Canadian Air Force Investigating After Fighter Jet Uses Call Sign ‘DICK69'
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What? His name's Richard and he was born 1969.
You'd think it is still 1969 with the claims of this being unprofessional. The world has moved on, CAF.
The last article I read was an American high school football coach using the word Nazi as a play call against a school that's 90% Jewish and the players using antisemitic slurs throughout the game.
That deserves an investigation and firing, this kind of Tom Foolery requires an eye roll and a change of call sign, if that.
This thorough, week long investigation has concluded that it was kind of humorous.
I, for one, welcome the inescapable conclusions derived from bureaucratically-compelled inquests into inherently humorous and light-hearted happenings.
Oh no! The people we pay to train to kill others might use gasp mild swear words!
This is NA, we'd rather see people's brains exposed than their nipple.
Give this man a medal
It's my understanding that pilots don't get to choose their callsigns. Instead, it's their teammates who choose them, which is why they are often jokes at the expense of the pilot. E.g. the callsign of Ewan McGregor's brother was OB-2.
Callsigns for pilots, yes. This article is conflating callsigns with the plane's identification/flight number.
Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying. Do you know who chooses that?
I guess he ALWAYS had the high ground
Nice
And the investigation reveals that nobody cares.
Bubbles is in the air force now?
They did for this type of reaction.
Nice.
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