I HATE MY NAME!!!

[S.ChrisKelly]

This topic has been fun to read.  I had to share one last memory...

 

When I was 437 LGS/CCQ, 1992 - 1994, at Charleston AFB, SC, mobility section had a SrA Matthew Tubby.  Didn't matter how anyone addressed him...  "Airman Tubby", "Now see here, Tubby!", etc...  It always came out...  well...  It was just wrong.  Strange part is that there was nothing Tubby about him but his surname.

 

What's really weird is the year and a half I spent, subsequently, at 437 MSSQ/MPF... You'd think working at CBPO I'd see some odd names, since we handled awards & decorations, id. cards, re - enlistments & separations and promotions & special actions...  but I didn't.

[Hookemhorns88]

Related. I had a professor in college whose name was Richard “Dick” Swallow. He is in his early 90s. Even “way back when” parents seemed to goof on their kids.

[patches]

Michael Bolton, just like the character in the comedy Office Space named Michael Bolton, who now hates his name because of the celebrity status of singer Michael Bolton, not sure is this Michael Bolton hates his name LOL.

[patches]

Just now, patches said:

Michael Bolton, just like the character in the comedy Office Space named Michael Bolton, who now hates his name because of the celebrity status of singer Michael Bolton, not sure is this Michael Bolton hates his name LOL.

 

 

[patches]

On 9/16/2019 at 7:07 PM, Burning Hazard said:

Just saw a painted liner go on eBay with the name 'Glasscock' stenciled on the front.

Spoted a late 60s-into 80s Army NAME Tape of a GLASSCOCK  

[Garandomatic]

On 4/22/2023 at 1:53 PM, S.ChrisKelly said:

This topic has been fun to read.  I had to share one last memory...

 

When I was 437 LGS/CCQ, 1992 - 1994, at Charleston AFB, SC, mobility section had a SrA Matthew Tubby.  Didn't matter how anyone addressed him...  "Airman Tubby", "Now see here, Tubby!", etc...  It always came out...  well...  It was just wrong.  Strange part is that there was nothing Tubby about him but his surname.

 

What's really weird is the year and a half I spent, subsequently, at 437 MSSQ/MPF... You'd think working at CBPO I'd see some odd names, since we handled awards & decorations, id. cards, re - enlistments & separations and promotions & special actions...  but I didn't.

A buddy of mine was with the 437th out of Charleston around then. He deployed to Somalia relatively early, before the "Blackhawk Down" incident. 

[patches]

How about this one!

 

 

The Surname Rank, it is indeed a Surname.

 

As in English Entertainment Company founder  Joseph Arthur Rank

The Rank Organization, producer of many a fine Historical and or War movies, for our purposes Historical and or War, like Flame Over India in example

 

 

Found an O last name Rank, a LTC, so it will be Lieutenant Colonel Rank LOL

[mvmhm]

In the mid-1980s our Honor Guard Commander was Captain (Nancy) Kirk. She was unpleasant. I also have a friend who is a retired Master Sergeant, Carolyn Sargent - Sgt Sargent.

 

Mark sends

[atb]

I served with an NCO in Alaska named Major. He, of course, answered the phone as, "Sergeant Major." And, when he made calls, Sergeant Major sometimes got things done faster.

[KurtA]

1 hour ago, atb said:

I served with an NCO in Alaska named Major. He, of course, answered the phone as, "Sergeant Major." And, when he made calls, Sergeant Major sometimes got things done faster.

Would have been interesting if he later attended OCS and eventually was promoted to O-4

[patches]

On 11/4/2023 at 1:16 AM, patches said:

How about this one!

 

 

The Surname Rank, it is indeed a Surname.

 

As in English Entertainment Company founder  Joseph Arthur Rank

The Rank Organization, producer of many a fine Historical and or War movies, for our purposes Historical and or War, like Flame Over India in example

 

 

Found an O last name Rank, a LTC, so it will be Lieutenant Colonel Rank LOL

Found a EM on The Wall, a Specialist 4th Class Rank, yes one Dennis Robert Rank from Adams Wisconsin, Died From Other Causes as a  63C General Vehicle Repairman with Tp C 1st Squadron 1st Cavalry Americal Division, no doubt in the HQ Platoon of the Troop.

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Found one more Officer first name Major, here Lieutenant Colonel Major Clark, this in an early-sh 1960s portrait, lets say 1964, Lieutenant Colonel Major Clark, a WWII and Korea Artillery Vet was inducted sometime in the past into the Artillery OCS Hall of Fame, he coming out sometime in 1942.

[Bodes]

On 4/22/2023 at 4:02 PM, Hookemhorns88 said:

Related. I had a professor in college whose name was Richard “Dick” Swallow. He is in his early 90s. Even “way back when” parents seemed to goof on their kids.

I know a woman named Darlene who married a man with the last name Perfect.....She divorced him and married a man with last name Friend.....We tried unsuccessfully however into convincing her of keeping the name Darlene Perfect Friend.....Also knew of a guy who was stationed with my dad by the name of Howard Howard.....His son was in grade school with me and he was Howard Howard III and went by the nickname of Buddy....Bodes

[The Rooster]

There was this guy in my Infantry company mid 80's.

His last name was Klinkenbeard.

Back in the day in High School, there was a guy

on the football team named 

Richard Long.

There once was a Man from Nantucket....

Never mind.....

I noticed something back in the day when we used to have to stand in line to get paid.

The guys whose last names started with A...

Got paid first!