The coolest call signs have the most embarrassing back stories. I knew one who had the call sign "Snake", he was a crew chief/observer on a US Army OH-58, who had to replace some hose, he then put the unused portion of the hose on his cot, (FTX), and forgot about it. When we turned in, he felt the hose across his legs as he slid into his sleeping bag, screamed, "SNAKE" as he jumped out of the sleeping bag.
@@travisgrizzard8453I think it might be to force them to explain it. No one is going to really question a kinda inconspicuous name. But if it’s something really cool sounding people are gonna ask questions.
A lot can be cool without the backstory. Like the one with the callsign, "Harpoon"... Which he got as he had a fondness for the larger women when they hit the town
@@adil-zd8jq the “video” callsign was based on the fact that a “spicy tape” of a recruit and their gf was circulating around and he got the callsign because of that.
“Obi Two” still reigns supreme as the best call sign ever. Colin McGregor is (was) an RAF Pilot and the brother of Ewan McGregor who played Obi-Wan in Star Wars. So given he was his brother they went with Obi-Two 😀
We had an inspector on a government project who's name was Jitu pronounced "G-2". We finished a large cut-over a day early over Thanksgiving weekend so he bought us pizza. I promoted him to G-3 for the rest of the project.
My dad was an F-4 pilot in the 1960s. He was a tall, very skinny redhead. In high school, he rode bulls on his high school rodeo team. As a bull rider, he was John Richard "Red Rawhide Rooster" Russell. His call sign was Rooster, but other pilots called him Ricketts in face to face conversations.
@@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad My dad graduated high school in 1955. My mother, who graduated from a very posh school in uptown New Orleans always described my dad's schooling as day care for Rednecks.
In, "Catch 22," there was a man with the last name of Major, and against his wife's insistence, he gave his son the name, Major Major. Major Major Major was a Sergeant, but the name confusion, he was given the rank of Major, Major Major Major Major. Great book.
Reminds me of how my grandfather was told when he joined the Navy in the 70s that he could build a ship with just a screwdriver but can't spell his name.
"This is flight control of the Carrier Carl Vinson, unknown aircraft identify yourself." sigh "My name is Jeff." Edit: Holy, thanks everyone for 2.1k likes.
That's funny but you wouldn't identify yourself to air traffic control (anywhere) using your personal callsign. You'd, instead, be using a callsign given to you for the flight/mission. It's generally, but likely not always, based on your squadron name and a 2 digit number; something like Viper 01, Hound dog 22, etc.
My favotite call sign i heard about was S.T.A.B., for a pilot that had stomach issues and soiled his flightsuit, twice, then had a problem with his landing and had to do a go around. Shat twice and bolted.
Non-military one, but at one of my previous jobs anyone on a radio was given a callsign. “Prototype” never had it explained to him that it was because we didn’t know if he’d be okay or if he’d crash and burn
Pilots arent the only ones that get call signs. All positions have the possibility to get them. When I worked on the flight deck/flight line we had a really tall new guy. We called him stilts until he caught a missle fin across the forehead. After 130 stitches he was called Frankenstein. 😂😂
I had a dispatcher who was "crease", he described his job in the Marines as ATC during sldesert storm. He smacked his head on a low wall in a pair of office trailers set up together for radar screen training, and cut his forehead open. When he got back from getting stitched up, there was a post-it on his screen that said CREASE.
Reminds me of the scene from Top Gun Maverick. One guy asked the call sign of the other guy. He replied "Bob". Then the other guy asked what it stands for. He replied that's my call sign. Just " Bob".
@Bellend361 There was a leak in her flight suit, and the joystick for most Fighters is right between the legs. Flight suits have "features" to allow a pilot to relieve mid flight. Some of these pilots are in the air for several hours at a time. The longest I personally know of was in the air for 12 hours, 15 minutes. An awful long time before access to restrooms.
@@ankyo2763 ah yes, one who gets court martialed bcuz of being framed for murdering an ex president and getting 3 sin lines as a result but then gets his name cleared for being found not the culprit and ends up becoming a war hero in the end
I had a guy get blown up. He was working the .50 cal when it came up and off the mount smashed in his face. When he got discharged from the med tent several days later the nurse said "oh yeah. Your that .50 Cal kid" from that eay on he was know as the .50 cal kid. The military does not grant you the cool call sign you always get one that you hate but sounds cool. LoL 😅 I was an airborne medic on route clearence with 102nd combat sappers 2012-13.
I was doing some work on the Stennis when the CAG came in. He said my counterpart and I needed call signs. I was leaning up against the bulkhead scratching my back "like a big ol' bear." So for the next five years I was called "Papa Bear."
Well, yeah, because some officers magically appear as commanding officers. It's not like they go to flight school and then a training squadron for a particular aircraft type and then spend a few years on deployments. "Yeah, I'm a LtCol and I've always really wanted a callsign and never had one. I really think it's gonna happen this time. What kind of aircraft do we fly, anyway?"
I got the name “Rico” which sounds pretty cool, that is until I found out it was because I looked like the musician Geraldo and it was in reference to the song “Rico Suave”, 😩
"We've got Bad Dog at the bar. Riptide at the table over there... And the guy in the corner? No, no that corner. The dark one with the flickering overhead lamp about burned out... That's the legendary ace... 'Jeff'."
Call sign assignment in the US forces is a source of limitless hilarity! Some fine examples: Notso - Second name "Bright". SNAP - Acronym for: Sensitive New-Age Pilot Slush - Asked to be called "Iceman", wasn't cool enough. SHOCK - Acronym for: Sh**-Hot Ovulating Commie Killer Slutter 1-7 - Got caught with the working girls on graduation night, CO of the training base arranged for the call signs. Am into military stuff for 30 years but call signs and their origins never stop to amaze me. XD XD XD
I had a buddy who married his Canadian girlfriend so she could stay in the states (legitimate wedding, just rushed). There was an "incident" one night at a hotel during an exercise at a different base where several of the other pilots said it sounding like he was howling. I suggested "coyote" for both reasons. It stuck.
It's a borrowed callsign. It belonged to a friend of his. He asked if he could use it. So when he arrived at the RAG he introduced himself as "Viper". Good thing he actually had the skill and the squadron pilots did not re-name him. Guy went on to get a MiG kill over Vietnam.
Went to pre-deployment CBRN training class years ago. Airman was up front showing us how to use autoinjectors the right way and wrong way. She told us, “never put your thumb here and press down because it has enough force to punch through the bone.” Training flight personnel gave her a live bag instead of a training bag. Right after she said that the needle shot through her thumb, including bone and thumbnail. Her callsign from then on was 2-PAM.
I ended up with "Shadow" due to freaking out everybody by just being somewhere nearby but not noticed until they nearly walked into me. It was first coined when a female officer had to make an announcement in the rec area. I just happen to be walking to the rec area and quietly waited behind her while she finished the announcement. When she finished, she turned around and yelped, "You're a f*cking shadow". A couple of weeks later, a similar event happened when I "popped up out of nowhere" when in line for lunch. I was there for some time, but the person didn't see me when he got in line, then got jump scared when I moved. She happened to also be passing by and said, "God d**n shadow" Someone else got "Snorlax" because he got caught snoring while sleeping in a public area during his down time. He was also a heavy kid, but he still met physocal requirements.
One pilot’s callisign was NOAH (Number One A*s Hole. Another one was FOSH (Freaks Out and Sh*ts Himself), and one C.O.’s initials were BBB, so he was B^3 (B Cubed).
Bad dog without context is a good callsign
That’s why callsigns are so genius, someone called “Blaze” would be called that because they set themselves on fire in the kitchen or something.
@@Mr.Spade1there's many reasons that someone could've gotten blaze but either way that's not a bad call sign. I e heard and seen much worse.
@@bbarker5766For example hog rider
That’s true
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That guy who came up with "Jeff" definitely suffered from a similarly bad call sigh
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I would quess"jefender" or Jeff ender
They all do, movies like Top Gun and their call signs are not how it is in the real world.
My name e Jeff
it was Just Jeff
Bad dog is a pretty cool callsign without context
The coolest call signs have the most embarrassing back stories. I knew one who had the call sign "Snake", he was a crew chief/observer on a US Army OH-58, who had to replace some hose, he then put the unused portion of the hose on his cot, (FTX), and forgot about it. When we turned in, he felt the hose across his legs as he slid into his sleeping bag, screamed, "SNAKE" as he jumped out of the sleeping bag.
It is but everyone with context will never forget that. So great choice tbh
@@travisgrizzard8453I think it might be to force them to explain it.
No one is going to really question a kinda inconspicuous name. But if it’s something really cool sounding people are gonna ask questions.
A lot can be cool without the backstory. Like the one with the callsign, "Harpoon"...
Which he got as he had a fondness for the larger women when they hit the town
@@leojamesclune1730thar she blows...
Not going to lie, “Bad Dog” is a badass call sign regardless of the origin.
No, the originl kills it.
The origin is all what counts in call signs. That makes them so freaking hilarious! XD
Shoulda been “Movie Star”
The video one is CRAZY 💀💀💀
Nah use p*rn
what it mean
@@adil-zd8jq the “video” callsign was based on the fact that a “spicy tape” of a recruit and their gf was circulating around and he got the callsign because of that.
@@PrincessThePitbull1why do mf record that shit
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Yeah so if you wanna be an airforce pilot make sure your name isn't "ben"
God fuckin dammit
Call him Dover
@@raskullsshako No shit
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Dover
“Obi Two” still reigns supreme as the best call sign ever. Colin McGregor is (was) an RAF Pilot and the brother of Ewan McGregor who played Obi-Wan in Star Wars.
So given he was his brother they went with Obi-Two 😀
I heard about that from my buddy who is a huge star wars nerd. lmao
Except he was older .
We had an inspector on a government project who's name was Jitu pronounced "G-2". We finished a large cut-over a day early over Thanksgiving weekend so he bought us pizza. I promoted him to G-3 for the rest of the project.
@@roywilson1703 fair, my assumption kicked in there.
Honestly that’s a pretty cool call sign considering the back story.
“Bad dog” without context: 🗿
“Bad dog” knowing they pissed all over the controls: 💀
My dad was an F-4 pilot in the 1960s. He was a tall, very skinny redhead. In high school, he rode bulls on his high school rodeo team. As a bull rider, he was John Richard "Red Rawhide Rooster" Russell. His call sign was Rooster, but other pilots called him Ricketts in face to face conversations.
That is the most southern thing I’ve ever heard of😂😂😂
Highschool Rodeo team??
Man America has really gone downhill
@@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad My dad graduated high school in 1955. My mother, who graduated from a very posh school in uptown New Orleans always described my dad's schooling as day care for Rednecks.
A pilot named Rooster, ey...
Call signs are like fraternity nicknames, they are meant to be this way.
Jeff as a callsign is cool ngl
You gotta be a real bad ass when " jeff " is enough
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What's your name? My name's Jeff😂😂😂😂
Me
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In, "Catch 22," there was a man with the last name of Major, and against his wife's insistence, he gave his son the name, Major Major.
Major Major Major was a Sergeant, but the name confusion, he was given the rank of Major, Major Major Major Major.
Great book.
One Navy Chief and wife named their son Admiral who later joined the Navy. 😮😅
Oh well, at least you don't risk forgetting his name. Only how many times you have to say it
Major squared*
@@tmayorca8770 Talk about a target on his back 😂 If that got out they had a field day 😂
@@banjoman5000 an Army Sgt. and wife named their son Major which is a more common name. It's be funny if the full name was Sargeant Major!!!
Bad dog is a sweet call sign, until people hear how she got it.
Wedge was the funniest I ever heard. Wedge the simplest of tools.
Reminds me of how my grandfather was told when he joined the Navy in the 70s that he could build a ship with just a screwdriver but can't spell his name.
"This is flight control of the Carrier Carl Vinson, unknown aircraft identify yourself."
sigh "My name is Jeff."
Edit: Holy, thanks everyone for 2.1k likes.
My girl is on that ship, I believe it's an air carrier, right? You can check me on it if I'm wrong lol
That's funny but you wouldn't identify yourself to air traffic control (anywhere) using your personal callsign. You'd, instead, be using a callsign given to you for the flight/mission. It's generally, but likely not always, based on your squadron name and a 2 digit number; something like Viper 01, Hound dog 22, etc.
@@harlequin2584 I giggle every time I hear this. Why does it never get old?
Almost as bad as calling him "Jar-Jar" or "Roger-Roger" 😂
i wonder how could someone attain a call sign "Ghost"
Probably appearing out of seemingly nowhere without saying anything until someone turns around and they're there
Always missing the meetings, yet they knew what was going on
Or better yet, always late
very pale skin
Being so pale, you can almost see through them.
Gonna be honest, it probably won’t happen but I would be laughing if my callsign was Whizzdog
You wish. with the name like that, your call sign will be "puddles" 😂
@@a.murdoch5446 probs
My favotite call sign i heard about was S.T.A.B., for a pilot that had stomach issues and soiled his flightsuit, twice, then had a problem with his landing and had to do a go around. Shat twice and bolted.
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Some callsigns without context go so hard, so I'd just set myself on fire to be called Blaze or some shi lmao
@@LoafyNeverClear I dub thee, "Section 8"
Monkeys paw curls, they call you Matches
Heh...Blaze...THE RAZGRIZ
Without the context some of theese sound so epic
You better hope you don't get caught playing pocket pool when it's time to pick a callsign, your callsign will be spanky.
Heres one "textbook" was given to someone who tended to know everything somehow
Then there is "alphabet" for pilots with polish second names, for example Świeszczyk, Wawrzyniak or Seroczyński
Now they would get the call sign "Wiki".
@@GhostBear3067 true
@@jakubrzepkowski2290 alternatively "Eye Exam"
Enlisted flight mech, call sign cigs, due to always having a smoke or cigar lit as soon as we touched down. Smoke free for 2 years now
"Jeff you are cleared into runway 36"
Non-military one, but at one of my previous jobs anyone on a radio was given a callsign.
“Prototype” never had it explained to him that it was because we didn’t know if he’d be okay or if he’d crash and burn
Pilots arent the only ones that get call signs. All positions have the possibility to get them. When I worked on the flight deck/flight line we had a really tall new guy. We called him stilts until he caught a missle fin across the forehead. After 130 stitches he was called Frankenstein. 😂😂
I had a dispatcher who was "crease", he described his job in the Marines as ATC during sldesert storm.
He smacked his head on a low wall in a pair of office trailers set up together for radar screen training, and cut his forehead open.
When he got back from getting stitched up, there was a post-it on his screen that said CREASE.
Honestly Bad Dog isn't bad if taken out of context
Jeff on the other hand is just pure evil lmao
"wow, bad dog is such a cool callsign, how did you get it?"
Reminds me of the scene from Top Gun Maverick. One guy asked the call sign of the other guy. He replied "Bob". Then the other guy asked what it stands for. He replied that's my call sign. Just " Bob".
My cousin is a retired flight instructor and she gave a a guy who went by Dick who had a small dick the call sign Monty
and then they changed it to baby on board
@@hazard2.030 yeah 😄
BOB... A pilot that ejects losing both arms and legs and lands in the ocean.
How did she pee on the controls,in flight🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
Negative g??
@@Bellend361 Leaking suit and joystick between the legs
@Bellend361 There was a leak in her flight suit, and the joystick for most Fighters is right between the legs. Flight suits have "features" to allow a pilot to relieve mid flight. Some of these pilots are in the air for several hours at a time. The longest I personally know of was in the air for 12 hours, 15 minutes. An awful long time before access to restrooms.
99% of call signs are things you messed up on or did stupidly. it is so rare to get a name because you did something badass and have it sound badass
“Trigger” may have an entirely different meaning
Only if they are an Ace Combat nerd
@@ankyo2763 ah yes, one who gets court martialed bcuz of being framed for murdering an ex president and getting 3 sin lines as a result but then gets his name cleared for being found not the culprit and ends up becoming a war hero in the end
I know a pilot, last name "Sess" they named him "Prince"....
I had a guy get blown up. He was working the .50 cal when it came up and off the mount smashed in his face. When he got discharged from the med tent several days later the nurse said "oh yeah. Your that .50 Cal kid" from that eay on he was know as the .50 cal kid.
The military does not grant you the cool call sign you always get one that you hate but sounds cool. LoL 😅
I was an airborne medic on route clearence with 102nd combat sappers 2012-13.
I was doing some work on the Stennis when the CAG came in. He said my counterpart and I needed call signs. I was leaning up against the bulkhead scratching my back "like a big ol' bear." So for the next five years I was called "Papa Bear."
best call sign ever is Ewan McGregor's brother, in the RAF, who's call sign is Obi Two.
'Video' I mean lets just say if it makes the rounds it had to be good
Bad dog is kinda sick tho
For a woman, it's either worse or better.
You dont ask for a call sign they are given to you. If you ask your a tool
A squadron commander who’s never had a call sign? Try again.
Well, yeah, because some officers magically appear as commanding officers. It's not like they go to flight school and then a training squadron for a particular aircraft type and then spend a few years on deployments.
"Yeah, I'm a LtCol and I've always really wanted a callsign and never had one. I really think it's gonna happen this time. What kind of aircraft do we fly, anyway?"
Pilots are funny, as a GRUNT you don't want the nicknames your fellow GRUNTS will tag you with. The ORIGINAL " DON'T ASK"!!!😂😅
Yep!
Typical Marine humor.
But Bad Dog and Video are cold imo
There’s a lot of good ones without context. My favorite is Kabob. He had an emergency eject and impaled his damn leg on a tree! Brutal.
My DO had to eject over the Indian Ocean...we called him "Lost."
A) 'bad dog' is great
B) 'just Jeff' would have been better
I got the name “Rico” which sounds pretty cool, that is until I found out it was because I looked like the musician Geraldo and it was in reference to the song “Rico Suave”, 😩
If it was after the penguin it'd be a cool name!
immagine of Someone gets the callsign "beef jerky"
Plot twist: he got caught jerkin' in the barracks.
This is exactly like the old adage says: if your call sign is cool, you got it doing something hilarious and/or humiliating, lol
Thats right, don't give em unhumans human names!
My call sign will be “therapist”
Bad dog goes hard 😂
"We've got Bad Dog at the bar. Riptide at the table over there... And the guy in the corner? No, no that corner. The dark one with the flickering overhead lamp about burned out... That's the legendary ace... 'Jeff'."
They’re always so badass but have a goofy meaning
"my name is jeff" 😂
I could listen to call sign stories all day
Nah she definitely woulda been cleaning her own aircraft😂
Jeff. That’s the funniest thing that I’ve heard in a long while
Imma be honest, these videos make me excited to get a shotty call sign when I’m older
Everybody has a nickname in the service
I bet that guys call sign was "menace"💀
@@Microwave7395 Or "Bob"
Callsigns are almost *always* ironic.
My military friends call me spud for multiple reasons, but partly because I got potato hardware.
Jeff was the best callsign I've heard of.
Call sign assignment in the US forces is a source of limitless hilarity!
Some fine examples:
Notso - Second name "Bright".
SNAP - Acronym for: Sensitive New-Age Pilot
Slush - Asked to be called "Iceman", wasn't cool enough.
SHOCK - Acronym for: Sh**-Hot Ovulating Commie Killer
Slutter 1-7 - Got caught with the working girls on graduation night, CO of the training base arranged for the call signs.
Am into military stuff for 30 years but call signs and their origins never stop to amaze me. XD XD XD
"All call signs check in" "My name Jeff"
Well what could be worse than "corporal coyote"?
I had a buddy who married his Canadian girlfriend so she could stay in the states (legitimate wedding, just rushed).
There was an "incident" one night at a hotel during an exercise at a different base where several of the other pilots said it sounding like he was howling.
I suggested "coyote" for both reasons. It stuck.
jeff jeff was a problem problem LMAO
Dude, Wagon Burner. That’s all I ask. Call me Wagon Burner.
You're "Sticks".. or how to light a fire without a match.
The way he phrased that sounded away weirder than it was
Releaving herself in the cockpit??? What the, she must've been in love with her F-16/F-18
Nah, marking her territory. 'Relieving oneself' has more than one meaning, unfortunately.
@@Vynthos a naughty cat indeed
Jeff is deliciously evil. I love it.
Last call sign should’ve been “of” 😭😭😭🙏
" Well, jeff, your callsign is drum roll, please Jeff."
Asking for a nickname is a sure way to get an offensive nickname.
And thats why we dont have a Pope named Secola.😂
Call sign viper sounds like a horrible call sign to attain
It's a borrowed callsign. It belonged to a friend of his. He asked if he could use it. So when he arrived at the RAG he introduced himself as "Viper". Good thing he actually had the skill and the squadron pilots did not re-name him. Guy went on to get a MiG kill over Vietnam.
"His name is yeff" 😂
Call signs are badass to everyone thats not the caller or person in question lmao
Bad dog?
Cause if a dog poops on the floor you say bad dog
@@Shdhbsjsvv ah
So ur telling me she crapped in her flight suit ?
@@RFS-Vids watch the video
Bruh I watched it a billion times and didn’t understand it
Yo that jeff line got me rollin!
Went to pre-deployment CBRN training class years ago. Airman was up front showing us how to use autoinjectors the right way and wrong way. She told us, “never put your thumb here and press down because it has enough force to punch through the bone.” Training flight personnel gave her a live bag instead of a training bag. Right after she said that the needle shot through her thumb, including bone and thumbnail. Her callsign from then on was 2-PAM.
I would learn how to do the same voice Channing did in 22 jump streat and answer my name is Jeff if i ever had that call sigh. 😂😂
Callsigns are always chosen by the pilot’s squadron mates and it usually commemorates something memorable or embarrassing the pilot did
Almost insulting? Nah that’s insulting.
Wow last one takes the troop
Bad Dog 😂 oh my goodness.
i lowkey want to bring ants with me on my first flight so they call me antman
See, it never works out like that. You'd end up with something like sweets or anthill instead.
@@ΝέλληΜπαλαμπανίδου I dub thee "Bug boy"
If I'm a pilot under that squadron commander everytime I will call him "Jeff" I would use the tone of Mike Myers in Wayne's World 😅
NEVER ask for a call sign
I ended up with "Shadow" due to freaking out everybody by just being somewhere nearby but not noticed until they nearly walked into me. It was first coined when a female officer had to make an announcement in the rec area. I just happen to be walking to the rec area and quietly waited behind her while she finished the announcement. When she finished, she turned around and yelped, "You're a f*cking shadow".
A couple of weeks later, a similar event happened when I "popped up out of nowhere" when in line for lunch. I was there for some time, but the person didn't see me when he got in line, then got jump scared when I moved. She happened to also be passing by and said, "God d**n shadow"
Someone else got "Snorlax" because he got caught snoring while sleeping in a public area during his down time. He was also a heavy kid, but he still met physocal requirements.
Just imagine an conversation between them 😂
My great granddad was called ‘smokey’ due to an engine smoking
You mean pee on the controls😂😂
Bruh she pissed her suit,not the panel Infront of her
@@RFS-Vidswatch the video Again! lol. peed Everywhere
@@maxxcarver5502 Her suit had a leak. The control joystick is between the legs.
i'd kill for the callsign "bad dog"
Thats unnecessary when all you need to do is pee on the controls 😂
Kiddos, I will tell you about the lore of commander jeff jeff
One pilot’s callisign was NOAH (Number One A*s Hole. Another one was FOSH (Freaks Out and Sh*ts Himself), and one C.O.’s initials were BBB, so he was B^3 (B Cubed).
Y'all really called your CO "Bae"
@@yasininn76 It was B Cubed, as I explained in the post.
A couple of the guys I worked with:
SHED (Super Huge Enormous Douche)
PITA (Pain In The Ass)...the guy was an O-5 Group Commander when I was a Lt
"My name is jeff"
I went to an air show and one of the F-18 pilots had the nickname noodle arms
Bob from top gun 💀
my call sign would be dog sh?t
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😂😂😂