Did you have a nick name?

[Guamsst]

Not one I can repeat in front of respectable people. I guess it's ok for you guys though. I got called "the cock" for a long time after one of my airmen found out both my ex wives still slept with me after the divorces.

[Ben Hartley]

At the time I was on active duty there was a major league baseball player with the same last name that went by the nickname "Doc" so a few people called me "Doc" (we were military police, not medics - that are all universally called "Doc" because of their function)

The First Sergeant of the cavalry troop in which I was the XO (and later when we were assigned to the Division G-4 shop) frequently called me "Daiwie", which I believe is a Vietnamese term of respect, at least I hope it was! I never heard him use the term on anyone else.

"Dai-uy" is Vietnamese for "Captain."

[dryheat]

We had a guy called "Bear". This was in Zumwalts navy when you could grow beards. Just a big old country boy that looked like Grizzley Adams.
I showed up at the bowling alley one Sat. morning for cokes with some buds. My ol' Texas buddy drawled, dam Nielsen, you like like a dam Grubworm(hadn't shaved that morning). Grubworm to this day to the Texan whom I still write to.

[Guamsst]

"alphabet" Reminded me of two guys from supply at one of my bases. One was named something like Guetsenlechtersen and one was named something like Goetsenlechtens.

They called one G-16 and the other G-14 because their names were a G, then 16 letters or 14 letters.