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Originally Posted by svandamme
So Curious ot know what Student Loans had for call sign, and what the story was behind it  |
True story: I didn't have one. My first squadron CO thought they were stupid. Second CO said you had to "earn" a call sign...mostly by having a physical issue/deformity or doing something stupid. We had an "ET" (the resemblance was remarkable), "Skip" (for skip a meal, he was a tad chunky), "Brakes" (forgot to unlock the main landing gear before a run-on landing), etc.
Navy pilots can put their call sign on their flight suit name tag. Most squadrons are into it and decades later folks still use their call signs. Now, THAT is stupid.
BTW, I can always tell when a senior officer has changed what was probably a more derogatory call sign into a positive one. There was one O-6 here at Pax that would end correspondence with, "Falcon Sends". Sure, when you were a JO, unless you had a hooked beak like a Falcon, the gents doling out call signs are going to give you, "Falcon".
Never happen.