Veterans Are Sharing Their Hilarious Military Nicknames, And It Proves That Nobody Would …

Recently — because the internet is now just three websites in a trench coat — I came across this Tumblr post on Reddit about military nicknames:cardinel.tumblr.com / Via reddit.comIn it, Tumblr user Cardinel says that “badass” military nicknames that we usually see in movies — think Maverick or Iceman from Top Gun — are completely unrealistic, because military nicknames are 99.9% about embarrassing incidents, or they’re just straight-up insults. To support that claim, Tumblr user mlle-uton chimed in with this:mlle-uton.tumblr.com / Via reddit.comRedditors in the comments with military backgrounds started sharing their stories about their military nicknames to help prove Cardinel’s point. Here are some of the funniest stories:1.”My buddy’s was Spoon. Because he wasn’t as sharp as a knife, but he was in the drawer.”—u/HookFE032.”My dad was Tex (he’s Canadian). He showed up to training straight off the farm wearing cowboy boots, the only footwear he owned.”—u/MaxSupernova3.”When my dad was training in the reserves, he was nicknamed Gramps because he was, like, 30 at the time.”—u/IronArrow24.”From the male pilots I knew, there was Shack (had to drop live bombs on base and killed an electrical shack), Stuka (did a training mission with his landing gear out going 400 kts
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