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[Black.Ghost]

When I joined the army, my Phase 1 training was at ATR Winchester. And the Platoon Commander was Capt Winchester. 

 

The Padre there was Padre Christian. 

[Gerbil367]

I knew an officer called Major - he was Capt Major then promoted to Major Major.  Same with a guy in the mess - Sgt Sergeant.  Unfortunately when I was a private - I answered the phone to a cockney from 2 Queens (yip - looong time ago!!!) claiming to be Capt Cant, and q my first bollocking for telling him to p off (well I though it was a wind up!!!)

[xrocketengineer]

As told to me by the person herself being my boss: In the early days of the Space Shuttle, there were no cell phones and beepers were still very expensive. So, we had a paging system with an operator that you would call when you needed to contact someone and the operator would ask the name of the person, a phone number for the person to call, the system they worked and which areas to page (launch pad, Vehicle Assembly Building, Orbiter Processing Facility. etc.)  One night when she was a subsystem engineer, her counterpart needed to contact her and called the paging system. So he asked the operator - "Would you page Pandora Puckett of flight control systems?" The operator answered - "No, there can not be a real person with such a name." and the operator hung up.

She was very real and eventually became astronaut Robert Crippen's wife. The only astronaut's wedding I was ever invited to.

Edited by xrocketengineer, 21 December 2015 - 05:54 PM.

[Spider]

I did work with a Philip McCracken - Phil to his friends.

 

How risque can we get here?

 

Then there's the Meeoph Brothers;-  Rip, Paul and Jack 

[jamesmpi]

I used to work with someone called Rob Debanks.

[Spider]

An Oldie -  Amanda Hugnkiss

[Gerbil367]

Haha, keep em coming!!! Just remembered a guy from year above at school - Phil McCaan!!

[mister bridger]

I used to know a couple whose surname was Ross. They had a baby boy and called it Albert.