Screen names. Okay, here's a good one...
 

There are so many very interesting..and strange...names floating around here. And I know they all have a story that is special to you. Where or how did you come up with your screen names and what do some of them mean?

I can figure some of them out with a little effort, like Chris with sn-e3, Seaman (E3). Okay, easy enough to figure that out...but to a non-Army/Marine/Navy some of the others are down right baffling, like Keith Hixson. What does that mean?? :p

As for mine, well...Dragon Lady is sometimes my disposition. :D Dragons to me are very loyal, fiercely protective, fight to the last breath, bask in the rewards. I have a tattoo of a dragon clutching my shoulder and watching my back for those times I found myself alone walking through the streets of Downtown Seattle; Washington, DC; Las Vegas. For the times when I was young and alone in the world with no one to look out for me and no one to rely on but myself. And as I get older she keeps her eye on me.

So that's my story. What's yours?

Darn DL you cracked the code. Now the men in black will probably come after me. Oh where can I hide I know I'll dress like a monk and visit Keith.

How difficult...
 

...can mine be?


82nd Airborne Division Parachute Rigger.


Did ya figger it out, DL?

DL
 

I was the LTs Radio operator, One of my LTs took the call sign 39, I was his RTO so I became 39mike. 39 Gulf was a friend of mine in a squad, There squad always had the "duty" so I was always calling him on the radio. 39mike to 39 gulf over.

I was also 4 brovo, and 76 mike, depended on what rank the officer was. 39 was for a 2nd LT. 76 was for a 1st LT. and 4 was for a capt.
Other units may have done it different, this is just how it was the year I was there.

Ron

My "handle" has nothing to do with my past military service (Jet Over II Mechanic, APG, USAF). It's my present hobby which is an American Revolution era militia surgeon (what ever ails you, I'll cut it off, cut it out, bleed you, or purge you).

Was a platoon leader (LT) working along the DMZ between North and South Bitnam

lost my first one couldn't think of one so my grand baby gave me this blues clues dog and that the rest of the story.
razz

Mine is also a spin off of my last name. Catura. Well you know how people in the military are always changing or shortening names, I became catman. Just kind of stuck, wife even calls me by that sometimes.

Trav

My former name here was ?Cracker Jack? and that was so that I could see my identity deal every time I went to the grocery store and wouldn?t forget my humble reality. But alas, the wonders of things and Cracker Jack got pitched over the fantail a while back due to some site change something-something, oh well. Then I came up with "Seascamp" as meaning a rascal of the sea. The late Xgrunt Frank was the one to shorten that up to just ?Scamp? so I?ll stick with that.

During my time in the 1st and 7th fleet I was known as ?Possum? or ?Mudge? or sometimes ?Pocket Pickle? and the Marine helocopter aviation Guys always called me ?MaGoo?. These names have more or less X rated origins and as such are not nice enough to present. The exception being the MaGoo name the Marines gave me. In that instance, every time I went a flying with them I?d take off my glasses, tuck them in my shirt pocket and button up tight in my blue jacket. The reason for this was I was usually doing a cable drop onto a ship or vessel that didn?t have a helo deck and it gets really windy under a chopper, big time. If clothing items or something else weren?t tied down, they would get gone with the wind, right now. So, no glasses no see so well, thus, I became MaGoo.

Scamp

My handle reflects my entire life it seems. I have worked aircraft since I was 14 years old, only retired about 7 years ago. Irony tho' never a jet mechanic always those big round oily monmsters.
"Jets are for kids"