Plot twist: Iceman was frozen while at a high altitude, Viper found a snake under his seat and it bit him, and Hollywood screwed up during a film or movie
There’s some truth to those yknow iceman was cold as ice when you didn’t know him viper was quick as one and Hollywood was acting like he was center of attention like a film actor or at least that’s how the naming system goes
Bigger plot twist: Maverick got a Maverick missile dropped on his foot during training Goose made roast goose every thanksgiving instead of turkey Phoenix was born in phoenix Hangman sucks at the game hangman Bob is Bob. Wolf man claimed to have seen a werewolf Sundown always watches the sun go down every evening And Rooster has a pet rooster 🐓
A coworker of mine said that on the first day when he met his Navy flight unit, he forgot to wear his wings on his uniform. His call sign was “Penguin.” 😂
I also knew a pilot with the callsign penguin because he brought the batman movie to show his men and he said, "I'm kinda like batman huh?" And they said, "no, you're more like penguin"
my dad's callsign was 'Wedge', he told us growing up that it was because of a pilot character in starwars who had one line in every movie, and technically survived everything that no one cared about or noticed being present as a sort of "oh yeah, I forgot you exist" joke, but when I grew up he admitted to me that it was actually because 'the wedge is the simplest of all tools"
Knew a vet i knew at the VA who got called "Period" after he broke his nose in an F-4 mid mission. When he landed the interior of his cockpit "looked like you basted a chicken with a claymore"
So if callsigns are given based on stupid or embarrassing things that happened to them, let's speculate on the REAL reasons behind the Top Gun callsigns. Iceman: Accidentally got locked out of the barracks in his underwear on a cold night. Rooster: Wakes up before Reveille every morning with the most obnoxious sounds ever. Goose: While off duty, drunkenly challenged a goose in its territory. Jester: Always acting like a clown and tells bad jokes that nobody laughs at. Merlin: Knows way too much about fantasy lore and cosplays at every D&D session. Cougar: Rizz at the bar only works on the older ladies. What are some of your suggestions?
Brother of a friend got his call sign because he didn't know how strong the wind coming from an airplane engine was. He got himself thrown about twelve feet in the air for walking where he shouldn't have and broke an arm on the fall, when he got discharged from the hosplital his platoon recieved him with a sign reading "wellcome back Kite"
In Boot/Mct/Schoolhouse, i was called Scrat, that damn squirrel from iceage 💀 And it was because i always did "World-Ending Shit, and looked like a crackhead" 😭
I had a former coworker who was allegedlys in Delta, and he got his call sign “Barney” for washing his all black jumpsuit in hot water & having it turn purple.
@@netts2315Washing clothes in hot water can cause the dye to come out, so if a black color has been made using a lot of blue/purple dye, it will look purple when it lightens up in the hot water
@honeybadgerdontcare I can't tell you what circumstances granted him that call sign, but what I can say is he was kind of a dick and not the cleanest person I've ever met. Some people just don't know how to shower, and in the military, you learn that pretty fast. I was enlisted Marine Corps and was not allowed to attend the frat-like party in which they all were assigned their call signs.
My uncle was a pilot during WW2, Korea and Vietnam, he served on aircraft carriers and got the call sign Old Man because of his age. Most of the other pilots were at least 8 or 10 years younger than him.
Not the airforce but in the army this one guy was giving a class on weapons maintenance. He said mayonaise instead of maintenance and earned the name mayo
You earn your callsign or nickname for doing something really amazing, incredibly stupid, or something hysterically funny. From "Six" Bear earned that nickname when he had to sneak back into the barracks bear naked. So his nickname became Bear.
My Grandfather's callsign was "Dicey" during the Korean war, he was a tanker. He managed to fire onto a machine gun's nest to where they were harboring ammo cache, gas, weapons and bayonets that were to be issued to the re-enforcements of the Koreans. After hitting the gas cans with a single shell, the knives went everywhere hitting 6 enemy personelle by both rifle ammunitions and knives, looking like a earthworm amusement park.
@@gianttacogod Well, if people get REALLY blown up, you can't actually tell that it was people. And soldiers have a way of dealing with it by making jokes.
Remember one pilot explaining his call sign "Slag" which is short for: "screams like a girl". And another pilot's callsign was "scratch" because he scratched the canopy of his plane flying too close to another.
One guy was driving from down south to Plattsburgh NY and didn’t go straight north at Albany NY. Finally called in at Buffalo. Call sign “ Lost Boy “was assigned.
In one job I worked I had embarrassing names for my coworkers. One was "razor brain", named for his (not) so sharp mind and his ability to screw things up royally.. There was also "neck beard the stupid" ( as opposed to Black Beard the Pirate ), another was called Shrek because he was the living, non-green embodiment of of said character and it didn't help that his girlfriend who also worked there was a skinny red hair girl that we called Fiona. We Ed, who had the name "Jared the Maintenance" guy, who had the unfortunate fate in life of looking like Jared Fogle and was reminded of it constantly.
In my old unit, I was occasionally referred to as either Beetlejuice or He Who Shall Not Be Named, as say my name thrice or even once, I'd be there to check up on if their tasks were completed. I also used to train all of the new guys coming into our unit. I'd also teach them how and where to goof off. By the time they figured out that that was so that I knew where to find them for a "hey you" detail, they were due to be promoted out of hey you rank anyway. There is always a madness to my methods.
My coworker was in the marines with a group of F-18 pilots, one of them had a crash where they bounced the bottom of their plane off the ground then managed to eject before it crashed for real. Once he was clear to fly again his call sign was “skippy”
Best one I've heard was in a Cleetus McFarlane video, a pilot with the callsign "Dozens" because he hit 15 G's in the spinning G-Force simulator without passing out. You know the military is going to be trying to clone him to make future High-G pilots from his DNA.
So true :D. I served as a medic in the German Bundeswehr. I struggled a lot in medical school. During one exercise the instructor said "Your patient should have more confidence in Voodoo than in my medical skills" So I get the nick Voodoo. 15 years later i still use that name in my games. I now work as a garbage collector so don't worry, in Germany there are still professionals in the rescue service. Greetings to all active and retired soldiers. Hope you find peace in life.🫡
I was never in the Air Force but I was in the Army. We we're out at NTC before we deployed and my platoon sergeant gave me the nickname Possum, because every time I had to use the restroom, literally EVERY time, we'd get attacked and I'd end up absolutely fine. He told everyone before we got on the plane to Iraq, "I don't care who you are but if you're around Johnson and he says he has to use the restroom, RUN, because you're about to be attacked."
We had a guy who was born in Germany, became a citizen, he demanded we call him "Red Baron" he had it embroidered on his flight bag, we weren't having any of that. He had a funny voice so we named him Smeagol
Fun fact:-yall know who the red Baron is right? he is the best German pilot in WW1 and a nightmare for the allied air force (forgot there name during WW1)he is even hailed as the best Triplane pilot in history ,his most famous plane was Fokker DR 1 plus he was called the Red devil by the french due to his blazing red color in his plane ,after a year later his death did he started to get called the Red Baron and oh yes his name was Manfred von Richthofen
My father told me his call sign was snake. He said he got it because“what does a snake do? It spends hours stuffing its face then crawls off somewhere, hides, and goes to sleep.”
Knew a guy that got a rudder jammed in the middle of the takeoff preparation, thus he was making circles on the runway while trying to make the plane stop with land brake Nickname? Burnout
I had a coworker who's nickname was "zeus" because his helicopter got struck by lightning with him in it, while grounded. No forcast for lightning, no nothing, just a bolt from the blue and he nearly died from it.
@@Dan-fw2db missed opportunity for "Odin" to piss the guy off for the rest of his life XD Still a bearded man, still related to lightning. Just not a Greek XD
I served 32 years in the USAF. 2 of them in the Nighthawk and 20 in the Strike Eagle. NEVER did I fly armed and returned a single piece of ordnance to base. Did I get a 'cool' callsign like 'Cannon' or 'Fireball'? Nope. My callsign was 'Miser'. Sometimes, you just can't win. Sincerely, JB III, Major General, USAF (Ret.)
@@danielvandenhoek1028that is not the guys name Grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz is a name a character from a movie uses to attempt to prank German officers Source: am polish and have watched the movie at least once
I will call my friend either side table or medium rare. The former because he’s short and the later because he once got salmonella from eating raw chicken and was off school for a month or two
Buddy of mine was clumsy during flight training, one afternoon he tripped and slammed into the wall of the CO's office, jostling the mounted deer antlers hanging on the wall, which came down and hit him square in the forehead, requiring 5 stitches. His callsign became "Antlers"
Heh, when I was fresh out of bootcamp and encountered my first officer in the wild, I had a brainfart and instead of saluting I said "How's it goin' sir?" and tried to shake his hand. He gave me a death glare and said "Are we friends, private?" and I still didn't get it. I said "I don't know if we've met sir, but we can be friends if you want." and he couldn't process how stupid I was so he just left.
My call sign was gerbil, simply because I was always snooping around where I shouldn't be. And because it was a tiny joke I was the biggest in the platoon so they called me gerbil the smallest guy in the platoon we called hippo
My brother's call sign in the Marines was Skate...until the tail hook broke on his Intruder during a carrier landing and he crashed into numerous F18s on the deck of the USS Ranger. He and his copilot ejected but he broke his leg when he came down on the tower. After that day they called him "Ace" since so many aircraft were destroyed
I knew someone with Call sign: Basco, and another known as “Soy Sauce”. Soy Sauce because during room inspection, there was a drawer full of soy sauce packets from his constant trips buying sushi from the commissary. “Basco” was a similar story, but it was from Tobasco sauce.
My nephew is a helicopter pilot in the navy. His call sign is "Mongo". He had a habit of flying hit chopper in the direction he was looking."Mongo look left, Mongo fly left"
I remember watching a mini-documentary about a recent Navy flight graduate, and upon catching his first cable, he let out a little scream. Callsign - SLAG... "Screams Like A Girl"
