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MILITARY CALLSIGN LIST as of 1 June 2018 Compiled by Ron ABBREVIATIONS AAF- Army Airfield ABNCP- Airborne Command Post AFB- Air Force Base AHP- Army Heliport AMW- Air Movement Wing ANG- Air National Guard ANGB- Air National Guard Base AS- Airlift Squadron AW- Airlift Wing Bn- Battalion BW- Bomb Wing CAP- Civil Air Patrol CGAS- US Coast Guard Air Station Co- Company CP- Command Post Det- Detachment FW- Fighter Wing FS- Fighter Squadron FTS- Fighter Training Squadron JIATF- Joint Interagency Task Force JRB- Joint Reserve Base NAOC- National Airborne Operations Center NAS- Naval Air Station NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration SAM- Special Air Movement SOF-Supervisor of Flying SOS- Special Operations Squadron TSC- Tactical Support

though the association gets pretty vague. Fighters are more macho. A few callsigns/callwords are acronyms, such as ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft), Joint STARS/JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Tactical Radar System),

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1 MILITARY CALLSIGN LIST as of 1 June 2018 Compiled by Ron ABBREVIATIONS AAF- Army Airfield ABNCP- Airborne Command Post AFB- Air Force Base AHP- Army Heliport AMW- Air Movement Wing ANG- Air National Guard ANGB- Air National Guard Base AS- Airlift Squadron AW- Airlift Wing Bn- Battalion BW- Bomb Wing CAP- Civil Air Patrol CGAS- US Coast Guard Air Station Co- Company CP- Command Post Det- Detachment FW- Fighter Wing FS- Fighter Squadron FTS- Fighter Training Squadron JIATF- Joint Interagency Task Force JRB- Joint Reserve Base NAOC- National Airborne Operations Center NAS- Naval Air Station NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration SAM- Special Air Movement SOF-Supervisor of Flying SOS- Special Operations Squadron TSC- Tactical Support Center USAV- US Army Vessel USCG- United States Coast Guard BACKGROUND This list is the work of many people.

2 I started in 1998 with a basic list that I pulled off of the web. That list had been compiled by Hugh Stegman, a highly respected radio hobbyist and columnist for Monitoring Times. A special "Thank You" to Larry Van Horn for the section on NASA callsigns. In the intervening years I have added callsigns that I myself have heard and verified as well as those from various seasoned , respected milcomer s and HF Utility communications hobbyists here in the US as well as Europe. One should take most MILITARY calls with a grain of salt.

3 They are often used by more than one unit. Also, the US MILITARY is closing bases left and right, moving and combining units, transferring tasks to the reserves, and the like. For basically historical reasons I have left in many of the daily changing tactical callsigns used by the TACAMO & ABNCP/NAOC units. We may not see them again, but then again they could be reused. A callword is a station identifier without numbers, such as Mudbug Control. A CALLSIGN is one with numbers, such as Abnormal 10. Static callsigns/callwords of air tankers tend to associate with gasoline, gas stations, or fuel in general, though the association gets pretty vague.

4 Fighters are more macho. A few callsigns/callwords are acronyms, such as ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation aircraft ), Joint STARS/JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Tactical Radar System), SPAR (Special Priority Air Resource); and SAM (Special Air Mission). Many CPs, Air National Guard or CAP units, and the like, derive callwords from geographical characteristics of their locations, AK-SAR-BEN (Nebraska backwards, and a popular horse track), MUDBUG (near the Mississippi "big muddy" delta, where mudbug crabs are found), and HIGH ROLLER (Nevada ANG, Reno).

5 aircraft CALLSIGNS There are several systems that I have noted over the years.: Transports: CALLSIGN + 1 or 01 is usually the unit commander s CALLSIGN . CALLSIGN +2 or 02 is usually the deputy unit commander. Reach callsigns suffixes are usually either a mission number or some variation on the aircraft tail number. Fighters: The following is from a knowledgable source: As far the numbering convention is concerned, the 11, 21, etc. is usually either based on the go of the day OR the the flight within a go.

6 To explain, a go may usally consist of 12 jets. Of those 12, there may be three formations. Therefore, we normally assign the numbers of those formations as a sequence, 11-14, 21-24, and 31-34. Where there are multiple flying squadrons at a base, they assign each squadron a series of 3 numbers, 0-8. Therefore, the same number suffix should not be flying with more than one formation at a time. This is also helps controls and pilots recognize their callsigns on the radio, especially if the radio transmission is clipped.

7 For example, if all that is understood was (radio static) 71, descend and maintain 3 thousand , one would still know that the message was for CALLSIGN 71 and not CALLSIGN 51. The 91 CALLSIGN suffix is usually reserved for checkride sorties. NOTES NOTE #1: TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THE CALLSIGNS IN THIS LIST ARE FROM UNCLASSIFED SOURCES---NO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN KNOWINGLY INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. NOTE #2: Some of the callsigns were taken from aircraft Mode S tranmissions as copied by listeners with the approproate equipment.

8 These callsigns are entered by the flight or ground crews. As such one sometimes sees things like " F-15s Suck" or "A-10s Rule" in the CALLSIGN block. I have added those callsigns that seem to "make sense" to the list in hopes that they are valid callsigns however, with the usual caveat. NOTE #3- I HOPE THIS LIST IS USEFUL--BUT UNDERSTAND IT IS AN EVER-CHANGING WORK IN PROGRESS . I have tried to keep up with unit moves, deactivation, etc but I'm positive I've missed some. I WELCOME ANY CORRECTIONS/CHANGES/ADDITIONS.

9 CREDITS/THANK YOU Credit to Mike Chace Ortiz for idents on the US State Dept calls. I've included them because they periodically show up on USAF HF-GCS nets. Credit also to Larry Van Horn (El Jefe) for the NASA callsigns. Credit to Andy for updating the German Navy/Air Force callsigns. CALLSIGN LIST AAEC LSV-1 USAV GEN. FRANK S. BESSON-FT UESTIS AAED LSV-2 USAV-CW3 HAROLD C. CLINGER-FORD ISLAND HI AAEE LSV-3 USAV Gen. BREHON B. SOMERVELL-TACOMA WASH AAEF LSV-4 USAV LT. GEN. WILLIAM BUNKER-FT EUSTIS VA ADSV LSV-5 USAV MAJ GEN CHARLES P GROSS-FORD ISLAND HI AAFA LSV-6 USAV SPEC4 JAMES A.

10 LOUX-FT EUSTIS VA ADSWLSV-7 SSGT Robert T. Kuroda AABF LSV-8 MG Robert Smalls AADS USAV RUNNYMEADE LCU-2001 AAEG USAV KENESAW MTN LCU-2002 AAEH USAV MACON LCU-2003 AADT USAV ALDIE LCU-2004 AADU USAV BRANDY STATION LCU-2005 AADV USAV BRISTOE STATION LCU-2006 AADW USAV BROAD RUN LCU-2007 AADX USAV BUENA VISTA LCU-2008 AADY USAV SPRINGFIELD LCU-2009 AADZ USAV CEDAR RUN LCU-2010 AAEA USAV CHICKAHOMINY LCU-2011 AAEB USAV CHICKASAW BAYOU LCU-2012 AAEI USAV CHURUBUSCO LCU-2013 AAEJ USAV COAMO LCU-2014 ADMM USAV CONTRERES LCU-2015 ADMN USAV CORINTH


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