MILITARY CALLSIGN LIST as of 30 June 2020 Compiled by Ron (mdmonitor1@verizon.net) ABBREVIATIONS AAF- Army Airfield ABNCP- Airborne Command Post AFB- Air Force Base AHP- Army Heliport AMW- Air Movement Wing ANG- Air National Guard ANGB- Air National Guard Base AS- Airlift Squadron AW- Airlift Wing Bn- Battalion BW- Bomb Wing CAP- Civil Air Patrol When on the radio, spoken words from an approved list are substituted for letters. In wartime, monitoring an adversary's communications can be a valuable form of intelligence. Both the meanings of the flags (the letter which they represent) and their names (which make up the phonetic alphabet) were selected by international agreement. This practice helps to prevent confusion between similar sounding letters, such as \"m\" and \"n,\" and to clarify signals communications that may be garbled during transmission. Needless to say, there were guts all over the runway and they had to close it for half an hour to clean-up. In peacetime, some military stations will use fixed call signs in the international series. A Marine Corps aircraft might use a call sign like "Marine Delta November One-Zero-Two" or "Shamrock One-Zero-Two." Found in the Signals section, it was paired with the Alphabetical Code Flags defined in the International Code. For example the collective \"Checkmate\" might be assigned to an entire company and thus \"Checkmate 1 Actual\" would be the first platoon leader, \"Checkmate 2 Actual\" to the second platoon leader, etc.
They are used to identify letters spoken over the radio and through other coms in all of the armed forces including the army, navy, air force and marines. Smokehouse Cheyenne Caboose Road Block Mind Reader War Hero Shark Bite Old Timer Bright Penny Firefly Wild Bull Daredevil Homicide Pirate Madman Sun stroke Coffee Butcher Sun Stroke Checkmate ( … The phonetic alphabet can also be signaled with flags, lights, and Morse Code. Another option would be to use a unit callsign from the publication known as JANAP 119, such as "Old Nick Two-Zero-One." The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA) is its proper name, and it was created by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to help decipher similar sounding letters and numbers between different countries and organizations. Pre-BATCO systems used a series of appointment titles to identify users and individuals, " Baldy Laughlin 1993: Female student married a classmate who got Vipers (F-16 aka “Lawn Dart”) BALD-D: Bangs A Lawn Dart Driver Bambi – This pilot, who is now flying F-15s at Tyndall, hit a pregnant deer with his nosegear while taking off in a T-38 at Columbus. Stew Smith is the U.S. military expert for The Balance Careers, a Veteran Navy SEAL Officer, and a freelance writer and author. Coast Guard aircraft callsigns are almost always the word "Coast Guard" and the 4-digit aircraft number, e.g., "Coast Guard Six-Five-Seven-Niner," although other call signs may be used for special operations such as counter-narcotics interdiction.
There may also be a second controller - either a backup station or a commander who has delegated communication tasks to a signaller but may occasionally wish to speak in person - using the call sign 0A ("zero alpha"). Consistent call signs can aid in this monitoring, so in wartime, military units often employ tactical call signs and sometimes change them at regular intervals. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft will typically use a stateside naming convention based on the aircraft tail code, identifying the squadron or air wing assigned, and a three digit number painted on the aircraft's nose known as the MODEX.