Truth about Call-Signs

If you’ve ever seen “Top Gun”, you might be familiar with this. Military pilots get a call sign given to them usually just after joining their unit. You’ll often hear movie pilots get cool call-signs like “Ice-Man” or “Ghost”; but truth be told- they’re much less cool in real life lol.. Call-signs are actually usually based off of a prior mistake, physical appearance, or embarrassing story of the person receiving it. Though not a pilot myself(yet), I am a crew chief. Which means I get to fly with the helicopters and keep them running- so I was given an honorary one.

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