Acft hydraulic test stand = mule
Any base in the middle east = the big sand box

 

+1 for F16's as Lawn Darts
Giant Voice = God (no one ever knows where it comes from but its the voice that tells them what to do )

 

I've heard of a few semi-creative tool nicknames:

Ratcheting box-ended wrench: Dogbone

Sump Draining Tool: Cowbell

Drogue Breakaway tester: Donkey Dong

 

Where you go to eat = chow hall/mess hall/DFAC (dining facility)

Bathroom/Restroom = Latrine/Head

Base commander (AF) = Wing King

Head covering (Marines) = Cover

Aircraft = Bird

Aircraft on the runway = Bird on the deck

 

I know im not Airforce, but-

AH-64D-Lawndart.. umm yeah....oops

 

Sounds like you are in the heavies.

A few more for your education:

B-52G starter transfer tube probe: Donkey Dick

New airmen: JEEP (Just Enough Education To Pass)

Injured person: Gimp

B-52 engine mounts: Dogbone and Porkchop

Pilot: Yoke Actuator (Stick Actuator for the fighter boys)

Bolt Cutters: Master Key

Screw Extractor Tool: Johnson Bar

Some B-52 panels: Nevada Panel, Bonnet, California Panel

B-52 environmental catayltic filter: Hot Potato

B-52 Nav and EWO hatch lifters: Flyswatters

Bomber people: Pukes

Tanker people: Toads

Officers: Zipperheads

Aircraft Maintainers: God's gift to the AF

B-52 tail compartment: 47th section

Electric lift stand: Magic Carpet

Aircraft tug and towbar: Uke and stick

Heavy white winter boots: Bunny boots

Manual socket driver: Speedhandle

And one more:

B-52H Cowling closure tool: BFH

 

Avionics = Pointyheads

 

Fuel Can= Jerry Can
Fuel Spout= Donkey Dick



only 1 post logged=FUBAR

 

Regarding panels and compartments, the 135 has a Georgia Panel and a Chevy Panel (looks like a chevy logo turned sideways). And just inside the Georgia Panel is the 'hell hole', so named because its hell to get into and out of. And the interior leaves much to be desired.

I've been out of heavies for about 1 1/2 years. I hear it only gets worse and worse.

 

Sewer sucker truck= Honey wagon
New airman=Gopher

 

F-117 = Cockroaches (My nick name for them) They look like cockroaches when they're taking off... See em from a distance on the RW, just add a set of the roach antenna in the front and that's them alright..

T-38 = Lawn dart... If they loose an engine, that's what they'll turn into..

F-22 = Damn vacuum cleaner... PITFA Jet... Sucks EVERYTHING up!! That jet sucks **** out of 4' deep fuel grates in the West area!

German Tornados = Screamin Germans... LOUD SOB!!!

Tower/Ground = The all seeing eye.... "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!!"

Base Ops/Airfield Management = "Yeah, if you could just go ahead and sweep this up, that'd be greeeeaaaat.."

LMR Radio = Brick

Hot sealant machine = Sealant Kettle

Sweeper = Dust Machine SO true!!

Stainless Float = Fresno

Boom Forklift = Boom Shooter

Mr Bellows = POS that doesn't ask, he just takes (I WILL call the cops on that SOB one of these days!!! , he just TOOK one of out Bobcat's the other day.. Didn't check it out, it had a Flat, and he just TOOK it... No 1806.. Just POOF took it! )

CYL Concrete Vibe = Donkey Dick

 

Army

UH-60 Black hawk= Crash hawk
CH-47 Chinook= Shithook

 

The ******* on a Herc = The honey bucket

 

S.W.A.T = **** Water & Trash (The truck that suck the crapper on the planes)

 

The engine cover on an Abrams tank that you remove to check oil= "Bitch PLate" It's called that for good reason.....

 

Yea, the B-52 has a hell hole too. A real PITA to get up there to check out the flap motor.

I thought the heavy world could get no worse, but I guess I was wrong. I have been out for 4 months, and I still hear from my old troops about how REALLY screwed up it is getting......

 

T34C = turbo weenie or teeny weenie
T45C = iron bug
P3C = 4 fan garbage can
S-3 viking = war hoover
F-14 = bombcat
AV8B = carolina lawn dart
EA6B = **** that ****
F117 = stink bug

Helmet = brain bucket
Oxygen mask = face sucker
pencil = FOD
pen = FOD
dogtag =FOD
flashlight = FOD

rotating beacon = smash
trim button = cooley cap

Aircraft carrier = da boat!

 

Grunt = Infantry
Pogeybait = Beef Jerky
New Soldier = FNG (effinG)
Butterbars = New 2nd LT
Cadidiot = Cadet
96R = Pop-up target
REMF = Rear Echelon Mother F***er
Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up = Acronym for US Army backwards

 

we've got a hell hole on the b-1 too, cause it's a bitch to work on anything in there. also got an oklahoma panel, a coffin panel (shaped like an old six sided coffin)...on a side note, we pulled a panel a couple of years ago that nobody had ever even heard of bein pulled, so in our turnover log we called it a muff diver panel. i got was written that way for weeks...and i actually had a smsgtand a butterbar come to the jet and use that term...i laughed out loud.

 

and c-130 = dumpster with wings, or flying trash can...