Movie Night

Ghost: I'm a confident driver

Soap: *Sitting next to Ghost at the police station* Ye ran over a pedestrian!

Ghost: Confidently

Learning Pidgin Part.1

TF141 x Oswald(Hawaiian Oc)

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Oswald teaches Gaz how to speak pidgin

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Gaz: Why do you say "Da kine," "Can" and "No can" a lot? No offense, but it's really confusing.

Oswald: It relays information easier. Plus, it just makes sense.

Gaz: So if I were to say "Soap, I can't go shopping with you today because im busy training with Ghost. I'll go with you next time." How would that translate?

Oswald translating it out: "Ho, sorry cuz, I no can go da kine w'chu, I wit da kine. Bumbai I can. Shoots?"

Gaz:

Oswald: Good. Ima head out now. I no can stay talk story right now, I gotta meet da kine. Can talk later. Shoots braddah 🤙🏽

Hypnotic Sorceress

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people you adore! Absolutely no pressure but. It's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out <3

AWWW TYY

Back from Leave

Soap: *Runs up and pats Ghost on the back* Long time no see L.T!

Ghost: Would've liked it to be longer, eh Johnny?

Soap: Aye

Oswald: *Yawns* You two are cheerful this morning. Happy to be back I see?

Soap: Bonnie! How was your time off?

Oswald: *Chuckles* Wouldn't you like to know? I took the old mans(older brother) kids to Disneyland

Soap: Disney? *Looks at Ghost* We should go sometime, eh Ghost? Bonnie?

Ghost: Mmm...too much waiting

Gaz: *Walks up groggly holding a cup of tea* Morning...

Ghost: *Smuggly* Hows the morning cup?

Gaz: Rubbish. I had worse though

Gaz: How was your guy's time off?

Soap: Visited family. Ye know, same old, same old

Ghost: Its classified

Oswald: *Snatches Ghosts phone and turns it on revealing a dog on his home screen* Sure looks classified

Soap: Awwww, Si you should've told us ye adopted this cute lad

Ghost: *Snatches his phone back* I didn't want you all crowding him

Gaz: *Sips from his mug* Or, you're just selfish

Ghost: *Scoffs* Its not selfishness if im looking out for Ri-Ri's interests

Soap: *Chokes*

Gaz: *Spits out tea* RI-RI?!?!

Oswald: Short for Riley. But Si is just being dramatic. Riley didn't act up when I came to visit

Soap: Ye were allowed to see Ghosts new pup and not us?! Since when?!

Ghost: *Rolls eyes* Lets just move on. Price is probably waiting for us

Gaz: Uh-huh. But we're so seing your new dog when we get back

Lucky Rabbit

Captain Willow "Oswald" Pelekai

So dumb question time again. I saw where you reblogged the callsign post. But you said y’all just call them nicknames.

When I did the barest do research, I know should’ve looked harder, the only place I really found that used the term callsign were pilots.

(Also I forgot the word pilot and almost just wrote flier but had enough sense to google what are people that fly planes called)

In the COD wikis I’ve read they use the word Alias(es) and not callsign.

Is callsign just a pilot term? Or is it also used throughout the military?

I know I could probably google it more but honestly your lived experiences and even opinions give an interesting perspective on it all.

Sorry your tags got me thinking about where the term that is used so heavily in the fanfic side of the fandom came from and why we use it.

You mean this post?

Ok. Here's where the fandom rage quits my blog:

The term "callsign" is used incorrectly in roughly 99% of military-themed fanfiction.

In the army, a callsign (or call sign) is specifically used in radio communications, not as a moniker or nickname to be used in in-person communications.

More precisely, a callsign is a combination of alpha and numeric characters, like Echo 3-1, Bravo-6, or Watcher-1. Callsigns are also used to ID listening posts, HQs, and permanent telecom installations, such as 620-Kilo in Cold War West Berlin. The radio operator on site would ID as 620-Kilo rather than an individual callsign, and when their shift is over, the next operator ID as 620-Kilo also.

Only field operators use individually designated callsigns, unless the callsign ID the vehicle (like a tank or armored-heavy), which means anyone using the radio for the vehicle ID as the vehicle callsign.

A callword (or call word) is the name of a receiver or station using letters/words but no numbers, like Actual, Cloud Castle, or Whiskey Foxtrot.

U.S. pilots (navy/air force/army air cavalry) are different from most of the military. Pilots get permanent callsigns (not always with numbers) during training and it follows them during their career. To be fair, they spend a lot of time on the radio, so having a permanent callsign makes sense.

The Call of Duty fandom fell in love with using the term callsign because it sounds more "military" to their ears than alias or nickname.

Names like Ghost, Soap, and Gaz are aliases or nicknames. They're not actually callsigns.

In my writing, I avoid using the term callsign because it's usually not the proper word to use in a given scene. To be fair, I have yet to write a pilot fic or one where there's extended training discussion about the proper use of radio-telephone operation in field ops.

My husband was an airborne RATELO (radio-telephone operator) and had a callsign for several years, but no one ever used his callsign unless literally talking over the SINCGARS system with him. I operated a radio for a week and I don't even remember what my callsign was. It was something forgettable from the NATO alphabet* with a number after it.

In the army, in person you're either your last name or your nickname.

SpecOps often call each other by their first names ("what's up, Dave?" LOL), their last name, or a nickname.

CIA & CID use aliases. They call those guys spooks for a reason. You never know who you're actually taking to since they never use their real name.

In the context of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, I still maintain that Alex Keller isn't Echo-1's government name. He's CIA. That was never his name. And he was never here. :)

*The NATO Phonetic Alphabet, for reference:

MASTERLIST

So a light skinned HAWAIIAN woman can't play Nani? Why is non-Hawaiians trying to segregate the Hawaiian people? I'm Hawaiian, born and raised in the poorest part of Oahu, Leeward side. I am a dark-skined Hawaiian, can't stand 2 minutes in the sun without getting 5 shades darker. My 2 brothers on the other hand? White as snow. Yet I aint any more Hawaiian than them.

The girl being casted as Nani is fine. No matter the color. Hawai'i is a beautiful place as we were the first place in America to have actual diversity. Thats what Hawai'i is. We're a diverse people. Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanics, Americans, Blacks, etc. Are all beautiful races who mixed with the Hawaiian people. Thats why Hawaiians are typically very mixed. The girl playing Nani? A mixed Hawaiian. She represents our mixed keiki. She grew up in Hawai'i. She knows her culture. Why are you Haoles trying to say that a Hawaiian isn't Hawaiian based on skin color? That isn't Aloha and that isn't Hawai'i. You haoles make worse comments than an uncle high on pakalolo, I swear....

This is different.

Sketch of Sunako and Taejin for @itsastronxmy

Sorry if it took a while ;=v=)

Hope you like it though

Thanks @islandtarochips and @itsastronxmy for the tags 🤍

Anyways here's the closest iliteration of myself.

(And ofc I had to add the Hibiscus since it's my state flower lol)

New Picrew tag game!

Picrew

Grgikau Character Maker

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