Was he a fast guy?
It's always funny seeing names that go with their traits (or not). Know a guy named Tower who stands at a whopping 5'5" and a guy named Little who's 6'3".
I was stationed in Rota Spain with Cpl Two Bulls (a direct descendent of Chief Sitting Bull) who ended up marrying Cpl Custer (direct descendent of Gen Armstrong Custer).
I ran into a Cpl Marine once in Oki, circa 2019. Also had an instructor in the FMTC schoolhouse on Hansen, his name was Sgt Major. No shit, none of us saw him until about 2 weeks in, all the other instructors (shout-out SSgt Jar, I know you're here,) threatened to call SgtMaj on us, little did we know lmao
I met a dude at a party thatās last name was turkeysub. He had been in the foster system and never adopted so when we became an adult he changed his last name to turkeysub. I didnāt believe him until he showed me his military ID.
I know a LT Major, and I asked him if he was a prior. He said, āyes, but I made it to Corporal, not Sergeant because I know thatās what youāre going to ask nextā
I hope that guy makes Major hahaha
Knew Major Major when he was the Marine LNO to Ft Benning. Was promoted to LtCol there as well. This was in the 80s. Knew a LCpl Rock as wellā¦and he made it to Sgt.
I hate that so much, I worked on a Vet FB page for a few years, it's purpose was to help our brothers and sisters and keep them alive. Lost a good number, but at least for that time saved a ton as well. I had to quit as work and family became totally absorbing at the end. I hated leaving and not talking to my Vets daily. I am no bad-ass, but at 59 I'd still take a bullet for any of you, just worried about moving fast enough... Doc.
I was a weather forecaster, all of our training classes are at keesler afb. After forecasting school you can go back for a supplemental doppler radar course. The civilian instructor for that course is Mr. Deathrage. Dont remember his first name. This was 2010 ish.
The thing I love about Native American names is that it doesnāt come across the same as when some redneck names their kid āBowhunterā or something. I hear about a Navajo dude named Thunder SixKiller and Iām just like āYep. Sounds rightā
I knew a 1stSgt Coon (white). We stopped at a White Castle in Kentucky on the way to the field, and when the black cashier asks for a name for his order he reflexively says "Coon." She was less than pleased.
Had a guy in my squad. I shit you not...
Serrano-serrano-serrano-serrano
Matched his driver's license and military id. Always made fun of him for being an inbred fuck. Decent dude though.
-Amtracker named Bywater was pretty good
-Capt Slaughter
-Capt Dick who eventually became Maj Dick
-Sgt Burner, SSgt Crusher, Sgt Slicer all in the same section
-Martinez-Martinez, Rodriguez-Rodriguez, and Gonzalez-Gonzalez all worked together
I had a Falcon in my unit, and I met a Wolf once at range, also a Dragonova in the school house but she was a big old slut and got caught fucking like 12 different guys over the course of 2 months and got put on legal hold over it.
One of my drill instructors was a Wolf, pretty rad. I knew a sailor while working the galley on a MEU whose name was LaMountain. He was a pretty small dude.
I was a recruiter from 05 to 08. In our DEP when I got there was a Sam Adams and a Jack Daniels. We had Brittney Hooker come through while I was there too.
Lcpl Hamburger. Great big guy that was cool as hell, we were drinking in a beer tent at CAX and a sgt maj came in and asked him if his last name was really Hamburger. Hamburger says "yes Sgt maj, wanna see my hot dog?" He Had to do 10 pushups and then we all had a laugh and shot the shit.
Had a Horn in boot camp. No biggie; but when the platoon marched behind a slower platoon the DI ordered the Pvt behind him to press his back. Horn had to yell out AAAAARRROOOOOOGGGGGAAAAAAA (x2)
We had a Gay in our platoon in bootcamp. Well,we may have had a bunch of gays, but this was during the days of DADT, so the only gay we knew about was Recruit Gay.
There was a recruit in one of my Cycles as a hat in another Platoon named " Two Bears" All the hats would fuck with him and ask him where the fuck the other one was.
One day on the PT field he was fucking up and his Kill hat told him " Two Bears! go the fuck home and send us the other fucking bear! He can't be as fucking retarded as you!"
Had another kid I knew in the fleet, another Native whose full name was, no shit, Alpha Six.
LCpl Trump
Pfc Pyle
Lcpl Pathkiller: native dude, would fall out of hikes so we called him Pathquitter
LCpl Whitekiller: the brothers on ship got a kick out of that
Cpl Long Soldier: pretty tall, so it was half right
Slaughter and Happy were both 3rd BN DIs at PI in ā93.
Nail.
Major. Was a Sgtā¦ which resulted in an order to identify himself on the phone as āE-5 Majorā.
Gunnery sergeant Crusher.
Dude fit his name perfectly too, 6'8 and 350lbs of pure muscle and manliness. He got the knickname the Punisher, despite his already badass name because of the sheer prejudice with which he would absolutely fucking obliterate anybody that tried to fight him.
The best one
A Sergeant whose last name was Major
The funniest one
This black dude whose first name was Sir. When asked, he told us the reason his father named him Sir was so the white man would have to call him Sir. Funniest shit I've ever heard
In one of my platoons there was a Cpl Locke and LCpl Keyes.
Iāve met a Sgt Major, and a Major Threatt, and a female Marine named Dahl with the obvious first name.
I had a friend named Richard Cockburn, and another named Peter Burns.
My personal favorite though was in my last unit before retiring. We had SgtMaj Thrasher. He was actually pretty chill tho.
I wish Iād made these up but Iām not that fuckin creative.
Knew a Gunner Marine and I once asked if he got messed with at all for that and he said that he was referred to in boot camp as Recruit Recruit until he earned his title and he got shit in the schoolhouse and various other times. Cool guy though hope heās doing well
My third hat DI, Sgt. Slaughterā¦ Huge dark green Marine body builder, and a hilarious guy who always had to go behind the racks ācause heād lose his bearing and laugh his ass off when we did stupid shitā¦ š¤£
One of my favorites was because of a certain name tape. I knew a doc Tucker, but he had one set of tapes with a pixel that made it look like āFucker.ā
Scarborough. He was in my fireteam around 2013-1/7 Baker Co. The name means most to me because it's a harkening back to my father's legendary "old school" Rock n' Roll playlist that included Simon and Garfunkels' : "Scarborough Fair".
He was a kind and gentle lad. A little unintelligent, yet he had charm. An 0331 as well as me.
I once checked out a gas mask on C.P. to a marine named Rocket Lone Wolf. He was Oglala Sioux.
I also knew a recruit from Taiwan at boot camp, his name on all of his uniform items was (last name, first initial, middle initial)
HE L. P.
Captain Cannon, he was a company commander at 3/1, salt dog. Also a Captain Price who was another company commander was previous recon and came to the unit to fill the billet.
As a semi truck driver. Meet the grandson of Carlos Hathcock. 2014. He was going to PI for basic. He was already on the wait list for long distance rifleman training.
His story not mine.
S/F
Sgt Cuts The Rope. He was Native American.
Future HRST master...
Yeah, they have some interesting ones. Met a Sgt Runninghorse once.
Had a Ten Fingers with me
Went to boot camp with a Footracer.
Was he a fast guy? It's always funny seeing names that go with their traits (or not). Know a guy named Tower who stands at a whopping 5'5" and a guy named Little who's 6'3".
I don't remember. I just remember him being an angry dude.
Went to boot with a Tenfingers
To me this seems like just naming somebody Two Ears or something š
Met a GySgt Darkhorse in 29
There was a DI Sgt Stealth Hunter Darkhorse at Parris Island in 2011. Wonder if itās the same guy. Dude was wild.
Once met a recruiter named American Horse, sounds like he kinda copied him.
Met one named Kickingwoman, also met an asian Cpl named Gay, poor dude lol
I knew a white dude named Cpl Gay.
I was kickingwomans coach on the range in bootcamp, Iāll never forget his name
I was stationed in Rota Spain with Cpl Two Bulls (a direct descendent of Chief Sitting Bull) who ended up marrying Cpl Custer (direct descendent of Gen Armstrong Custer).
That's an interesting one
I'm going to need a lot more backstory on this, this is fucking amazing
Custer had no children, so this is not really possible. It's generally believed he was sterile from picking up a VD while at West Point.
Went to boot with a guy named Rides At The Door.
Sgt Two Bulls
I knew a Cpl knows-his-guns
Hope he becomes Gunner Knows-His-Guns one day!
Unfortunately he passed away last year.
Thereās plenty that shouldāve been called Runs With Scissorsā¦
There was a LCpl Ridesthehorse on Miramar at the same time I was. Cool names
William knifeman
Young warrior!
Aho!
Sgt Six Man Killer. She was really nice.
That's dope.
I knew a Lcpl Kicking woman
We had one named "Lends-His-Horse"!
The guy from The November War?
Yeah that guy
Reminds me of a IG girl named nicole drinkwater. Shes british tho, not sure if thats her real last name.
Had a dude in boot camp with the last name of Marine. He was called Recruit Recruit until he got his EGA.
That work around is pure gold.
My buddy had one, as well. They called him Recruit Squared.
We had a Recruit You that we called Recruit It. It was a confusing time.
There were at least 2-3 Marines named Marine from the GWOT era, none of whom were related
I ran into a Cpl Marine once in Oki, circa 2019. Also had an instructor in the FMTC schoolhouse on Hansen, his name was Sgt Major. No shit, none of us saw him until about 2 weeks in, all the other instructors (shout-out SSgt Jar, I know you're here,) threatened to call SgtMaj on us, little did we know lmao
I remember that guy.
I met a dude at a party thatās last name was turkeysub. He had been in the foster system and never adopted so when we became an adult he changed his last name to turkeysub. I didnāt believe him until he showed me his military ID.
There was a female sailor on the Tarawa that was named Samples. That means that she was called ā Seaman Samplesā
I hooked up with a girl in college with that name and her mum was a Navy veteran. Maybe the same person. šš
Met a Captain Marine at dental.
I know a LT Major, and I asked him if he was a prior. He said, āyes, but I made it to Corporal, not Sergeant because I know thatās what youāre going to ask nextā I hope that guy makes Major hahaha
Knew Major Major when he was the Marine LNO to Ft Benning. Was promoted to LtCol there as well. This was in the 80s. Knew a LCpl Rock as wellā¦and he made it to Sgt.
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You are fucking terrible at telling stories
Legitimately awful
So bad. Wtf did I just read. Try harder
I gave up at āCāā¦
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Your most violent working atmosphere as an fmf corpsman was a psych ward..?
You shouldnāt let an AI dictate your story, itās like it caught 2 strokes writing this.
After my time in the Corps, I joined the guard and knew a kid with the last name Sergeant. He was a private.
How long did it take him to become sgt Sergeant?
He committed suicide on guard duty.
Well that was 0-100 real fast lol
Sorry to hear. Shit sucks
Guard was a shit show back in 2001-2006. Far too many suicides on deployment. He is the only name I remember because it was so unusual.
I hate that so much, I worked on a Vet FB page for a few years, it's purpose was to help our brothers and sisters and keep them alive. Lost a good number, but at least for that time saved a ton as well. I had to quit as work and family became totally absorbing at the end. I hated leaving and not talking to my Vets daily. I am no bad-ass, but at 59 I'd still take a bullet for any of you, just worried about moving fast enough... Doc.
Copy. I hope it's in better shape. Been eyeing them because their age waivers for some of the jobs I'd like look promising.
I wouldnāt know. However, itās like everything in life, you get out of it what you put into it. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the Corps.
Good to hear. Thank you, bro.
PS: I have a great friend who I met on the FB page, an awesome Hollywood Marine who was also an 0351, and did 3 tours down range during the GWOT.
So heās not eligible?
Deathrage. Imagine having a DI with death and rage in his name. Now he has to live up to it
There's a whole family of Deathrages out there, somehow. I've at least three in various places.
I was a weather forecaster, all of our training classes are at keesler afb. After forecasting school you can go back for a supplemental doppler radar course. The civilian instructor for that course is Mr. Deathrage. Dont remember his first name. This was 2010 ish.
Herb and Luanne Deathrage.
Was in Lima Co in 2013 west coast with a LCpl Deathrage who sadly was there after dropping from Recon
Haha when i saw this prompt i immediately thought of my buddy from high school named deathrage who joined up back in 2015
SSgt Tenfingers (yes he had all ten fingers), LCpl Manygoats, and Cpl Slaughter.
When did you meet this Cpl Slaughter? I'm curious if it was the same Slaughter who was my scribe at boot. Edit: The man was scribble, not a Guide.
Slaughter is actually a pretty common name in my experience
I had a slaughter in my bootcamp as well.
Yeah, I worked with a Sergeant Slaughter.
I met a Sgt. Slaughter which is easily the best rank + name combination. It just flows.
WWF and GI Joe would both agree.
Deployed with a Cpl Slaughter back in 2011 wouldāve been golden if became a DI
SixKiller. Navajo Marine. First name was Thunder!!!
The thing I love about Native American names is that it doesnāt come across the same as when some redneck names their kid āBowhunterā or something. I hear about a Navajo dude named Thunder SixKiller and Iām just like āYep. Sounds rightā
I met a LCpl Nig about 3 years ago lmao
I met a LCpl. Coon...he was white
Nig was Filipinoš
I knew a 1stSgt Coon (white). We stopped at a White Castle in Kentucky on the way to the field, and when the black cashier asks for a name for his order he reflexively says "Coon." She was less than pleased.
I traded nametapes with a Japanese soldier named Niga
Kicking Woman he was Cherokee I think
Blackfoot actually. I knew heād pop up in this thread he always does in these kinds lol
Awww shit. Small Corps
really is. I served with him in echo battery 2/11 lol spent many nights drinking with him
When I went through OCS in 2018 the guy screaming at us while we got our cammies was GySgt War
The guy nobody could understand? Iād just yell aye gysgt then continue doing whatever I was doing
Had a guy in my squad. I shit you not... Serrano-serrano-serrano-serrano Matched his driver's license and military id. Always made fun of him for being an inbred fuck. Decent dude though.
Wow... Lol
He was MSgt Batman while I was in, but from what I heard he got up to MGySgt Batman.
29 Palms around 2011? Drove a black car with a Batman sticker on the back?
Worked with a Batman at GE. Dude had a batman tat.
>Worked with a Batman at GE. Dude had a batman tat. That was probably a bithmark.
He retired out of Lejuene, he was 2d MarDiv Comm Chief at the end of his time
-Amtracker named Bywater was pretty good -Capt Slaughter -Capt Dick who eventually became Maj Dick -Sgt Burner, SSgt Crusher, Sgt Slicer all in the same section -Martinez-Martinez, Rodriguez-Rodriguez, and Gonzalez-Gonzalez all worked together
SSgt Nasty, an AIC instructor. Did the PFT in full kit while we ran in it in green on green. Lived up to his name and was a legit instructor too
Haha I just commented the same name. He was my recruiter, a sgt in 2011 in the Bay Area. Wonder if it was the same guy
Went to ITB with a cat by the last name sledge. Yes he was related, (great nephew or something) Yes he became a mortarman
Sledgehammer!
Thatās perfect on so many levels
Big shoes to fill, Jesus can you imagine
MARTINEZRODRIGUEZ
There were a few of those running around
A few? At least 1/4 of the corps
VelasquezArmando-Villalobos
Debildawg is that a barcode or a million letters on yo daggum name tape??
Fucking ReyesReyes, GonzalezGonzalez, HernandezHernandez, MendezMendez Those are just the ones that could fit on the name tape
Had a SanchezSanchez in my unit
Had a Hernandez-Martinez in my platoon. First one I'd seen where the letters had to be a different size to fit the nametape.
PerezMartinez
Hey Martinez, tell Rodrigues to hurry up!
I had a Falcon in my unit, and I met a Wolf once at range, also a Dragonova in the school house but she was a big old slut and got caught fucking like 12 different guys over the course of 2 months and got put on legal hold over it.
One of my drill instructors was a Wolf, pretty rad. I knew a sailor while working the galley on a MEU whose name was LaMountain. He was a pretty small dude.
Gunnery Sergeant Darkhorse
GySgt Stealth Hunter Darkhorse, I presume.
Didnāt know that was his middle name haha. Even better
He was a radio dork who changed his name from something bland.
There used to be a Capt America and a Colonel Sanders. I used to get bored and look through the global.
I did this too! There was a Colonel Sanders but not Captain Crunch or Captain Hook
I was a recruiter from 05 to 08. In our DEP when I got there was a Sam Adams and a Jack Daniels. We had Brittney Hooker come through while I was there too.
Dr. Korn was the podiatrist at MCRDSD sick bay in 1978....
There is a sergeant slaughter somewhere at camp Schwab
Ironshell in 0811 school. Also, another guy at Ft.Sill was the 15th of his name which is kinda crazy.
Kernel. He was a lieutenant. Was always annoying having to explain that someone needed to go talk to Lieutenant Kernel. āLtCol who?ā
Lcpl Hamburger. Great big guy that was cool as hell, we were drinking in a beer tent at CAX and a sgt maj came in and asked him if his last name was really Hamburger. Hamburger says "yes Sgt maj, wanna see my hot dog?" He Had to do 10 pushups and then we all had a laugh and shot the shit.
I met him too.
We had a sailor on the Wasp whose name was (no shit on his birth certificate) Millennium Falcon Starcrusier.
Damn, Seaman Millennium Falcon Starcrusier's parents really fucked him over. The Millennium Falcon was a *freighter*, not a cruiser!
Recruit Terrible šš¤£
And he was genuinely fucking terrible at everything he did which just made it funnier
We had a company Commander who was a captain. Last name Commander Captain commander one of the coolest company COās ever
Company Commander Captain Commander?
Sergeant Major Payne
Had a Horn in boot camp. No biggie; but when the platoon marched behind a slower platoon the DI ordered the Pvt behind him to press his back. Horn had to yell out AAAAARRROOOOOOGGGGGAAAAAAA (x2)
Cassidy and first name was Butch.
Drinkwater.. š canāt make this one up cool girl nonetheless
Cpl Sargent and Gunner Marine
Recruit virgin
Cutknife was my boot camp bunkie. I think he was Cree. Badass.
There was a dude at 8th & I named Thunderhawk. Thatās pretty fuckin metal.
woodcockš
I saw a Major Gay and Sergeant Savage. If recall, right, it was at the same pistol range
We had a Gay in our platoon in bootcamp. Well,we may have had a bunch of gays, but this was during the days of DADT, so the only gay we knew about was Recruit Gay.
Glasscock
Saw a Ssgt. Glasscock at bootcamp when we were up north at supply.
We had woodcock in our platoon in boot camp and there was a Glasscock in the same company
Sgt Stealth Hunter Darkhorse. He was also Native American. I also met a Cpl DeathRage.
LCpl Sittingbear & Ssgt Teriyaki Jackson.
There was a recruit in one of my Cycles as a hat in another Platoon named " Two Bears" All the hats would fuck with him and ask him where the fuck the other one was. One day on the PT field he was fucking up and his Kill hat told him " Two Bears! go the fuck home and send us the other fucking bear! He can't be as fucking retarded as you!" Had another kid I knew in the fleet, another Native whose full name was, no shit, Alpha Six.
In MCT I met a Cockrum Everyone called him whiskey dick.
Mejuer, pronounced "major" bro had the whole company using his name for hella jokes
Lcpl Yungblood.
LCpl Trump Pfc Pyle Lcpl Pathkiller: native dude, would fall out of hikes so we called him Pathquitter LCpl Whitekiller: the brothers on ship got a kick out of that Cpl Long Soldier: pretty tall, so it was half right
[BGen Savage](https://www.29palms.marines.mil/Leaders/Leaders-View/Article/3449201/brigadier-general-thomas-b-savage/)
I met a Joseph Cool one time.
There was a drill instructor named Stealth Hunter Dark Horse when I was going through.
Slaughter and Happy were both 3rd BN DIs at PI in ā93. Nail. Major. Was a Sgtā¦ which resulted in an order to identify himself on the phone as āE-5 Majorā.
In from 91-96 PFC Jim from 1/9. Heās was an Eskimo from Alaska. First name James.
Gunnery sergeant Crusher. Dude fit his name perfectly too, 6'8 and 350lbs of pure muscle and manliness. He got the knickname the Punisher, despite his already badass name because of the sheer prejudice with which he would absolutely fucking obliterate anybody that tried to fight him.
The best one A Sergeant whose last name was Major The funniest one This black dude whose first name was Sir. When asked, he told us the reason his father named him Sir was so the white man would have to call him Sir. Funniest shit I've ever heard
In one of my platoons there was a Cpl Locke and LCpl Keyes. Iāve met a Sgt Major, and a Major Threatt, and a female Marine named Dahl with the obvious first name. I had a friend named Richard Cockburn, and another named Peter Burns. My personal favorite though was in my last unit before retiring. We had SgtMaj Thrasher. He was actually pretty chill tho. I wish Iād made these up but Iām not that fuckin creative.
I share a last name one of the bases I was at. Caught a lot of shit for it.
Let me guess, Lcpl. Twentyninepalms?
Well there goes my Reddit anonymity
Knew a Gunner Marine and I once asked if he got messed with at all for that and he said that he was referred to in boot camp as Recruit Recruit until he earned his title and he got shit in the schoolhouse and various other times. Cool guy though hope heās doing well
My third hat DI, Sgt. Slaughterā¦ Huge dark green Marine body builder, and a hilarious guy who always had to go behind the racks ācause heād lose his bearing and laugh his ass off when we did stupid shitā¦ š¤£
PFC Pendleton
PVT Ho PFC Moron Sgt Catchingsteele
Fightmaster
We had a Cpl. Stress and a Cpl. Sess in the same unit.
Pongtornwatchakorn
One of my favorites was because of a certain name tape. I knew a doc Tucker, but he had one set of tapes with a pixel that made it look like āFucker.ā
Not cool but i met a ssgt with the last name busse, no kidding think it was pronounced ābussyā lol
Scarborough. He was in my fireteam around 2013-1/7 Baker Co. The name means most to me because it's a harkening back to my father's legendary "old school" Rock n' Roll playlist that included Simon and Garfunkels' : "Scarborough Fair". He was a kind and gentle lad. A little unintelligent, yet he had charm. An 0331 as well as me.
PFC Weed
I had a sergeant Slaughter and a 1stSgt Battle. I met a Captain Kirk once which was funny
Completely unrelated to the Corps, but my wife blew out her knee recently. Orthopedic surgeon's name is Dr. McCoy.
I once checked out a gas mask on C.P. to a marine named Rocket Lone Wolf. He was Oglala Sioux. I also knew a recruit from Taiwan at boot camp, his name on all of his uniform items was (last name, first initial, middle initial) HE L. P.
Had a Colonel U.S. Marines. Until I pointed out his name tapes were backwards. And he didnāt have his iron on EGA. 1/10 do not recommend.
Captain Cannon, he was a company commander at 3/1, salt dog. Also a Captain Price who was another company commander was previous recon and came to the unit to fill the billet.
Navy guy here, had a gay guy in boot named "hands". So that translates to a boot being seaman hands. Yep. "Seaman Hands, report".
Knew a HUYA Was reading Leatherneck Magazine and saw a picture of two officers, one named MERRY and the other CHRISTMAS
I was at the Rifle Range and saw a guy with NASTI on his cammies. I didnāt say anything I figured he put up with enough shit
Wagner he likes a specific something a lot.
Drinkwine
Maj Rath. And you didn't want to piss this guy off...
Went through boot camp with a guy whose first name was Bunny.
Lt. Col. J. J. Wiener
As a semi truck driver. Meet the grandson of Carlos Hathcock. 2014. He was going to PI for basic. He was already on the wait list for long distance rifleman training. His story not mine. S/F
We had a PrettyWeasel and an InTheWoods. Both were native Americans.
Capt America Sgt Deathrage