire-red hair on top named "Match", as in "Strike anywhere match head"...
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:08:25 AM EDT
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I'd assume Rogue is a reference to the female X-Men character of the same name.

Might have found your girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvChkjGyP9k
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Jinx has it going on...
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:14:04 AM EDT
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I have a buddy that got hit by a car and almost killed while crossing a street.  His callsign is “Frogger”

Another named “Tess”.  Combined with her last name it sounds like “Testicles”.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:15:19 AM EDT
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I'd assume Rogue is a reference to the female X-Men character of the same name.

Might have found your girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvChkjGyP9k
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Nope, different "Rogue" I guess there is no official list to prevent duplication...
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:15:47 AM EDT
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Army buddy of mine got out and went to College for Air Force ROTC.

He was an 88M ( truck driver) in the Army. Ended up becoming a pilot, not sure what aircraft.

His call sign?  Bus driver.
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Thats awesome.

Callsigns are always funny. Used to fly with a guy named Hate. Nicest guy I’ve ever met.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:17:27 AM EDT
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Nephews flys for the Navy. His call sign is bleach.

Came from a mistake made trying to get rid of poison oak on his nads.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:20:26 AM EDT
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Post of the day.  Bug walked him into the net.  Very cool.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:20:28 AM EDT
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Stone Hands
Gordo
Ghost (last name is Kasper)
D Day
Swampy
Jive
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:21:10 AM EDT
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We had a pilot in our FiST (Company level fire support team) who carried around a M4 with 203 "to mark for air"

We all called him Bop Gun.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:33:53 AM EDT
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Met an A10 pilot, call sign Satan. Nice guy.

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Satan's chariot.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:44:10 AM EDT
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Specific pilot call sign/nicknames.

like "Maverick", "Goose", "Ice Man"...

Like the skinny 6' 6" tall red-head marine pilot I met with just a Mohawk strip of fire-red hair on top named "Match", as in "Strike anywhere match head"...
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In that case:

ABBA - stood for Ass Beat By Asian
GLOVE - story goes someone was talking about gay sex, guy said don't knock it till you try it, caught the callsign GLOVE after that for gay love
Therapist - goes back to the whole 10% truth in a naming ceremony, stood for the rapist
Pound - more a play on the actual individuals last name, Geranis
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:45:16 AM EDT
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Mine was Smoke and there is always a story to go with it.  Usually you did something to get it or it goes with your name.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:48:56 AM EDT
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a rather famous Navy pilot was Snort

Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:56:08 AM EDT
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My last name sounds kinda like "Rodent Bird" and I'm German, so my first callsign was "Fledermaus" (German for "Bat", literally "Flying Mouse").

It was briefly changed to "Basket" when I poked my refueling probe through a tanker's drogue, ripped it off, and brought it home with me.

Then eventually it just morphed to "Rodent".

We also had "Weasel" Wenzel, "Skip" for a guy who literally bounced off the water, "Acid" for a guy with a rather unfortunate personality, "Toad" for a guy with a rather unfortunate face, "ET" for a guy with no chin and a long neck, and "Chocolate", for a black guy named Chip.

My favorite, though, was for the first black guy in the unit. One of the instruments in a jet is the "N1", and that was his call sign.

Nowadays you'd get court-martialed for that.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:57:33 AM EDT
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I'd assume Rogue is a reference to the female X-Men character of the same name.

Might have found your girl
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Most are Not Guilty.  A couple could do with probation maybe...
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:57:35 AM EDT
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I remember one named “PizzaFace.”
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 11:59:12 AM EDT
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Odd. I saw something that said the B2 callsigns at the Rosebowl were DEATH11 and DEATH12.
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 12:18:08 PM EDT
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Odd. I saw something that said the B2 callsigns at the Rosebowl were DEATH11 and DEATH12.
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Those were squadron callsigns. Mine were "Angel" and "Motley". So according to rank, you'd be "Angel 1", or "Motley 13" or whatever. Then individual pilots have their personal callsigns. Think "Motorcycle gangs with jets".
Link Posted: 1/2/2020 12:19:33 PM EDT
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Crusader
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