We have many different ID names here on the AL & I'm always curious why people name themselves what they chose. Here's mine.

Airborne Mike

Airborne (I was a paratrooper in the Canadian Army)
Mike (my parents named me that)

What's your story?

Mike

~quick edit~

OK wiseguys with the obvious ID (rank & surname), you can stand down and only WISH you had a clever ID name like us others

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There is nothing more impressive than a bloody big Alien wiggling on the end of a sharp stick!

I'll let you guess...



Derek

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Cpl D. Smith CMD
A04/TQ1.0.62147E1


RIP Pvt. Chris Chulamanis A14/TQ4.0.66993E7 You are missed.

mine has two meanings.

Hunterkiller is a song by Fear Factory (one of my favorite bands) and also is the reference to Hunterkiller tanks from terminator. 86 is the year i was born.

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PFC Mike Rizzuto MVM
USS Blackhawk
3rd Batt 12th Regt

101radioman

Unit I was with in the US Army
The main job I had is said unit as a Forward Observer.

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SFC
Michael Larson
Minnesota-USA

A03/TQ1.0.92141E1

Being specifically a fan of the Giger Alien (metal teeth) I show this with my name Metal Alien.

When I first got on the internet back in 97 I tried to just use alien but it was everywhere. Way too many people using that so I got more specific. I've had the domain metalalien.com for years. My old angelfire account has metalalien in the url. Basically going on 13 years now as this.

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still alive

GI-rene.

GI was slang for US Soldiers in WW2, whom I reenact.
Gyrene was slang for Marines in those days, and I'm actually in the Corps.

My reenacting buddies put the two together.

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"The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honor. Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul..." -Michel de Montaigne

RustiSwordz, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Honest!

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http://www.richarddaborn.com
Now a member of the Freebooters, another Pirate about! Aaar!
A12/TQ0.0.72138F1 ECG Daborn, R RustiSwordz South East England-UK
'In Space, there is no Horse'

Mole - because one of my friends said I look like a mole when I take my glasses off...



...she's not my friend any more.

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"You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water."

Well let me see the true origins of the sobriquet (google it!) "Winch" are lost in the mists of time!

As such many myths and legends have appeared in the intervening years as to the genuine source of the epithet (google that too) these include;

1. That my middle name is Winchester.
2. That for a time my occupation was that of a Winchman on a Search & Rescue Helicopter.
3. That I'm a marksman of some note and that my chosen weapon manufacturer/calibre are Winchester/.308" Winchester.

Of course it could be that more than one of the above is true or even none of them! Those who need to know already know and are very tight lipped. Those who profess to know simply confirm their ignorance of the truth by their loquaciousness! There is even a scurrilous rumour in circulation that there is a connection between the function of the machine called a Winch and the time honoured British tradition of "winding people up"! Sadly the Official Secrets Act precludes me from discussing this matter further! Except to say that Winch is far more than just a Nom de Net I do answer to it in the Real World too!

This thread does however remind me of an amusing story about a young Native American boy who asks his father how Native American children are named at birth. His father replies "Well my son when the child is born the father runs from the teepee and the first thing he sees is what he names his child for, but why do you ask this question my son, Two Dogs F%^king?"

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Cheers

Winch

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow I shall fear no evil for thou art with me. And together we'll kick ANY bugs ASS!"
You know who you are!

Didn't we already have a thread like this?

Spacehunter was apparently taken and Wolff sounded a bit cliched and pretentious, so...

As an NCO I was pretty hard-going on my cadets. I was a harsh taskmaster and they called me such. This info found it's way to my CSM in the Army and I was suddenly under scrutiny to see if my standards slipped.

The double T at the beginning made it a unique identifier for my Yahoo email. If you really must know, the first T stands for 'The'.

No guessing, we want to know!

So, are you a currently serving officer in the US military or what?

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Probably, but trying to find it may prove difficult as the title may be one of many things.

Maybe one such thread could be stickied, then even the newbies can post in there?

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

mines my fav skinny puppy song and tattooed on my wrist
as for hunterkiller thats one of my fav FF songs too

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I'm the one they warned you about

Well I chose Corporal as my USCM rank (big surprise) and my people have called me 'Tony' since the 9th grade.....so it kind of just fits

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I was/am in a LARP of about 250 people called Darkon.

My Name in the Group was Tarim, and I became King.

No longer King but have been using the name for so long I've just kept it

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Rob Slater
A08/TQ2.0.42136E1

Why I'm called PVB.

As part of my previous local authority/council work duties, I enforced various street regulations, one of which was noting vehicles which parked on main road grass verges(medians). These verges have "Do not park on grass verges" signs on them.

On one occasion, I spotted a large van parked completely on such a verge.

After I took a photo of the vehicle, the driver asked why.

When I pointed to the sign and told him that his employers may receive a bill for the repair of the verge, he called me.....

a Petty Vindictive Bastard!

When I later told my colleagues of this, they laughed, agreed with him, and the nickname stuck!

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

It's my surname

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Sgt Dan "Coop" Cooper
A03/TQ1.0.72144E1
UKCM 501st Regt. 1st Batt. The Bucketheads

"Civies We are Leaving"

So you don't really make Barrels then?

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Cheers

Winch

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow I shall fear no evil for thou art with me. And together we'll kick ANY bugs ASS!"
You know who you are!

My full name is Callum "Vincent" Kee-McParlin.

And i happen to like the Vincent and it was shortened to "Vito" plus The Godfather movies happen to be one of my all-time favourites. So thats how i came up with my board name.

NEXT!!!!
=]

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Sgt C. Kee-McParlin
A05/TQ1.0.02160E1

13th Regt. 1st Batt. 'Freebooters'

Back when I frequented Newgrounds.com, I went by fatass joe. Cause im a fatass and joe just came to mind.

When I went to get my own url, it turns out one of the permutations of that name is a fairly hardcore porn site.

Cue 20 minutes of clicking on a random name generator, and we get Boltrig.

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MSgt Samantha 'Boltie' Watters
Chief Medical Officer, UKCM
1st Batt. 42nd Regiment - Hadrian's Wall

Area 52 Bioweapons division - Amber T. Alien


"Harsh"

surely your name should be the don then callum?

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I'm the one they warned you about

My screen name origin is pretty lame. It's the name of an ancient seabed on Mars called Chryse Planetia. I took it during a time when I was really into studying the Red Planet.

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~Jay

Well, once upon a time, my grandfarther had the idea... to RAISE AN ARMY OF SUPERMEN!

But then he married my Grandmother who's mixed European bloodline diluted that 100% pure scandinavian stock into the mutt
I became today.

Oh, what was the question again?

Russ

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"A writer needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army." - Orson Wells.

http://www.rookscastle.com
http://www.alchemyarms.com

Well I would like to say it is because I am so very pretty. But really it was because one gal thought I was so very pretty.

It really fit when doing BSG stuff...

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i hate my board name! Started using it god knows how many years ago, and now i've used it on so many things i cant really change it.
Skapunk is my favourat genre of music, and ninjas are just cool!

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M/SGT Rich Hyatt-Dowling (Retd)

UKCM Black ops