BT3 John Crego

NICKNAMES.

Either you got one, gave one, wished you had one or wished you didn’t have the one you got stuck with.


I’ll start with my own if you don’t mind. Jose’. Why? Because my last name is Crego but has been mispronounced my whole life as Greco. And the Navy was no different. As a matter of fact. It was EN3 Mucelli who gave Jose’ to me while he was still down the hole. Get it? Jose’ Greco.


Anyway, here are a few more. I was going to try to match up people with there nickname, but it seems to be almost impossible to get it all right. Maybe you’ll know who belongs to what. Or maybe YOU belong to one of them.


Fat Daddy, Aba-Daba, Big Nasty, Cow Pie, Uncle Howie, Little Billy, Manhole, Skull, Speedo, Sugar Bear, Freaky Floyd, Kooshka, Kanooty, The Big 8 or The Big Walt’, Egor, I’m sure I’m leaving out the best ones or just forgetting some, and unaware of most of them through out the ship. I think we need to start a nickname ‘Hall of Shame’.


Here are a few people who belong to the above mentioned names. See if you can connect the dots.


Chuck Carlson, BT3 Donald Schaffer, Lt. Belden, BT1 Floyd Frames, BT2 Howard Dorris, HTFN Glenn Ulrich, HT3 Steve Schmidl, BTC Parsons, BTCM Lawson, EM3 Moore, BT3 Bill Graziano, FN Howard Manhardt, FN Jim Murray, BTFN Richard Knudsen, BTCM Walters.


OK, OK. Here’s how they hook up. Carlson-Cowpie, Schaffer-Big Nasty, Lt. Belden-Sugar Bear, Frames-Freaky Floyd, Dorris-Uncle Howie, Ulrich-Skull, Schmidl-Speedo, Chief Parsons-Aba-Daba, Chief Lawson-Fat Daddy, Moore-Kooshka, Graziano-Little Billy, Manhardt-Manhole, Murray-Egor, Knudsen-Kanooty, Chief Walters-The Big 8 or The Big Walt. So come on and share the secret nickname you haven’t wanted to admit to, even if it is ‘YANK’ and that ain’t cause you came from up North either.


Well, this has been fun, even if it’s been at someone else’s expense.