What's In A Name?

[Guest -BeanHead-]

Mine is a nickname that my mom gave me when i was a new born... My dad picked it up and has called me that for 26 years now. mom dont ever call me buy it.

[-boatman-]

I'm sure everyone can figure mine out. It's my love of boating and being on the water.

[Raoul]

Fear and Loathing.

[analog_kidd]

Mine is from the title of a song by Rush. Years ago I set up an email address using it, but AnalogKid was taken, so I just added an extra "d" at the end. It just stuck. Plus, it alwas seems to be available as a screen name.

The irony of the screen name is I am a computer guy, and a better fitting title might have been Digital Man, another Rush song. But I like the contadiction.

[Oh Shoot]

I couldn't use "Oh Sh*t", so the tamed down version. Also "Shoot" is a double entendre of sorts given this forum, get it?

- OS

[Daniel]

I dont get it.

[strickj]

First 6 of my last name,followed by my first initial

I dont get it.

He couldn't use "****" so he used "shoot" being this is a gun board and all

...or are you just repeating what she said?

[Daniel]

I was making a little jokey joke because he said "get it"

[Volzfan]

I've been a big Tennessee Volunteer football fan for years. I went to my first game on the hill in 1971. I went with a bit different spelling because Volsfan is almost always gone on most forums thus Volzfan.

[Oh Shoot]

I was making a little jokey joke because he said "get it"

I got it.

- OS

[Guest Bronker]

I couldn't use "Oh Sh*t", so the tamed down version. Also "Shoot" is a double entendre of sorts given this forum, get it?

- OS

And "Chief" was taken...

Busting on ya, pal!

[strickj]

I don't get it!

[Oh Shoot]

And "Chief" was taken...

Busting on ya, pal!

Hell to the Chief.

I mean, hail.

- OS

[Oh Shoot]

I don't get it!

Me either, really, I was just pretending so as not to appear like, well, you know, you.

- OS

[Guest Phantom6]

Phantom6 or Fantasma seis (6) is an old call sign that I picked up back in '84 as a member of a training element working with the School of the Americas at Ft. Gulick in Panama and later at Ft. Benning.....and a few other places.

[Daniel]

6 is the CDR. School of the Americas piques my interest. How do you feel about how it has been portrayed in recent times? Do you agree?

[ncomarc]

I'm enlisted in the Army and marc is my first name. One of the best "accidents" that happened to me - recruiter called, I had no plans, joined and realized that it was a lifestyle where you can surround yourself with people that want to better themselves and whats around them.

[LagerHead]

Do you really have to ask.

[clipslinger]

Tried to catch an ak 47 on fire once many moons ago, buddie said your just a d*mn clipslingin fool. I liked it soo............

[Guest jackdm3]

I grew up with "Jay" as my family nickname, and the older I got, the more I despised it. When it was time to go to college, I went to MTSU to get away from the family (they also had a bitchin' Mass Communications program). It was time for a new me, and since I always wanted to be called "John" because "Jay" seemed thin and weak, I realized my birth name of "Jack" had more character than "John". A lot of cool characters in film called "Jack."

"D" for Donald, which I have never been able to identify with. It doesn't seem to apply to me. But interestingly my maternal grandfather's middle name is also Donald, so I don't mind it too bad.

"M" for Muth, a common German name that means Spirit, or Courage, or, my favorite, "Warrior/Bringer of Death"! But it's an ugly name that no one pronounces correctly, and I hate myself for asking my wife to take my name.

Lastly, "3" because I'm the third in line, and I never wanted to be confused with Senior or Junior (Spit and bigger SPIT!).

Edited April 21, 2010 by jackdm3

[Guest Phantom6]

6 is the CDR. School of the Americas piques my interest. How do you feel about how it has been portrayed in recent times? Do you agree?

Boy, howdy. Now you've opened up a can of worms. No CDR designation for me. We were a civilian group and I was the sixth man on a roster of 8 from various companies in the firearms industry tasked with providing training in “high technology†systems for small arms platforms. Things like the LAWS (Laser Aimed Weapons Systems, not to be confused with the M72 Light Anti-Armor Weapons Systems) packages set up on various shotguns, the Ruger AC556, the H&K MP5 and others that were being produced for police use in urban counter insurgency. They all had on-board batteries that were fool-proof in that the battery sticks which were just a little larger than a grease gun mag could be inserted into the weapon in either direction and the device still worked just fine. For the first time the operator was not tethered to his rifle, carbine, smg or shotgun by a wire running from a bulky battery pack on his belt to his weapon. Other high tech items included training on a new little scope that Litton was producing. It was a new generation of NV scope that would not flash at all even when you swept across a light source such as a street light or a subject lighting a cigarette with a match. Best of all it was the size of a pistol scope and weighed about the same. This was a far cry from the old bulky Starlight scopes of just a few years prior. Those were the days. That was really hot s**t in the day. Now we put lasers on pistols for less than $150 and any hunter with a few extra bucks can have a NV scope. Wow.

Now on to that can of worms. As far as my take on the school and the bad rap that it has gotten? I believe in the mission of the school which has now taken on the un-godly PC name of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. I don’t think the name change fooled anybody because they had their annual protest down at Ft. Benning this past June complete with mock funeral processions and such just like they've had for years. Heck, we see that every year on 6 August (the day Hiroshima was destroyed) here in Oak Ridge at the Y-12 National Security Complex (nuclear bomb manufacturing facility). Just as I think that protest marches such as those seen here at Oak Ridge on "Hiroshima Day" pervert the overall moral perspective on World War II, so do I believe the good that the school has done is blurred by the vocal leftist liberal protests at Benning. There is absolutely no doubt that some graduates of the school have used good training and education for sinister purposes. People like General Manuel Noriega, military dictator of Panama from '83 to '89 come to mind. Was the fact he went bad due to the training he received at the school or was that more likely a product of his entire "life environment"? He received his formal military training at the Military School of Chorrillos in Lima, Peru. Anyone protesting down there? Then there's Noriega's superior, predecessor and mentor, Omar Torrijos. He graduated from El Salvador's military academy in San Salvador. Does anyone know the protest schedule there? And of course, the only graduate that I can think of to make the FBI’s most wanted list, Colonel Alberto Quijano of the Colombian army's Special Forces. He was accused and probably rightly so, of running security for the powerful Norte de Valle Cartel. There have been others for sure but these are the most notable I can think of. But, hey, Oswald, a Marine shot and killed sitting US President John Kennedy with a technically difficult series of shots. A case of sinister use of good Marine training. Humberto Delgado, a former police officer and U.S. Army veteran, was arrested in August and charged with murder of a law enforcement officer in Tampa, FL. Military and Police trained and he murdered one of his own. Again, sinister use of good military and police training. Very well educated individuals from renowned institutions have committed far more horrendous crimes.

Are we suggesting that Harvard, Cambridge, UCLA, Stamford or other schools of higher education be closed because a major criminal, mass murderer or human rights abuser may have graduated from there? No, because just as these schools of higher education have graduated thousands upon thousands of fine citizens and members of society, the US Army’s School of the Americas or WHINSEC or what ever the DOD calls it in the future has graduated thousands of military and police officers that have dedicated their careers and lives to providing security and stability for their countrymen. Many of these folks have returned home to provide the most stable society that their country has had in post conquistador times.

Born in the early days of the Cold War in the late 40's, I think this institution is an important asset to the U.S. and the stability of this hemisphere as a whole. Besides, the Kennedy family members are the ones that have been leading the charge in the House and Senate to strip the school's funding from the DOD budget. If’n they are agin’ it, then I'm thinkin' that it’s probably worth keeping.

[Guest frankcostanza]

The Seinfeld character, Frank Costanza (George's dad)

[Guest Ghostrider]

uuummmm.... Starlight scope.

I had one when it was a "big deal" to have one.

Funny thing is, it was better than a flashlight

[Guest clsutton21]

school email clsutton21@tntech.edu

[Guest GunTroll]

I have seen alot of these threads lately. Always good to check out and get a laugh......

Short story on it......I was a student at Colorado School of Trades for gunsmithing and I was real new. Maybe a week into it when a more "senior" guy kind of through around his seniority and bumped me off of a machine I was wanting to use. I got pissy and the first thing that came out of my mouth was " you fat #ss guntroll looking b&stard......!" I through the name around a bit when referring to guys that probably touch their guns more than women and have probably never felt the warmth of a woman. I then met and befriended a guy that I considered a "GunTroll" and he turned out OK. I let him in on my first impression of him and he said " you say it like its a bad thing being a GunTroll" which ended up being my signature on here as well as a few other sites. Since then I feel the name could be viewed both ways. Bad or good. I use it because I have heard "Troll" being used on the net to describe forum people. "Gun" self explanatory. I am a GunTroll!