Appointment Titles
 

For those who always wanted to know what they were:

SUNRAY ------- Commander
MOONBEAM ---- Chief of Staff
SEAGULL ------ Operations / Adjutant
BOXWOOD ---- General Staff (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical)
ACORN -------- Intelligence Rep
MANHOLE ----- Administrative Staff
MOLAR -------- Logistics Staff / Quartermaster
NUTSHELL ----- Q Staff / Equipment Rep
CONROD ------- Air Defence Rep
SPYGLASS ----- Air Reconnaissance Rep
BASEBALL ------ Air Traffic Controller
ATOLL --------- Air Transport Support Operations Rep
HAWKEYE ------- Land Air Rep
IRONSIDE ------- Armour Rep
SHOTGUN ------- Armament Officer
SHELDRAKE ----- Artillery Rep
CRACKER -------- Locating Battery / Arty Intelligence Rep
HOLDFAST ------ Engineer / Airfield Construction Rep
FORTUNE -------- Forward Air Controller
GLOWWORM ----- Ground Liaison Officer
FOXHOUND ------ Infantry Rep
STARLIGHT ------ Medical Rep
CONTRACTOR ---- Movements Staff
RICKSHAW ------- Ordinance Rep
WATCHDOG ------ Provost Rep
BLUEBELL -------- Electrical / Mechanical Engineering Rep
PRONTO --------- Signals Rep
PLAYTIME ------- Supply and Transport Rep
METEOR --------- Meteorological Rep

Cool!
 

Thanks Frank ...

:yappy: likes references like these:) Of course my memory is unpredictable :eek: so it's nice to have this here.

It's also good to finally know what SUNRAY refers to. COMMANDER huh? (depends on who he's talkin' to? Yes? :p :D )

Hmmm...beat me to it,eh?

OK, so you're one up.

Velox...Versutus...Vigilans

Cool
 

YESSSSS, yet another victory for woman-kind!
Dammit I'm good:salute: :yappy: :D

Velox

Perhaps I should be PRONTO. :p

Re: Cool
 

hmmmm... Don't be so joyful there, Missy. Jon was refering to my original post.

You see, one of us was going to post the appointment titles but I have super high speed Internet, so I beat him to it.

So there... you're not that good. :p

re: Frank
 

"Missy"??!! Ohboy, I hope you like wearing cast-iron frying pans... :D :p

Re: Re: Cool
 

:D
Yeah? That right, eh?
Well you ain't so poop-hot yoreself there, bud:p :D Talk ta tha hand,man:salute:
(couldn't resist that Oh Master Frank so zealously quick with a pin to gleefully burst a :yappy:'s bubble)

:D

Warning Order
 

Careful, Frank...there be dragons in the algae covered swamps where the yappy missy lurks. For her, frying pans are but sinkers on her 100# test line.

Shades of "Creature from the Black Lagoon"!...I didn't know that the creature was a PMS type female:yappy:

PMS?
 

SO.... Now yah know :p:smoker:

and ... by the by ... LMY has long past the ebbs and flows of PMS temperamentalism ...am there always ... MENOPAUSED AND HOLDING FOREVERMORE with my EVERREADY CAST-IRON SKILLET :eek:

Gawd it feels good:D

Titles
 

With my aviation interests, perhaps I should be CONROD.
I thought of SHELDRAKE with my arty tractor, but there are several of us in that category... Hmmmm... or perhaps it's just for you genuine ex-service people...

VEGEMITE SENDS

CONROD
 

SUNRAY...Shall Keefy be now known as CONRAD?...Seems appropriate.

I did some research on my grandfathers regiment (8th Recce). Reading the war diaries I got used to seeing Sunray and Sheldrake, likely others as well that I didnt recognize at the time. Remember one said the really big Sunray was coming to visit but dont know who they refered to. Very interesting reading. Brian

SUNRAY
 

And I'd always thought it referred to your bright countenance!:p

Appointment Titles Qualifications
 

Hi All
Don't forget that the 2IC (second-in-command Kartmann) is qualified by the term "minor". so where Sunray is the big chief, Sunray Minor is the 2IC. I was a Pronto Minor.
Bob

poop
 

Ah, but alas oh Master Salesman Bob, there already exists a SUNRAY MINOR ... and it is
NOT moi.

:yappy: is appropriately descriptive is it not?
You all call me all sorts of things anyways:D But I kinda like the variety myself of all sorts of things myself ...

The handle VETS DOTTIR is the permanant one I don't want to lose in here, in honour of my Dad and his memory, and my "military research" point of being here to begin with. Funny ... I joined here regards my Uncle and almost used the handle VETS_NEICE ... but my Dad needs my honour and respect too. :smoker:

:yappy: SENDS

Minor
 

Hi Kartmann
The term "minor" is applicable to each Appointment Title. Using Sunray as an example, the MLU Sunray is Geoffaloff Billington Spin Ball ergo the Boss. His second-in-command, ergo Sunray Minor is ????. All the Appointmant titles are designated to the various Corps, eg. Shelldrake is Artillery, Pronto is Signals. In the military I was Pronto Minor, in other words I was the Infantry Battalion Radio Sergeant.
Bob

Thanks for the explanation Bob :) :salute:

I kinda like FOXHOUND if I had to choose one ... I sort of "represent" RIFLEMAN EDWARD SMITH in here "FOXHOUND ------ Infantry Rep" but as a civi, I haven't "earned" any of those military handles.

FOXHOUND SENDS

(just trying it on for size):D:smoker: :smoker:

Kartmann's Appointment Title
 

Hi Kartmann
Go for a variation on the theme, become "BLOODHOUND".
Attributes according to the dictionary "prized for its keen scent and perseverance, now specially trained for tracking human beings".
The first part is applicable to your family research, with the second part applicable to those who give you a hard time (if in fact you consider them to be "human beings").
Bob

Forget BLOODHOUND
 

Hi again Kartmann

When we had recruits out in the bush for the first time we used to tell them to beware of "Woffle Worms, Drop Bears and the most dangerous of all, the SWAMPDOG". These of course are all ficticious Oz animals but the recruits were convinced and used to spend some nights without sleep.

I think SWAMPDOG is most appropriate for you as your description of your residence reminds me of the Swamp in M.A.S.H. and Dog is synonymous with hound. The Swampdog has all the attributes of a Bloodhound but the name is far less boring.

So therefore dear Kartmann I dub thee "SWAMPDOG".

I'm sure other Ozzie members will contribute to the definitions of this name.

Bob

Re: Forget BLOODHOUND
 

In the Canadian Forces, we had a similar ficticious animal which manifested itself as the "snow snake", found mostly where one found yellow snow. This beastie could terrify a recruit since, as they were told, the animal only struck whilst one piddled in the snow.

Re: Re: Forget BLOODHOUND
 

What was legendary was the reaction of U.S. Marines who came up to winter-train with us and swallowed the snow snake story hook, line and sinker... :D

Re: Re: Forget BLOODHOUND
 

Yeah, those snowsnakes were usually found near smoking trees/bushes.

Re: Re: Re: Forget BLOODHOUND
 

they were known to slip into sleeping bags in the dead of night and to lurk around the cookset due to the heat, especially when a "Young Lad" was on stove watch and to fall on their prey from tree branches............I can remember many a pale looking "Young Lad" and some sleeping bags getting the crap beat out of them........:D

:yappy:no like SWAMPDOG ....

:eek: makes me sound like sum kinda barroom b@tch (M.A.S.H SWAMP and DOG) Might be appropriate for someone with a handle like V_D but appropriate for NOT Little Miss Yappy Pixie Witch VETS DOTTIR
or FRYING PAN MENO-MAMA-PAUSED

Sorry Bob ... I REJECT :p

:D BTW I've ALWAYS loved M.A.S.H

Wuzzamattawith simply "PIXIE"... fits, don' it? :D :p

Re: Appointment Title for Karmen Sinclair
 

Hello One and All;

Me thinks that the appropriate appointment title for Karmen is:

YAPPY!

end of discussion.

Oh look!, a whole hockey sock full of em.............

:yappy: :yappy: :yappy: :yappy: :yappy: :yappy: :yappy: :yappy:

Hey... wuzzupmy Bro ...

You just reminded me of a silly something I wrote once when people were on about co-dependence ... LISSSSTEN up my Bro's ... you musical types strum, play, beat, hum a few chords ...

Ima co dependent
Yeah
Ima co dependent
Yeah
I'll be what you want me to be
Yeah
I'll be your fantasy
A creation of your twisted unmet needs
YEAH
Ima co dependent
Ima co dependent
YEAH
Ima co dependent
YEAH YEAH YEAH
:eek: :D :rolleyes:

PIXIE YAPPY????????????
:rolleyes: