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Ok here is something that noone has discussed yet callsigng. For those of you who have gone to AC how did your team give callsigns and what were your callsigns and even if you can remember them the call signs of your team? Our team was the Red Rippers and we picked callsigns by everyone telling embarrasing stories. Then the team would pick callsigns for the people. My callsighn was Loverboy, members of my team had much worse thought. Team callsigns were Pervert, Stripper, Boy Toy, Streaker, Spew, Hangover, Dog Meat, Ripp off, Jaw Breaker, and WD-40.
Some are exactly what they sound like others are not but when they read names and callsigns at graduation we had some good laughs from parenyts watching.
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The call sign thing sounds really cool! How many people are on an AC team?
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Most AC teams are 12 people which works out so that you have a pilot and RIO for each simulator. My team only had 11 that week though.
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i hope when i go i get a good call sign
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Every team decides callsigns diffrently so you have a chance of getting a good one.
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I guess it all depends on how the counselor chooses to give call signs
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The counselor only picks how the callsigns are decided. The team actually chooses the callsigns for each person. In our case the person told the embarrasing story then the team would suggest several callsigns and then have a vote by show of hands. I think mine was the only unanimous decision.
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monkeynautt wrote:i hope when i go i get a good call sign
i will get something like mixerman or stapleboy :D
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Well i hope your team can come up with something better than that. But then again you might choose callsigns a diffrent way its all up to your counselors how its done.
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wow, i feel a random funny story coming on... there was this guy who had the call sign "Vache" pronounced Vash and he thought his call sign was all dirty and umm... wow searching for the words... well you know what i mean... and his story was some guy wrote that word on his head once when he was passed out, and so i was back from camp and thinking and realized what Vache meant... it means cow in french...
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well a funny callsign story....
Ive got a coupla of those the first is a teammate his callsign was roadkill, he had gotten hit 3 times by cars and broke 7 ribs the last time he did it, now my callsign was Maytag it came from the fact that supposidly i look like a refrisgerator in football pads the councelor thought that was hillarious
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I'd almost be scared as to what my callsign would be if I ever went to AC! Nothing I have done is all THAT embarassing, but with the counsellor twist, who knows what might come out of it all! :P
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my call sign was lizard only because my team couldnt think of anything better to call me, so they took my name Liz and voila! but, there was this one girl who's last name was Enzor, and the couselor thought it sounded like a planet from star wars so they gave her the callsign Ewok.
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Well when you see alot of real pilots callsigns they are often based on the pilots name so you guys have good ones then.
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i was "fish" due to the fact that i once accidentally siphoned my whole aquarium onto the floor of my bedroom.....
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Post by fish_ac »

thought i'd add in my teams' call signs:

-fish [me]
-lizard [my sister(tennisrox)]
-vache [already explained above by tennisrox]
-ewok [also already explained]
-chee'burger [one look @ this guy & you'd know why!]
-ricochet [her name was ricky]
-dizzy [passed out @ school dance]
-squirt [peed on an electric fence & made an arc!]
-ace [sorry, once again i don't know b/c i arrived late & missed some of the ice-breakers]
-smegol & -gollum [LoTR fans]
-klutz [self-explanitory]
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Post by tennisrox014 »

wow...went to camp recently and thought i might as well list our teams call signs. we had some pretty good ones. :wink:
Sisco-i was wearing thong sandals :D
Banshee-saw a snake and screamed was only a gardener snake
Nosedive-nosedivied into the sidewalk while skateboarding
Jaws-dislocated a guys jaw once
Pockets-always had his hands in his pockets
Jocker-told a joke as opening line of his story
KO-walked into a poll when talking to a girl
Flash-???the world may never know
Slurrpie-?something to do with ice fishing
Debrief-played football w/o pants on
Peggy-put a peg on his nose to stop a runny nose
Sudafed-had a cold so we couldn't understand a word he was saying
Skidmark-stole his sisters car and got caught by cops
Bland-couldnt think of a story,last name Blanckenship
Picasso-drew all over one of her shoes
Killer-started crying when she got up to tell a story
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Do they speak "What" on Enzor?

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tennisrox014 wrote:my call sign was lizard only because my team couldnt think of anything better to call me, so they took my name Liz and voila! but, there was this one girl who's last name was Enzor, and the couselor thought it sounded like a planet from star wars so they gave her the callsign Ewok.
I will have you know that Lizard is a unique and awesome call sign. And Ewok is also very unique, but not as unique as the pink shoes. Your counselor's call sign was Pyro.....Me
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Post by tennisrox014 »

my pick shoes kick butt! i am looking for a new pair like them cuz my old ones are falling apart they are so old. :( i guess im just a unique person! its awsome to hear from you pyro. i feel special! you remember the shoes. i guess they arent easily forgotten!
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My call sign was "Random" and one year I was "gear"
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