Team Code names
 

Some of my team mates have been given some interesting "code-names" by the Tm Sgt. There was usually an interesting f+++-up or perhaps story behind each of those names, one such was "Shit House Man". He got his name because he came in a little early and we had 13 guys on the team. Having but 12 lockers the team sgt told him to put his gear in the closet in the shit house... Another "Prairie Dog" got his name from a riverine op, he was perched in the bow of a Zodiac watching for rocks and looked like a prarie dog sitting up in a hole. There was also "flash", hit a high power electric fence with the barrel of his rifle in a heavy rainstorm.

Anyone like to share some other "code-names"?

MVP

Team Code Names
 

Johnny Bravo, Stinky, Psycho Man, History Man, Bubbles to name a few! I will leave the explanations a mystery.

Los, Cliff (as in Cliff Claven from Cheers), Stormin' Mormon, Chewy, One-ball, 13th Warrior, Mr. Magoo, to name a few I've had the honor to serve with.

Add a little explanation....
 

We had a Warrant that was dubbed "2K". When asked, the RON, RP etc. where always just 2 klicks away...

Although not on my team (or Bn) there was a guy in 3/10 that was christened "combat" by the CSM. Got the name when enquiring which team would get into combat first.

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Beaver {large incisors}
Dirty Ben {preferred mayonaise over KY as a lubricant and Phantom Sh**er in 18th ABC NCO Academy}
Grit {accent you wouldn't believe and tough as nails}
Wee-Wee {last name began with W and had a hyper-focus on 'working on the railroad'* - there was 1, 2, and 3 as we had three with the same last name in the same camp}
Strange Ed {medic who would accuse team of being out to get him and rifling his gear - booby-trapped his hooch in camp}
Taco Six {Hispanic B-TM CDR - not a term of endearment}
Northwoods {tracked 180 degrees wrong during HALO jump at Ft Bragg - located by DZ medics at Little Whale restaurant near Raeford sitting in shade on front steps drinking iced tea}
Wash {second 'Pigpen' on the same team}
Pawa {;)}
Buddha {large belly and necklace with a half dozen buddhas - looked like his namesake when seated wearing nothing but a pakamah}
Motor Pool {had a bigger crank than any vehicle in the yard ;)}
Whiskey {favorite drink}
Bad-Eye {never could tell where he was looking}
Fang {incisors like a vampire}
Purple {after the song Purple Haze}
Waldo {guy could disappear anywhere - hard to find like the character in the books}
Broke Dick {suffered a vascular rupture during a sexual encounter - penis did 90 degree turn about 1" from groin - had to be repaired surgically}
Moose {large Norwegian from Minnesota}
Ratman {05C}
Seafood {smaller than normal penis - kidded about dating women who enjoyed a 'shrimp' platter}
Weasel {sneaky, pigpen sort}
Sasquatch {large Tm Ldr you could hear coming a mile away}

Richard

*PM me if you don't understand the reference.

"One ball"..... so much fun with the new medics in the company!

Big A, No Idea, not what the wife calls me...
Tommy Tooley, Warped nursery rhyme , little Tommy Tooley, Big Boy Bad Boy (see avatar)
Gag Man, Monogrammed all his stuff GAG
Jimmy the Jit Bag, His Favorite insult, now he wears it, a Philly thing...
EWOK, Dark Green Medic under five foot , built like a fireplug, Team SGT always did finger check!
F-ing Tommy, Company supply SGT-SGM always refered to him as F-ing Tommy
Lt Plywood, what he looked like in Freefall
CPT Charts, Det CDR couldn't remember his name, everything had to be on a chart for brief-backs
Major Nuisance, CPT Charts got promoted
Colonel Chaos, Major Nuisance got promoted again
Fubar Six,O-5 Team Leader WMD stuff, self explanitory
SGM Starfish, Vietnam Vet SGM, couldn't swim a lick, put him in a shorty for desert storm swim test...
The walking dude, SGM Starfish after he made us spend a weekend dry firing vs skydiving, (no car)
Accu-Mac, OPS NCO could memorize FM's and AR's
Higginbottom, Cheese eating DET CDR (from Dunga-din)
Double O'Leary, thought he was a secret agent
Crazy Lee, Det CDR, was nutz..

The best one I think was with "cliff" who thought he had found "it!" :eek:

We had a post-SFAS/pre-Q Course OJT guy for a short while by the name of Mike. He quickly became "Carl" because we already had three Mikes.

Whistle Foot

…just a few

Firewalker (wore a pair of Converse with flames once and was branded forever)
Sir Munch-a-lot (born a farm, volcano metabolism, appetite like a big ole dog..would eat the scraps from your plate)
Dr Funk (malodorous medic…it didn’t matter how long he showered after PT)
Danimal (Gym rat extraordinaire and would work tirelessly at getting Diesel)
Jetfuel (Twin brother of Danimal and only 0.002 seconds faster than him in a sprint, but would never let him forget that)
Tomahawk (stereotypical 18B with a serious infatuation for edged weapons)
MAJ SpongeBob (you have to tip your hat to the Ranger secure enough in his manhood to sport SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas at the SOCCE)
Mr Furious (a well deserved closed door team ass-chewing was administered, and fellow Tm Sgt hung this around my neck…for posterity)

This thread is useless without the stories. :munchin

Band-Aid
Cloths-pin (engineer)
E-Bay (a weapons guys that was on e-bay all the time)
9-Volt (commo guy)
Coach

Douchebag and Dufflebag.

TR

And their precious banana tree...:rolleyes:

Richard

T-Rex - squat guy with the biggest chest and shortest arms you ever seen.

Jennifer - guy's last name pronounced like "Biel"

The Thing- guy would hit the tanning bed and come out completely orange (there was an orange Thing doll in the team room) yes, he was an 18D, but he was NOT the biggest tanner on the team...

My 4 favorite teams
 

Steam Crank - Team Sergeant. (Have to keep this PG rated. Let your mind wander.)
Crazy Crane - 1st warrant in 1/7. Absolutely nuts. Didn't drink until he had a 700 foot freefall opening.
Bullet Head - VERY junior weapons guy. Was asked not to come back to New Jersey. Was later a Golden Knight
Bad Moon - Team leader, last name Rising
3D - Medic, it was an El Salvador thing


HALO Willie - Team Sergeant, it just really fit
Tiny (yes, that one). Carried the acetelene tanks on the Son Tay Raid.
Moon Mullens - Sr Comms
Dad - SGM. He asked us not to call him that. Big mistake. Great guy.

Hippy with a Gun - Intel Sgt. Looked like the weasel guy on Human Target.
Pin Head - Medic. Never gave anyone a drug that he didn't test fire himself.
Gadget Man - Had more gadgets than anyone else. They all worked.
Tommy Timefuse (me) - I had a charge that didn't go off once. Never again.
Elmer Fudd - SGM. Looked like Fudd. Pissed him off one day when I answered a question by saying "SHHHHH. Wabbits." Never do that.
Vinny - Team leader from NJ. His father owned a senator. Got him into WP.
Popeye - Could only look at you with one eye at a time. Never sure who he was talking to.
The Human Volcano - Red hair. Worst temper in SF history.
Weasel - He looked like one.
The Floater (Same guy as Weasel). Came into work drunk too many times.
Master Re**y (Ditto) - Redacted so I won't get sued. He was from a rich family. Team sergeant used to say (affecting a butler's accent) "Master Re**y, your bath is drawn."

Wingman - Medic. Was over 6'4". You could stand on the drop zone, watch the team drop from 15 grand, and see this guy. Incredibly long arms and legs.
Captain Scum - Weapons guy. Not a fun drunk.
Corvette Larry - Had a Corvette. It was smarter than he was. When he drove home to South Carolina on the weekends the team sergeant noted that the average IQ of both states went up 10 points.

"One Ball" ...as the name implies only had one ball...the other being a victim of testicular cancer.

Favorite "prank" to play on new medics would start with a phone call immediately after lunch...went something like this:

"Had to jump a fence because I locked the keys to the house inside..."

"Caught myself on the fence trying to straddle it...hurts like hell, I think I ruptured something..."

Fresh 18D..."come into the team room and let me take a look"

What follows is left to the imagination as each medic tried in vain to "find" the missing testicle before recommending him to go to Womack.

The best one was a newbie that thought he found it, although it was retracted. I asked calmly if he found it in a mason jar. It took awhile for the color to return to his face.

Dozer . . .
seems there was a little rock slide in the mountains near the Red Sea . . .
It's not like anyone was seriously injured. But we didn't like that guy anyway.


Oh right, like it was ME!:D

Now this is funny..

All of them are great lines.

Tolz 1984-5
 

Opie - Redheaded/freckled Co Cdr
Daddy Duke - Co SGM
Little Big Man - 5' tall ARSOFE Cdr
Dead Ed - Rumored (at Bragg) to have died (at Tolz) but later discovered alive.
Mad Dog - FNG with a fritz the kat type appearance.
Top Gun - Broke a table in the Grafenwoehr "O" club doing carrier landings with the team on "right-arm night". Best Tm Ldr I ever had.
BMO - Worst Tm Ldr, followed Top Gun, came from 151 Inf. where he had been the BMO. Initially refused the code name, Tm Sgt gave him the alternative of "F**k wad, decided BMO was better. Failed Rgr Crs 3 times!! Eventually rif'd.

Some Names I Recall.
 

Babysan.
Bear
Bull
Crying Mike.
Frenchey.
Splo.


Many More.

Team Mike
 

My first tour to Iraq our SOT-A team was whored out all across northern Iraq. Hard to remember people's names as it is and we had 2 Mikes on our 4 man team (5 counting terp), so we became team Mike.

Mike
Other Mike
Abu Mike
Mocha Mike
Not Mike

Some of my guys
 

Hobo Billy-When we hit the field he looked like a homeless guy.

Horse- Jr 18C; He was as strong as a draft horse, as quick as a quarter horse, but was about as dumb as a rocking horse.

Sparky- Sr 18C; Random crap just came out of his mouth so when he actually said something intelligent we said his wires must have actually crossed.

Juicy- Team Leader; Though he denied it, he was built like a brick house and must have been hitting the "juice."

Double D- His initials just worked out that way.

TJ- Walked in the team room and said his name was Troy. We already had a Troy so he was named Troy Jr. It got shortened to TJ.

Delta Uno or Master Bravo- Tm Sgt only had one nut and spent most of his career in 7th SFG so to make him feel better we threw a little spanish in there. The Master Bravo started as an internal joke when we called him 'MB.' He thought it meant My Buddy but told hum Master Bravo because he was always critiquing the 18B's. it actually meant My Bitch.

5th SFG(A) mid '80s
 

Badge Bob or Boyscout Bob - A Bn XO who attended many different schools and proudly wore all of the badges on his OG-107s.

Elvis - A Bn CSM who bore a strong resemblence to the late star. Used to wear his borderline unregulation black hair in a large pomp.

One ball Willy - A Co SGM who lost part of his anatomy in Viet Nam.

Pappy J. - An old Group S-3 SGM who when in civies always wore large suspenders and was a murderer on a pool table.

Duran Duran - An 18A who had a last name that was very similiar to a name used by an '80s pop group.

Ernie - An African-American S-4 senior NCO who shaved his head and looked a lot like professional boxer Ernie Shavers.

Stickman - A senior 18E who was tall and extremely skinny. Was a very good commo man by the way.

Cheech - A Mexican-American senior 18B who looked like commedian Cheech Marin.

Hostage Bob - 18E who fabricated a story ( for non-SF folks) about being one of the Iranian Hostage Crisis hostages. Suffered other real delusions, Tm Sgt broke his Randall between the legs of a generator one night in the field while he slept as a precautionary measure. Said 18E found it the next day and was convinced it just exploded. BTW: Randall could not figure out how the knife broke so they replaced it at no cost.
Grand Mufti - Black 18D that often wore a Fez he brought back from one of the Lebannon MTTs.

MVP

Callsigns/ Hollywoods/ Nicknames/ Jokes that just STUCK
 

We had two Dougs: the TL and our D. So, it ended up being Daiwee and F'ing Doug (and he earned it...love ya' brah!)

Dirk (honeslty, I have no idea how the hell he got it...can't recall much of that timeframe, but it involved at least three chicks...maybe a chicken?)

Dirk Dean (same guy, he also looked a lot like James Dean...see comment above about 3 chicks...GOD BLESS YA')

Too Kool (My first, and best, Warrant...nothing seemed to rattle him and he was the only one who could calm me down)

Duckman (same Warrant, cool on top and working like hell below. Again, a SOLID DUDE)

Jersey Mike (My CPT from Jersey. "you from Jersey?...What exit?" RIP Brother

Heavy D (Medic, BIG M F'r...funny as hell too. You should see his Zarquawi impersonation!)

Mongo (buddy from another Team, from LA meaning Lower Alabama, he was just soo refined with his vernacular skills and the ladies...)

OgRe (jackass, hard headed, egotisitical fucker who never quit anything...regardless of how bad it hurt or what the bouncers or police or her father said...oh, that was me)

Grizzly (if you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly. Came from too much damned 151 that we mixed with water to make it last longer...long damend night)

T-Bone (won't go there on this board, probably going to get this deleted anyway due to my incredible linguistic talents)

Cumcatcher (short dude that I wasn't fond of, had a lot of quit in him that wouldn't wash off so I fired him.)

SERE School Honor Grad (kid who gave up on the pool deck in Pre-SCUBA, couldn't even do one flutter kick in cadence...okay, he had pneumonia big deal)

There are many more, but I am unable to recall the correct story...MTF

Pigpen- Demo guy, came in covered with mud after working on the road between Pak Chong and Camp Nong Takoo in Thailand.

Cannonball- Fellow commo man who loved the song 'Wabash Cannonball'

Tough Tommy- Demo guy, became a warrant

Big Jim- Medic who was a lumber jack before SF

Red Cloud- Tall Red headed Medic

Big Jelly- After the hitman in the book "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"

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Barney - Det Cdr whose name was close to that of the Mayberry deputy, and whose deportment was exactly like Deputy Fife's.

Hogleg - Det XO (1Lt) who went to a vehicle during a 'discussion' with some bikers in a Sierra Vista bar for the purpose of retrieving a Colt revolver kept there. Said weapon AD'ed during retrieval. Said vehicle had a Purple Heart and Bronze Star attached soon after - for 'being shot and driving on.'

The "Phantom"
 

We had a Lurp in B-36 named Harrahan who couldn't stand the fact that a leg LTC was assigned as the CO of the unit. This LTC showed up one day at 1600 hours and declared that he was going on the next recon mission.

Harrahan's team was going out at last light that night and Harrahan refused to take the LTC. The LTC demanded that Harrahan take him and said that he would relieve Harrahan if he didn't allow him to go. Harrahan told the LTC that if he was to go, that he would have to go as a rifleman because it was too late to allow the LTC to command the mission.

The mission was to go to an area west of Song Be and do a 5 day recon of the area. The jungle was too thick to land helicopters in, so the team would have to rappel in. The LTC, besides being a leg, had never rappelled before. As the team started their rappel, they started to take .51 caliber machinegun fire from the ground. All of the team started to tie off their rappel ropes except the LTC.
Because heb had never rappelled before, he went all the way to the jungle floor. The helicopter returned to Song Be and the fog came into the area where the LTC was located.

The only radio that the LTC had with him was an URC10 that a chopper dropped to him.

The LTC demanded that someone get him out. He was almost crying because he was so scared.

At midnight a voice came over the radio saying, " How does it feel to be all alone on the ground knowing that you aren't going to be rescued"?

The LTC asked, "Who is this"?

Harrahan would just answer, "It the PHANTOM"! and then laugh.

B-36 had a hotel in Vung Tau where they held after mission parties. It was traditional within the unit to offer a toast to whomever it was that had distinguished himself on mission. Harrahan got up and offered the following toast, "To the best damned soldier this unit has ever had... The LTC started to puff himself up...the PHANTOM".

The LTC transferred out within two days.

Harrahan was forever the PHANTOM.

Well, there was "Gas Mask", "Pelican Head", "Hoopie", "Egg Beater", "Bubba", "Buford", "Little Tommy"...of course, there was also "Snort", "Roger Ramjet" and "Mother Superior" among the Os...

Team leader, last name Rising. Every time he came into the team house, the TS played CCR's "Bad Moon Rising." He became known as "Bad Moon."

You wouldn't happen to be talking about the Sorry Gulch Saloon would you?

I think I killed the brain cells that would remember the name lonnng ago. If it was the very popular biker bar on the main drag back about 1976... that would be the one!

I knew a Johnny Bravo coming out of 1/10th, didn't know anything but looking cool!

Haa, the old adage, It's not how good you're doing it....but how cool you look doing it....or something to that effect:D:munchin

Let's see.....

"BT" - This one was for a particular CSM. The "B" was a reference for "boof", which is the sound that a .45 round would make when entering his chest cavity. The "T" stood for his name. I think "The Reaper" also has another nickname for him.

"Butthead" - He was a young kid that tried really hard but just did not seem to be all there. Previously he was SOCOM commander's driver an if the grapevine was correct his GT score was just a tick above SGM BT's, which was somewhere below that of a mentally defficient onion. While down range one time we had a team meeting and at the end of the meeting a new guy brought up the fact that we should not be calling this guy "Butthead", especially in public. The rest of the team seemed to be coming around to this line of thinking until "Butthead" piped in with, "But I like being called Butthead. It makes me feel like part of the team." There was no changing our mind after that.

"Spanky" - Tm Ldr. Overall good guy, I guess he looked a little too much like the character from "The Little Rascals."

"Wally the Wong" - (10th Group guys might remember this.) His genitalia was supposed to be so big that every time that he became excited all of the blood would rush from the rest of his body to his private area and because his member was so big, there was a decided lack of blood for the rest of his body, his brain in particular, and he would pass out. The whole thing was of course, just a joke. The truth behind this is that after drinking hard he would just pass out without any warning. The young ladies present would ask what had happened to him and the "Wally the Wong" story is what they were told. Oh, the fun that "Wally" and I had at DLI.

"Horse dick" - (Another 10th Group one) His member was that big and was damned proud of it. I could not count the number of times that he would show it off. Funniest guy in the world though. I spent a week with him in a spider hole during a StratRecon exercise and he kept me laughing continuously for that entire week.

"McWeeWee" - Tm Ldr whose member was that small and seemingly so was the amount of gray matter between his ears.

I almost left SF because that idiot wore a Green Beret. He grabbed my arm one time, and I told him I'd kill him if he ever did it again.

He had one peer. Billy Lee.