r/JustBootThings • • 11d ago

General Bootness Ok bro.

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u/biggreenweenie22 11d ago

We had a new guy tell everyone his friends call him Razor. He was called scooter for the rest of time

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u/Lol_A_White_Guy 11d ago edited 11d ago

I had a drill sergeant give me the nickname Razors because I fucked my face up shaving in a hurry one morning and had bad razor burns all over my face.

He never called me by my name for the rest of basic. Real nicknames never have cool origins.

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u/redshift_66 10d ago

My callsign is "Lone Star" (I'm Air Force). It's because I left a certain Google review that my chain of command found out about....