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Call signs have been in use in military history since the invention of the telegraph. According to the National Naval Aviation Museum, it is estimated that military call signs arose around the 1930s to identify units in the heat of battle. The Department of Defense states that around 1970 is when call signs evolved into how we know them today. Like most military traditions, the origins are unknown and experts attempt to give their best explanations on how it came to be. Call signs are no exception. Originally, call signs were given like nicknames, based on your personality and physical characteristics.
Top 5 coolest call signs used since WWII
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Military History
WWII World War Two
American History
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"The best call signs are those given to you by your brothers. Especially if it bothers you. Looking back, I wouldn’t change it for the world." Great share. Thanks ma'am.
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Amn Roger Omberg
This stretching my memory, but I do remember hearing older Veterans talk with my DAD who was a WW1 vet, in 1919, injured on the battlefield, & they were discussing the NAVAHO Indian nation had supplied some of their men for the U,S, Army so they could speak with each other in their own language, in the ISLANDS of the PACIFIC ocean, so that they could discuss battle plans in a secure manner during WW2, against the Japanese. Now that was code talk. I think there was a movie about them, called CODE TALKERS, ?
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Amn Roger Omberg I believe there was/is a movie that included the Code Talkers. I can’t think of it off hand.
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I’m almost embarrassed to say mine. I was in an infantry unit and I was the only one who never drank, never did drugs, didn’t fight... and was still a virgin. What did they call me? Rasputin the mad Monk: because I got in more trouble than anybody they knew... who didn’t drink.
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I got banned from the EM club at Kelly BKS. The VII Corps CSM read me a letter explaining the reason.
For crawling across a chain of tables imitating a barking dog in his underwear.
The CSM said that was no way an NCO should act, then added wish I could have seen that you are a maddog. It stuck and proceeded me every where I went.
For crawling across a chain of tables imitating a barking dog in his underwear.
The CSM said that was no way an NCO should act, then added wish I could have seen that you are a maddog. It stuck and proceeded me every where I went.
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