Ok, I'll bite. My call-sign stretches back a long way...all the way to high school where I was given the ironic nickname by my 11th grade English teacher of "wild bill" (I was anything but wild, straight-A student, 3rd in my class, etc.). He had a good sense of humor and I would always finish my classwork early and ask for a pass to the writing lab or computer lab so he got tired of writing my regular name (Bill) and started doing creative things...the "wild bill" stuck in that regard. I used that all the time for online forums and such but when I joined the MMORPG "World War II Online", "wild bill" was already taken...so I shortened it down to wbill...but that was taken too...so I added my birth year of 76 to come up with wbill76. That's been my online handle in many places for nearly a decade now...so it fits.

As for the avatar...that's the first ever "tank" designed by Leonardo Da Vinci. I have a love of history (both social and military) and building armor, so the avatar joins the two together perfectly.

SMJmodeler wrote:

Guys: I received a PM from JMart and he jokingly said his "unique" forum "handle" was a contraction of his name...kinda' made me laugh and think about our names here.  When I started on the forums I was unaware the "handle" I chose would eventually stick and be how I would be recognized.  Had I known I would have been more creative than "SMJmodeler" (initials + modeler)..as would JMart probably... So it begs the question, "how and why did you name yourself the way you did here?" We've mentioned avatars before too, but some of you are new so let us know why you chose that too!  I'll go first. Me: SMJmodeler (initials + modeler), Avatar: "Spies Like Us"  I love the movie and the particularly this scene...it kinda represents the sometimes crazy and hairpulling parts of this hobby! Thanks guys!

Yeah I'm in the same boat as you,if I had realized I would have thought of something more creative,as it is I just used my name and house #     Oh well-boring!!!! As for the Avatar,I just use diffrent pictures,this idea I robbed from one member I can't quite remember who it was,but he has a picture of himself with the APG Panther,I thought it was cool so last summer i did one next to the Jagdtiger.

And yes,,, I await the explanation for "Mansteins Revenge"

So you want to know why I choose Pvt Mutt.

My blood line is Scot-Irish,Dutch,Shawnee and Cherokee= Mutt. 

Simple                                                                                                                           Tony

Mine is simple my initials JT, I build race cars in real life,but didn't want to use my buissness name wasn't sure if that was alowed so I just use race,and 214 is the sprint car I crew chief on..

John

"Cameraflage" is the name I use for my photographic endeavors...mostly landscape stuff, nothing too weird an no weddings (been there, done that...ugh.) Its a take off on camouflage, which is what I tend to wear when I go out shootings. I like to see without being seen.

Note how my desert digital pants kinda disappear against the rock wall I'm standing next to. If nothing else, it keeps me from being noticeable in other people's vacation pictures.

I tend to sign my posts as Ranger Joe, since Joe is my real name and I used to be a ranger...I served my country in uniform as a seasonal National Park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge of Virginia. Best job I ever had. The NPS was smart to not provide me with a firearm (much to my friends' relief..."They didn't give you a gun, did they?"), so my defense of bunnies was carried out from a park entrance station along Skyline Drive. 

Ranger Joe, Defender (kinda) of Bunnies

Like a few of you have mentioned, my name spawned from online gaming as well. Specificaly Call of Duty 1. For those that don't know German my name means ghost. My avatar is just the eagle that appears on some modern German flags.

Erik

wing_nut wrote:

Well mine USED to mean something

 LOL....  traitor...

Well, mine's not a brain teaser, that's for sure. I'm sure you can guess what one of my favorite planes is?? Just put Focke in front of it. It's simple, easy to remember and spell!

Andy

Geist wrote:

Like a few of you have mentioned, my name spawned from online gaming as well. Specificaly Call of Duty 1. For those that don't know German my name means ghost. My avatar is just the eagle that appears on some modern German flags.   Erik

Erik, the eagle is the so-called "Bundesadler" or Federal Eagle, aka as the federal Chicken and is the official coat of arms of the Federal republic of Germany and can be found on all official flags flown at official buildings. here is a link if you would like to know more about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany

Amazing how often this thread shows up-this is the third time I've contributed an answer on this site alone! LOL!

Mine is my longtime girlfriend's "pet name' for me. 

She has two big 90-lb dogs, Toby (left) and Sebastian, (right);

They're brothers. 

One day, after she had a particularly rotten day dealing with customers at the restuarant where she is head hostess, she came home to find tails wagging, tongues flappin', and got the normal amount of affection and excitement to see her--which caused her to remark "even on the worst of days, nobody loves you like your doogs!"

So,.....natch, I became a "doog' as well! (She always greets me "HEY DOOG!" LOL! )

My screenname is my first and last name initals, mg, then comes my name Michael in Swedish, mikael. Hence you get mg.mikael. No, I'm not Swedish, but because everyone loves them....especially the women. That's why I chose to go with that language for my name.

As for my avatar, you wouldn't believe how many people ask me if she comes in full scale. LOL My avatar is of the character Cameron Phillips, a terminator from the TV series Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cameron Phillips is played by the very, very talented actress (my favorite), Summer Glau. She also had the role of River Tam in Firefly (a tv series) and the movie Serenity, for those wondering.

I finally wised up and kept the answer to this question on a document so can do a quick paste with a little editing for the dates...

My favorite comic book in the 60's was Enemy Ace, along with Sergeant Rock and The Haunted Tank, etc... In 1998, I started flying a WW1 air combat sim called Red Baron II, then later Red Baron 3D, on-line and most of the other sim-pilots took historical WW1 pilot names, or the usual crop of the nonsensensical or humorus ( I was partial to Lt Pat McGroyne, my "Allied" persona)  but there were several of us who went with fictional ones. Hans Von Hammer, "The Hammer Of Hell" was my first pick as a German pilot-name, and I've carried it to other forums as well..  

Even the CAF has hung "Hammer" on me as a call-sign (for a different reason though.  My first name is Mike and the CO at the time was a fan of Mike Hammer detective stories and hung that on me), so it got put on my name patch as well.  I didn't let on to the fact that I liked it, since one of the "Call-sign Rules" states, "If you like it, you can't have it"...

My avatar changes periodically, just to keep folks guessing... Currently, it's a picture of me back about a hunnert' years ago, when I was a young Army Staff Sergeant and the Section Chief on an M109A3 SP Howitzer...  I prefer pics of myself as avatars, mainly because I think it helps folks communicate better in forums if they get a face and a name...  Plus, I just love a good "Hero Shot"...

I'm a Lord of the Rings fanatic, read the Trilogy+Hobbit 3 times over 4 years and the Silmarillion twice, so I picked my favorite sword from the books and movies.   Oddly enough, I own a couple official reproductions of the swords, but not Glamdring, go figure.  I kick myself now when I see the prices on Ebay, double what they were 4 years ago....

Avatar is one of my TV heroes, Dr. Greg House, MD.  He's holding the magic eyeball which was the immunity trophy when he was picking his new team from a bunch of fellowship doctors, the one he awarded the eye to got to run their test on a patient.  Think Survivor, complete with the extinguished torches. (bunson burners in a lab)  One of the best episodes of the series, IMHO...

Some years ago,  I had a landlord whom I discovered was a Hauptman in the Panzer Korps in WWII.  I affectionately referred to him as 'Panzer Willi'.  This is kind of an homage to Willi.  I just stuck my name (Richard) in after the 'panzer' part. 

The avatar is a pic of my 1:16 Tamiya Tiger in my backyard.

Well, mines not actually hard to guess.

I spent my 6 years in the Army either on M1 A1 or M1 A2 Tanks. (of course there was that oh so fun time in S-3 at Battalion.)

My avtar I found on line liked it so I used it. 

A decade ago my snowboarding buddies decided to nickname me "bufflehead"   Not knowing what it meant I looked it up:

(n.) a small North American duck (Bucephala albeola), black on top and white underneath

(n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.

Hmmmm...which one would you have picked? 

omg, devo.

Crack that whip!!!

I like tacos, Taco del Mar makes the best.  I am a history buff, history student of the year.  THUS TACOBUFF IS BORN!!!  the avatar is a figure i recently painted.  He turned out so well, and is so photogenic, he ended up next to my name.

Wirraway wrote:

Wirraway 'cause I'm from down under, and it is recognisable as one of the few Australian built aircraft.  The Devo Power Dome 'cause I'm still stuck in the 80's and they're one of my favorite bands.

I saw Devo on a televised concert the other day, and I realized just how old I'm getting!

(talking in a low whisper) For myself, I've always loved the F-105 Thunderchief. Hence, one of the nicknames is Leadsled. I know it may be sacrilegious to announce that in this forum but I have turned 45% to the dark side (45% remains in aircraft & 10% in autos)

THUDS FOREVER

OK.....here is the derivation again...

redleg is what an artilleryman is called. 12 was part of my "in open" callsign. Rather than use 6 for commander, in the open we used a little bit more complicated system...1 for commander, 2 for second unit or Bravo battery...and thus redleg12....the best time of all my years in the military

Rounds Complete!!

Im not really sure how mine came to mind.

I was reading a story about the red army pushing back the Grerman army at the end of WW2 and it kinda just popped in to my head.

"They rolled in to the Germans like a giant Russian fist".

I am a big fan of the T-34 and many things russian.

It just sounded cool to me.

As for my Avitar, well I just thought Godzilla chewing on a model boat was just to good to pass up.

haha oh... well... mine's kind of interesting I guess. I was in 8th grade trying to make a screen-name on AOL and every name combination I tried was taken... I must have tried a good dozen or so combinations and nothing came back as available.

So I got a little POed and, well- I guess I took the anger and just ran with it... so came psstoff995- added in the two words- hit random generate and out that popped with a numer that was easy enough to remeber...

I guess it's a little like the drunk tattoo that you regret years later but at the same time you kind of laugh at in and realise that was where you were back in the day haha

As for my avatar... it hasn't... really changed. It's the first 1/35 scale figure figure I ever really painted up as a decient, serious build. Everything prior had been plastic kits with mold reliese marks and full of flash, heavy on the testors glue and no gap filling or anything all under a mediocre coat of thick paint. So when I had photographed it the first time around, it was taken with 35mm film and under fluorescent lighting, came out pretty yellow even after my best photoshop. This new avatar is the same figure, same pose, same background and lighting, just with a much nicer digital camera that I had a much better handle of- no photoshop this time around!

wing_nut wrote:

Well mine USED to mean something

LOL!!!!  awsome.. love it   

Well, my name... Bah.. I had to change from another name I had which seemed too childish after a while  "Sorry"..  That came from a birthdayparty I had where we played Medal Of Honour European Assault on the GameCube..  I had to think of a nice name to have.. Something with humour.. So it ended with that "Sorry killed [...]" And at the time I did find it rather funny...

A little over two years ago I decided to  change it..  I hate to change names, I like to keep one for as loooong as possible.. But that name was really out of date.. So, I sat down and tought alot.. But nothing. I decided to change name on my "company" as well, as that name was somewhat out of date as well.. actually not, but I did change it..

I tried to take different things and tweak the names, and I took one of my favorite dogs, a Husky, along with sheperd and irish wolfdog, and tweaked the Husky name.. Change position on the SK to KS and swap them to an X.. tada! Then I had a name for my company..  So I named myself after my company, not the other way around, as many people do...

My avatar is from a book about Warhammer 40.000. I took the bookcover (Haven't read the book, nor do I own it) and used MS paint (This was before my Photoshop time) and cut him more or less perfectly out, mirrored him so he faces towards the posts, and changed the backgroundcover to the FSM off-white kind.. I chose the avatar just for this forum... I am considering changing it to a picture of myself..

Also, my little company "Huxy Productions" as I have named it, have ben around for, as said, a little over 4 years. But nothing big has ever gotten out of it. I am now currently trying to boost it up for some real buisness

And mg.mikael: Michael is Mikael as well as in Norwegian and Danish, and probably some more languages...   Norwegian, Swedish and Danish is pretty similar, a little more different than British and American, but still so similar we have little problem understanding eachother

So that explains my story.... Hope you enojyed!! (Just noticed, I got the longest post )

-Lasse     (<--- That's my real name..)

wing_nut wrote:

Well mine USED to mean something

Glad you converted!

Can YOU pronounce Dupuy? Yeah, well, if you can't you're not alone. Hence the moniker "Dupes" bestowed upon me. Started waaaaay back when and stuck pretty much permanently. Shoot, even my Dad calls me Dupes.  

My user name is the original spelling of my last name. Our last name was Americanized upon immigration, like happened to alot of people. Its also kind of a nickname at work as well.

Mike T.

MMC is my initials and as far as my avatar, I'm British.

Mark

I guess I'm just no fun at all, my name is my handle. I prefer the missing-lynx way, I want to know your name. Sort of old school, I like to know who I am "talking to". I would rather leave the "smokey and the bandit" rubber duck thing to the kids.

Steve

My username is my initials with a 1 added. It used to be monrad back when i was a member the first time, monrad is my middle name and outside my native Denmark no one ever uses that username, but i didn't want to reopen my old account when i returned so i had to come up with a new on.

1st, I llllooooovvvvveee tank destroyers! 

Most especially Stug III s, also Jagdpanthers.

I also had played a part in the restoration of a Stug III Ausf. G Early that once belonged to a member of the 2nd Panzer Division renactment group.

I tried online gaming once, and the correct spelling of "panzerjaeger" was taken so I took a slightly off spelling and it worked.

So when I joined the forum, I accedently misspelled the name, and with no knowledge of how to fix it here I am "PANZERJEAGER" forever more!

 Tom F. (PANZERJEAGER)

P.S. My avitar is the E-25 that was my 1st post here.

Mansteins revenge wrote:

What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember...

WOW!!!...this thread took off...I'm pressed for time now...I can't wait to read all of these tomorrow, BUT...49 posts later and I still don't know what a Manstein's revenge is...

Ditto onthe computer idiot thing, When I figure it out, we'll all be too old to care. Retired after lots of years in the military, aviation. So now I just amble through life with no set direction and not in total control, hence "deadhead". Apparently there was a Rock and Roll bands fan base that uses this moniker also, I am not one of those. To all my friends, even those I have yet to meet, I am Will, William, perhaps Willi with an "i" not a "y", but never Bill.

Will

Mansteins revenge wrote:

What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember...

PaintsWithBrush wrote:

As far as the subject of avatar goes, I don't know squat about computers, including how to load photos.

Go into HERE:

/forums/654172/ShowPost.aspx

You should be able to handle it... I did, so anyone can...

As for avatars, you can't remote link it so you upload it right from you PC to your profile.  Just go back into your profile by going to "UPDATE PROFILE" at the top of the page.  Click on it and your profile stuff appears (BTW, Don't click on your name to update it. It'll just show you whtt others see) .  Scroll down to "Avatar" and clic "Yes" in "Enable Avatar" and then click "Browse" to open you picture folder.  Pick whatever one you have in there you want others to see, and then click "Open". The avatar address will appear in the window, then click "Update".  Then scroll down and click "Save Changes".

Your avatar should appear on you posts.  It might take a little while for it to appear though, so don't get riled if you don't see it right away...  It should be up in 10-15 minutes after you upload... 

I'm with Rob on this. 

Either that or he just loves to banter with you! 

i was eleven at the time and was building a jadgpanther at the time. In a sense i hate the name but like it too.

exactly what is mansteins revenge?

LeopardMan wrote:

Geist wrote: Like a few of you have mentioned, my name spawned from online gaming as well. Specificaly Call of Duty 1. For those that don't know German my name means ghost. My avatar is just the eagle that appears on some modern German flags.   Erik Erik, the eagle is the so-called "Bundesadler" or Federal Eagle, aka as the federal Chicken and is the official coat of arms of the Federal republic of Germany and can be found on all official flags flown at official buildings. here is a link if you would like to know more about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany

Sometimes also called the Bundesgeier, the "federal vulture" or "federal buzzard", in ironic allusion to the Pleitegeier, the "bankruptcy vulture", said to hover over a failing business.

quote user="Mansteins revenge"]What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember... 

Something to do with the time you were kicked off the site for a while? But weren't you already "Mansteins Revenge" by then?

I give up. 

Rob Gronovius wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote: What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember...  I figured it was some sort of cold weather dysentery problem; the WW2 equivalent of Montezuma's Revenge.

LMAO.....but true!!!

Rounds Complete!!

wing_nut

Well mine USED to mean something[:-^]

redleg12 wrote:

Rob Gronovius wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote: What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember...  I figured it was some sort of cold weather dysentery problem; the WW2 equivalent of Montezuma's Revenge. LMAO.....but true!!! Rounds Complete!!

Sigh, and here I was thinking I was so witty, and no-one noticed...

Bgrigg wrote:

Manstein's Revenge is similar to Montezuma's revenge, only it's caused by under cooked schnitzel and beer brewed not according to the Reinheitsgebot (Purity Law of 1516).

Manny: You're killing me!...a few rumors and speculations but nothing confirmed by you yet! 

This reminds me of "Saving Private Ryan" where the troops have an ongoing bet as to where Tom's Hanks' characters (I forget the name) hometown is...Scene: The two guys are about to duke-it-out at that radar installation...Tom says, "So what's the amount up to now..."

dupes: Your Dad calls you dupes too......I love that...LMFAO!!!!

SMJmodeler wrote:

Manny: You're killing me!...a few rumors and speculations but nothing confirmed by you yet!

Bgrigg wrote:

Sigh, and here I was thinking I was so witty, and no-one noticed...  Bgrigg wrote: Manstein's Revenge is similar to Montezuma's revenge, only it's caused by under cooked schnitzel and beer brewed not according to the Reinheitsgebot (Purity Law of 1516).

Oh, I noticed that one, Bill. Got a pretty good chuckle out of it too!

subfixer wrote:

Where is Manstein's Revenge?

model maniac 96 wrote:

subfixer wrote: Where is Manstein's Revenge? Yeah, Where is he?? Jim.

Locked in his room painting up a bunch of naked girly figures?

It is my understanding that MR has taken another "involuntary" leave from the forums.

ps1scw wrote:

model maniac 96 wrote:  subfixer wrote: Where is Manstein's Revenge? Yeah, Where is he?? Jim. Locked in his room painting up a bunch of naked girly figures?

Well, I wanted my name to be military related.  And I like belt-fed weapons.  So naturally...

All the cymbols on my drumset are Sabians.  And i like their logo, so...

I wish mine was a bit more creative.

stick pusher- an Army airborne slang term for the last man in a stick of jumpers- he "pushes" all the other jumpers ahead of him out the door. I was often assigned this spot on fixed wing aircraft jumps, so I took this as my screenname (contracted and minus the "c") on most online sites that I am a memer of. The opposite is called a "wind dummy"- the first guy out who shows what direction the winds are really blowing....

this is me seated in a C-130 in stick pusher position, first man in the bird, last man out.

my current avatar is an artwork that I found online of a jumpmaster doing a door check, I just loved the shot.

stikpusher wrote:

stick pusher- an Army airborne slang term for the last man in a stick of jumpers- he "pushes" all the other jumpers ahead of him out the door. I was often assigned this spot on fixed wing aircraft jumps, so I took this as my screenname (contracted and minus the "c") on most online sites that I am a memer of. The opposite is called a "wind dummy"- the first guy out who shows what direction the winds are really blowing.... this is me seated in a C-130 in stick pusher position, first man in the bird, last man out. my current avatar is an artwork that I found online of a jumpmaster doing a door check, I just loved the shot.

of course all of you are setting there singing Blood On The Risers!! I'll start the first verse and we'll join in! "He was just a rookie trooper, and he surely shook with fright. As he heard the engines moaning, and he heard the engines groaning; You ain't gonna jump no more!"

     My screen name means nothing much, but is just something easy to remember. Could have used my call sign like some did, but just never gave it any real thought.

gary

Y'see, I work at a place where we make these reeeaaallly long sandwiches....Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and sometimes these sandwich's nuclear reactors need a little maintenance. We also work on these huge flat sandwiches that have jet propelled flies buzzing on and off of them.

tabascojunkie wrote:

I really like Tabasco Sauce, and I'm a big H.P. Lovecraft fan. Hence the picture of Great Cthulhu.

"All Hail the great god Cthulu!" (I'm a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan!)

Grimmo is a short version of "Grimace" which was a nickname i picked up in the RAAF and it looked like i was grimacing all the time!

Bgrigg

redleg12 wrote:

Rob Gronovius wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote: What does my name mean?  I know some of you remember...  I figured it was some sort of cold weather dysentery problem; the WW2 equivalent of Montezuma's Revenge.   LMAO.....but true!!! " /> Rounds Complete!!

 

Sigh, and here I was thinking I was so witty, and no-one noticed... " />

 

Bgrigg wrote:

Manstein's Revenge is similar to Montezuma's revenge, only it's caused by under cooked schnitzel and beer brewed not according to the Reinheitsgebot (Purity Law of 1516).

 

Awwwwwwww........that's not mysterious..............

Krow 113 - Is a play on my nickname/last name , and the engine in this bike;

,which was hand built by me , is 113 cu. in.   I sold it  (40K) 6 years ago to buy the house where I am now typing this

I did not get to choose mine.  I signed up, never was asked for a screen name.  When I created the account the name on my email was now my screen name.  I wish I could change it.  

HUH? 2009??? Who dug this up... Goose, don't you have anything better to do today!

Obviously, I didn't bother with a screen name. I figure I've got too much info rattling around up there already, why add codenames to it. The only nickname I really get these days is (still) the gazelle, from my softball buddies. (I'm only 5'11" but have a long stride when running.)

VanceCrozier

HUH? 2009??? Who dug this up... Goose, don't you have anything better to do today!

Obviously, I didn't bother with a screen name. I figure I've got too much info rattling around up there already, why add codenames to it. The only nickname I really get these days is (still) the gazelle, from my softball buddies. (I'm only 5'11" but have a long stride when running.)

Correction:

I didn't have anything better to do yesterday.

Actually, this thread popped up during  Google Image search.

Sprue-ce Goose

 

VanceCrozier:

 

HUH? 2009??? Who dug this up... Goose, don't you have anything better to do today!

Obviously, I didn't bother with a screen name. I figure I've got too much info rattling around up there already, why add codenames to it. The only nickname I really get these days is (still) the gazelle, from my softball buddies. (I'm only 5'11" but have a long stride when running.)

 

 

Correction:

I didn't have anything better to do yesterday.

Actually, this thread popped up during  Google Image search.

You were google-searching Manny?? Bet it didn't find his cat-proof bunker...

VanceCrozier

 

Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

VanceCrozier:

 

HUH? 2009??? Who dug this up... Goose, don't you have anything better to do today!

Obviously, I didn't bother with a screen name. I figure I've got too much info rattling around up there already, why add codenames to it. The only nickname I really get these days is (still) the gazelle, from my softball buddies. (I'm only 5'11" but have a long stride when running.)

 

 

Correction:

I didn't have anything better to do yesterday.

Actually, this thread popped up during  Google Image search.

 

 

You were google-searching Manny?? Bet it didn't find his cat-proof bunker...

You didn't find it either, huh...?

Nope, I even tried the direct route: "where is Manstein's Revenge"... I heard two loud pops from my computer & then it caught fire. The man apparently has agents within google - how far does his reach extend?!?!

VanceCrozier

Nope, I even tried the direct route: "where is Manstein's Revenge"... I heard two loud pops from my computer & then it caught fire. The man apparently has agents within google - how far does his reach extend?!?!

Even Warren Buffet, and George Sauros.don't know..............

My SN is from my fav plane.. the P-38, with the most popular 2 model codes added on.. the current avatar from the movie. a Guy Named Joe... AKA... Always....

Ps.. Manny is like the "Cigarette Smoking Man"...... everywhere.. yet,, no where..

Ummmmm.....well..........I'll let you guess on mine.

mine is my army mos.

What is the ITV part?

Improved TOW Vehicle?

That's 11HE9... I had that MOS once upon a time...

stikpusher

That's 11HE9... I had that MOS once upon a time...

I started out as an 11B10 and ended up a 13A00.

back in 81 the itv was for the m901 improved tow vehicle, the 63 tango covered the m151 a2 jeep, m-578 armored recovery, m113a2, m-106, m-577,m-35 2 1/2 ton,m-561 gamma goat and also the bradley which i never saw until my unit the 1/9 cavalry squadron ist cav got them 2 weeks before my ets.

A mechanic on ITVs and all those other contraptions? Most of the vehicles in my old Mech battalion...

Crosssed the equator a few times on the USS Oklahoma City ,CLG -5 . Served on her from 1964 -1967 .  30 months of that  was on a WesPac cuise home port Yokosuka, Japan .We spent  some time at Yankee station , Tonkin Gulf and some more time carrying out NGFS missions up and down the coast of Vietnam . On one of those NGFS missions we had a reporter from Life magazine take a few pictures and this one made the cover in August 1965.

stikpusher

What is the ITV part?

A 63T works (or used to work on) the ITVs. Both the ITV and the 63T have been long gone; ITVs in the 90s and the 63T somewhere in the early 2000s. 63T and 45T merged to become 63M (now called 91M) around 1999-2001 timeframe. The MOS designation change from 63-series to 91-series came just a few years ago to align with the officer MOS numerical designation. During the numerical designation change, some officer branches became the enlisted number (armor officers went from 12-series to 19-series to match the enlisted).

The decision to make the maintenance series match the officer numerical designation was probably CASCOM driven. With the new push to make all CSS officers 90A multi-functional logisticians, it seems they wanted all CSS officers and enlisted in the same numbers bunch beginning with 88 for transportation, 89E for EOD (formerly 91E), 90A logistics, 91 for maintenance and 92 for quartermaster.

Not that it matters, but I'll join the party.

My screen name is one I've used for many years at various blog sites.  The skull in the avatar is real (a plastic skull would bre tacky),  Its a lab specimen I acquired many years ago as a joke.  He's followed me through college and was the mascot for my university fencing team.  The head gear is my dress blues service cap trimed in artillery red (my last brach qualification, I started out in the infantry).

The first avatar I used here was a photo of me in my classroom wearing a Red Army surplus gas mask.  May go back to that one someday.  Have a good weekend, all!

Reasoned is a satire of those who claim to be intellectually superior or enlightened in matters of public policy (and there are plenty of them, as you know).  The avatar is a random pic of my favorite aircraft, the 109.

A good thread!

Unfortunately I have a very boring answer:

My surname is Hinks and since High School my nickname has been 'Hinksy'! Pure and simple and very easy to remember!

ATVB

HINKSY

What is a Manstein's revenge??????

It's an allergic reaction to model building (see JeffW and the $229 thread)

Kind of suits my online ultra ego persona, send enough lead down range and it will have a effect. If nothing else it keeps heads down!... No wonder many threads I had the last word on..?

The roots are deeper though, long before internet & a triumphant return to the hobby in 2005. The 90's was all about paintball tournaments. Always out gunned & the underdogs, our rag tag band of misfits always put up a good fight and suprised the sure bet teams with mad skills & brave acts of undeniable sacrafice, courage and odds defying wins. 'the Wild Cardz' Name still resonates fear & respect in these parts to those who witnessed the chaos & shootin' kung-fu that was unleashed.  

One proven tactic was to call 'Fire' on a position to allow advance upon it. 'Suppression Fire' was shortened to 'Fire' for quicker tactical response.

Oh......the fun, the fun....

Stage_Left refers to two things: my favorite album (Exit Stage Left) by one of my two all-time favorite bands: Rush. The other meaning is that I'm a part-time professional musician, so obviously I'm on stage from time to time.....although stage left isn't always 'my' spot.

By the way.....my apologies for the temporary hijack, but I must compliment Krow: that's one sweet-looking bike, sir! Apparently your building skills are just as masterful in 1:1 scale!

Labour In Vain is a tiny city (or group of houses around a pub) in England.
On the other side of the road there is a big white horse laid out on a field with white stones.
The eye used to be mad up by upside down beer bottles stuck into the soil.
Why they did it, well because they could and wanted to...
The Germans replaced the turret roof plate on the Tiger I with a 40mm one instead of the early 25mm plate.
We spend hours modeling...
Labour in vain is spelt incorrectly but I have not learnt how to change it yet, sort of comes without saying

As always
Boarder

oh i thought it was an std

Me? You talking to me?  No, I can't hear you because I am deaf as a post. 

Easy to figure this one out... cause I am deaf and I love tanks especially Germans!

Labour In Vain

Labour In Vain is a tiny city (or group of houses around a pub) in England.

What more does one truly need?

Reasoned

Labour In Vain:

Labour In Vain is a tiny city (or group of houses around a pub) in England.

What more does one truly need?

Ahhhhhh ..........Donuts !?

Did someone say, "Tirpitz"?

WallyM3

Did someone say, "Tirpitz"?

gesundheit!

Must be the powdered sugar on he Tirpitz.

Thanks Vance.

Anytime Wally!

Reasoned

 

Labour In Vain:

 

Labour In Vain is a tiny city (or group of houses around a pub) in England.

 

What more does one truly need?

Awesome! I'd love to visit a real English pub.

We have a lot of new faces and names on here on FSM since this thread was last updated, with more showing up every month. So how about those who have not yet added their tale of their chosen call sign for FSM to do so again.

I’m pretty sure that there was another more recent thread on this topic in the past decade... but the forumsearch engine did not turn it up, only this one...

Blimey, theres some names on here i have not seen in a while. I missed this thread first time round, i think i was still in Afghan when it started, so i never posted.

Mine is easy, last name is Bishop. In the British army every one has a knickname, so of course mine was Bish. I could not come up with anything fancy when i started useing forums, so just stuck to that.

By the way Carlos, ITV is a Television channel in the UK. Hope that helps

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

We dare Not speak his name. 

Bish

Mine is easy, last name is Bishop

All these years and I never knew that. Cool.

Mine's just my name, about as unoriginal as possible. I've said it here before, creativity is not my strong point.

I thought I'd answered one of these years ago but apparently it wasn't this thread. 

Anyway, I couldn't think up a good name either and I'd watched a Gamera movie a few days before so....... 

And I do like turtles. 

And where is Manny? I think he's earned a permanent home in the 'cooler'. 

Greg

 

 

Bish

Mine is easy, last name is Bishop

 

 

All these years and I never knew that. Cool.

Mine's just my name, about as unoriginal as possible. I've said it here before, creativity is not my strong point.

 

The simple things are often the best Greg.

Yes, a lot of names in this thread I haven't seen in a long time. Always wondered where Sprue-ce Goose and VanceCrozier disappeared too. 

Anyway, I'm a big Arkansas Razorbacks football fan, hence the hogfan. But, back in the late 90's, I was attempting to create a new email login when hogfan was taken. And so was hogfan1 and hogfan123, so I got creative in a nerdy kinda way, and added fs to the back of hogfan to get hogfanfs. The fs stands for "file system", for all you computer nerds. 

“Manstein’s revenge” sounds like what happens after you buy a questionable model in a country with no potable water supply.

It’s like “buyer’s regret”, but a toilet and abdominal pain is involved.  

I'll let VC know he's missed 

George Morrison is a family name.

"Fermis" is a nickname, given to me by an old girlfriend.

It is a unit of measurement, equal to 1 quadrillionth of a meter. It's kinda like calling a monsterously obese dude "Tiny"....but kinda dif'rnt!

stikpusher

We have a lot of new faces and names on here on FSM since this thread was last updated, with more showing up every month. So how about those who have not yet added their tale of their chosen call sign for FSM to do so again...

"Ooooh, de Mummy walks!"

(Anyone know the reference?)

RBaer

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

 

OK....I am still here. To answer some of your questions, wbill76, deafpanzer, the doog and some others including me are up on Facebook on a reqular basis. I still keep an eye from a far. Still quite active, web site still up, just not posting here as much as the old days. Easier to put up pics of FB....guess I am lazy.

Hi to all the FSM old time regulars still here. From the ammo dump to you,

Rounds Complete!!

RBaer

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

 

HvH had a serious injury a number of years ago. I was communicating back channel with him for a while but he went silent.

Manny was permanently banned back in about 2012. 

GMorrison

 

 

RBaer

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

 

 

 

 

Google search Karl Logan. Be sitting down.

 

HvH had a serious injury a number of years ago. I was communicating back channel with him for a while but he went silent.

Manny was permanently banned back in about 2012. 

 

Oh my.

RBaer

 

GMorrison

RBaer

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

 

 

Google search Karl Logan. Be sitting down.

 

HvH had a serious injury a number of years ago. I was communicating back channel with him for a while but he went silent.

Manny was permanently banned back in about 2012. 

 

Oh my.

 

Wow, I liked him, seemed like a nice guy. I did court-martial jury duty for a case about similar offenses. This is not good.

GMorrison

 

 

RBaer

Wow, talk about some forum flyers I haven't see in a while.....  I was wondering waht happened to a lot of folks, like doog, HvH, etc, who used to be the heavy contributors here.

And Manny. Where's Manny.

 

 

 

 

Google search Karl Logan. Be sitting down.

 

HvH had a serious injury a number of years ago. I was communicating back channel with him for a while but he went silent.

Manny was permanently banned back in about 2012. 

 

Bill, if you do hear from HvH please tell him we miss him here. It's not the same without him around. 

p38jl

I'll let VC know he's missed 

 

That would be good. I too miss him around here.

Bish

Mine is easy, last name is Bishop. In the British army every one has a knickname, so of course mine was Bish. 

Wow. I had no idea! I suppose I could have asked at some point over the last dozen years or so... 

Bish

Mine is easy, last name is Bishop. In the British army every one has a knickname, so of course mine was Bish. 

 

Yeah, that happened to me in the Army as well. I have one of those long non Anglo Saxon "foreign" last names, so it was usually shortened down to Cis or Cisco... after being murdered in any possible way

Bish

 

By the way Carlos, ITV is a Television channel in the UK. Hope that helps

 

Now that you mention it, I do remember that logo on certain TV shows and movies... wise guy

Greg

 

 

p38jl

I'll let VC know he's missed 

 

 

 

 

That would be good. I too miss him around here.

 

Yeah, same here. Really miss Vance too. Lotsa people I wish still posted here. 

And Greg, you tricked me. I figured your name was something like Ed, Tom, or Frank and you posted as 'Greg' to misdirect us... 

I thought the doog had a run-in with the law?

Hmmm;

      Never saw this before.  My Name should be Obvious. I build all scale and types of maritime Tank Ships. Hence Tanker-Builder. In early years, after Military Service I worked my way up from the Engine Room to the Bridge on Civilian freighters.

    Got beached illegally in a foreign port! Was able to get a Chief Engineers Berth with P and O. Then sailed with Matson. Got a shot after getting my certificate, to work in Tankers. 

    Sailed for a well known company for ten years. Went from a modified lengthened T-2 to a " Mega?" tanker 1345 feet at the waterline . Her name,  Orion !( company name deleted) Built tanker models from childhood. There are so many different types, even Beer tankers! Nuff said. Catchya later ----  Tanker - Builder      ( P.S. my latest under construction - an H.O.Scale Beer Tanker !!) 

the Baron

I thought the doog had a run-in with the law?

 

He did,very bad accusations if true,Google Karl Logan.

Stik, I can't believe your "non- Anglo-Saxon foreign" last name would be a problem in Cali, or anywhere else in the U.S. for that matter. ;)

Tojo72

 

the Baron

I thought the doog had a run-in with the law? 

He did,very bad accusations if true,Google Karl Logan.

I know I posted this on another thread, but I will keep this post a "little: shorter....

Back in high school, ( when I had perfected the art of being a "scoff-law" ) a freind's father came up with the nick-name  Little Timmy.

It had something to do with the TV show Lassie..... what's that Lassie ??? Little Timmy fell down the well ???

Those of you who remember the show will recall that "Little Timmy" got into all kind's of trouble ........ so did I .......

M1GarandFan

Stik, I can't believe your "non- Anglo-Saxon foreign" last name would be a problem in Cali, or anywhere else in the U.S. for that matter. ;)

 

M1GarandFan

Stik, I can't believe your "non- Anglo-Saxon foreign" last name would be a problem in Cali, or anywhere else in the U.S. for that matter. ;)

 

Beleive you me, it has been twisted so many ways I cant count, both here in Cali and every place I've been with Uncle Sam 

Mine is my frat Sigma Phi Epsilon (sigep) and my frat name Ziggy (sunday funny paper character, short, fat and white) and the avatar is my frat laple pin, all from 30+ years ago.

"littletimmy" is good, makes me think of my own youth, and adulthood, to be honest.

At the time I chose my screen name, I was using something as simple as possible for business reasons, that's why it's first initial, last name. Now that I no longer have that as a consideration, I use either "offroadwine" or "eye roll", depending on what type of forum I'm on. Being the borderline obnoxious type person I am, I have fun with screen names, handles, etc.

And re HvH: I do miss his work and posts, as he did a lot of model recycling, taking older models apart and re-doing them, using them for parts, things like that, which I have a soft spot for.

I think you've all heard of my brother and I.